Federal immigration officers have been seen at an airport in Atlanta after President Donald Trump said he’d deploy agents to supplement the Transportation Security Administration during a government shutdown that has caused long lines at security checkpoints across the country.

President Donald Trump said ICE agents will be deployed to airports starting March 23 as TSA workers go unpaid during the partial government shutdown.

Wait times aren't expected to improve until government funding is restored and TSA officers receive paychecks.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.

President Trump said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will assist TSA agents at airports as delays and security staffing shortages continue.

President Donald Trump announced that ICE agents will begin assisting at U.S. airports this Monday, a direct response to the ongoing funding deadlock he says has 'endangered' the country by leaving TSA personnel without pay.

A bill that would fund DHS and provide payments for Transportation Security Administration agents at airports failed to advance in the Senate on Friday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will assist short-staffed TSA officers starting today at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Mayor Andre Dickens said. Why it matters: The deployment by President Trump thrusts the very agency that sparked the shutdown with its conduct in Minnesota into the nation's airports to deal with the consequences,