Can Canadians ask to deal with TSA rather than ICE at the airports? What a lawyer says you should do

Due to a partial government shutdown in the U.S., many Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers are calling in sick or quitting over a lack of pay, resulting in long airport wait times. To help out, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel have being deployed to major U.S. airports starting March 23.

National Post reached out to Rosanna Berardi, managing partner of Buffalo-based Berardi Immigration Law, to ask what this means for Canadian travellers.

Why is ICE being deployed in this way?