(Radio Iowa) - Several T-S-A agents have left the job as the stalemate over their pay continues.
President Donald Trump has moved to end the slowdowns at airport check points by using ICE agents for airport security. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says that is not the duty ICE agents should have, as he says it takes them away from enforcing the immigration laws.
The Republican says Democrats are holding out on funding ICE because they want a ban on masks for ICE agents. He says they have face masks to protect themselves as they get tired of their families, husbands and wives and children, getting threats against them," Grassley says. Grassley says if everyone in Congress went without pay like the T-S-A, the government shutdown would likely be over quickly.