Trump admin. orders transportation body to share passenger names in expanded deportation push: Report
The Trump administration has instructed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to provide the names of every airline passenger to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a report by The New York Times.
Under the arrangement, which began in March, the TSA has been supplying the ICE with passenger lists multiple times a week, the daily reported on Friday.
The ICE is then able to cross-reference those lists with its own databases identifying individuals targeted with detention or deportation.
‘Nothing new’
Both agencies operate under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
A DHS spokesperson confirmed the cooperation, describing it as “nothing new,” and said the policy had followed a reversal of what the department called a Biden-era approach to air travel.
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In a statement, the spokesperson said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had ended policies that allowed undocumented immigrants to fly without identification, adding that under Trump, the TSA and the DHS would no longer permit such travel.
The spokesperson said the administration’s goal was to ensure that undocumented immigrants could no longer fly domestically unless they were leaving the country to self-deport.
Traveler information is typically provided to the TSA by airlines after tickets are booked and is used for screening against the so-called “Terrorist Screening Dataset” and other databases.
According to a former TSA official cited by the Times, prior to the TSA-ICE partnership, the agency would not take part in immigration enforcement or domestic “criminal” cases.
The number of people arrested as a result of the program has not been disclosed.
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However, the Times reported that the arrest and deportation of 19-year-old college student Any Lucía López Belloza was linked to the initiative.
López Belloza was detained at Boston’s Logan Airport on November 20 and deported to Honduras. She had been brought to the United States from Honduras at the age of seven, and she and her family were unaware that she was subject to deportation.
The report also cited the arrest of Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, a woman from El Salvador, who was detained weeks earlier at the Salt Lake City airport.
Both arrests were flagged by the Pacific Enforcement Response Center, a California-based office that alerts ICE field offices across the country to detain immigrants, according to the paper.
The TSA-ICE cooperation comes amid broader efforts by the Trump administration to access data held by other federal agencies.
In April, the DHS reached an agreement with the Internal Revenue Service to obtain tax data on undocumented immigrants, but a federal court blocked that plan in November, according to CNN.
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