Noem touts TSA success after thousands with terror links barred from flights at major US airport
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announces TSA operations at Miami International Airport prevented thousands of terror-linked people from traveling in the past year.
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"What has happened here at this airport is that over the last year they have prevented over 10,000 individuals from traveling that had ties to narcoterrorism, 85,000 individuals that had similar ties to terrorists and to terrorists on the watch list in the United States," Noem said.
Noem also highlighted Miami International Airport’s human trafficking unit, which conducted more than 2,200 inspections in the past year. Those efforts resulted in 24 arrests related to child exploitation.
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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announces TSA operations at Miami International Airport prevented thousands of terror-linked people from traveling in the past year.
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