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Speaker 5: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 4: Good Monday morning. So nice to have you with us

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Speaker 4: on the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got one

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Speaker 4: big story for you. Donald Trump has deployed ICE agents

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Speaker 5: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump has deployed ICE agents to assist the TSA

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Speaker 4: this crisis and how we got to the point of

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Speaker 4: if you're dealing with this during spring break travel, then

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Speaker 4: you've probably seen what so many are talking about. Hours

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Speaker 4: and it's hitting travelers hard. More than fifty thousand TSA

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Speaker 4: I want you to think about that. The people responsible

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Speaker 4: Let's be clear about that. Because of the anarchy and

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Speaker 1: Are ICE agents even remotely trained to handle security at airports?

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Speaker 3: ICE agents receive high level of training, and you know

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Speaker 3: the ICE agents are assigned up many airports across the country.

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Speaker 3: Already they do a lot of investigation co investigation on

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Speaker 3: Those discussions are going on. Now. I'm not expert at TSA,

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Speaker 4: You hear Tom they're talking, and one of the things

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Speaker 4: Sean Duffy, the man in charge of Transportation Secretary, put

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Speaker 2: So I think as we look forward to Friday, that's

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Speaker 4: and even more will walk off the job of Democrats

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