Rep. Tlaib introduces bill to stop data sharing between TSA and ICE

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced the No TSA Data for ICE Act, a new bill that would prevent the two agencies from coordinating to enforce the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. In a dramatic violation of privacy rights, the Transportation and Security Administration is sharing passenger names, birth dates, and other data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, leading to a surge of arrests at airports. ICE agents are targeting immigrants in the process of changing status, including those waiting for visa extensions, with employment authorization documents, or recently married to a U.S. citizen.

A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit obtained an information-sharing agreement between TSA and ICE from May 2025, exposing that acting TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill lied in her testimony before Congress.

“TSA is complicit in ICE expanding its chaos and cruelty to target our communities in our airports and has been openly lying about it,” said Tlaib. “Through an information-sharing agreement signed in 2025, TSA is readily offering up our immigrant residents to suffer at the hands of ICE agents so they can fulfill their daily arrest quota. One source from ICE even said it makes for ‘easy targets’ at airports—a disgusting exploitation of immigrants in status limbo. Immigrants should be able to safely fly in this country without the fear of arrest or deportation.”

The bill would also prevent the Department of Homeland Security from retaliating against critics of ICE and the Trump Administration by revoking their status in trusted traveler programs, including TSA PreCheck and Global Entry. DHS is currently being sued by three U.S. citizens who lost Global Entry status after filming ICE activity.

“When people fly, they should be able to trust that TSA won’t divulge their sensitive information or use it for political retaliation,” said Tlaib. “TSA has broken that trust in a gross violation of people’s First Amendment rights. This data sharing should terrify all of us. It does nothing to make us safer, but rather endangers the basic rights of all Americans and worsens our mass surveillance crisis.”

“Handing travelers’ private information over to immigration agents isn’t about safety or security. It’s about turbocharging the already violent and deadly immigration enforcement happening in real time across the country that has claimed the lives of neighbors and fathers like Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastian Guerrero,” said Juliana Macedo do Nascimento, Deputy Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at United We Dream. “As immigration enforcement exploits databases, expands surveillance, and targets travelers across the country, Congress has a mandate to protect the safety and rights of the American people from the administration’s growing overreach and put an end to the cycle of tragedy that follows when communities are forced to live under fear. We urge Congress to pass the No TSA Data for ICE Act now.”

“The Trump administration continues to expand and entrench its mass deportation campaign against non-citizens with near zero concern for existing laws, including constitutional rights and obligatory international norms,” said Brad Parker, Associate Director of Policy at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “The No TSA Data for ICE Act is a simple, practical measure to protect non-citizen asylum seekers and block the targeting of individuals because they oppose authoritarian policies of the Trump administration.”

The No TSA Data for ICE Act is cosponsored by 25 members of Congress: U.S. Reps. Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03), André Carson (IN-07), Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Sylvia R. Garcia (TX-29), Adelita S. Grijalva (AZ-07), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (GA-04), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37), Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), Greg Landsman (OH-01), John B. Larson (CT-01), Summer L. Lee (PA-12), April McClain Delaney (MD-06), Morgan McGarvey (KY-03), Christian Menefee (TX-18), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Delia Ramirez (IL-03), Emily Randall (WA-06), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Lateefah Simon (CA-12), Shri Thanedar (MI-13), Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-07), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), and Nikema Williams (GA-05).

It is also endorsed by 66 organizations: African Bureau for Immigration and Social Affairs, African Communities Together, African Human Rights Commission, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International USA, Arab American Heritage Council, Arkansas Community Organizations, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Borderlands Resource Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Law and Social Policy,  Church World Service, Climate Refugees, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Communities United for Status & Protection, Construyamos Otro Acuerdo, Detention Watch Network, Fight for the Future, Flint Alliance for Immigrant Rights, Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution, Get Free, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, Immigrant Guide, Immigration Justice Action Team of Indivisible Mass Coalition, Indivisible Easthampton, Indivisible Marin, Just Detention International, Justice Is Global, Kino Border Initiative, LGBT Detroit, Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, MADRE, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, Migrant Support Collective, Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, Movement for Black Lives Action Fund, MPower Change Action Fund, Muslims for Just Futures, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, National Network for Arab American Communities, National Partnership for New Americans, Never Again Action, New Disabled South, NM Comunidades en Accion Y de Fe, No Concentration Camps US, No Detention Centers in Michigan, NorCal Resist, Oasis Legal Services, Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans, Peace Action, Public Citizen, Restore The Fourth Action, ReThinking Foreign Policy, RootsAction, Statewide Indivisible Michigan, UndocuBlack Network, United We Dream Network, Voices for Utah Children, We are CASA, Western MA Immigration Legislative Advocacy Network, Whistleblower & Source Protection Program at ExposeFacts, X-Lab, and National Immigration Law Center.

Read the full bill text here.

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