DHS shutdown drags on
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The loss of grant funding has forced FSU’s Immigration Rights Clinic to shut down. Students are fighting back.
The House voted to approve a stop-gap bill to fund DHS through May 22, Late Friday. This came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called the earlier Senate vote to fund much of DHS "a joke."
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US deploys immigration agents to airports amid shutdown chaos
The agents are being sent to at least 14 airports, including in New York, Chicago and Atlanta, to assist overstretched transport security officials.
Amid an ongoing standoff between Senate Republicans and Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send Immigrations and Customs Enforcements agents to airports around the U.
Federal immigration officers have been seen at an airport in Atlanta after President Donald Trump said he’d deploy agents to supplement the Transportation Security Administration during a government shutdown that has caused long lines at security checkpoints across the country.
Senators approved a compromise measure early Friday to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security through the end of September, taking a major step toward ending the 42-day partial shutdown that has seen hundreds of airport security workers quit after missing paychecks and snarled travel nationwide.
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Enhanced role for immigration officers at US airports as shutdown frustrates travels and screeners
Federal immigration agents newly ordered to U.S. airports by President Donald Trump to help relieve security line congestion may guard exit lanes or check passenger IDs as a budget impasse has air travelers frustrated over hourslong waits and screeners angry about missed paychecks.
Federal immigration officers have been seen at the Atlanta airport after President Donald Trump said he’d deploy agents to supplement the Transportation Security Administration during the shutdown.