After Donald Trump ordered ICE deployment in airports to assist transfer lengthy queues, as lots of of TSA staff give up over nonpayment, panic unfold that these immigration brokers would now violently arrest individuals at airports. A video of a lady touring together with her baby went viral on the San Francisco airport as she was crying when ICE brokers arrested her. The brokers weren’t sporting any masks, and when different vacationers requested the brokers to point out their badges, they didn’t comply and continued forcing the lady. “I do not know who you might be,” one stated within the background of the video asking the brokers to point out proof that they have been from ICE. “You possibly can be somebody kidnapping her,” the lady stated. However the brokers didn’t react. Some social media customers claimed that the lady was a US citizen touring together with her younger daughter however she couldn’t show her citizenship to the satisfaction of the brokers and was taken into ICE custody violently. However the incident occurred on Sunday earlier than ICE brokers have been deployed to handle TSA disaster on Monday. The airport authroties additionally stated that it had nothing to do with the brand new ICE deployment, it was an immigration arrest. Airport spokesman Doug Yakel stated that the violent arrest had no relation to Trump’s directive.“We perceive federal officers have been transporting two people on an outbound flight when this incident occurred,” he wrote in an e-mail to The New Republic. “We consider that is an remoted incident and haven’t any purpose to suspect broader enforcement motion at SFO…. We weren’t concerned in or notified prematurely of this incident. Airport operations continued with out disruption, and there was no affect to flights or passenger processing.”“I flew into San Francisco at 10pm final evening & we received caught on the tarmac for half-hour due to a ‘safety’ situation. Can’t think about it was something aside from this,” Utah State Senator Nate Blouin wrote on X. “Trump making issues worse for vacationers to focus on our neighbors. Gasoline costs up. World security down. Idiotic.”
DHS says unlawful aliens had elimination order
DHS additionally confirmed that the incident befell earlier than the ICE deployment over TSA disaster and no US residents have been arrested. “This arrest of ILLEGAL ALIENS occurred yesterday on March 22, 2026 — BEFORE ICE officers have been deployed to airports to bolster TSA efforts. ICE officers arrested Angelina Lopez-Jimenez and Wendy Godinez-Lopez on the San Francisco Worldwide Airport. These unlawful aliens had a closing elimination order of elimination from an immigration decide since 2019. Whereas being escorted to the worldwide terminal for processing, Lopez-Jimenez tried to flee and resisted regulation enforcement officers. ICE is working as rapidly as attainable to repatriate the household unit to their house nation of Guatemala,” the DHS stated in an announcement.
