• Top News
  • New York Post: Trump’s mass deportation raids result in 655% spike in arrests of terrorists roaming US — including one of India’s ‘most wanted’
  • NewsMax/FOX News: Northern Border Illegal Crossings Drop by 95 Percent
  • NewsNation: How CBP is securing the US northern border: Exclusive
  • Border Report/Newsweek/New York Times/Telemundo52: DHS: Ads in foreign media turning migrants away
  • FOX News/The Daily Signal: Noem, DHS outline next step to speed up deportation process
  • New York Times: An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’
  • NPR: Trump fires more immigration judges even as he aims to increase deportations
  • FOX News: Federal judge orders ICE to reinstate legal status of 133 foreign students
  • New York Times/FOX News/USA Today: U.S. Says Tren de Aragua Charges Will ‘Devastate’ Its Infrastructure
  • Daily Caller: Supreme Court Ruling Makes Curious Exception For Illegal Migrants Ordered To Leave Country On A Saturday
  • FOX News: Gorsuch, Roberts side with left-leaning Supreme Court justices in immigration ruling
  • New York Times: Judge Accuses Government of ‘Willful and Bad Faith’ Stonewalling in Deportation Case
  • Wall Street Journal: Trump Administration’s Immigration Crackdown Hits New Legal Roadblocks
  • FOX News: President Trump blasts courts for getting in the way of deportation agenda
  • CBS Austin: Attorneys for deported Md. man request hearing, claims government is ‘failing to comply’
  • CBS News: Mistakenly deported man’s attorneys say DOJ isn’t providing answers ordered by judge
  • Politico: Judge scorches Trump admin for stonewalling in Abrego Garcia deportation case
  • Washington Times: Judge rules administration must produce evidence in Abrego Garcia deportation
  • The Hill: Republicans lean in on Abrego Garcia case
  • The Hill: Democrats wonder if Abrego Garcia case is a political fight worth having
  • Washington Post: Justice Dept. says ‘appropriate’ diplomatic talks held about mistakenly deported man
  • New York Post: How ‘absurd’ US immigration laws let Kilmar Abrego Garcia game the system
  • Washington Post: Her husband was mistakenly deported. Now she’s caught in a political frenzy.
  • San Diego Union Tribune: Federal court rulings have slowed down Trump deportation plans. What you need to know
  • Breitbart: Stephen Miller: Democrats Defend ‘Infinity Process’ for Illegal Migrants
  • FOX News/NewsMax: Bondi, Trump Cabinet convenes task force to root out ‘anti-Christian bias’ in federal agencies
  • FOX News: Kash Patel, FBI tout $5M reward for capturing MS-13 ‘terrorist leader’ unleashing evil on Americans
  • New York Times: More Than 220 Academic Leaders Condemn Trump ‘Overreach’
  • AP: [VT] Detained Palestinian activist in Vermont prison says he’s ‘in good hands,’ focused on peacemaking
  • Free Beacon: [VT] Dem Senator Visits Detained Columbia Activist Who Said He ‘Can Empathize’ With Hamas’s Decision To Massacre Jews
  • Washington Post/USA Today: [NY] Columbia protester missed son’s birth after ICE denied release, wife says
  • Univision: [NY] Four-year-old migrant girl faces deportation alone: NYC’s children’s justice drama
  • CNN: [DC] Sources describe how Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag was stolen from under her chair
  • NBC 4 Washington, DC: [DC] Kristi Noem purse theft suspect was caught on camera – but you won’t see him yet
  • NBC News: [DC] Similar purse-snatching happened blocks away in Washington days before Kristi Noem’s bag was taken
  • CBS News: [LA] Congressional Democrats visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk in ICE detention centers
  • Yahoo News: [MA] 3 Massachusetts Congress members visit Louisiana ICE facility holding Tufts student
  • Washington Post: [CO] Two federal courts extend deportation block under Alien Enemies Act
  • Bloomberg/CBS News: [CO] Judge Orders 21-Day Notice Before Deporting Accused Gang Members From Colorado
  • CBS Austin: [NM] Democratic New Mexico judge resigns after being found harboring illegal TdA member
  • Axios: [UT] Four takeaways from Utah international student visa lawsuit
  • Yahoo News: [WA] State militias now prevented from entering Washington without permission from governor
  • AP: [Mexico] EPA chief demands that Mexico stop Tijuana sewage from flowing into California
  • New York Times: [Costa Rica] Costa Rica Tells Trump Deportees They Can Stay and Integrate, or Leave
  • NewsMax: [El Salvador] US Lawmakers in El Salvador to Push for Deported Migrant’s Release
  • Washington Examiner: [El Salvador] Luna joins Republican wave visiting El Salvador after Trump deportations
  • CBS News: [El Salvador] California Rep. Robert Garcia details El Salvador trip to demand Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return
  • Breitbart: [El Salvador] President Bukele Trolls Democrat Rep. Frost in El Salvador for ‘Gang’ Post
  • Yahoo News: [El Salvador] Gay asylum-seeker’s lawyer worries for the make-up artist’s safety in Salvadoran ‘hellhole’ prison
  • AP: [Costa Rica] Costa Rica will give migrants deported from the US permits to stay in the country for 3 months
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • USA Today: Democrats’ decision to champion Abrego Garcia is poor politics and bad optics | Opinion
  • Washington Examiner: Democrats don’t care about American women murdered by illegal immigrants
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Daily Caller: Karoline Leavitt Pressed On What Trump Admin Will Do To Increase Mass Deportations
  • Breitbart: Federal Immigration Holding Facilities Quickly Filling to Capacity
  • Los Angeles Times: Southeast Asians are being detained, deported at routine ICE check-ins
  • San Diego Union Tribune: For-profit immigration detention expands as Trump accelerates his deportation plans
  • New York Times: A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where?
  • NBC News: [VT] Federal government appeals judge’s order to move detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to Vermont
  • CBS New York: [NY] Judge temporarily blocks ICE office at Rikers Island ahead of hearing this week
  • Politico: [NY] Adams and Homan deepen partnership between local law enforcement and ICE
  • Breitbart: [VA] Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Partners with Feds to Detain 521 Violent Illegals
  • WCBD: [SC] Judge temporarily blocks federal government from arresting, deporting University of South Carolina graduate student
  • FOX News: [FL] Florida woman poses as ICE agent to kidnap wife of ex-boyfriend from work, authorities say
  • NBC News: [LA] Judge questions deportation case of Russian-born Harvard scientist detained by ICE
  • FOX News: [OH] Ohio sheriff defends new ICE partnership: ‘Just doing the right thing’
  • Yahoo News: [WI] FBI investigating allegations Milwaukee County judge tried to help undocumented defendant avoid arrest
  • NBC News: [TX] After a month of searching, man learns from NBC News that DHS sent his brother to El Salvador
  • FOX News: [TX] Fox tours ICE detention facility; manager hopes to ‘dispel’ ‘false narratives’
  • CBS Austin: [NM] Alleged TdA gang member arrested; said to be living with New Mexico Judge and his family
  • Yahoo News: [AZ] US citizen detained for 10 days after he was wrongly arrested at border
  • Blaze: [AZ] US citizen arrested’ narrative hype conflicts with sworn affidavit in Hermosillo case
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] ICE raid detains more than a dozen day laborers near Pomona Home Depot
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • CBS Austin: Federal judge orders ICE to restore F-1 visas for 133 students by Tuesday
  • Miami Herald: A court didn’t buy the Trump administration’s ugly rhetoric on Venezuelan TPS holders
  • AP: What is the highly coveted H-1B visa? Trump administration moves put attention on the program
  • Yahoo News: [NH] 2 WPI students part of lawsuit against federal government over visa terminations
  • Yahoo News: [LA] Congressman Cleo Fields demands answers after Southern University students lose visas
  • Iowa Capital Dispatch: [IA] U of I international students sue Homeland Security after student visas are revoked
  • Axios: [UT] Four takeaways from Utah international student visa lawsuit
  • Blaze: [HI] Trump admin shuts down media narrative on ‘deportation’ of German teens who were visiting US
  • Breitbart: [Columbia] Colombia’s Guerrilla Leftist President Gustavo Petro Claims U.S. Revoked His Visa
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Gov. Greg Abbott expands Texas border wall in new deal with Laredo, even as crossings plummet
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Fentanyl, heroin and THC vape oil found in passenger’s luggage at Galveston Cruise Port on Easter
  • Telemundo 48 El Paso: [TX] CBP seizes fake luxury jewelry; if it were genuine, it would be worth $9.2 million.
  • Telemundo 48 El Paso: [TX] CBP officers arrest American who tried to smuggle fentanyl and cocaine
  • Yahoo News: [TX] CBP Officers stop 18-year-old smuggling fentanyl and cocaine on scooter at border
  • CBS News: [TX] Packages of cocaine wash up on Texas beach after ship is raided, officials say
  • The Hill: [NM] Military authorized to detain undocumented immigrants in New Mexico
  • New York Times: [AZ] Joint Chiefs Chairman Visits Border as Military Presence Expands
  • USA Today: [CA] Man sentenced in California for trafficking spider monkeys: ‘Disrupted fragile ecosystems’
  • Yahoo News: [CA] Counterfeit Hello Kitty, Pokémon toys seized at Port of SF: border patrol officials
• Transportation Security Administration
  • FOX News: As REAL ID rollout approaches, congressional privacy hawks largely silent on concerns
  • CNN: What’s going on when airport security scans your face
  • CNN: [NY] Videos show woman bypassing part of TSA checkpoint and gate agents to stow away on Delta Air Lines plane
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • CNN: When billions in emergency funds were stalled, the Trump administration sped FEMA money to some GOP-led states
  • CNN/Washington Post: [NJ] Over 3,000 evacuations ordered and portion of Garden State Parkway is closed as wildfire explodes in New Jersey
  • CBS Philadelphia: [NJ] Wildfire burning in Barnegat Township; mandatory evacuation orders in Ocean County, New Jersey
  • USA Today: [PA] Packerton wildfire in PA, also known as Jim Thorpe Fire, sets hundreds of acres ablaze
  • CNN: [NC] North Carolina communities still struggling to recover from Hurricane Helene feel the loss of laid-off CDC disaster team
  • Bloomberg: [LA] US Feds Mostly Skipped a Major Hurricane-Response Conference
  • CBS Colorado: [CO] Mandatory evacuations ordered for wildfire burning in Northern Colorado
  • Univision: [PR] Puerto Rico to audit electric utilities and evaluate new energy system operators
• Secret Service
  • FOX News: [DC] Questions linger about Secretary Noem’s Secret Service protection after purse snatched
  • Yahoo News: [LA] Lake Charles man charged with passing counterfeit money
• Coast Guard
  • Federal News Network: Coast Guard digitizes 40% of paper medical records
  • CyberScoop: Rebuilding Maritime Cybersecurity Resilience: Charting an America First Course to Secure the U.S. Homeland
  • DVIDS: [VA] Coast Guard Cutter Seneca returns home after 54-day maritime border security patrol in the Windward Passage
  • Yahoo News: [FL] US Navy warship on first deployment makes two drug busts in 72 hours
  • CBS Mornings: [TX] Coast Guard City Designation
  • 91.3 FM Tacoma: [WA] Deadly Rescue Mission
  • NBC 21 Bend: [OR] Coast Guard rescues ill cruise ship crew member off Oregon coast
  • ABC 3 Palm Springs: [CA] Coast Guard Intercepts Suspected Human-Smuggling Boat Off Oceanside
  • USA Today: [CA] Fifth whale found dead in waters of San Francisco Bay within a month
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Axios: Encrypted messaging apps are getting a boost after "Signalgate"
  • CBS Baltimore: [MD] Data breach prompts increased cybersecurity measures at Baltimore City Public Schools
• Terrorism Investigations
  • AP: Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US
  • New York Post: [PA] Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro reveals Trump called him to discuss arson attack on governor’s residence: ‘Very gracious’
  • Daily Wire: [MN] Walz Admin Staffer Walks Free After Doing $20K Damage To Teslas
  • CBS News: [TX] Plea hearing for alleged 2024 Wilmer-Hutchins High School shooter rescheduled
  • The Hill: [India] Trump calls attack on tourists in Kashmir ‘deeply disturbing news’
  • FOX News: [India] Trump extends ‘deepest sympathies’ after gunmen kill 20 in India’s Kashmir region
• National Security News
  • CNN: Rubio unveils major State Department overhaul
  • Free Beacon: National Security Council Shoots Down ‘Lies’ About Staffer Accused of Work for Israeli Government
  • AP: Hegseth pulled airstrike info from secure military channel for Signal posts
  • NBC News: Info Hegseth shared with wife and brother came from top general’s secure messages
  • Rolling Stone: Hegseth Says He Shared Attack Plans on Unsecured Chats for ‘Media Coordination’
  • Wall Street Journal: Hegseth Says ‘Leakers’ Want to Sabotage Trump’s Agenda
  • Reuters: Pentagon says leak probe may lead to U.S. prosecutions
  • Washington Examiner: Hegseth blames hoaxers and disgruntled employees for his troubles, while White House says ‘the entire Pentagon’ is against him
  • NBC News: From shaming Hillary Clinton to sharing strikes: Pete Hegseth’s shift on handling sensitive info
  • The Hill: Hegseth says chief of staff moving to new role amid DOD tumult
  • Breitbart: Google Warns Breaking Up Its Monopoly Would Harm U.S. in ‘Global Race with China’
  • The Hill: [Greenland] Jeffries leading delegation to Denmark to discuss ‘geopolitical status of Greenland’
  • Reuters: [Russia] Russian court cuts jail term for American held on drug charges, lawyer says
  • US News & World Report: [China] China Urges Japan to Help Fight US Tariffs Together, Kyodo Reports
  • Bloomberg: [China] Trump Says He’ll ‘Play Nice’ With China on Tariffs
  • USA Today: [China] President Trump says tariffs on China will ‘come down substantially’
  • Wall Street Journal: [China] Chinese Scientists in America Come Under New Wave of Suspicion

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