Margaret Talev on Trump Moving ICE to Airports: Millions of Americans Have a ‘Negative Impressions’ of ICE, and Are Scared

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TALEV: "I mean, that has been Republicans bet up until now, right? Is that it‘s a law of diminishing returns for Democrats that this may have worked for Democrats for a few weeks, but over time, people will just get mad at Democrats if they have waits in line. I think the reality is fliers are going to get mad at everyone in government because this is insane and Congress is not supposed to stand in the way of convenient airport security, which people use for business and transit and all of that. But there are some real questions in addition to whether it‘s actually like appropriate for ice to be doing this. The first thing I thought was, well, everyone at an airport has documentation like, so what is the role of ice here? Right? And also are ice going to wear masks and no name tags at the tsa lines? Or are they going to be like unmasked and wearing like a badge that says Taylor or whatever their last name is? Right. So, but right now there are millions and tens of millions of Americans who are not just have negative impressions of ice, but who are scared of being in proximity to ice agents. And when you take ice agents off of immigration programs and put them into managing security lines, I think that‘s again, a big like the big thing to ask Americans just to absorb. So I don‘t really know what‘s going to happen. It will certainly take people out of position from their traditional roles and move them into a different role."