HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — As long security lines continue at airports across the country, ABC News has confirmed ICE agents will be deployed to Houston.
At Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, the TSA line wait time reached 220 minutes at some points on Sunday.
TSA agents have either quit or called out sick over the past couple of weeks as they continue to work without pay due to the partial government shutdown.
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Multiple sources told ABC News that ICE agents would be deployed to 14 airports across the country, including Bush and Hobby airports.
See full list below:
- Chicago-O’Hare International Airport
- Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
- Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport
- Houston’s Bush intercontinental
- John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York)
- LaGuardia Airport (New York)
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
- Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
- Newark Liberty International Airport
- Philadelphia International Airport
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
- Pittsburgh International Airport
- Southwest Florida International Airport (Fort Myers, Florida)
“If we can bring in other assets and tools to assist TSA to get rid of these lines, yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in an interview with ABC News.
TSA saw the highest call-out rate of TSA officers at airports on Saturday, about 11.5% of the scheduled workforce, according to TSA data obtained by ABC News.
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On Sunday, George Bush Intercontinental Airport posted on X that CLEAR will not operate on Monday and that TSA PreCheck will only be available in Terminals A, C, and E and will close at 10:30 a.m.
As of 7 a.m. Monday, only three of eight standard and pre-check checkpoints were open at IAH.
Travelers can check TSA wait times and flight information on the Houston Airport System website.
This story comes from our news partner ABC13 Houston.