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The Shutdown Is Democrats’ Gift To ICE
The Daily Wire ^ | 3/26/2026 | Chloe Trapanotto

Posted on 03/26/2026 4:55:09 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

Americans are now seeing ICE agents as they shuffle through these historically long airport lines, not arresting and kidnapping! people, but handing out water bottles and shaking hands with the citizens they work to protect.

The flame is burning at both ends for the Left: they’re defending illegal criminals at the expense of Americans, while ICE gets a PR boost for dissolving an airport bottleneck that Democrats created. ICE deployed to Atlanta, Chicago, and Houston has drastically improved security wait times — and more importantly, Americans are meeting these officers in the flesh, share a laugh, and realize that maybe they aren’t the Gestapo after all.

If the very agency Democrats have tried to dehumanize, defund, and destroy were simply allowed to do their job, a young girl would still be walking the earth. Last weekend, Sheridan Gorman was shot in the head and killed by an illegal alien who was protected from ICE and released from prison because of Democrat sanctuary policies. This horrific tragedy, and the adjacent horrors like it, never seem to be enough to get Democrats to budge. They will keep the entire Department of Homeland Security defunded despite American loss.

What will bring them to the negotiating table, apparently, is a streak of good PR for ICE. They can’t have that going on.

It’s a sad day when the killing of a teenage girl at the hands of an illegal alien can’t get Democrats to do their jobs — but footage of ICE agents smiling in an airport might.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: airports; dhs; flying; homelandsecurity; ice; schumershutdown; shutdown; travel

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1 posted on 03/26/2026 4:55:09 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Democrats cannot function as sane people and need to be thrown out of office. 2 times in the last 6 months they have shut down the gov’t employees who don’t even make 1/2 the money of these same congressmen! This should be the #1 election event on every commercial, every billboard, every mailer! They are despicable beings !


2 posted on 03/26/2026 5:03:50 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: Republican Wildcat

The demoncraps DEMANDED we federalize airport security. Now they make citizens and federal workers suffer to try to force thru policies that increase their electoral chances, because their policies have been rejected by the current electorate.

Worse, they have imported entire congressional districts worth of peole where corruption is endemic, and they act surprised when massive fraud occurs.

These people are stark staring insane!


3 posted on 03/26/2026 5:04:43 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: princess leah

My thoughts exactly.


4 posted on 03/26/2026 5:07:25 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: clee1

That’s the truth.


5 posted on 03/26/2026 5:07:33 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Republican Wildcat

It’s a sad day when the killing of a teenage girl at the hands of an illegal alien can’t get Democrats to do their jobs


The Left, including nearly all Democrats, see their “job” as staying in power, ruling over what used to be the Republic, and destroying any opposition to their power.

Of course, they expect to get rich doing it.


6 posted on 03/26/2026 5:09:47 PM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: Republican Wildcat
...share a laugh, and realize that maybe they aren’t the Gestapo after all.

Those who laugh aren't demoncrats.

Now I want to go to the nearest international airport with a buddy, 2 folding chairs, a folding table and 4 signs (2x red, 2x blue). "Guess the travelers' political orientation" as they meet ICE at the checkpoints.

It'd be a GAS!

7 posted on 03/26/2026 5:24:34 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Republican Wildcat

Remember, any ICE agent working at an airport is not out doing the work of identifying, locating, apprehending and deporting crimmigrants. Which means more illegals will remain inthe country to vote dem in November.


8 posted on 03/26/2026 5:27:25 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: princess leah

Democrats can’t function as sane people because they are not sane people.


9 posted on 03/26/2026 5:32:57 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Republican Wildcat

The dems are a unit and do as whoever is telling them to do. I often wonder why they are so behind whatever the ‘leader’ tells them.

They have no sense of right or wrong. They are despicable.


10 posted on 03/26/2026 5:37:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: logi_cal869

Great idea. It should be filmed on video and broadcast over the Internet.


11 posted on 03/26/2026 5:41:59 PM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: metmom

Yes, liberalism is a disease with no cure.


12 posted on 03/26/2026 5:43:17 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

There’s a certain cure, but I mustn’t post it.


13 posted on 03/26/2026 5:45:21 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

😅


14 posted on 03/26/2026 5:52:12 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Remember that movie “what About Bob”. Death therapy. 😆


15 posted on 03/26/2026 5:53:28 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Republican Wildcat

An ICE agent today saved a 1 year old boy who stopped breathing while in line with his father at the airport, this ICE agent is a HERO and everyone got to see him and his heroism


16 posted on 03/26/2026 6:12:12 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: clee1
The demoncraps DEMANDED we federalize airport security

The TSA was created by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act.

The Republicans didn't put up a fight at all. Straight Uniparty down the line.

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Prior to the Senate bill, the House had this one..

H.R. 3150 (107th): Airport Security Federalization Act of 2001 - sponsored by Don Young, R (AK), had 30 co-sponsors, all Republican.

Oct. 17, 2001
107th Congress (2001–2002)

The Republicans deserve half of the blame for creating the TSA.

17 posted on 03/26/2026 6:14:03 PM PDT by yelostar (yelostar: Loser DU troll...........................and counting.)
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To: marktwain

Oh they’re doing their job, alright. They’re pulling out all the stops to steal, kill, and destroy, just like their father instructed them.


18 posted on 03/26/2026 6:28:28 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: ConservaTexan

They are arresting illegal aliens in the airport. I suspect that there’s a lot of illegal aliens deciding to drive where they wanna go right now.


19 posted on 03/26/2026 6:28:58 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking..........)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Where in our constitution is one party allowed to shut down the government and stop paying government workers that protect our country? This is a bunch of nonsense. These people don’t want to work. They want to go home for 10 days over Easter and leave TSA and all these other agencies with no income? It’s time for them to leave our country. It’s time for someone to say either you go to work or you’re not going to be representing this country anymore.

how do they get by without getting fired like the rest of us would from any job? I’ve had it with this fake democrat party. They are simply a American hating party and should have no part in living here anymore.


20 posted on 03/26/2026 6:48:23 PM PDT by Hattie
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