Philadelphia district attorney threatens to arrest ICE officers patrolling airport
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said he would arrest ICE officers patrolling Philadelphia’s international airport if they commit crimes in the city,insisting that he would prosecute and even jail them under local jurisdiction. He spoke at a press conference at the airport amid ICE deployments tied to Transportation Security Governance staffing shortages during a DHS shutdown. The piece notes that President Trump had deployed ICE to airports nationwide to bolster TSA staffing and mitigate travel delays, while Krasner had previously referred to ICE agents as “wannabe Nazis” and vowed to hunt them down for crimes, arguing for accountability within the Constitution and local law.
Philadelphia district attorney threatens to arrest ICE officers patrolling airport
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner threatened to arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers patrolling Philadelphia’s International Airport. Krasner made the comments during a press conference at the airport on Tuesday, addressing the presence of ICE officers deployed amid Transportation Security Administration staffing shortages.
“This is how it works,” Krasner said. “You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you. That is how it works. No, I don’t take a phone call from the president, saying, ‘Let him go.’ No, the president cannot pardon you. I’ll say it again: the president cannot pardon you. And yes, I will put you in handcuffs, I will put you in a courtroom, and if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell if you decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport, anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis, which involved criminal homicide of unarmed innocent people.”
“We are not having that here,” Krasner said.
President Donald Trump deployed ICE officers to airports across the country as the current partial government shutdown involving the Department of Homeland Security entered its 40th day on Wednesday. The stoppage has caused staffing shortages among TSA workers at airport security checkpoints, resulting in significantly longer-than-normal delays for travelers, with some airports reporting wait times of over four hours.
“Because of the Democrat shutdown, President Trump is using every tool available to help American travelers who are facing hours long lines at airports across the country — especially during this spring break and holiday season that is very important for many American families,” read a statement released on Sunday by DHS. “This pointless, reckless shutdown of our homeland security workforce has caused more than 400 TSA officers to quit and thousands to call out from work because they are not able to afford gas, childcare, food, or rent.”
“While the Democrats continue to put the safety, dependability, and ease of our air travel at risk, President Trump is taking action to deploy hundreds of ICE officers, that are currently funded by Congress, to airports being adversely impacted,” the statement said. “This will help bolster TSA efforts to keep our skies safe and minimize air travel disruptions.”
Krasner’s words on Tuesday echo sentiments he shared in February at an “ICE Out” press conference in Philadelphia. During that event, Krasner called ICE officers “wannabe Nazis” and said he would “hunt them down” if they committed crimes in the city.
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“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis, that’s what they are, in a country of 350 million,” Krasner said about ICE in February. “We outnumber them, and as long as we stick to our values, protect our rights, make it very clear that homicide is not OK just because you are a federal law officer, if we do that, this will end differently.”
“There will be accountability now, there will be accountability in the future, there will be accountability after Trump is out of office,” Krasner said at the time. “If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities, we will find you, we will achieve justice, and we will do so under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”
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