ICE agents to be deployed to US airports beginning Monday

NPR | By Adrian Ma,

Luke Garrett

Published March 22, 2026 at 3:24 PM MDT

The president says he will send ICE agents to airports starting Monday. NPR's Luke Garrett unpacks what we know about the deployment.

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Adrian Ma

Adrian Ma covers work, money and other "business-ish" for NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money.

Luke Garrett

Luke Garrett is an Elections Associate Producer at NPR News.

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