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How Trump’s ingenious TSA fix calls the Democrats’ bluff

Democrats who want to defund ICE aren’t getting away with the political hostage-taking they’re using to do it.

They’re trying to hold the Transportation Security Administration’s funding hostage until their demands for weakening Immigration and Customs Enforcement are met. 

That means they’re also subjecting millions of air travelers to added anxiety, and worse, as security-line wait times stretch into hours.

On Saturday, half the nation’s busiest airports — in New York City, Houston and Atlanta — had more than a third of TSA agents call out sick.

Passengers at LaGuardia were in line for up to three hours on Sunday — not because of the fatal Air Canada accident late that evening, but because TSA was understaffed all day.

What’s President Donald Trump doing about it?

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He’s called the Democrats’ bluff.

Instead of gutting immigration enforcement, he’s sent ICE into more than a dozen of the nation’s busiest airports to make up for TSA’s missing manpower.

Democrats, predictably, are furious — and fearmongering to the nth degree.

“The last thing the American people need is for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports across the country, potentially to brutalize or........

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