ICE to do crowd control and possibly review documents at TSA checkpoints

Federal agents and officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be on site at 13 major U.S. airports, filling in amid staffing shortages at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints as the partial government shutdown begins its seventh week.

A senior administration official told the Washington Examiner on Monday morning that ICE employees will focus on maintaining “more of a presence” at airport security checkpoints, acting more as background support due to their lack of training to carry out TSA responsibilities.