DHS sued over Biden program that let illegals use arrest warrants for identification

Ordinary Americans can identify themselves with a driver’s license, which sometimes is REAL ID, a state-issued ID card, a passport or a few other strategically chosen documents.

During Joe Biden’s tenure in Washington, however, illegal alien criminals were allowed to identify themselves with an arrest warrant.

Or a booking record.

Or a warrant for deportation.

And now Judicial Watch is asking for details on exactly what was going on.

The government watchdog group said it has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for records on migrants who entered the United States from 2020-2025, “using arrest warrants and removal orders as proof of identification.”

The lawsuit, in Washington, came after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t respond to a FOIA request that was dated a few months ago.

It sought details on those entering the U.S. who used, for proof of identification any: “Warrant for Arrest of Alien, Warrant of Removal/Deportation, Order of Removal on Recognizance, Order of Supervision, Notice to Appear, Arrival and Departure Form, and/or Alien Booking Record.”

Back in 2022 the Biden regime confirmed the Transportation and Safety Administration was allowing illegal immigrants to use arrest warrants as an alternative form of identification to board commercial airplanes.

At the time, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told TSA chief David Pekoske, “The point of an arrest warrant is for police to actively seek out and apprehend criminals. However, you have now confirmed that illegal aliens may present arrest warrants to federal officials to board commercial aircrafts.”

Tom Fitton, head of Judicial Watch, said, “The Biden administration compounded the dangers of their open-border lawlessness by allowing the very warrants that should have gotten criminal aliens detained or deported to be used as ID to board commercial aircraft.”

Judicial Watch has tried to get the details from ICE, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and U.S Customs and Border Protection, so far.

“In October 2025, Judicial Watch reported on a Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), established by President Trump on the day of his inauguration to tackle a pandemic of transnational organized crime created by the Biden administration’s ‘disgraceful’ open border policies, had made thousands of arrests and seized over 1,000 illegal firearms, 91 tons of drugs and $3 million in currency,” Judicial Watch reported.