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The Trump administration deployed hundreds of ICE agents to at least 16 US airports starting March 23, 2026, ostensibly to relieve TSA staffing shortages caused by a 42-day DHS funding shutdown. Border czar Tom Homan has since indicated ICE will remain indefinitely — "until the airports feel like they are 100%" — raising legal, civil liberties, and operational questions about an immigration enforcement presence with no defined exit criteria inside domestic air terminals.