• Top News
  • Bloomberg/AP/New York Post/Washington Examiner: Judge Allows DHS to Proceed With Immigrant Registry Rule
  • Roll Call/New York Times/AP/Breitbart: Supreme Court tells US to try to return immigrant deported in error
  • The Hill: CHC demands Salvadoran president release Maryland man mistakenly deported
  • AP: Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the US must retrieve from an El Salvador prison?
  • ABC News/CBS News/Roll Call: House passes bill to require proof of citizenship to register to vote
  • Blaze: DOGE confirms that THOUSANDS of illegal aliens voted in 2024
  • Axios/CBS News/AP/NBC News: Government files memo citing "antisemitic" beliefs in case against Columbia activist Mahmoud Khall when asked to provide evidence
  • FOX News: Lawyers for Columbia anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil blast Rubio evidence letter: ‘Two pages, that’s it’
  • New York Times: Mahmoud Khalil’s Lawyers Will Seek Testimony From Marco Rubio
  • Washington Post: Khalil ruling to test Trump deportation tactic of sending detainees to Louisiana
  • Los Angeles Times: Newsom asks Trump administration to bring deported Venezuelan immigrant to the U.S.
  • AP: Judge will halt Trump administration from ending humanitarian parole for people from four countries
  • AP/CBS News/New York Times: Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say
  • Washington Post: FBI, other criminal investigators drafted for welfare checks on migrant children
  • FOX News: Trump says immigrants can return legally but they must self-deport now, floats potential 60-day deadline
  • Reuters: US judge to block Trump from revoking thousands of migrants’ legal status
  • Reuters: US judge questions ‘troublesome’ Trump policy to fast-track deportations
  • NewsNation: Judges bar use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans in NY, TX
  • USA Today: As Trump targets ‘terrorist sympathizers,’ college protests have fallen silent
  • FOX News: Trump launches ‘decisive counterstrike’ on Dem states that ‘weaponized’ courts against coal: experts
  • Blaze: House tries to limit overreach by activist federal district judges: ‘We’re shutting down the judicial coup’
  • Washington Examiner/Daily Wire/Blaze: Trump directs DOJ to investigate former officials Chris Krebs, Miles Taylor
  • FOX News: Sanctuary governors Walz, Pritzker, Hochul called to testify before Congress
  • Wall Street Journal/Bloomberg: Trump Renews Attacks on Sanctuary Cities With Funding Threats
  • Bloomberg Law: IRS Plan to Share Immigrant Info Tests Confidentiality Exception
  • Reuters: Top IRS officials join chief in quitting following immigration data deal
  • Fortune: Third IRS head since Trump’s inauguration resigns because she reportedly wasn’t told about an agreement forcing the agency to give taxpayer data to immigration officials
  • Chicago Tribune: IRS to lose billions in revenue if migrants stop filing taxes
  • ABC News: Trump’s immigration tactics obstruct efforts to avert bird flu pandemic, researchers say
  • The National Report: [SC] Illegal Migrant Charged in Hit-and-Run Death
  • NewsMax: [SC] South Carolina AG to Newsmax: Immigrant Hit-and-Run Case Part of Larger Issue
  • FOX News: [FL] Bryan Kohberger’s legal team has resorted to a ‘Hail Mary defense’ strategy, lawyer says
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Mayor Brandon Johnson responds to Trump threat to revoke federal aid for sanctuary cities
  • New York Post: [TX] Texas activist who ‘threatened to kill ICE agents and throw Kristi Noem in gulag’ weeps as he’s ordered to stay in jail
  • Arizona Republic: [AZ] Men arrested in Arizona Kristi Noem called ‘dirtbags’ had little or no criminal history
  • FOX News: [Mexico] Mexican drug lord convicted in 1985 killing of DEA agent released
  • NewsNation: [Mexico] Mexican president to US: Cartel drone strikes won’t resolve anything
  • New York Post: [Panama] Once-overrun Darien Gap route to US virtually deserted amid Trump’s illegal migrant crackdowns, before-and-after photos show
  • New York Post: [El Salvador] Kristi Noem says illegal migrants sent to El Salvador’s hell-hole megaprison should stay there ‘for the rest of their lives’
  • FOX News: [El Salvador] State Dept upgrades travel advisory for El Salvador, considered safer than France, other European countries
  • Blaze: [Colombia] Border industrial complex’: Undercover footage shows Red Cross helping migrants in Colombia headed north
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Houston Chronicle: Trump sent a legal immigrant to a hellish Salvadoran prison by mistake. Why won’t the U.S. bring him back? | Editorial
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: Is Trump abusing the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua gangsters?
  • New York Post: To end illegal immigration, don’t fix the asylum system — abolish it
  • The Hill: Get rid of FEMA? That would be a disaster
  • Washington Examiner: FEMA’s reverse discrimination cover-up
  • The Hill: Generals owe their loyalty to the rule of law, not to Trump
  • FOX News: [China] Trump’s tariff war with Beijing is part of a multi-prong strategy to secure America from a much broader threat
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Miami Herald: Kristi Noem puts Trump administration deportation goal at 21 million
  • FOX News: ICE highlights arrests of 5 illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes, including against children
  • NewsMax: ICE Chief: Deportations Should Run Like Amazon for Humans
  • FOX News: ICE reveals sanctuary jurisdictions that have released the most criminal aliens
  • Breitbart: Nearly 400 Local Police Depts Sign Up to Help DHS Arrest Criminal Illegals Since Trump Inauguration
  • ABC News: Judge’s block on deportations to third countries will remain in effect through next week
  • CNN: Why ICE is really moving detainees hundreds of miles from where they were arrested
  • Washington Post: Trump wants to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons. Experts say there’s no legal way.
  • Politico/Newsweek: ICE says its job is to stop illegal ‘ideas’ crossing the border in since-deleted X post
  • Breitbart: Four Chinese Migrants Cheated Retailers in Identity Theft Fraud
  • Breitbart: [NY] NYC Officials Allow ICE to Deport Illegals from Rikers Island Prison
  • Times: [NY] Adams Is Allowing ICE to Return to Rikers. Here’s What to Know.
  • New York Post: [NY] Illegal migrant with 9 prior busts sneaks into NYC high school, randomly gropes female student, 16: sources
  • Blaze: [FL] Florida to increase number of officers who can help feds arrest illegal immigrants
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [FL] Hispanic man arrested after posing as ICE agent and conducting traffic stop
  • Breitbart/Telemundo52: [CA] Two L.A. Schools Refuse Entry to Federal Homeland Security Officials
  • Bloomberg: [El Salvador] About 90% of migrants sent to El Salvador lacked U.S. criminal record
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Washington Post: U.S. will monitor immigrants’ social media for ‘antisemitic activity’
  • The Hill/NewsMax: Jewish advocacy group questions DHS on plans to use antisemitism to deny immigration benefits
  • NPR: The controversial and obscure law being used against immigrant student protestors
  • USA Today: For world’s wealthy, a ‘gold card’ path to American citizenship is almost here
  • NewsNation: Does Trump’s birthright citizenship order create a ‘birth tax’?
  • NewsMax: Rubio: Student Visas Not ‘Some Sort of Birthright’
  • NBC News: In about half of U.S. states, international students’ visas are being revoked. What’s behind it.
  • The Hill: Hundreds of students, dozens of colleges hit by Trump’s visa purge: What to know
  • FOX News: [NH] Federal judge to order Dartmouth students’ visa be reinstated
  • FOX News: [NJ] Blue city mayor under fire for trying to halt reopening of ICE facility
  • Axios: [GA] DACA recipient says credit union rejected loan over immigration status
  • Axios: [MI] Michigan universities see students’ visas revoked
  • CBS News: [TX] Trump administration revokes almost 80 North Texas student visas
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] Visas revoked for 4 students at SDSU, as fears and outrage over crackdown grow
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Daily Wire: House GOP Committee Advances Bills To Protect Homeland
  • Washington Examiner: Trump administration touts success in halting influx of unaccompanied migrant children
  • Washington Times: Biden admitted 6,300 illegal immigrants with criminal records, national security concerns: DOGE
  • Breitbart: [FL] Reports: Former Cuban Judge Arrested in Miami for Concealing Links to the Communist Party
  • Telemundo: [FL] Cuban judge decorated by regime is arrested in Miami for immigration fraud
  • CBS News: [MI] Attorney claims he was detained at airport for representing pro-Palestinian protester
  • FOX News: [TX] US officials make shocking discoveries at Texas-Mexico border, including a monkey: 3 people arrested
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Texas House set to OK $6.5B for border operations as crossings plummet
  • FOX News: [CA] California father abducts children, possibly headed to Ukraine: LAPD
• Transportation Security Administration
  • FOX News: REAL ID deadline for travelers, some federal building access quickly approaching
  • Washington Examiner: How states are preparing for the looming Real ID deadline
  • Breitbart: [WA] Tesla Terrorism: FBI Investigating Explosion at Charging Station in Washington
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Washington Examiner: FEMA’s reverse discrimination cover-up
  • MortgagePoint: Congressional Group Voices Opposition to Possible FEMA Closure
  • New York Post: Severe weather threatens parts of America’s heartland trying to recover from historic flooding, deadly storms
  • USA Today: ‘Alarming’: Severe weather, tornado reports way up this year in US
• Secret Service
  • Good Morning America: [ME] Threat Against the President
  • AP: [FL] Florida brings charges against a man jailed on federal counts of trying to assassinate Trump
  • Federalist: [OK] Why Is Trump’s DOJ Hiding An FBI Informant’s Deposition On The Oklahoma Bombing?
• Coast Guard
  • SeaPower Magazine: Sea-Air-Space: U.S., Canada Support Investment to Maintain Arctic Security
  • SeaPower Magazine: Sea-Air-Space: CMS Breakfast Panel Discusses How to Make Future Shipbuilding Shipshape
  • NewsMax: Trump Tasks DOGE to Review Navy Shipbuilding
  • New York Times: [NY] Helicopter Crashes Into Hudson River, Killing Six
  • CNN: [NY] A Siemens exec, his family and their pilot are dead after helicopter crashes into the Hudson River
  • Asbury Park Press: [NJ] Coast Guard rescues 72-year-old boater from Oyster Creek in the overnight hours
  • NJ.com: [NJ] N.J. fishermen rescue 3 sailors briefly lost at sea, Coast Guard says
  • Good Morning America: [FL] Coast Guard Offloads Narcotics from Florida Post
  • Breitbart: [FL] Coast Guard Seizes $500 Million in Drugs Tied to Mexican Cartel
  • Washington Examiner: [FL] Ashley Moody says drug seizure in Florida was ‘bad day for cartels’
  • ABC 25 Tequesta: [FL] Coast Guard searching for person who went overboard off Palm Beach County coast
  • Seattle Times: [WA] Coast Guard, WA Ecology Department investigate spill in Seattle’s Salmon Bay
  • Military.com: [CA] Coast Guard Permanently Relieves Commander of Sector San Diego
  • DVIDS: [Guam] U.S. Coast Guard, local agencies strengthen maritime capabilities through NASBLA training partnership
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • NBC News: U.S. cyber defenders shaken by Trump’s attack on their former boss
  • FOX News: [China] Chinese officials claimed behind closed doors PRC played role in US cyberattacks
• Terrorism Investigations
  • The Hill: Lawmakers demand answers on Trump scuttling of domestic terrorism programs
  • FOX News: American victims of terrorism could soon sue international orgs if Cruz’s bill passes
  • New York Post: [NY] Judge sentences New Yorker ISIS recruiter, ‘Umm Nutella,’ to 19 years in prison following tossed ‘shockingly low’ punishment
  • NewsMax: [NY] Brooklyn IS Supporter Resentenced to 19 Years in Prison
  • New York Times: [Somalia] Trump Team Divided Over Future of U.S. Counterterrorism Operations in Somalia
• National Security News
  • CNN: Trump administration has tightly restricted access to president’s daily intelligence brief
  • Federalist: Trump Signs Executive Order Revitalizing America’s Depleted Maritime Fleet
  • AP: China, North Korea and Russia military cooperation raises threats in the Pacific, US official warns
  • Bloomberg: OpenAI’s Altman Won’t Rule Out Helping Pentagon on AI Weapons
  • Washington Examiner: Hassett says tariff deals are ‘moving fast’ as Trump ‘closing in’ on 20 offers
  • Axios: [Mexico] Trump threatens to hit Mexico with more tariffs in water dispute
  • New York Times: [Russia] Russia Frees Jailed American in Prisoner Swap With U.S.
  • New York Times: [Syria] Turkey and Israel Aim to Avoid Clashes in Syria as Tensions Rise
  • The Hill: [Iran] Trump’s Iran talks raise big questions on Capitol Hill
  • New York Times: [China] Trump Has Added 145% Tariff to China, White House Clarifies
  • Washington Post: [China] White House starts trade negotiations, but tensions are high with China
  • CBS News: [China] China says "door to talks is open" after Trump pauses higher tariffs on other countries
  • FOX News: [China] Trump tariff spike fuels new House bill to lock China out of US government tech
  • Breitbart: [China] Trade War Intensifies as China Blacklists U.S. Drone Companies
  • The Hill: [China] Trump’s China tariffs derail push for TikTok deal
  • Bloomberg: [China] Trump Sees ‘Transition Problems’ With China Tariffs at 145%
  • Reuters: [Taiwan] Taiwan to be one of first to talk tariffs with US, president says
  • Maritime Executive: [Taiwan] China Tests Trump’s Resolve on Taiwan
  • FOX News: [Taiwan] Taiwan’s president targets China influence, kicks out pro-Beijing agitators amid rising tensions

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