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He has also stated that many foreigners who come into the country on a visa overstay and fail to leave when the visa expires.

A DHS spokesperson said in a statement to CNN that “this administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport.”

“Not that an airport is a sacred place, but for sure, enforcement at airports is nothing we’ve ever seen, neither is cooperation between TSA and ICE,” Jeff Joseph, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told the outlet.

“That’s the mousetrap. That’s the cheese,” he added, a reference to aliens who are in the immigration process and being detained at airports.

“If the new expectation is that if you have a pending application, you can’t travel … that would be very, very new,” he added.

Senior Department of Homeland Security officials adjusted immigration enforcement operations following two fatal shootings involving ICE officers this month.

Both incidents, one in Houston and the other in Maine, began after ICE officers initiated traffic stops. And in both, ICE agents say the suspects attempted to strike them with their vehicles.

Courts have repeatedly found that law enforcement officials can consider vehicles to be deadly weapons.

Although airport arrests are not a new enforcement tactic under the Trump administration, immigration attorneys and advocates say they have become increasingly common in recent weeks, CNN said.

“When you’re under pressure to ramp up arrests, it’s all about what is the fastest and easiest way to get people into custody,” said John Sandweg, former acting ICE director under the Obama administration.

President Obama deported so many illegal migrants he was nicknamed “Deporter-in-Chief.”

There are several reasons immigration agents may choose to conduct arrests at airports, CNN noted.

Through the Transportation Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security receives passenger information before flights, allowing authorities to identify individuals of interest in advance.

Airports also provide a controlled environment where security screening means travelers are generally not carrying weapons, former officials say.

“It makes for an easy immigration arrest for ICE,” Sandweg told the outlet.

“You can now take custody of that person in a secure environment. They come to you,” he added.

“You know exactly when and where they’re going to be. And because you’re getting them in a


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