The Trump administration has opened another front in its mass deportation operation, deploying plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to seize workers and travelers at airports throughout the United States. ICE agents arrested him in Los Angeles the following day. One week after the assault on Nguyen, ICE agents seized 27-year-old Chantal Morales Rojas as she attempted to board a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Oakland, California. ICE claimed Rojas entered the United States in October 2024 and overstayed a visa that expired in January 2025. Five days after immigration agents were dispatched to major airports, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now promoted as a possible Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, had said nothing.