The TSA is providing airline passenger data to ICE to aid Trump's deportation efforts, report says [View all]
Source: The Independent
Friday 12 December 2025 19:43 EST
The Trump administration’s Transportation Security Administration is reportedly giving immigration officials details of all air travelers as part of the president’s push to carry out an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.
As part of the program, the TSA shares the data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement multiple times per week, according to The New York Times.
Individuals in the TSA data who were later found in ICE databases had a high rate of eventually being arrested and deported, a former ICE official told the outlet.
The data-sharing program appears to have led to the deportation of Any Lucía López Belloza, 19, a Honduran who was arrested at Boston Logan Airport last month and sent to her home country, which she hadn’t seen since she was a child, The NYT found. The Trump administration has confirmed such efforts are underway.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/passenger-data-travel-tsa-ice-trump-b2883730.html
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