U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen on Tuesday led a group of senators in condemning recent immigration enforcement activity at airports nationwide and calling on Trump administration officials to disclose how ICE and TSA are collaborating.
Recent incidents at airports, including two at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, “create fear in our communities and cause disruption and distress to the traveling public,” the senators wrote in a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Cummins, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director David Venturella.
The senators are asking the agencies to publicly disclose existing information sharing agreements between ICE and TSA.
American Oversight late last month reported the two agencies havea formal agreementto coordinate “the sharing, storage and management of passengers’ sensitive information.” The agreement, revealed through documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and lawsuit, appears to contradict congressional testimony TSA Acting Director Ha Nguyen McNeill gave in January.
Rosen and the senators also want assurances that immigration enforcement agents are operating solely on active judicial warrants, wearing and utilizing body cameras, wearing and displaying clear identifying information, and refraining from wearing masks.
The letter references documented ICE activity last month at Reid Airport in Las Vegas. The first, which was recorded on video and widely shared, involved masked and plain-clothed ICE officersattempting to arresta 57-year-old man but being thwarted when bystanders intervened. A second incident involved a pregnantwoman being arrestedas she attempted to fly to Connecticut after a vacation.
Both people were accused of overstaying visas, according to media reports.
The senators expressed concern about the apparent targeting of people with expired visas, noting that the U.S. has a backlog of nearly 12 million visa applications and that “a person can have an expired visa with a legitimate pending application yet still be detained by ICE at an airport due to visa processing delays that are out of their control.”
The letter notes that immigration enforcement activity has been reported at Reno-Tahoe, Denver, and San Francisco international airports.
“Such actions have only served to disrupt local communities, create fear among immigrant families, and undermine the travel and tourism sector by actively discouraging travelers from visiting the United States,” reads the letter. “They hurt our nation’s travel and tourism industry at a time when it is trying to rebound from a 5.5% decline in international tourism in 2025 that occurred due to President Trump’s misguided tariff, immigration, and foreign policies.”
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto signed the letter, as did U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, and Ron Wyden of Oregon.
The full letter, which includes specific questions the senators want answered, is availablehere.
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