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...
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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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I voted for this.
And I’ll vote for it again every chance I get.
L
2 posted on 07/28/2026 2:25:43 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. LOL l)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Times has learned that the program apparently now includes people with expired visas...
"Expired Visa" = "Illegal"
3 posted on 07/28/2026 2:26:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel First. America... who cares?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump’s NICE is driving rent prices down and wages up by deporting illegals. It’s what we voted to see happen.
4 posted on 07/28/2026 2:31:02 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The perpetrators of 9/11 were all here with expired visas. Too bad nobody was being deported back then.
5 posted on 07/28/2026 2:36:50 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They write this like it’s a bad thing.
6 posted on 07/28/2026 2:37:04 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
To: grobdriver
Maybe some advice should be given about not being illegal.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Imo,we must concentrate on removing african muslims...they are totally opposite of our culture.
8 posted on 07/28/2026 2:44:52 PM PDT by cherry
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.
9 posted on 07/28/2026 2:48:18 PM PDT by LouAvul (They're doing it again because you didn't hang them last time.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“””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.
10 posted on 07/28/2026 2:59:43 PM PDT by jimpick
To: grobdriver
Someone tip off the NYT that ICE will be at the precincts during the midterm elections.
11 posted on 07/28/2026 3:02:12 PM PDT by meatloaf
To: E. Pluribus Unum
There’s nothing in this excerpt that I don’t like.
12 posted on 07/28/2026 3:05:47 PM PDT by bwest
To: bwest
13 posted on 07/28/2026 3:06:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel First. America... who cares?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Don’t forget to declare your $10,001 in cash!
14 posted on 07/28/2026 3:07:56 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
To: monkeyshine
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.
15 posted on 07/28/2026 3:15:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel First. America... who cares?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
16 posted on 07/28/2026 3:19:10 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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?
17 posted on 07/28/2026 3:22:38 PM PDT by KittyKares
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"...while others have happened as angry fellow passengers filmed the encounters"
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.
18 posted on 07/28/2026 3:54:52 PM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and visitors overstay visas each year. Many with expired visas..."
Arrest them.
19 posted on 07/28/2026 3:56:01 PM PDT by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
But . . . but . . . I was told that when Bovino left ICE was going to quit arrests and deportations.
20 posted on 07/28/2026 3:57:30 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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