Posted on 07/28/2026 2:20:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation.
Immigration agents in plain clothes have whisked away targets at check-in counters and arrival gates, with enforcement actions in at least 15 airports in recent weeks. Some of the arrests have occurred quietly, while others have happened as angry fellow passengers filmed the encounters.
The recent arrests appear to be an expansion of an arrangement between the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Times reported in December that ICE officers were arresting people with deportation orders at airports with the help of information provided by airlines to the T.S.A.
Now, through a review of Homeland Security Department documents and interviews with lawyers for more than 25 people from more than a dozen countries recently detained at airports, The Times has learned that the program apparently now includes people with expired visas — a much larger group.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and visitors overstay visas each year. Many with expired visas occupy a legal gray area, as they are awaiting visa extensions or green cards and have been issued work permits. Such individuals were not prioritized for deportation in the past unless they had committed crimes, and they were rarely detained while waiting for visa extensions or green cards. But that has changed under President Trump, whose administration has undertaken a campaign of mass deportation and...
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I voted for this.
And I’ll vote for it again every chance I get.
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"Expired Visa" = "Illegal"
Trump’s NICE is driving rent prices down and wages up by deporting illegals. It’s what we voted to see happen.
The perpetrators of 9/11 were all here with expired visas. Too bad nobody was being deported back then.
They write this like it’s a bad thing.
Maybe some advice should be given about not being illegal.
Imo,we must concentrate on removing african muslims...they are totally opposite of our culture.
I voted for this. All these people could have done everything correctly and would be here legally. Instead, they chose to break our laws. I guess once they realized democrat politicians spit on America’s laws, no laws needed to be obeyed.
“””Many with expired visas occupy a legal gray area,”””
Not really. You either have a visa or you don’t. If you don’t you are not following the law. It is that simple.
Someone tip off the NYT that ICE will be at the precincts during the midterm elections.
There’s nothing in this excerpt that I don’t like.
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Don’t forget to declare your $10,001 in cash!
Unless you are departing from MSP for Somalia. You can take as much as you want there.
More, More, MORE!!
How lax the U.S. has been when people who have expired visas expect to be able to fly anywhere in the country with no issues. Could I do that in their home countries?
Ignore the angry fellow passengers. They can film all they want. It shows Federal Agents doing exactly what US law requires them to do and what the American People want them to do: uphold US law..
Continue to arrest those in the USA illegally.
Arrest them.
But . . . but . . . I was told that when Bovino left ICE was going to quit arrests and deportations.
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