Federal immigration agents will “hate” being deployed to assist airport security operations amid Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staffing shortages, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official told Newsweek.

“The HSI agents will hate it,” the official said, referring to Homeland Security Investigations personnel. “I’ve not heard any talk of this within ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations). They want us arresting and deporting aliens.”

The official, who requested anonymity to speak freely, said they first heard about the reassignment when they were contacted by Newsweek over the weekend.

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    10 hours ago

    In the pics I saw of today, they were unmasked and about 50/50 had guns, some even had AR maga mags despite not having an AR.

    That being said it’s almost a guarantee people would take pictures when they see a gun so that may be over represented in the pictures.

    The World Cup is gonna be a shit show