TSA, ICE and airports
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Houston travelers face 4-hour TSA waits Tue. at Bush Airport
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Vincent Longo has spent hours screening thousands of passengers and bags over the past six weeks at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s TSA security checkpoints. And he hasn’t been paid a penny.
More federal immigration officers are making their way to U.S. airports after President Donald Trump said he’d deploy them to supplement the Transportation Security Administration during a government shutdown that has caused long lines at security checkpoints across the country.
Bush Airport wait times climbed to four hours as ICE agents appeared at Houston airports to support TSA operations.
TSA is expanding PreCheck Touchless ID to 65 U.S. airports this spring, including Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport.
The government has been partially shut down for more than a month, forcing TSA agents to miss paychecks and contributing to long lines at the airport.
Travelers flying out of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport are being urged to arrive early as security lines grow at TSA checkpoints.
California is emerging as a flashpoint in a political firestorm as President Trump moves to send ICE agents into airport terminals, a plan Gov. Gavin Newsom is blasting as dangerous overreach.
Sources familiar with shutdown negotiations say an end is in sight to reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security, while President Trump says he's taking "a hard look" at a potential deal. NBC News correspondents Gabe Gutierrez,