TSA giving airline passenger data to ICE: NYT
A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee checks a passenger’s documents at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, California, USA, October 1, 2025.
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The Transportation Security Administration is providing the name of every airline passenger to U.S. immigration officials as part of the Trump administration’s widespread deportation program. New York Times He reported on Friday.
Several times a week, TSA provides U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a list of passengers expected to pass through airports, the Times reported.
“ICE could then match the list with its own database of people to be deported and send agents to the airport to detain those people,” the newspaper said.
ICE and TSA are divisions of the Department of Homeland Security.
“This is nothing new,” a Homeland Security spokesperson told CNBC about the Times report.
“In February, Mr. Minister [Kirsti] “Noem has reversed the egregious Biden-era policy that allowed aliens to illegally wander around our country without identification,” the spokesperson said. “Under President Trump, TSA and DHS will no longer tolerate this. “This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens who are in our country illegally can no longer fly unless they travel outside of our country to deport themselves.”
The Times said it was unknown how many people were arrested as a result of the TSA sharing the information.
But the newspaper said it obtained documents showing that the program led to the arrest at Boston Logan Airport on Nov. 20 of college student Any Lucía López Belloza, who was deported to Honduras two days later. López was visiting family in Texas for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Times previously reported that López was brought to the United States from Honduras at the age of 7 and that his family did not say either they or López knew he was subject to a deportation order.
