Recent reports of Customs and Border Protection agents manning the exits of airplanes and checking the identifications of passengers is not the start of a new policy, officials said Friday.

A spokesperson for CBP explained to the Washington Examiner that CBP agents did check the identification of passengers as they left a plane that landed at John F. Kennedy Airport on Wednesday, but only because they were looking for a specific person with outstanding warrants who was booked on that flight.

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