• Top News
  • Washington Post/New York Post/Reuters: DHS demands records of Harvard’s foreign students, threatens enrollment
  • Washington Post/New York Times/Roll Call/AP: Judge to launch contempt proceedings on whether Trump officials defied order not to remove migrants
  • ABC News: DOJ to appeal ruling ordering administration to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador
  • Los Angeles Times: Trump’s lawyers add new hurdles for Maryland man who was wrongly deported
  • The Hill: Vance defends Trump administration’s move to deport Abrego Garcia
  • FOX News: Vance sounds off on deportation, ‘ratification of Biden’s illegal migrant invasion’ via ‘fake legal process’
  • Daily Signal: Vance Slams the Left’s Calls for Reputed Gang Member’s Return to US
  • Breitbart.com: ‘He’s Already Home’: White House Slams Efforts to Return Deported Salvadoran Illegal Migrant
  • NewsNation: Trump official: Media is fighting for a ‘terrorist’ to be back on US soil
  • FOX News: I don’t know why Democrats are so hell-bent on bringing a ‘terrorist back’: DHS assistant secretary for public affairs
  • New York Post/Daily Caller: DOJ Releases Dossier Of Deported Maryland Man’s Alleged MS-13 Gang Ties
  • Breitbart: DHS: Deported MS-13 Member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia Arrested with ‘Rolls of Cash and Drugs’
  • CBS News: Wife of man mistakenly deported to El Salvador filed for protective order against him in 2021, documents show
  • FOX News/Washington Examiner/NewsNation: ‘Maryland man’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia exposed in police records as ‘violent’ repeat wife beater
  • CNN: Abrego Garcia’s wife responds to Trump administration publicizing civil protective order filing from 2021
  • Daily Wire: Trump Admin Has 2 Weeks To Show Steps Taken For Returning Salvadoran Man, Judge Orders
  • The Hill: Trump tests limits of deportation powers with Abrego Garcia case
  • News Max/FOX News/Yahoo News: AG Bondi: Deported Migrant ‘Not Coming Back’ to US
  • New York Times/Bloomberg: Trump Administration Directs Judges to Deny Asylum Without Hearings
  • The Hill: Democrats fear chances of bringing home mistakenly deported man slipping away
  • NBC News: Trump admin hasn’t funded legal help for unaccompanied immigrant children, despite judge’s order
  • Washington Examiner: Judge weighs pausing IRS deal with DHS for migrant data sharing
  • CBS News: Hunter Biden whistleblower named acting IRS commissioner
  • Los Angeles Times: Trump’s Kafkaesque attack on Social Security--Declaring living people as dead
  • NPR: Homegrowns are next: ‘ Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
  • Daily Wire: DHS Official Who Openly Cheered Hamas Fired After 16 Months Of Paid Leave
  • New York Times: U.S. Cites Mideast Peace Process to Justify Move to Deport Student
  • New York Times: Judges’ Dilemma
  • Daily Wire: News Judge Who Prevented Trump’s Deportation Of 500k Migrants Volunteered For Obama, Elizabeth Warren
  • The Hill: Trump defends sweeping immigration agenda, invoking Biden amid deportation battle
  • Axios: Trump tariffs face Main Street lawsuit
  • Bloomberg: Ex-Cyber Chief Targeted by Trump Vows to Fight Administration
  • Washington Post: [MA] Trump’s freeze on $2.2 billion to Harvard provided no proof of wrongdoing
  • New York Times: [MA] I.R.S. Is Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
  • NewsMax: [NY] NYC Won’t Represent Adams in Suit Over ICE on Rikers
  • FOX News: [NJ] Duffy contrasts Biden-era ‘drone fiasco’ with Trump admin’s ‘radical transparency’ after FAA announces testing
  • New York Times/CBS News/Daily Wire: [MD] Mother of murdered Maryland woman Rachel Morin joins White House briefing
  • CBS News: [FL] Florida stationery business owner sues Trump administration over tariffs: "We can’t survive the short-term pain"
  • Breitbart: [IL] Chicago Mayor Calls Trump Racist, Vows Not to ‘Negotiate with a Terrorist’
  • Washington State Standard: [WA] Washington AG defends state’s ‘sanctuary’ policy amid congressional scrutiny
  • Washington Post: [CA] California is suing Trump administration to block tariffs
  • FOX News: [Mexico] Inside House Republicans’ new task force to battle criminal Mexican cartels
  • CBS News: [Mexico] U.S. charges sibling leaders of ruthless Mexico cartel, offers $8 million reward for information leading to their capture
  • Yahoo News: [Mexico] US citizens from Texas rescued after being kidnapped outside restaurant in Juárez, Mexico
  • CBS News: [Cuba] Memo shows U.S. can send migrants without criminal records to Guantanamo, despite Trump’s promise to hold "the worst" there
  • New York Times/FOX News/Axios/Roll Call: [El Salvador] Maryland Senator Unable to Secure Meeting With Deported Immigrant in El Salvador
  • Breitbart: [El Salvador] Trump Admin Slams Democrat Sen. Van Hollen for El Salvador Trip
  • AP: [EL Salvador] Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with El Salvador’s vice president in push for Abrego Garcia’s release
  • New York Times: [El Salvador] A senator says a Salvadoran official cited U.S. payment as the reason for not releasing a wrongly deported man.
  • The Hill: [El Salvador] House Democrat requests Congressional delegation visit El Salvadorian prison
  • FOX News: [El Salvador] Tom Homan ‘disgusted’ by Dem senator’s trip to bring home alleged MS-13 gang member
  • Wall Street Journal: [El Salvador] El Salvador’s Bukele Plans to Double the Size of Giant Prison Holding U.S. Deportees
  • New York Times: [El Salvador] El Salvador’s Hard-Line Leader Is Linchpin in Trump’s Deportation Plans
  • NewsMax: [El Salvador] Rep. Van Duyne to Newsmax: ‘Makes No Sense’ to Return Salvadoran to US
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Wall Street Journal: Trump’s Border Success—and Opportunity
  • Washington Post: One man’s deportation exposes Trump’s immigration theater
  • The Hill: You could be the next one unlawfully imprisoned in Trump’s Salvadoran gulag
  • New York Times: The Emergency Is Here
  • USA Today: [NC] Trump denies extra FEMA funding to people who voted for him in North Carolina | Opinion
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] Opinion: Monday’s earthquake was a warning. A much worse quake is coming.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Daily Caller: GOP Launches Investigation Into Taxpayer-Funded Group Allegedly Caught Teaching How To Avoid ICE
  • New York Times: Trump Is Relying More on Tattoos to Identify Gang Members. Experts Say That’s Unreliable.
  • AP: [MA] Family says ICE agents smashed car window in seizing Guatemalan man who’s seeking asylum
  • NBC News: [MA] Mass. woman speaks out after video shows ICE agents smashing car window to get husband
  • Breitbart: [GA] Federal Agencies Find ‘Horrific’ Conditions at Chinese Factory Near Atlanta
  • Miami Herald: [FL] Police at Florida universities are being deputized for immigration enforcement
  • FOX News: [FL] ICE partnership will build ‘public trust,’ vice mayor of town with large Venezuelan community says
  • 91.5 FM Chicago: [IL] A Chicago man was deported to an El Salvadoran prison, his family says
  • Yahoo News: [MN] ICE arrest of Marshall hospital employee condemned by MN Nurse Association
  • New York Times: [CA] L.A.’s Schools Chief Knows What It’s Like to Be Undocumented
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Activists warn Police Commission about ICE access to LAPD data on immigrants
  • Univision: [CA] "Los Angeles is a sanctuary city, it’s an absolute lie": LAPD and federal agents accused of collaboration
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • New York Times: Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas
  • Miami Herald: Once a champion for Venezuelans, Rubio endorses Trump decision to end Venezuela TPS
  • Los Angeles Times: Easy entry into the U.S. from foreign shores? Don’t count on it now
  • ABC News: [NY] Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers say DHS relied on ‘tabloids’ as evidence he lied on green card application
  • New York City Patch: [NY] More Than 200 Migrants Arrested In ICE Raids Last Week
  • Telemundo Washington DC: [DC] Protests erupt in Georgetown as Trump administration revokes student visas
  • NewsNation: [NC] North Carolina families receive notice to leave country within 7 days
  • CNN: [GA] New lawsuit alleges traffic stops, dismissed cases used as criteria to revoke student visas
  • The State News: [MI] MSU student suing Trump administration to restore visa record
  • Spectrum News 1: [TX] University of Texas Rio Grande Valley students sue DHS, Kristi Noem over visa revocations
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Washington Examiner: Trump eyes new plan to militarize the border: Turn it into a miles-long Army base
  • NBC News: CBP says latest tariffs have generated $500 million, well below Trump’s estimate
  • FOX News: Border Patrol morale is ‘going through the roof’ under Trump administration, top official says
  • Federalist: Biden Engineered A Border Crisis To Secure Political Power
  • Washington Examiner: [TX] Trump administration to install 17 miles of buoys in river at US-Mexico border
  • Yahoo News: [MI] Border Patrol seizes 339 pounds of cocaine headed to Canada
  • CBS News: [TX] Army delivered armored combat vehicles to southern border ahead of Trump’s order authorizing military to occupy federal land
  • Axios: [AZ] Arizona Gov. Hobbs weighs Trump border plan
  • The Hill: [NM] Two service members killed in accident at US-Mexico border
  • Breitbart: [NM] 110K Acres of New Mexico Border Land Transferred to Control of U.S. Army
  • 570 AM Seattle: [WA] DHS Tightens Northern Border Security as Washington Sanctuary Laws Push Back
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] Future Otay Mesa border crossing secures $150 million federal grant
  • ABC 10 San Diego: [CA] Toxic Tijuana River threatens health of Navy SEALs, Border Patrol agents in San Diego
  • Reuters: [Mexico] Mexico president sends diplomatic memo to US on border security collaboration
  • CubaHeadlines: [Cube] Sharp Decline in Cuban Migrant Numbers: Only 132 Entered the U.S. Illegally in March
  • Breitbart: [Canada] Report: Canada’s Immigration Lawyers ‘Overwhelmed’ with Transgender Asylum Requests from U.S.
• Transportation Security Administration
  • NBC News Daily: REAL ID Deadline Approaching
  • WPXI: [PA] Sewickley man brings gun, 30 bullets to Pittsburgh International Airport checkpoint, TSA says
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • The Hill: Conservation group names Mississippi River ‘most endangered,’ cites proposed FEMA cuts
  • ABC News: Wildfire risk threatens millions in Southwest
  • ABC 13 Hampton: [VA] Trump admin cancels $24 million in FEMA funding to protect Hampton Roads drinking water
  • Queen City News: [NC] North Carolina congressman suggests major FEMA reforms after Hurricane Helene
  • BlueRidgeNow: [NC] Rep. Chuck Edwards releases report for Helene recovery and FEMA reform
  • Axios: [LA] FEMA cuts could devastate Louisiana
  • Yahoo News: [AZ] FEMA ends ‘wasteful’ disaster aid program. An Arizona lawmaker wants it back
  • CBS News: [PR] Island-wide power outage hits Puerto Rico ahead of Easter weekend
  • AP: [PR] Officials demand answers as crews work to restore power after another Puerto Rico blackout
• Secret Service
  • Axios: Trump’s still looking for answers about assassination attempts
  • Yahoo News: Former Secret Service Chief Remains on Agency Payroll
  • Yahoo News: [PA] State College Police seeking help identifying suspect in counterfeit cash case
• Coast Guard
  • DVIDS: U.S. Coast Guard and the Federal Law Enforcement Academy Commemorate 20 Years of Excellence in Maritime Law Enforcement Training
  • Yahoo News: Coast Guard declares 2025 icebreaking season over for Great Lakes
  • CBS 5 Charleston: [SC] US Coast Guard responds to sailboat in distress call in Georgetown County
  • Homeland Preparedness News: [SC] CBP, U.S. Coast Guard hold joint training at FLETC in Charleston
  • FOX News: [FL] Unmanned shrimp boat washes ashore on Florida beach, puzzling investigators
  • ABC 3 Corpus Christi: [TX] Coast Guard seeks tips after laser targets aircraft in sky over Nueces County
  • ABC 4 Honolulu: [HI] Loved ones of missing Big Island fisherman continue search and holding out hope
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Reuters: US agency extends support at last minute for cyber vulnerability database
  • Federal News Network: Cyber roundup: CISA pulls CVE from the brink
  • FOX News: Hackers steal 1.6 million patient records in major healthcare breach
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Washington Examiner: Gabbard declassifies Biden-era plan to counter domestic terrorism
  • The Hill/AP/ABC News: [PA] Suspect in Shapiro arson attack cited plight of Palestinians: Police
  • Yahoo News: [PA] Third-party to conduct security review of Gov. Shapiro’s official residence after arson attack
  • New York Times: [TX] School Shooting Suspect Slipped Past Security via Unsecured Door, Police Say
  • CNN: [TX] Suspect in Dallas high school shooting fired ‘indiscriminately,’ injuring 5 students, documents say
  • Breitbart: [NM] GOP Headquarters Arson Suspect Revealed as Antifa Supporter
• National Security News
  • Washington Post/New York Post/Daily Wire: Hegseth suspends 3 senior political aides amid leak inquiry
  • New York Times: Trump Aides Close State Dept. Office on Foreign Disinformation
  • NBC News: The Pentagon is working to make Trump’s vision of a U.S. ‘Iron Dome’ a reality
  • Bloomberg Law: Companies Welcome DOJ Reprieve in Data-Transfer Rule Enforcement
  • Washington Post: Tariffs upend Boeing supply chain that sustains U.S. jobs, exports
  • Reuters: [France] Rubio, Witkoff head to Paris to discuss Ukraine, Iran with Europeans
  • New York Times: [South Africa] U.S. Pastor Kidnapped in South Africa Is Rescued After Police Shootout
  • Washington Post: [Syria] Trump weighs U.S. troop drawdown in Syria as allies boost new government
  • Washington Examiner: [Iran] Iran says nuclear enrichment is ‘non-negotiable’ after Witkoff flips on the issue
  • FOX News: [Iran] Former FAA contractor pleads guilty to spying for Iran, sharing private info on US airports, energy industry
  • Reuters: [China] US issues new sanctions targeting Chinese importers of Iranian oil
  • New York Times: [China] Washington Takes Aim at DeepSeek and Its American Chip Supplier, Nvidia
  • Federalist: [China] Tariff Critics Have No Answer To Trump’s National Security Arguments About Chinese Manufacturing
  • NewsMax: [China] China Open to Talks: Former China Trade Official
  • NewsMax: [Taiwan] Senators Visit Taiwan, Will Discuss Trade Amid Tariff Talks

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