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Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and U.S. Representative Lance Gooden (R-TX) sent a letter to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) demanding the agency preserve all documents related to the screening and transportation of illegal immigrants at U.S. airports for use in future congressional investigations. Additionally, Rubio and Gooden sent a letter to Dr. Joseph Cuffari, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), requesting DHS conduct a review of TSA’s policies and procedures that facilitate illegal aliens’ entry into the sterile area of airports and board commercial airlines without proper identification. In response to a previous congressional inquiry, TSA stated 159 non-citizen and non-U.S. national passengers fly daily without proper identification.
“After the horrific attack our nation experienced on September 11, 2001, Congress saw the urgent need to protect our nation’s transportation system and created TSA in response,” the lawmakers wrote. “Now, TSA is allowing unvetted illegal aliens to gain access to our airports and board commercial aircraft, which creates serious security concerns and undermines the progress we have made since 9/11.”
Earlier this year, Rubio and Gooden introduced the Strengthening Enforcement to Curtail Unlawful, Risky Entrance to (SECURE) Flights Act to prevent TSA from allowing illegal aliens to use immigration enforcement documents, such as arrest warrants, when boarding commercial flights.
Rubio and Gooden were joined in sending the letters by Congressmen Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), Barry Moore (R-AL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Randy Weber (R-TX).
The full text of the letter to TSA is below, and the full text of the letter to the DHS Inspector General is available here.
Dear Administrator Pekoske:
We write to request that you take all necessary measures to preserve any and all documents and communications related to the screening and transportation of illegal alien, noncitizen, and non-U.S. national passengers. According to numerous media reports and the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) response to congressional inquiry, your agency is allowing illegal aliens to enter the sterile area of airports without proper identification and board commercial aircraft. It is imperative that you remind all employees and officials within your organization of their legal responsibility to take appropriate measures to collect, retain, and preserve all documents, communications, and other records in accordance with federal law, including the Federal Records Act and related regulations.
In addition to complying with the requirements of federal laws and regulations, we request that you preserve all information that relates to actions taken by your agency that has or would facilitate illegal alien, non-citizen, and non-U.S. national passengers to enter the sterile area of an airport without proper identification or alternate forms of identification. Specifically, this preservation request should be construed as an instruction to preserve all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that is or may be potentially responsive to a congressional inquiry, request, or investigation. For purposes of this request, “preserve” means securing and maintaining the integrity of all relevant documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, by taking reasonable steps to prevent the partial or full destruction, alteration, testing, deletion, shredding, incineration, wiping, relocation, migration, theft, mutation, negligent, or otherwise reckless handling that could render the information incomplete or inaccessible. This includes preserving any compilation of documents that may have already been gathered in response to requests, even if copies of individual documents may still exist elsewhere in the agency.
Specifically, we request that all types of documents and essential communications between and among Transportation Security Administration employees, contractors, law enforcement, and non-governmental organizations be preserved so that a full and complete record can be produced for future congressional requests and investigations. In order to fulfill this request, please:
Please respond in writing no later than April XX, 2022 to confirm receipt of this letter and to advise the Committee of the actions you will take to comply with this document preservation request.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation with this request.