US airports snarled by long security lines as senators race to end Homeland Security shutdown
發佈日期: 2026-03-25 23:11
TVB News
Due to short staffing of the US Transportation Security Administration airport workers, swelling crowds are seen in major hubs during the busy spring travel season.
In Houston, passengers at George Bush Intercontinental Airport were told to arrive hours before their flights and navigated meandering lines to get through security on Tuesday.
Griffin Davis, a traveller from Houston, said: "And we've been in this airport since 8 o'clock in the morning. Very tired. Queuing and queuing and very slow."
Steven Roche, a traveller to Las Vegas, said: "About two and a half hours so far and it looks like probably another hour or so to go. Yeah. It's insane."
Traveller to Minneapolis Brisa Hendricks said: "We missed our flight after being in line for like four hours. So our flight is at 8:05 again today, so we got here extra early. And we've been in line for about two hours now."
Senators are racing to get the Department of Homeland Security reopened as Democrats refuse to fund the department without changes to immigration enforcement and mass deportation operations.
The funding standoff in mid-February has forced tens of thousands of TSA officers to go without pay, with nearly 11 percent of them missing work on Monday and at least 458 officers quitting altogether.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration began deploying hundreds of immigration agents and Homeland Security Investigations officers at 14 airports across the country to aid security screening.
