Michelle Hackman

I think it's a few things.

I think, first of all, ICE is an agency with a mission, and that is to arrest and deport immigrants in the country illegally.

And people who work at ICE believe in that mission.

And particularly now, they believe in this idea that they're supposed to be carrying out a mass deportation for Trump.

Suddenly, Trump is taking a lot of agents off their normal jobs and having them do airport security.

I mean, that was like really, really frustrating for people.

And not to mention, ICE agents don't have any training in airport security, right?

They're trained to, like, arrest immigrants.

They're trained in immigration law.

Not much, as far as I can tell.

They're definitely, you know, defending the president's decision to send ICE and saying that it's making America safer, but no signs yet that it has drastically improved the situation.

It's interesting, right?

I mean, that was his framing of it.

And certainly there were some Democrats who were pretty unhappy about the fact that ICE was being sent to airports because they just find the tactics of ICE so unacceptable.

To other Democrats, it actually kind of signaled that Trump was realizing what a political crunch these TSA lines were creating for him.

And so in some ways, I think the Democrats think it brought him to the table rather than vice versa.

He rejected it at first and pretty publicly.

He, you know, he told Republicans don't negotiate with Democrats.

He also said, I'm not signing this unless it also passes with the Save America Act.

I would say the mood on the Hill yesterday was like people almost laughing that Trump had said that because everyone knew that that was impossible.