Trump says he will order federal immigration officers to help with airport security unless Democrats end shutdown - PBS

The president said he would order federal immigration officers to help with airport security unless DHS funding was approved, and agents were subsequently sent to several airports with limited impact on screening operations. Those officers can enforce immigration laws in public areas but are not trained for TSA screening tasks, which constrained their effectiveness. This deployment is one among multiple urgent executive directives from the administration, which also recently moved to fast-track psychedelics research and to direct payments for TSA staff, highlighting a pattern of using executive authority to address operational gaps.