The Philadelphia District Attorney has threatened to arrest ICE agents deployed to the city’s airport, warning that a pardon from Donald Trump will not protect them.
On Tuesday (24 March), Lawrence Krasner said that he will put federal agents “in handcuffs” and take them to court if they “decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis”.
“No, I don’t take a phone call from the president saying, ‘Let them go.’” he said.
The US president announced that federal agents would be sent to airports across the country on Monday (23 March), promising "security like no one has ever seen before".
It comes amid severe staff shortages at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) due to a partial government shutdown.
