SAT . BREAKING: Airport Chaos Ahead as Trump Turns TSA Into Immigration Enforcers in Sweeping Crackdown
In a stunning escalation of Trump’s mass-deportation crusade, the administration has quietly transformed the Transportation Security Administration into an immigration dragnet—handing over every single air traveler’s name to ICE so agents can stalk airports for people to deport.
Under a secret program exposed by The New York Times, the TSA now gives ICE passenger lists multiple times a week, allowing immigration officers to sit at airports like bounty hunters waiting for names to pop up in their database. Once a match hits, ICE swoops in.
The result? The arrest and two-day deportation of 19-year-old Any Lucía López Belloza, a Babson College freshman who was simply traveling to visit family for Thanksgiving. She passed security with no issue, grabbed a coffee at her gate—then suddenly her boarding pass wouldn’t scan. Within minutes, agents were waiting for her.
“Oh, you’re Any,” one said, before pulling her away. She was deported 48 hours later.
And she’s not alone. The same program flagged Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, ripped out of a Salt Lake City airport in a scene so disturbing the video went viral. Former ICE officials admit that in some regions, 75% of flagged names lead to arrests.
This is not airport security. This is state surveillance weaponized for political fear.
The TSA—an agency created to stop terrorists—is now a pipeline for Trump’s dream of 3,000 deportations a day, a target pushed by white nationalist adviser Stephen Miller. ICE officers are now receiving passengers’ flight numbers, departure times, and even photos, sometimes hours before the plane takes off.
Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS spokesperson, all but bragged: “The only reason you should be flying is to self-deport home.”
Immigration experts warn that Trump has effectively turned routine travel into a “force multiplier” for removals—meaning millions of people now fear even going to the airport, let alone boarding a plane. It’s not safety. It’s terror.
Activists are sounding the alarm: “This is another attempt to terrorize and punish communities,” said Human Rights First. “People will be terrified to ever leave their homes.”
Claire Trickler-McNulty, a senior ICE official during the Biden administration, warned about the effect the new Trump policy would have on air travel for even those who have no worries about being caught up in the ICE dragnet. “If you have more officers conducting arrests at airports, it puts more strain on the system, delays and complications may annoy and frighten some travelers, and those who are unsure about their status will move away from air travel,” she said. “It will continue to reduce the space where people feel safe going about their business.”
Meanwhile, the administration is trying to squeeze even more personal data out of Americans, attempting to force the IRS to hand over migrants’ home addresses until a federal court stepped in.
This is Trump’s America in 2025, where going to church for Thanksgiving, visiting family, or even grabbing a coffee at your gate can end with you disappeared into a detention room and deported before you even understand what’s happening.
A government that uses airport security to hunt down teenagers isn’t enforcing the law.
It’s enforcing fear.
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