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The Department of Homeland Security is now weeks into its funding lapse.
Last Friday, with TSA lines at airports growing, a woman named Linda called into a conservative radio show to offer a thought.
The host, Clay Travis, loved the thought.
He loved it enough that he brought it up on Fox News later that day.
By the next morning, Trump floated the idea on Truth Social, threatening that if Democrats don't give in and fund DHS, he'd send ICE agents into airports.
Which he soon did.
Trump took credit for the ICE idea himself.
I'm Hannah Rosen.
This is Radio Atlantic.
If ICE is now showing up at airports helping out TSA, then what even is ICE?
Their new role comes at a time when DHS has a new head, Mark Wayne Mullen, who took a more conciliatory position during his confirmation hearings.
When the Christy Noem, Greg Bovino era of shooting citizens on American streets has come to an end.
The ICE officer fearing for his life and the other officers... So does this mean that we're heading into a new era for ICE and DHS?
And if so, what will it look like?
To help me think through this, I talked to staff writer Nick Miroff, who covers immigration.
Nick, welcome to the show.
Thank you, Hannah.