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The Journal.

How ICE Went From Deport… to Airport

The Journal.

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News, Business News

4.25.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Get your tickets to our L.A. live show here! If you’ve taken a flight lately, you might have noticed hourslong lines to get through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at airports like New York, Atlanta and Houston. This week, President Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports to try to ease bottlenecks as Congress works to try to make a deal to end the partial government shutdown. WSJ's Michelle Hackman dives into the situation at airports and what’s being done in Washington to get lines moving again. Ryan Knutson hosts. Further Listening:- Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown- The Florida Cops Who Act as ICE AgentsSign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Jess.

0:01.6

And Ryan, tickets for our live show in Los Angeles are on sale now.

0:06.3

Join us Tuesday, April 28th at the L. Ray Theater at 8 p.m.

0:10.4

There'll be special guests, conversations about the business of Hollywood,

0:14.0

and afterwards, we'll stick around to meet you all.

0:16.5

Find a link in our show notes to get your tickets before they sell out,

0:19.6

which they did very quickly last time.

0:21.9

See you there.

0:26.5

Waiting in the security line at the airport is never fun.

0:34.2

But right now, it's really not fun because the lines these days are out of control.

0:42.0

At Hartsfield Jackson in Atlanta, one of the busiest airports in the country, the TSA line

0:47.7

stretches so far back, you can't even see where it starts.

0:51.3

This is actually still the TSA pre-check line.

0:56.0

This line now wraps outside.

1:00.1

So if you think about it, it wraps around the inside four different times.

1:03.8

In Houston, the security line doesn't just stretch.

1:05.3

It descends.

1:06.5

It curves.

1:12.6

Past the departure zone, downstairs through baggage claim, and spills out onto yet another floor.

1:16.9

Stay at home. If you live in Houston and you have a flight today and it is not mandatory,

1:22.0

any of his leisure, do not come here. I'm literally on my way back home. I've turned around.

1:29.3

The lines are bad pretty much everywhere. Whoever said the lines at JFK were fake are sabotaging you. I don't know what...

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