Airport security officials have been sharing passenger data with immigration agents, but the program received little attention until videos captured a woman and her daughter being detained at San Francisco’s airport.
The Transportation Security Administration began sharing passenger information with immigration officials a year ago, highlighting fliers who were on a list of people to be deported.
Markwayne Mullin, the incoming D.H.S. secretary, faces a difficult balance: a public reset of the agency while delivering on President Trump’s deportation agenda.
Markwauyne Mullin being sworn in as homeland security secretary by Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday in the Oval Office. He has taken over a department that is in declining public repute, especially after the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January.
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