'What the hell's going on here?' Traveler criticizes ICE agents dawdling in airport
A reporter from MS NOW, as well as a traveler interviewed in Newark’s Liberty International Airport, both expressed doubt about what purpose ICE agents are fulfilling as they watched them Monday after their deployment to help currently unpaid TSA agents.
Reporting from the airport, MS NOW’s Will McDuffy shared footage of unmasked and armed agents unhurriedly strolling the concourse and chatting while they rode escalators, with McDuffy telling host Anna Cabrera, “We're here at Newark, and what we've been able to see is, we've seen a handful of ICE agents. They've been going around in groups, in small groups. They do seem like they're armed, but we haven't seen them doing a whole lot of stuff.”
“Now we're not privy to the the security area, so we can't see exactly what they're doing there,” he added. “And obviously, administration officials have said that's where they're going to be assisting most often. But we're still lacking some details. And we've spoken to some passengers here who do have some concerns about this plan. Let's take a listen to one woman we spoke to here.”
The unidentified woman reported, “Just flew in here and saw a bunch of ICE people down at the baggage claims. Not sure what they're doing at the baggage claim.”
“What about the fact that they're walking around without masks on? Does that help?” McDuffy asked.
“No, not at all!’ she exclaimed. “And I'm watching downstairs [where] we all came in. You saw people bracing themselves like,’ what the hell is going on here?’ And there were a lot of people who were taking pictures and sort of watching them. They were just milling around; they weren't even doing anything, just sort of chatting. I don't know what their function was.”
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