#deportation-enforcement

#deportation-enforcement

Of the 15 officers who died in the line of duty while working for Enforcement and Removal Operations, the ICE branch charged with detaining unauthorized migrants within the interior of the US, all but two died of Covid. One deportation officer, Brian Beliso, died of a heart attack in 2020 during a foot chase. The other deportation officer to die of something other than Covid, Lorenzo Roberto Gomez, experienced heat stress during a training exercise in El Paso, Texas, leading to hospitalization.

The Times reported on Friday that the Transportation Security Administration provides a list to ICE multiple times a week that includes air travelers who will be passing through airports. ICE officials can cross-reference people from the list to the agency's database of people subject to deportation, then find and arrest them when they arrive for their flights. This data sharing, which the Times says started in March, is part of the Trump administration's efforts to engage in a massive deportation campaign.