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John McLaughlin
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I'm Ed Donahue with an AP News Minute.
Armed federal immigration officers in tactical gear move through terminals at some of the
busiest airports, standing their security lines and checkpoints.
After President Trump ordered their deployment, ordered their deployment during a partial
government shutdown that has disrupted air travel nationwide.
Lines are still long.
Keisha King got into Las Vegas.
She waited in line at the other end at Washington's Reagan National.
For four hours, four hours horrible.
From now on, I will drive wherever I have to go, and so they get this to leave it out.
He was all of them.
TSA workers aren't getting paid during the shutdown.
Alexis King was not that upset.
Who wants to work eight hours or more shifts and not get paid for it?
He paid so.
He is.
It's pretty tough for him.
Immigration agents are rarely visible at TSA checkpoints, the front line of domestic air
travel, and their presence there, even in a limited role, stands out.
I'm Ed Donahue.
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