{"id":2583566,"date":"2026-03-25T08:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-continue-holding-american-air-travelers-hostage-to-save-illegal-aliens\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:33:39","slug":"democrats-continue-holding-american-air-travelers-hostage-to-save-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-continue-holding-american-air-travelers-hostage-to-save-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Hold American Air Travelers Hostage To Save Illegal Aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-continue-holding-american-air-travelers-hostage-to-save-illegal-aliens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2583566&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An opinion piece in The Federalist argues that electing Democrats cripples government agencies to derail law enforcement, a claim the author says the national media treats as ordinary partisan bickering. It describes a Democrat-led government shutdown that allegedly left TSA workers unpaid, prompting resignations and absence, with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >security lines lengthening<\/a> and flights being canceled or delayed. The author contends Democrats quietly back a president-led war to shift attention away from deportations and asserts the shutdown was driven by a goal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-pressed-on-pending-immigration-strategy-which-will-not-deport-illegal-migrants-for-some-crimes\/\" title=\"Psaki pressed on pending immigration strategy which will not deport illegal migrants for some crimes\">stop illegal immigration<\/a>. it cites examples of Democrats praising or attempting to reimport undocumented immigrants and mentions calls by some to abolish ICE, arguing that media coverage omits this context when discussing immigration and the shutdown. The piece maintains that Democrats prioritize foreigners over American welfare recipients and that their actions show they value non-americans over Americans. The author identified is Eddie Scarry, a columnist for The Federalist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>To be an elected Democrat is to cripple an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-leftist-billionaire-vowed-to-reimagine-capitalism-then-he-colonized-a-federal-agency\/\" title=\"A Leftist Billionaire Pledged to &#039;Reimagine Capitalism,&#039; Then Took Over a Federal Agency\">entire government agency<\/a> for weeks on end, all for the purpose of derailing law enforcement, and have the national media treat it like standard partisan bickering.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re more than a month into <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/11\/11\/the-shutdown-was-always-going-to-end-with-democrats-caving-and-looking-ridiculous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the latest Democrat-led government shutdown<\/a> with Transportation Security Administration agents going on a second pay period with no income, leading hundreds of them to quit and thousands of them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/ice-tsa-wait-times-shutdown-03-24-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just not go into work<\/a>. Travelers are facing security lines that stretch for hours, and that&rsquo;s on top of still more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/travel\/tsa-lines-agents-airports-travel-cancellations-delays-flights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flight cancellations and delays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s so fortunate for Democrats that the president has started a war they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/january-6-defendant-dies-by-suicide\/\" title=\"January 6 Defendant Dies By Suicide\">quietly support<\/a> and which allows them to talk about anything other than their shut down in the name of halting deportations.<\/p>\n<p>And that&rsquo;s absolutely, indisputably <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/12\/democrats-want-to-stop-illegal-alien-deportations-by-shutting-down-dhs-its-that-simple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the reason they initiated the shutdown<\/a>. Don&rsquo;t forget the things Democrats did and said about foreigners who illegally broke into this country and tried to stay at American taxpayer expense. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., two years ago called illegal aliens &ldquo;the people we care about most.&rdquo; Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, another Democrat in the Senate, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/16\/democrats-drop-everything-to-bring-back-a-deported-illegal-alien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropped everything<\/a> he was doing last year to fly to El Salvador in an attempt to reimport a self-professed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-urge-americans-to-stay-home-in-january-knowing-no-one-would-show-up-for-a-stolen-inauguration\/\" title=\"...s Urge Americans to Stay Home in January Knowing No One Would Show Up for a Stolen Inauguration\">illegal alien<\/a> who had been deported. At least five congressional Democrats in recent months have called to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/democrats-list-support-ice-abolish-alex-pretti-11417311\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;abolish ICE.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/2036267043394105443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That context is never included in media reports on this particular shutdown, though. Not when the topic is immigration. Democrats are never asked to justify their position against deporting even a single person who is in this country illegally. To the extent that they are, they&rsquo;re permitted to say some variation of, &ldquo;We all want a safe and secure border,&rdquo; before they go back to working day and night to ensure that no illegal alien is removed.<\/p>\n<p>They do it because foreigners are their highest priority, next to American welfare recipients (though at least those are actual Americans). For Democrats, that&rsquo;s &ldquo;the people we care about most.&rdquo; They&rsquo;ll do anything for them, including shutting down the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party&rsquo;s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats&#8217; shutdown cripples TSA; media ignores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2583567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TSA.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[76493,3685,3813,4326,5894],"class_list":["post-2583566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-air-travel-2","tag-democrats","tag-immigration","tag-policy","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TSA.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583570,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583566\/revisions\/2583570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2583567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}