ICE arresting visa overstayers at airports coast to coast: Report
ICE has begun arresting visa overstayers at airports across the United States in coordination with the Transportation Security Administration. The program, reported by ABC News, has resulted in 27 arrests in nine states, including California and Virginia. The effort is part of the Trump administration’s broader push to increase deportations.
- ▪ICE placed deportation officers at TSA security checkpoints to detain travelers who have overstayed their visas.
- ▪So far 27 people have been arrested in nine states such as California and Virginia.
- ▪The initiative followed a DHS shutdown that left TSA staff unpaid while ICE officers continued to receive pay.
- ▪ICE has previously arrested more than 600,000 illegal immigrants during President Donald Trump’s second term.
- ▪TSA officers lack arrest authority, leaving immigration enforcement to ICE at airport checkpoints.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have begun taking illegal immigrants into custody at airports nationwide in an effort to increase arrests, according to a new report.ICE has linked up with another Department of Homeland Security agency, the Transportation Security Administration, to put deportation officers at security checkpoints where travelers who have failed to leave the United States before their visa expired can be encountered, detained, and possibly arrested and put in immigrant detention facilities, ABC News reported late Tuesday. Recommended Stories ICE arresting visa overstayers at airports coast to coast: Report ICE arrested two pastors who overstayed their religious visas.
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