Transportation and Security Administration staff reportedly alerted immigration authorities to a Guatemalan mother and her 9-year-old daughter before agents descended on them inside San Francisco’s airport.
New details about the woman’s harrowing arrest — which went viral after travelers surrounded the officers and posted footage on social media — raises critical questions about TSA’s relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including how checkpoint agents are sharing information about travelers they suspect are living in the country illegally.
San Francisco officials who oppose ICE’s presence in the city and its airport called Sunday’s arrest an “isolated incident,” which took place hours before President Donald Trump deployed ICE agents into more than a dozen major transit hubs across the country.
San Francisco International Airport was not on that list, and officials stressed the arrest was unrelated to Trump’s surge.
But government documents obtained by The New York Times reportedly show that the family was preparing to board a flight to Miami when they were arrested, moments after TSA agents flagged their names on a passenger list to ICE.
Under the Trump administration, TSA is providing ICE with the names and birth dates of travelers believed to have been ordered out of the country by an immigration court judge, allowing officers to quickly identify and arrest people in airport terminals.
At 9:30 p.m., two agents found Angelina Lopez-Jimenez and her daughter Wendy Godinez-Jimenez in San Francisco’s terminal concourse, after TSA gave them a heads up about the Miami flight, according to The New York Times.
Lopez-Jimenez was carrying two Guatemalan passports, which allegedly matched names on a removal order from 2019.
After the officers told her to follow them, she “attempted to flee and resisted law enforcement officers,” according to a spokesperson for Homeland Security.
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