A woman’s Global Entry was revoked, but says it didn’t stop there – that the government “erased” her. She tried to renew her U.S. passport online, and reports receiving a message saying no record of her identity could be found. Her congressional office is now trying to get answers.
She received the Global Entry revocation notice on December 19, saying she “no longer meets eligibility requirements” of the program.
- This follows Attorney General Pam Bondi asking the FBI to label “pro-trans activists” domestic terrorists.
- She identifies as a pro-trans activist.
Since she can’t renew her passport online, she’s waiting for an in-person appointment in Los Angeles, hoping that a paper submission will work or at least generate a more revealing response. While it could be a clerical issue, it’s two separate systems at the same time and that raises flags.
"MY IDENTITY HAS BEEN WIPED FROM THE U.S. PASSPORT DATABASE"
A woman in Los Angeles says her Global Entry was suddenly revoked at 2:17 AM – and when she tried to renew her passport, the federal system allegedly told her no one with her identity exists anywhere in the U.S.… pic.twitter.com/pibyxCtKRb
— HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) January 11, 2026
My own starting point is to “never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.”
First, Global Entry revocation isn’t unusual. The U.S. government performs a daily search of everyone in the Global Entry program. Historically, about 12,000 people per year have been kicked out of the program.
I’ve written about the reasons why people are losing Global Entry in the past, noting that the major reasons include:
- uncovering a past conviction that wasn’t disclosed during the application period (generally minor offenses over 10 years old, such as a DUI, are fine if you disclose them)
- a conviction while you’re in the program
- derogatory information from another government
- breaking program rules or rules in the immigration hall such as failing to declare items or bringing ineligible family members with you into the Global Entry queues, if the customs officer decides to make an issue of it
It turns out that 39% of travelers win their appeals after removal from Global Entry, and since this woman is in California it’s worth noting that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that DHS decisions on Global Entry are subject to judicial review. So maybe lawyer up for the fight.
The inability to renew a passport online is also not unusual. The “no one with my identity was found” message is very plausibly an eligibility match failure. It doesn’t mean the passport record was deleted. There’s also been reports of valid U.S. passports being flagged as lost or stolen.
That doesn’t mean it isn’t political targeting. The DOJ posture is real, and this specific incident may be unrelated.
The whole thing reads like sci-fi, though. Sandra Bullock’s life records were deleted and her identity was re-assigned in The Net because she knew too much and was forced to prove that she exists. Gene Hackman aided Will Smith in getting his life back after the surveillance state destroys his life over footage of a crime he didn’t even know he had in Enemy of the State. And Brazil is probably the classic depiction of bureaucracy as horror.
Orwell said it best in “1984”: Unperson
I wouldn’t be surprised if this government starts denying or revoking passports, just because it can. Back in the ’50s they played such games with those deemed too “Communist” in sympathy. And doing it after people have left the U.S. would be a really nasty way of keeping out critics.
Yikes, simply, that’s not ‘right’ at all. I fully expect the right-wingers on here to vocally hate the trans person for existing, and to celebrate her erasure… of course, I vehemently disagree with you on that. But, the real issue here is that if this can be done to her, then it can be done to anyone, us all included, on a whim, for any reason, like, just because the President picks a fight with you over anything, which is not the law, nor should it be. I hope she gets fully reinstated soon.
Trans people exist. Not just in the US. All around the world. Just get over it and focus on the real issues like runaway grocery prices and ballooning income inequality. Jeez
Somewhere, there’s a deeper issue that we don’t know about. I’m hoping that it’s a clerical error and not some sort of retaliation. I’ve “kept my nose clean” but I’ve had clerical errors with my bank, credit cards and the like. As a pilot and flight instructor, I have to be very careful as a DUI, as one example, that is NOT reported to the FAA can be grounds for revocation of a pilot’s medical or pilot certificate. I know that there have been pilots that, due to a mistake by the FAA, have had issues with mis-identification. Let’s hope that, in her case, it is the clerical error!