Philadelphia County District Attorney Lawrence Krasner was slammed by the White House Wednesday after he brazenly threatened to arrest and jail ICE agents at airports — warning that even a pardon from President Trump wouldn’t protect them.
The George Soros-backed Democrat unleashed the wild threat at Philadelphia International Airport days after Trump deployed ICE officers to at least 14 airports nationwide to assist TSA agents and help reduce the grueling lines that have plagued travelers amid the partial government shutdown.
“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,” the lefty pol said on Tuesday.
Philadelphia County District Attorney Lawrence Krasner was slammed after he brazenly threatened to arrest and jail ICE agents at airports. Bloomberg via Getty Images“My job is to enforce the law: so this is how that works — because I know there have been efforts to confuse you, including by the Vice President of the United States. This is how it works.
You commit crimes within the jurisdiction that is the city and county of Philadelphia, I prosecute you.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Levitt shot back on Wednesday, labeling Krasner’s warning as a “disgraceful comment.”
“He’s talking to the ICE agents who are handing out water bottles and are helping people move through lines at airports,” Levitt said.
Krasner unleashed the wild threat at Philadelphia International Airport days after Trump deployed ICE officers to at least 14 airports nationwide to ease travel woes, assist TSA Getty Images“It’s a disgraceful comment. The men and women of ICE are great people. I would encourage this lawmaker whose name I don’t know and don’t care to know to actually sit down and speak with the ICE agents who are on the ground doing this important work.”
Krasner came under fire again when he lobbed another stark warning to ICE in a separate cringeworthy video filmed in front of a “Wooder Ice” mural — bizarrely insisting that this type of ice “doesn’t break the law” as ominous music blared in the background.
In the video, posted to his X on Wednesday, he awkwardly repeated the word “wooder” — a Philly slang term for water ice — while urging immigration agents to “uphold the United States Constitution.”
“To anyone who is an ICE agent, thank you for upholding the law and Constitution of the United States, but if you don’t, you’re going to find out because the law applies equally in Philadelphia and it applies to you,” Krasner ranted.
The Trump administration’s Rapid Response 47 account on X blasted the video as “sick and deranged.”
“@ICEgov is there to help because Democrats have forced @TSA officers to work without paychecks. If you don’t like it, Larry, tell your fellow Democrats to fund @DHSgov.,” the post fumed.
ICE agents were deployed Monday to about 14 airports nationwide to help alleviate stress on TSA agents, who have been working without paychecks since the shutdown cut Department of Homeland Security funding in February.
Congress has been at a standstill over fully funding the Department of Homeland Security, which covers TSA, due to Senate Democrats’ insistence that reforms be made to immigration enforcement.
