the article repeatedly says that there are decades of neglect, and ICE is not mentioned until the last 2 paragraphs, and only to criticize its use as a temporary kludge, so you did not understand the article.

The article is clearly not "about" ICE. One paragraph talks about the ICE deployment

Your numbers for France don't match anything I can find online.

The number of immigrants per year seems to have been max 340k, about 50% have employment quickly, etc.

You complain about "leftists" but as someone who definitely doesn't want open borders, the general fear in your comment and the numbers that seem made up make your comment read a lot more like (far-) "rightist" stuff.

You are being disingenuous. The article is about the aviation industry as a whole. The article talks about various accidents that have occured in the past few years. What it means for airports, etc.

Then there's a section about the airports and TSA. TSA is currently working without pay due to a shutdown over funding. The issue of contention in this funding bill is ICE. The administration is responding by sending ICE to airports to fulfill TSA functions or not, it's, as always, unclear with this administration.

The article has 10 paragraphs. 3 mention ICE.

It is the Atlantic, surprised Elon Musk didn't catch some strays in this piece.

Uh, they know their audience? I read about the crash on the NY Times. Then I saw that there were comments so I thought to myself what can people have to say about a plane crash where it looks like ATC told the truck to stop? Times readers did not disappoint: Congress and government shutdown, lack of TSA staffing, Trump’s fault, ICE, DOGE…