• Top News
  • AP: Trump Administration Tells Congress it Plans to Label Haitian Gangs as Foreign Terror Organizations
  • NewsMax/FOX News/Wall Street Journal: ICE: 66,463 Illegal Aliens Arrested in Trump’s First 100 Days
  • New York Post: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem rides ATVs during visit to border as she celebrates plunge in illegal crossings
  • Breitbart.com: 100 Days: 450 Policing Agencies Partner with Trump on Detentions
  • Breitbart: Trump’s DHS Deports Nearly 300 Gang Member Terrorists in First 100 Days
  • Washington Examiner: 100-day report card: Trump tackles border but hits setbacks on deporting immigrants
  • NPR: Trump aims to ‘unleash’ local police, but cautions against standing in the way of ICE
  • FOX News: Trump admin revokes 4K foreign students’ visas in first 100 days, nearly all with serious criminal records
  • CNN: Trump administration forced to reveal its ham-handed operation to terminate immigration records of thousands of students
  • AP: House GOP wants to pump billions into Trump’s deportations and detentions as part of tax bill
  • Bloomberg: Trump Signs New Orders Targeting Sanctuary Cities, Police Reform
  • Daily Wire: Trump Puts Sanctuary Cities On Notice With New Executive Order
  • Univision: Trump’s new executive orders on immigration: from changes to "sanctuary cities" to making truckers speak English
  • Wall Street Journal: Trump Administration Must Keep Funding Lawyers for Migrant Children, Judge Orders
  • NPR: Trump wants to bypass immigration courts. Experts warn it’s a ‘slippery slope.’
  • CNN: How the Trump administration labeled students as criminals with no evidence
  • FOX News: Some fentanyl dealers would be charged with felony murder under new bill
  • Washington Post: USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show
  • Federalist: The First 100 Days: Trump Restores The Southern Border
  • Reuters: More than 200 lawsuits and many judicial setbacks in Trump’s first 100 days
  • FOX News: Promises made, promises kept: How Trump’s first 100 days stack up against Inauguration Day pledges
  • ABC News: Trump says ‘I could’ get Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador
  • New York Times: Van Hollen Makes Personal Appeal to Trump to Return Deported Immigrant
  • Breitbart: Report: Democrats’ ‘Maryland Man’ Accused of Being Gang Member in Family Court Documents
  • New York Post: Kilmar Abrego Garcia accused of being gang-banger in 2018 court docs — in latest claim of MS-13 affiliation
  • Breitbart.com: House Democrats: Many Deported Gang Members Sought ‘a Better Life’ in U.S.
  • Newsweek: Florida Mom 'Inconsolable' After Being Separated From Baby By ICE Agents
  • New York Times: A Mother and Father Were Deported. What Happened to Their Toddler?
  • ABC News: He was sent to El Salvador; she was sent to Venezuela. Their 2-year-old is still in the US
  • New York Times: Deporting Americans?
  • Washington Examiner: Stephen Miller says press is now ‘forced’ to cover illegal immigrant ‘atrocities’
  • Washington Examiner: FBI is the latest agency to deploy polygraph testing in leak investigations
  • NPR: [VT] Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks
  • Axios: [MA] Massachusetts has spent Trump’s 100 days in court
  • NewsMax.com: [NY] Appeals Court Pauses Tufts Student’s Transfer to Vermont in Immigration Detention Case
  • Axios/FOX News: [NJ] Anti-Israel ringleader Mahmoud Khalil’s free speech lawsuit against US government must be heard: judge
  • NPR: [DC] 2 suspects are arrested over the theft of Homeland Security Secretary Noem’s purse
  • CBS News: [DC] Kristi Noem says she’s "very confident" suspects in purse theft are undocumented migrants
  • FOX News: [DC] Suspect in Noem purse snatching accused of similar crime in NY weeks before
  • AP: [VA] At little-known US research lab, Bondi meets with scientists studying illicit drugs to stop the flow
  • CNN: [GA] Supreme Court signals it will revive lawsuit over FBI raid on the wrong house
  • USA Today: [GA] Guns drawn, the FBI barged into the wrong house. Supreme Court justice calls it ‘ridiculous’
  • AP: [GA] Supreme Court seems likely to rule narrowly for family whose house was wrongly raided by FBI
  • AP: [FL] Federal judge says local police must follow order to halt enforcement of Florida immigration law
  • New York Times: [FL] Floridians Are Getting Glimpses of What Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Looks Like
  • FOX News: [MI] Trump eases auto tariffs as he celebrates 100th day with Michigan rally
  • FOX News: [IL] Potential 2028 hopeful accused of ‘inciting violence’ after call for ‘mass protests’ against Trump
  • AP: [WI] Wisconsin high court suspends Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities
  • NBC News: [WI] Milwaukee judge charged with obstructing immigration agents is relieved of duty
  • Reuters: [WI] Wisconsin judge arrested in immigration case retains top conservative lawyer
  • Dallas Morning News: [TX] Texas man charged with failing to register as an undocumented migrant
  • NewsNation: [NM] Ex-New Mexico judge, wife accused of housing alleged Tren de Aragua member released under $10K secured bond
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] California has sued Trump 15 times in his first 100 days. Where do those cases stand?
  • Los Angeles Times: [Mexico] Mexico’s top lawman: Ranch in Jalisco was a cartel training site, not a crematorium
  • Reuters: [Cuba] Cuban mother’s case fuels concerns over children caught in Trump deportation push
  • Breitbart.com: [Venezuela] Venezuela Prepares Marxist May Day Rallies Demanding Release of U.S.-Deported Tren de Aragua Illegals
  • AP: [Venezuela] Rights group urges US and other governments to hold Venezuela’s Maduro accountable for repression
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Wall Street Journal: [WI] Judge Dugan, the Migrant and the Law
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Washington Examiner: Democrats must stop abetting illegal immigration
  • Bloomberg: [AR] Soon We Will AllKnow Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ Pain
  • The Hill: [Mexico] Mexico’s port expansion is a win for China and fentanyl trafficking
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Politico: Feds reveal how immigration squad targeted thousands of foreign students
  • NewsMax.com: ICE Dismantles Marriage Fraud Operation; 4 Charged
  • Univision: Trump deportations in first 100 days away from promise of mass deportations
  • CBS Austin: [VA] ICE arrests man accused of assaulting woman after Fairfax Co. cuts plea deal, releases him
  • AP: [NC] North Carolina Republicans already seek to tighten up 2024 immigration enforcement law
  • Breitbart.com: [MS] Illegal Alien Gets 25 Years in Prison for Raping Unconscious Woman in Mississippi Restaurant
  • Reuters/Telemundo/CBS News: [FL] Haitian woman dies in ICE custody in Florida
  • AP: [FL] Federal judge says local police must follow order to halt enforcement of Florida immigration law
  • Washington Examiner: [FL] DeSantis highlights ‘Operation Tidal Wave’ and deporting illegal immigrants in Florida
  • Telemundo: [FL] 800 undocumented immigrants confirmed detained in Florida raid
  • The Hill: [OK] ‘We’re citizens!’: Family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects
  • Univision: [OK] ICE agents broke into their home, took their cell phones, computers and savings... but it was a U.S. family.
  • ABC 2 Portland: [OR] Oregon lawsuit challenges immigration enforcement at churches, schools, and health clinics
  • FOX News: [CA] Blue state judge attempts to stop Border Patrol from arresting suspected illegal immigrants without warrant
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] Trump administration is eyeing another Bay Area facility for immigration detention
  • New York Post: [CA] Homeland Security agents rescue migrant teen sisters from sex traffickers — after they arrived in US as unaccompanied minors
  • FOX News: [CA] Venezuelan illegal alien, alleged Tren de Aragua leader in California, arrested on immigration charges
  • NBC News: [CA] Mixed status LA couple self-deports, fearing husband’s detention
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • NBC News: Visa revocations can now lead to legal status terminations, according to internal memo
  • ABC News: Judge blasts Trump administration’s student visa terminations as ‘arbitrary and capricious’
  • Blaze: Government doesn’t know if any illegal aliens registered for draft, as they are required to do, during Biden surge
  • Miami Herald: Trump’s first 100 days: Immigration policies put at risk millions of people here legally
  • AP: [TX] Immigrants working legally in the Texas Panhandle live in limbo under Trump’s crackdown
  • NBC News: [Haiti] Haitians who fled mass violence await judge’s decision on Trump’s deportation order
  • FOX News: [Afghanistan] Veterans groups urge Trump admin to continue Afghan ally support program amid budget cut concerns
  • NBC News: [Afghanistan] He was tortured by the Taliban. Will he be sent back to Afghanistan?
• Customs and Border Protection
  • NewsNation: Border encounters down 94% in Trump’s first two months
  • AP: Judge skeptical of Trump administration argument that federal courts can’t review border declaration
  • New York Times: [TX] ICE Agents Arrest Migrant Who Climbed Tree in Texas to Evade Them
  • Breitbart.com: [TX] Dozens Land on ‘Do Not Sail’ List After Major Brawl at Carnival Cruise Ship Dock
  • Reuters: [NM] First migrants charged for entering military zone on US border
  • Breitbart: [NM] Pentagon’s Border Zone Snags First 28 Migrants for Justice Dept. Prosecution
  • The Hill: [MT] Border buoys may be deployed near Canada: Exclusive
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Judge orders Border Patrol to halt illegal stops in the Central Valley, after dozens arrested in raids
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] Judge bars Border Patrol agents from practices deployed in Kern County farmworker raid
  • AP: [CA] US judge bars Border Patrol from some warrantless arrests of suspected undocumented residents
  • Breitbart: [CA] CBP Rams Boat Carrying Illegal Aliens near California Coast
  • NewsMax.com: [Mexico] Border Patrol Gets Assist From Mexican Navy
  • Border Report: [Mexico] US deporting few foreign nationals to Mexico
  • Telemundo: [Mexico] 100 days after CBP One app closes, migrants remain stranded in Tijuana
• Transportation Security Administration
  • FOX News: The case for REAL ID: Why Congress passed this requirement in 2005
  • USA Today: Video captures long lines to get REAL ID at some DMV locations before deadline
  • The Hill: Republican chair unveils $15B plan to modernize air traffic control
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Federal News Network/Daily Wire: Trump Rolls Out FEMA Taskforce To Fix ‘Terribly Broken’ Emergency System
  • 21 News Mid-Day Report: FEMA Review Council Named
  • Wall Street Journal: Trump Administration Dismisses Researchers Working on Climate-Change Report
  • CBS New York: [NJ] N.J. wildfire arson suspect Joseph Kling remains in custody ahead of hearing
  • CNN: [OK] Oklahoma could see ‘catastrophic’ flooding as severe weather threats stretch from Texas to Vermont
  • The Hill/NewsMax: [FL] FEMA Cleared of Avoiding Pro-Trump Hurricane Victims
  • CBS News: [TX] Widespread severe weather threat in North Texas Tuesday night into Wednesday
  • NewsMax: [CO] Trump Admin Denies Denver $24M in Grant Money
  • SFGate: [CA] Fema Cancels Nearly $50M In Residential Wildfire Mitigation Projects In Brooktrails
• Secret Service
  • New York Post: Illegal migrant who snatched Kristi Noem’s purse came ‘within arm’s reach’ of her while Secret Service stood guard: ‘Definite lapse’
• Coast Guard
  • CBS News: U.S. Coast Guard reels in 10,000 pounds of cocaine from fishing boat in Atlantic
  • ABC 28 Tampa: [FL] Missing kayaker found safe after disappearing near Anclote Park
  • NBC 6 Miami: [FL] Authorities seize half-ton of drugs, arrest 2 after intercepting boat in Miami-Dade
  • Yahoo News: [FL] Clearwater Ferry crash: Jannus Live owner’s attorney addresses ‘misinformation’ as investigation unfolds
  • NBC 6 New Orleans/CBS 4 New Orleans: [LA] Coast Guard responds to vessel collision that caused barge to sink near New Orleans
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Drowning victim identified; fisherman was trying to retrieve boat
  • NBC 9 Denver: [CO] Coast Guard transports ICE detainees from Colorado to Texas and California for deportation
  • Honolulu Star-Advertiser: [HI] Coast Guard searches for missing Big Island kayaker, 42, for 2nd day
  • BigIslandNow/Miami Herald: [HI] Fisherman and his boat still missing weeks after vanishing on trip, HI cops say
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • CyberScoop: DHS Secretary Noem: CISA needs to get back to ‘core mission’
  • NextGov: ‘Just wait’ to see how CISA reforms play out, DHS head tells cyber community
  • CyberScoop: Amazon, CrowdStrike leaders say private threat intel can quickly bring cybercriminals to justice
  • CyberScoop: Cyber experts, Democrats urge Trump administration not to break up cyber coordination in State reorg
  • CyberScoop: House passes legislation to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes
  • StateScoop: [OR] Oregon agency’s sensitive data published to dark web, ransomware group claims
  • KTVU Mornings on 2: The Nine: [CA] DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to Speak at Cybersecurity Conference
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Axios/USA Today: Suspected ISIS member arrested in Iraq for "inciting" Bourbon Street attack, report says
• National Security News
  • NBC News/Reuters/The Hill: Pete Hegseth says he will end a Trump-backed Pentagon program for women
  • The Hill: Democrats demand interviews with officials pushed out of Pentagon over Signal
  • Washington Examiner: [MI] Whitmer joins Trump in Michigan to save Selfridge military base
  • The Hill: [MI] Trump says Michigan base will stay open, get new fighter jets
  • New York Post: [Ukraine] Waltz says Ukraine’s defense must be ‘European-led,’ calls out ‘woefully inadequate’ allies over preparedness
  • CBS News: [China] China exports to U.S. plunge as tariffs hit, leading some experts to warn of product shortages
  • FOX Business: [China] Bessent says US will weigh China’s failure on ‘phase one’ trade deal from first term in negotiations
  • Bloomberg: [China] China Manufacturing Slumps on US Levies, Spurring Stimulus Calls
  • The Hill: [China] Trump says China ‘probably will eat those tariffs’
  • AP: [Philippines] Philippines signs military pact with New Zealand to widen alliances while facing an assertive China

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