Philly DA threatens to arrest ICE agents if they break the law |
Philly DA threatens to arrest ICE agents if they break the law
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is escalating a warning that’s getting national attention — and directly aimed at ICE agents now stationed at airports.
His message is simple: Follow the law in Philadelphia, or face prosecution.
“This is how it works. You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you. That is how it works. No, I don’t take a phone call from president saying, ‘Let them go.’ No, the president cannot pardon you.”
“And yes, I will put you in handcuffs and I will put you in a courtroom and, if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell if you decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis, which involved the criminal homicide of unarmed, innocent people. We are not having that.”
This all comes as Donald Trump deploys ICE officers to airports nationwide — not for immigration raids, but to help fill gaps left by TSA workers during the ongoing Homeland Security shutdown. Keep in mind they’re not trained to do screening or airport security, so they are doing things like crowd control.
Hundreds of TSA agents have........