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trump administration‘S Transportation Security Administration Details of all air travelers are reportedly being handed over to immigration authorities as part of a push by the President to launch an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.
As part of the program, TSA shares data Immigration and Customs Enforcement several times per week, according to the new York Times,
in persons tsa A former ICE official told the outlet that data that was later found in an ICE database showed a higher rate of people ultimately being arrested and deported.
The data-sharing program appears to have led to deportation of Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old Honduran, was arrested last month at Boston Logan Airport and deported to her home country, which she has not seen since she was a child. NYT found.
trump administration has confirmed that such efforts are underway.
“This is nothing new,” the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of ICE and TSA, told CNBC.
“Back in February, Secretary [Kristi] Noem reverses a horrific Biden-era policy that allowed aliens to move around our country illegally and do so without identification.” Under President Trump, TSA and DHS will no longer tolerate this, the spokesperson said. “This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens living in our country illegally can no longer fly unless they leave our country for self-deportation.”
this fall, UK-based political commentator Sami Hamdi The San Francisco airport was held by ICE for more than two weeks, although it is unclear whether the TSA data-sharing program was responsible.
Hamdi, a prominent pro-Palestinian activist, alleges he was targeted for his views. His family said he returned to London voluntarily without a deportation order, alleging that he was held in poor conditions in the US.
The Trump administration has reportedly become dependent on immigration agents to do this far from complete) A goal of 3,000 arrests per day to achieve the President’s campaign promise to rapidly deport millions of people.
As part of this effort, the White House has used federal data as a key weapon.
Department of Homeland Security now have access to personal data on almost every American, while the administration has threatened to stop SNAP food benefits Most from Democrat-run states if they do not hand over immigration data on recipients.
The White House has also demanded leverage tax And veterans affairs Data as part of your immigration operation.