Border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would remain at airports until TSA officers are able to resume normal operations.“We’re going to continue an ICE presence there,

ICE officers are continuing deportation operations despite a lapse in federal funding and agents being deployed to assist with airport security lines across the country.

"They've been standing around," TSA officer Pascual Contreras said.

Airport security officials have been sharing passenger data with immigration agents, but the program received little attention until videos captured a woman and her daughter being detained at San Francisco’s airport.

Early Friday, the U.S. Senate voted to pay the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and most other Homeland Security operations, aside from immigration enforcement.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an order to pay TSA employees as soon as Monday, after a deal that sought to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security stalled in Congress.

The Senate early Friday morning approved Homeland Security funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other agencies, but not the immigration enforcement operations at the heart of the budget impasse that has jammed airports,

There is no good reason why the TSA hasn’t been privatized. The agency is an inefficient, bureaucratic mess and has its funding subject to the whims of political fights extraneous to its mission. Privatization would both make the agency function better and insulate it from political fights.