Hakeem Jeffries Warns ICE Airport Agents Could 'Brutalize Or Kill' Americans In Shocking CNN Interview

Appearing on CNNs State of the Union, Jeffries was pressed by host Dana Bash after we just heard from the White House about President Trumps plan to deploy ICE agents to airports tomorrow, as reported by Breitbart.

Bash asked, Whats your response to what Tom Homan revealed here?

March 23, 2026

Jeffries responded by framing Republican governance as a period of national decline.

There are three things that have been true since Donald Trump and Republicans came back into power last January. Life is more expensive. Life is more chaotic, and life is more extreme, he said, before warning, The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances, kill them.

The New York Democrat went further, attacking the professionalism of federal immigration officers.

Weve already seen how Ice conducts itself. These are untrained individuals when it comes to doing the current job that they have. For the most part, let alone deploying them in close exposure and highly sensitive situations at airports across the country, Jeffries claimed, offering no acknowledgment of ICEs existing law-enforcement training or its role in protecting Americans from illegal immigration and cross-border crime.

He then accused Republicans of deliberately sowing disruption in air travel.

Its unfortunate that Republicans have decided that they would rather force TSA agents to work without pay inconveniencing millions of Americans all across the country, and now potentially expose them to untrained ICE agents and create chaos at airports throughout the land, rather than get ICE agents under control, Jeffries said, insisting, Our basic premise and value proposition from the very beginning has been simple. ICE should conduct itself like every other law enforcement agency in the country.