President Donald Trump has announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be sent to airports to assist understaffed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents. This comes a day after the president threatened to deploy the federal immigration enforcement agency to address the growing crisis, exacerbated by the ongoing government shutdown and an influx of spring break travelers. It is unclear if the ICE agents will only assist in TSA duties, or if their mandate will also include immigration enforcement at airports. The partial government shutdown began after Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes both ICE and ICE, until DHS changed its immigration enforcement policies following a violent crackdown in Florida.