Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation - TSA is giving passenger lists to ICE
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.htmlhttps://archive.ph/MYCZT
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.
By Hamed Aleaziz
Dec. 12, 2025
The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants it wants to expel.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people.
It’s unclear how many arrests have been made as a result of the collaboration. But documents obtained by The New York Times show that it led to the arrest of Any Lucía López Belloza, the college student picked up at Boston Logan Airport on Nov. 20 and deported to Honduras two days later. A former ICE official said 75 percent of instances in that official’s region where names were flagged by the program yielded arrests.
ICE has historically avoided interfering with domestic travel. But the partnership between airport security and the immigration agency, which began quietly in March, is the latest way the Trump administration is increasing cooperation and information sharing between federal agencies in service of the president’s goal of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history.
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who've expressed anti-Trump sentiments online or elsewhere.
Anyone who thinks Mango Mussolini plans to stop at the level of only hassling "immigrants" hasn't been paying attention. He's already CLEARLY gone way beyond his previously divulged plans to only go after people "here illegally" and "the worst of the worst", and there's been way too little pushback on that broken promise. His ICE goons recently even pulled people out of the line for their naturalization ceremonies and deported them FFS. People who were doing everything right, IOW.
Ergo, he probably has no reason to think he won't get away with purposefully fucking with citizens who don't approve of his actions. Like arrest them at the gate over some trumped up 'terrorist sympathizer suspicion", hold them in detention for weeks or months, then go "ooops, okay you can leave now", and getting his SCOTUS lackeys to declare said persons have no legal recourse.
