President Donald Trump was up late into the night, posting on Truth Social at nearly 2 a.m. on Tuesday to blast Democrats on immigration and funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The message was posted on Day 38 of a partial government shutdown that has hit the Department of Homeland Security hardest, leading to staffing shortages and long lines at airports nationwide as TSA agents are not receiving their paychecks.

Hundreds of TSA officers have reportedly quit or gone on extended leave due to the uncertainty.

In a post at 1:48 a.m., Trump wrote:

“Democrats are desperate to keep illegals, no matter how bad or dangerous they may be, in the Country. They want them to VOTE! That’s why they are fighting so hard to neutralize ICE. We will fight them all the way, and WIN!”

Trump has rejected a compromise proposal that would have funded DHS operations but deferred ICE funding, the core sticking point in the standoff.

Instead, the president has insisted that Republicans remain in Washington during Easter break and fight for full border security funding and passage of the SAVE America Act, a bill focused on election integrity measures such as voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements.

As part of the pressure campaign, Trump has sent ICE agents to assist TSA officers at major U.S. airports to help keep travel moving safely during the shutdown.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, on Monday, Trump announced that he also plans to send National Guard troops to assist with airport security.

Trump ripped the Democrats as “the most destructive, sick people” for refusing to fund the Department of Homeland Security, revealing that he’ll “bring in the National Guard” if ICE agents aren’t enough as he departed from West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday morning.

“You walk into a booth in California, if a person who’s doing voting, an official, asks you for identification, they’re subject to being arrested. What’s wrong with this country? So, we’re fighting it hard, and I think they should because the Democrats are being blamed for the shutdown, and it’s their fault, and they’re getting killed,” Trump told reporters.

The president continued, “That’s why when I announced yesterday about ICE, the Democrats called, “We want to settle. We want to settle.” And I told the people, don’t settle. Don’t settle because we have something bigger. Only settle if you get the SAVE AMERICA Act, voter ID, and so important proof of citizenship, etc. Thank you very much.”

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One of the most devious appointees during President Trump’s first administration received a much-deserved humiliation ritual at the hands of Scott Jennings on Monday night.

Jennings and ex-DHS appointee Taylor appeared as guests during Monday’s episode of NewsNight on CNN, where the topics discussed included the ongoing DHS shutdown and the war in Iran.

As TGP readers know, Taylor, formerly known as “Anonymous,” leaked classified information and covertly tried to sabotage Trump during his first term.

In 2018, The New York Times ran an op-ed by an “Anonymous” author described as a senior member of the Trump Administration who was covertly working to sabotage the President.

The author of the NY Times’ resistance’ op-ed also penned an anti-Trump tell-all book titled “A Warning.”

When the topic turned to the war in Iran, Taylor ripped Trump for alienating European allies with his strategy and mocked his decision-making.

“They (America’s allies) see a president who doesn’t know what he’s doing, who’s constantly moving the goalposts, whose own staff isn’t even sure what he’s doing,” Taylor said.

Jennings later flipped the script on Taylor with just one excellent question: Do you think Ayatollah Khamenei preferred Obama or Trump as President?

Considering Trump was the one who took out Khamenei, the answer is quite obvious.

But this caught Taylor completely off guard, who could only nervously laugh. Then, Jennings moved in and said, “Probably Obama.”

Seeing no way out of Jennings’s trap, Taylor could only state the obvious (Khamenei is dead), which proved Jennings’s point and destroyed the Anonymous author’s entire argument.

WATCH:

Q: “Do you think the Ayatollah prefers his life under Obama or under Trump?”

Ex-DHS Obama donor Miles Taylor: “The Ayahtolla’s dead.”

Bingo. You heard it here first, folks! pic.twitter.com/6jwpjQsbN8

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 24, 2026

JENNINGS: Do you think the Ayatollah prefers his life under Obama or under Trump?

TAYLOR: (chuckles nervously)

JENNINGS: Probably Obama, yes?

TAYLOR: The Ayatollah’s dead!

JENNINGS: There you go! You heard it here first, folks!

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Airports across the United States have been plagued by long lines and lengthy delays caused by a budget dispute that has left DHS partially unfunded for over a month, marking the third-longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Senate Democrats proposed funding TSA, FEMA, CISA, the Coast Guard, and other DHS agencies while explicitly excluding ICE and CBP, defunding those law enforcement agencies.

Republicans blocked that bill, arguing it would support Democrats’ open-border initiatives that protect illegal immigrants, and have insisted on funding the entire department together. Democrats have refused unless it is accompanied by reforms that would hamstring immigration enforcement.

Senator Ted Cruz noted that millions of Americans were facing two-, three-, and four-hour waits at airports and missing flights for spring break.

President Trump responded by deploying ICE officers to supplement TSA at airport checkpoints, alleviating the operational strain on understaffed airports while placing immigration enforcement personnel in position to conduct enforcement actions.

Trump stated that ICE at airports will help catch illegal aliens, a claim liberals such as Hollywood actor Jon Favreau have disputed by arguing that no illegal aliens enter the country by plane.

“Ah yes, people usually enter the country illegally by just booking a plane ticket,” he mockingly tweeted.

That argument is flatly contradicted by official government data. In FY 2023, over 510,000 people overstayed their visas. These are people who entered legally by air or sea and then remained unlawfully.

DHS publishes annual Entry/Exit Overstay Reports to Congress tracking this population, and overstays are estimated to constitute approximately 40 percent of the total illegal alien population residing in the United States.

TSA sends ICE lists of people flying through U.S. airports several times per week, including names and photos, which ICE checks against its own records and, if a target is identified, dispatches officers to make an arrest.

This is something neither airlines nor TSA are equipped or authorized to do. Airlines are private carriers with no immigration enforcement authority and no access to ICE databases.

TSA’s statutory mandate is aviation security, screening for weapons and threats to flight safety, not immigration enforcement. TSA can share passenger data with ICE but cannot itself act on immigration violations.

Without ICE present, a person flagged in ICE databases boards the plane unimpeded. The presence of ICE officers at airports closes that gap by placing the agency with both the database access and the enforcement authority in the same location as the traveler.

The argument that requiring a visa to book or board a flight prevents illegal entry is also false. Airline document checks are limited to a visual examination to confirm a visa is present in the passport and that dates appear valid.

IATA acknowledges that airline systems may confirm the presence of a visa but rarely provide information about its specific permissions or restrictions.

CBP operates a voluntary Document Validation Program through the APIS system, which vets passenger information against CBP databases and sends response messages to carriers indicating whether a passenger is cleared, requires additional screening, or should be denied boarding.

However, this is a system-dependent pre-departure process and does not give airline staff real-time access to revocation databases on their own.

The Department of State can revoke a visa electronically, and while CBP will see the revocation and communicate it to the airline, if the revocation is recent or the holder has moved, they may not have received notification.

The information asymmetry is real and is resolved through CBP, not the airline.

A prior overstay or visa violation can also render a visa invalid for future travel even though the physical document still appears valid in the passport.

If a traveler is confirmed to have overstayed, CBP can bar reentry for three or ten years, a determination that lives in CBP’s databases.

This is precisely why ICE and CBP enforcement at ports of entry is necessary, as the airline has no independent means of knowing a visa has been invalidated by prior travel history.

ICE at airports will also catch people attempting to leave after being in the country illegally. In numerous documented cases, illegal aliens were arrested while waiting to board a flight because they had outstanding deportation orders, demonstrating that departure does not automatically exempt someone from accountability.

The government’s self-deportation mechanism requires registration through the CBP Home app under Project Homecoming, which is distinct from simply buying a ticket and voluntarily leaving the country.

Leaving without registering through the app can still trigger reentry bars, affect pending immigration cases, or lead to arrest and possible detention. The consequences can include not being allowed to return to the U.S., even for a short visit.

After reviewing the many ways in which illegal aliens could be entering or fleeing the country through commercial flights at U.S. airports, it raises the question of why ICE was not stationed there before.

Because Democrats refused to fund TSA, ICE is now being deployed at U.S. airports, and the system may become permanent.

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