{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://nikemawilliams.house.gov/posts/congresswoman-nikema-williams-joins-legislation-to-ban-ice-from-using-tsa-data", "Congresswoman Nikema Williams Joins Legislation to Ban ICE from Using TSA Data", "2026-08-10", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "House", "GA", "Nikema Williams", "W000788", "nikemawilliams.house.gov", "nikemawilliams", "https://nikemawilliams.house.gov/press", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) co-sponsored the No TSA Data for ICE Act, introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), that would prevent the two agencies from coordinating to enforce the Trump administration\u2019s 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.\n\nA 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.\n\n\u201cTSA is complicit in ICE expanding its chaos and cruelty to target our communities in our airports and has been openly lying about it,\u201d said Tlaib. \u201cThrough 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 \u2018easy targets\u2019 at airports\u2014a disgusting exploitation of immigrants in status limbo. Immigrants should be able to safely fly in this country without the fear of arrest or deportation.\u201d\n\nThe 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.\n\n\u201cWhen people fly, they should be able to trust that TSA won\u2019t divulge their sensitive information or use it for political retaliation,\u201d said Tlaib. \u201cTSA has broken that trust in a gross violation of people\u2019s 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.\u201d\n\nCongresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) said:\n\n\u201cHartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world\u2019s busiest and most efficient airport, is the gateway to the world. That\u2019s only possible when every traveler has confidence in our aviation system. The TSA should play no part in Trump\u2019s and ICE\u2019s terror campaign. It\u2019s exploitative, dangerous, and a violation of people\u2019s privacy. I\u2019m proud to co-sponsor Rep. Tlaib\u2019s No TSA Data for ICE Act to help protect people\u2019s privacy, restore accountability, and ensure our government agencies are focused on keeping travelers safe\u2014not serving as tools for ICE.\u201d\n\nThe No TSA Data for ICE Act is cosponsored by 24 other members of Congress: U.S. Reps. Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03), Andr\u00e9 Carson (IN-07), Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Jes\u00fas \u201cChuy\u201d Garc\u00eda (IL-04), Sylvia R. Garcia (TX-29), Adelita S. Grijalva (AZ-07), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Henry C. \u201cHank\u201d 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. Vel\u00e1zquez (NY-07), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12).", 1, "2026-08-11T05:54:29Z", "2026-08-11T05:56:25Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://nikemawilliams.house.gov/posts/congresswoman-nikema-williams-joins-legislation-to-ban-ice-from-using-tsa-data"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9357219096273184, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}