Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and agents have mixed reactions to President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy them to airports to assist TSA during the partial government shutdown.

Trump announced the plan Saturday to begin the effort Monday in the hopes of reducing airport security wait times as TSA officers report massive staff shortages as they continue to go unpaid.

Multiple Department of Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire that there’s word that the deployment will consist of agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of ICE whose mission goes beyond just investigating immigration-related crimes. HSI special agents are tasked with child exploitation cases, cybercrimes, and the smuggling of antiquities.

They also maintain offices at several major airports across the United States, sources said.

One ICE source said they “wouldn’t mind” helping TSA, adding, “However, a lot of us have reached our overtime caps.”

“They would need to provide waivers … I don’t think it would jeopardize field arrests if that happens,” the source added.

A second ICE source emphatically said, “I’ll go.”

In response to a postal worker strike in 1970, President Richard Nixon deployed hundreds of soldiers with the Army, National Guard, Army Reserve, Air National Guard, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Reserve to deliver Americans’ mail.

An ICE source said Trump should do the same.

“I think the National Guard or military reserves are better suited,” the source said.

Two recently-retired ICE officials also expressed their opposition.

“This is the problem. ICE are the tool that gets thrown around to do everything other than their job,” one of the retired officials said.

Another called Trump’s plan “profoundly misguided and reckless.”

“TSA officers receive specialized, intensive training in passenger screening, threat detection, and the use of advanced equipment training that ICE personnel, despite their excellence in interior enforcement, do not possess,” the retired officer said.

“Redirecting ICE agents from their current, highly effective operations where they maintain a proven rhythm in arresting and detaining those unlawfully present would undermine both airport security standards and nationwide immigration priorities,” the former fed added.

Another officer expressed concern with the optics as they’re increasingly perceived as “the gestapo” who are “harassing U.S. citizens.”

Trump tasked his border czar, Tom Homan, with leading the airport deployment.

Tom Homan says he’s working on the plan to deploy ICE agents to assist TSA at airports starting tomorrow. One area he said they’ll be able to help is monitoring airport exits, saying “I don‘t see an ICE agent looking at an x-ray machine because they‘re not trained in that.” pic.twitter.com/fEgdBs8XAv

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On Sunday, the former ICE director told CNN he’s working with the TSA administrator and ICE director to get a plan in place “by the end of today.”

“The ICE agents are assigned at many airports across the country already and they do a lot of criminal investigations on smuggling at airports. You’ve got TSA agents covering exits, people that enter through the exits, you know, surely a highly trained ICE law enforcement officer can cover an exit … that would leave that TSA officer to go to screening and to reduce those lines,” Homan said.

“I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine because they’re not trained in that. There’s certain parts of security that TSA’s doing that we can move them off those jobs and put them in the specialized jobs to help move those lines,” he added.

Singer Chappell Roan just responded after being called out by Brazilian soccer star Jorginho Frello for her alleged treatment of his 11-year-old stepdaughter. The singer claimed her personal security was not involved and said she doesn’t actually “hate children.”

The drama began when Frello detailed his version of the “aggressive” treatment of Chappell’s young fan while both were eating breakfast at a local hotel. He claimed Chappell Roan’s security guard threatened his family, including the young girl, for daring to walk by the Grammy Award-winner’s table and look at her.

In Frello’s social media post, he said his daughter “was so happy to see an artist she really admires, or used to admire” before the hotel drama changed everything. Frello did not say the name of the child, but it’s believed he is referring to his stepdaughter, who is the biological child of actor Jude Law and Frello’s wife Catherine Harding.

Chappell Roan, whose real name is Kayleigh Amstutz, is currently headlining Lollapalooza Brazil in São Paulo.

“By coincidence, they’re staying at the same hotel as this artist. During breakfast, the artist walked past their table. My daughter, like any child, recognised her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it really was her,” he explained. “And the worst part is she didn’t even approach her. She simply walked past the singer’s table, looked to confirm it was her, smiled, and went back to sit with her mum. She didn’t say anything, didn’t ask for anything.”

The pro athlete said that next, “a large security guard came over to their table while they were still having breakfast and began speaking in an extremely aggressive manner to both my wife and daughter, saying that she shouldn’t allow my daughter to ‘disrespect’ or ‘harass’ other people.”

Frello continued the post, saying his daughter “was extremely shaken and cried a lot” following the interaction. He added in his post, “It’s sad to see this kind of treatment coming from those who should understand the importance of fans. At the end of the day, they are the ones who build all of this. I sincerely hope this serves as a moment of reflection. No one should have to go through this, especially not a child.”

Chappell Roan addressed the accusations Sunday morning with an Instagram post of her own, claiming that she had no knowledge of the incident.

“I’m just going to tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard who is not my personal security,” the singer said in a video response. “I didn’t even see, I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, no one came up to me. No one bothered me. I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel as well.”

“The fact that a security guard who was … I did not ask the security guard to go up and talk to this mother and child. They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything. It’s unfair for security to just assume someone doesn’t have good intentions when they have no reason to believe, because there’s no action even taken. I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. Like, that is crazy,” she went on. “I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something that you would do something and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”

Chappell Roan has been outspoken about having personal boundaries and is known for calling out fans or paparazzi who approach her, even at events. “I chose this career path because I love music and art and honoring my inner child, I do not accept harassment of any kind because I chose this path, nor do I deserve it,” she shared in 2024.

“I don’t agree with the notion that I owe a mutual exchange of energy, time, or attention to people I do not know, do not trust, or who creep me out — just because they’re expressing admiration,” she went on.