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B.See

(7,772 posts) Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:11 PM Dec 14

TSA Is Forwarding Names, Photos, and Flight Details to ICE

Well isn't that special? And just in time for the holidays. (Not to mention the World Cup. For which, I hear, they've given Trump a 'prize.')

TSA Is Forwarding Names, Photos, and Flight Details to ICE - Mother Jones.

The Transportation Security Administration is forwarding passenger lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to detain and deport travelers while denying them the chance to challenge the process, according to documents obtained by the New York Times.

The TSA’s participation in immigration enforcement is unprecedented, as is that of ICE with domestic travel; the program, kept secret until Friday’s report, represents yet another means of inducing collective fear en masse in travelers and other residents.

In the case of many immigrants like López, a student with no criminal record, those attacks defy orders by federal judges not to deport the people targeted—defiance facilitated by ICE’s collaboration with TSA, which prevents timely challenges.

And not only immigrants are being detained.

... “the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is choosing—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism. And it’s doing so ostensibly in the name of “protecting” the American people.”

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TSA Is Forwarding Names, Photos, and Flight Details to ICE (Original Post) B.See Dec 14 OP

How long until the ratcheting of "un-wanted" Americans are disappeared? sakabatou Dec 14 #1

Not long the way we're going underpants Dec 14 #3

Elon was heralded as Patron Saint of FREE SPEECH underpants Dec 14 #2

Time to sink the airlines then purr-rat beauty Dec 14 #4

Inching closer to a police state. QED Dec 14 #5

Agreed kimbutgar Dec 14 #7

Is it really that's surprising Boo1 Dec 14 #6

sakabatou

(45,771 posts)

1. How long until the ratcheting of "un-wanted" Americans are disappeared?

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:12 PM

Dec 14

underpants

(194,910 posts)

3. Not long the way we're going

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:18 PM

Dec 14

and decisions will need to be made about what to do with all those “useless eaters”.

underpants

(194,910 posts)

2. Elon was heralded as Patron Saint of FREE SPEECH

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:16 PM

Dec 14

It seems like a tag and release program

purr-rat beauty

(975 posts)

4. Time to sink the airlines then

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:23 PM

Dec 14

We should refuse to fly, this is a Constitutional violation, If they do not ask consent, it's akin to stealing and selling our data

Let the airlines put pressure on them when people stop flying

QED

(3,267 posts)

5. Inching closer to a police state.

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:29 PM

Dec 14

I won't be flying any time soon. I'm not confident that the skies are safe anyway.

kimbutgar

(26,800 posts)

7. Agreed

Reply to QED (Reply #5)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 06:21 PM

Dec 14

Since the orange monster took over I will not be traveling out of the country anytime soon. I wanted to go to London but I’m nervous I won’t be able to get back in the country because of my social media posts against his reign of terror. Also the TSA is so understaffed I don’t feel safe flying anymore.

Boo1

(145 posts)

6. Is it really that's surprising

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 02:42 PM

Dec 14

that one federal agency (TSA) would talk to another (ICE)? I mean they're both in the Dept of Homeland Security. I think it would be more surprising if they weren't sharing information, tbh.

The problem isn't that they are sharing information, it's the directives they are getting from the White House.

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