Sometimes in life, the most important thing is getting to know people. Over the past few weeks, since Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents started helping to shorten lines in our nation’s airports, much of the country has gotten to know them, much to the lying Democrats’ chagrin.

Take podcaster Charlamagne tha God, who had been a blistering critic of ICE tactics under the Trump administration. Here is what he had to say of his encounters with the agents at a New York airport:

“They were great, to be honest with you. Like to be honest, I’m just like, they were, and for that particular terminal, I was flying out of LaGuardia, I forgot what terminal it was, but yeah, they were being extra nice like Chick-fil-A workers.”

This has widely been the experience of most of the millions of air travelers of late, and it has begun to melt some of the harsh rhetoric that saw ICE agents called fascists and even Nazis.

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However, despite the buffing up of ICE’s image, the Democrats are still holding the country hostage with their pointless shutdown of Department of Homeland Security funding, under which thousands of behind-the-scenes ICE employees remain without pay.

The reason Democrats are sticking with this fabulist story of out-of-control ICE agents stalking our nation is because they think they have finally found an effective way to smear law enforcement, after a few botched tries.

We all remember the attempts to paint police as evil during the George Floyd riots. But the problem there for Democrats was that too many people know cops. They were too obvious a part of our lives to be blatantly lied about.

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Then, during the Biden administration, it was border patrol agents who were painted as evil, right down to border agents on horseback being falsely accused of whipping migrants in Texas, when even the person who took the video immediately said there was no whipping, just reins being handled.

It would have been funny if the administration, including then DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayaorkas, had not maintained the lie for nearly a year, before sheepishly admitting its error.

ICE agents were a new and juicy opportunity for the left to attack law enforcement as the second Trump administration began, because unlike cops, nobody really knows ICE agents, and, unlike Border Patrol, they were operating not just on the border, but in our communities.

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Democrats pounced on the fact that ICE agents wear masks to protect themselves and their families against doxxing. They pretended that streamlined training programs meant racist yahoos were just being handed guns and badges and told to round up brown people.

Then, finally, when a coordinated leftist campaign of harassment was launched against ICE in Minneapolis, it predictably led to the tragic deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. With that, Democrats had all the excuse they needed to shutdown DHS and throw sand in the gears of governance.

But today, after the boy-scout routine to speed up air travel, and after Trump replaced the hyper-aggressive Kristi Noem with the more measured Markwayne Mullin as DHS secretary, a move demanded by Democrats, the shutdown seems absurd.

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This did not stop Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from appearing onstage with antisemitic heartthrob Hasan Piker on Tuesday and saying, “ICE cannot be reformed, ICE cannot be restrained, ICE must be abolished.”

El-Sayed, who has said that many of his constituents are in mourning over the death of Ayatollah Khameini, wants no enforcement of immigration laws, even in the face of recent Islamic terror attacks, including the attack on a synagogue in Michigan.

There is much for the administration to learn from the airport charm offensive, and perhaps a chance for a bit of a pivot.

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In fairness to Noem, she was tasked with creating an image of ICE that was a little scary. In her now infamous TV ads, she warned that anyone here illegally, not just the worst of the worst, would find themselves deported.

There is a strong argument to be made that this aggressive posture helped lead to the 2 million self-deportations we have thus far seen under Trump 2.0.

But the number of people willing to self-deport is likely finite, which means it may be time for ICE to take a more targeted approach. That leaves it less vulnerable to Democrats’ lies.

In our airports, ICE agents melted the hearts of the traveling public. Now they must do the same with the rest of the nation.

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Growing up in Wisconsin, it was relatively easy for Jordan Stolz to get into speedskating.

Waters are frozen early and often in the frozen tundra, which has made the Midwest somewhat of a hockey hotbed.

But watching Apollo Anton Ohno as a kid, the direction was natural for the 21-year-old.

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This past February, he accomplished the dream by taking home not one, but two Olympic gold medals.

Of course, winning one is a success, but with three other medal events, celebrating wasn’t exactly the easiest.

“Yeah, it’s pretty tough,” Stolz told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “I mean, I wanted to celebrate, but actually I was really focused on the 500 (meters), because it’s only one day off and then the 500 final.”

Stolz’s first gold came in the 1,000-meter race, but the pressure was on to win a second in the 500.

“I kind of felt like I really needed to win that 500. So I wasn’t really messing around at all,” he said. “So I wouldn’t say it was hard to not celebrate, but competing throughout the entire time of the games, it got a little bit difficult, especially with the 1,500, and the minute I start, there’s a lot of time in between. There’s also things that can get messed up.”

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It was a lifetime of training both on and off the ice in order for Stolz to bring home the hardware, as what’s going into Stolz’s body might be more important than what he does on the rink. Recognizing that importance, he also makes sure his cat, Mitzi, a stray who showed up on his porch looking for food when Stolz was a preteen, is getting a similar nutritional treatment with Nulo food.

“I’m so careful about what I put into to my body. Now I’m just eating, you know, kind of terrible food, not really paying attention, and it’s like, man, I kind of feel like garbage,” Stolz said. So it’s like, I kind of get a taste of what it’s like, you know, bad quality food. So Mitzi, I don’t want her to be eating poor nutrition, because she doesn’t even have a choice, right? It’s up to me to give her what’s right. So that’s why I choose to give him a Nulo.”

While Stolz accomplished his goal, there’s much more work to be done. And he actually may not need to wait until 2030 to do it.

“I’m gonna keep training until the next Olympics,” Stolz said. “Do some World Championships, World Cups, we’ll see what I can do.

“I might try, you know, a little bit of track cycling this summer, maybe in LA ’28’s on the table, but we’ll see.”

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Robert Griffin III wore a few different jerseys during his NFL career as he’s spent time with the Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens in eight seasons.

Griffin is hoping to don three more colors by the time the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics roll around – red, white and blue.

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The one-time Pro Bowler received an invitation last month to Team USA flag football training games as the squad prepares for the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) world championships later this year. The first round of training camp will be held April 16-19 and the second round will be held May 21-24.

“That is the goal, and we’ve already taken the first step in that process,” Griffin told TMZ Sports of making the Olympic team. “It’s 2026. What we’re all fighting for is to be a part of the 12 that goes to Germany and plays in the IFAF 2026 World Championships. Team USA, since (Darrell Doucette III) has joined the team, has not lost a game. I think they’re the five-time reigning IFAF world champions. They are doing this at a high level and all I’m trying to do is add to that greatness.

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“But in 2028, I’ve already put that and said that is the goal. I want to go for gold with Team USA and I’m just going through every single step to make that happen and respecting these guys and respecting the flag football community along the way.”

Following the final training camp, a selection committee will trim the list of possible players from 24 to 18 for a third camp in June. The committee will then take the best 12 players for the world championships, taking place Aug. 13-16.

Darell Doucette III has already proven to be one of the best flag football players in the world, as he led Team USA to victories in the Fanatics Flag Football Classic against NFL players.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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