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’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.”
Congresswoman Nikema Williams (GA-05) said:
“Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world’s busiest and most efficient airport, is the gateway to the world. That’s only possible when every traveler has confidence in our aviation system. The TSA should play no part in Trump’s and ICE’s terror campaign. It’s exploitative, dangerous, and a violation of people’s privacy. I’m proud to co-sponsor Rep. Tlaib’s No TSA Data for ICE Act to help protect people’s privacy, restore accountability, and ensure our government agencies are focused on keeping travelers safe—not serving as tools for ICE.”
The No TSA Data for ICE Act is cosponsored by 24 other 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), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12).
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.
Congresswoman Nikema Williams proudly serves Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District on the exclusive Financial Services Committee. She is a champion of voting rights and builds on the Fifth District’s legacy as the cradle of the civil rights movement as co-Chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus. Congresswoman Williams is committed to closing the racial wealth gap and ensuring the promise of America for all–regardless of your ZIP code or bank account
