OVER THE LAST 24 hours, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have invaded airports across the United States.
At Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson, the world’s busiest airport, videos and photographs show ICE agents standing next to security screening lines. At Chicago’s O’Hare airport, ICE agents are scattered around check-in counters, according to videos shared online. At Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, ICE officers were seen walking through the main United Airlines terminal, wearing vests that said “ICE.” And at San Francisco International Airport, multiple videos show what appear to be plainclothes law enforcement officers forcibly detaining a young woman as dozens of onlookers watch and film.
According to reporting from The New York Times, ICE is being deployed to 14 airports across the country, including John F. Kennedy airport and LaGuardia airport in New York, as well as airports in Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Phoenix.
One of the eyewitnesses who captured the incident at San Francisco’s airport tells WIRED she began filming after hearing a “horrible” scream while walking to her gate. The woman, who did not want to be named due to privacy concerns, said it appeared that “two unidentified men” were grabbing “a woman trying to hold onto her child.”
