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Nonprofit watchdog releases TSA-ICE agreement amid airport arrests scrutiny
['Jean Carmela Lim', 'Emma Yates-Badley']
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A nonprofit government watchdog organization, American Oversight, reported on July 29, 2026, that it had obtained and released a previously undisclosed agreement between the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
NEW: We obtained a previously undisclosed data-sharing agreement between ICE and TSA.
https://t.co/GDgnGsRAkA — American Oversight (@weareoversight) July 28, 2026What the agreement entailsAmerican Oversight said the document lays out a formal framework for how TSA and ICE coordinate the sharing, storage, and handling of passenger data.
Per the group’s review, the agreement states that TSA intends to share specific data elements with ICE, which would then store that information in its own systems.
American Oversight said the newly released agreement appears to describe something more formal than that characterization, laying out specific procedures for ICE to receive and retain data from TSA.