TSA wait times up to 6 hours as ICE, other agents deployed to 14 airports [View all]

Source: CBS News

The Trump administration deployed ICE and other Homeland Security agents to 14 of the nation's airports on Monday to help shuttle passengers through overcrowded TSA checkpoints. In one airport, the security line wait-time was up to six hours.

The agents are filling in for TSA officers in some places due to mass call-outs during the partial government shutdown that is keeping the officers from receiving their paychecks.

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Across the country, some travelers expressed hope that federal agents might help ease the TSA bottleneck, but others were skeptical, including TSA officer and union representative Pascual Contreras.

"I don't believe that they're trained in a way that they can help us," Contreras said. "I've seen them outside standing around, I don't know if they are doing anything."

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