Ranking Member Thompson Statement on Trump Threatening to Send ICE to Airports
(WASHINGTON) – Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on President Trump threatening to send ICE to airports across the country:
“Masked, armed police at travel checkpoints is a hallmark of dystopian movies. Now Donald Trump is threatening to bring this tool of fascism to America. He is manufacturing chaos at airports for political leverage and trying to force Democrats to accept unaccountable secret police at security checkpoints around the country.
“Democrats have offered a clean bill to fund TSA. Republicans – time and again – have blocked it. Apparently, Republicans will only pay TSA officers and other DHS workers if ICE and CBP can keep terrorizing our communities and shooting people in the streets. We will never accept that.
“Donald Trump needs to stand down his secret police, agree to reasonable ICE reforms, and let us pay TSA workers.”
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