TSA is giving airline passenger knowledge to ICE for deportation push: NYT


An worker with the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) checks the paperwork of a traveler on the Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, California, U.S., Oct. 1, 2025.

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The Transportation Safety Administration is giving U.S. immigration officers the names of each airline traveler as a part of the Trump administration’s widespread deportation program, The New York Instances reported Friday.

TSA, a number of instances per week, provides U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement an inventory of vacationers anticipated to be passing by airports, the Instances reported.

“ICE can then match the listing in opposition to its personal database of individuals topic to deportation and ship brokers to the airport to detain these individuals,” the newspaper stated.

CNBC has requested touch upon the report from TSA, which is accountable for safety screenings at U.S. airports, and ICE.

The Instances stated that it isn’t recognized how many individuals have been arrested because of the data sharing by TSA.

However the newspaper stated it had obtained paperwork that point out this system led to the Nov. 20 arrest at Boston’s Logan Airport of a faculty scholar, Any Lucía López Belloza, who was deported to Honduras two days later. López had been on her solution to go to her household in Texas for the Thanksgiving vacation.

The Instances beforehand reported that López was dropped at america from Honduras at age 7, and that her household stated neither they nor she knew she was topic to a deportation order.

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