• Top News
  • AP/Wall Street Journal/CBS News/Bloomberg: Trump administration asks military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations
  • CNN/New York Times: Trump administration plans big immigration enforcement operation in Chicago as soon as next week
  • Politico: Chicago prepares for National Guard to come in
  • Chicago Tribune: Trump officials say Chicago immigration crackdown coming, top cop hopes to avoid ‘adversarial environment’
  • Bloomberg/NPR: Alligator Alcatraz Immigrant Detention Camp in Everglades May Be Emptied
  • Daily Caller: Obama Judge Denies Trump Admin Request To Stop Alligator Alcatraz From Winding Down
  • NewsNation: Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees being moved to other facilities: DHS
  • NBC News Daily: Alligator Alcatraz Will Be Likely Empty Within Days
  • AP: Florida taxpayers may lose $218 million on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as judge orders shutdown
  • AP: Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert
  • Politico: Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks for gag order against Bondi, Noem
  • Breitbart: Homan Vows Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘Will Be Deported’ — ‘I Got My Teeth in This Thing, I’m Not Letting It Go’
  • Daily Caller: Tom Homan Tears Into Gavin Newsom For Lacking ‘Integrity’ To Thank Trump For Cleaning Up His Mess
  • FOX News: Noem makes prediction about Democrats with ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
  • FOX News Radio: Sec. Kristi Noem Reacts to Mayor Bowser Praising D.C. Crime Crackdown
  • NewsMax: Noem: States Should Lead Long-Term Disaster Recovery
  • New York Post: ICE nabs child sex offenders, gang member off streets of Washington, DC thanks to Trump’s crackdown
  • CNN: Bowser says federal police surge has reduced crime in DC, but ‘north star’ is protecting city’s autonomy
  • NBC News: D.C. Democrats rebuke Mayor Muriel Bowser’s comments that Trump’s surge reduced crime
  • Reuters: US Downgrades Charge Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
  • Politico: Newsom deploys state police to major cities after Trump threatens to send more troops to California
  • New York Times: 19 Democratic Governors Warn Trump Not to Send Troops to Their States
  • AP: Marco Rubio to head to Latin America as Trump prioritizes immigration
  • Reuters: Rwanda Received Migrants Deported From the US Earlier This Month
  • AP: What to know after the US deports more migrants to Africa
  • Reuters: US-Venezuela tensions rise as US warships arrive in Southern Caribbean
  • AP: What to know about the US warships sent to South America and the reaction in Venezuela
  • NewsNation: Mexico seeking ‘its share’ if U.S. seizes drug lord ‘El Mayo’s’ assets
  • NBC News: Trump eases rules for hiring temporary immigration judges
  • Daily Caller: NIH Schemes To Keep Risky Viral Research Alive Despite Trump Crackdown
  • New York Times: Homeland Security’s Embrace of Art Reopens an Old Debate
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] FEMA is in danger. So is Houston.
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Wall Street Journal: Red Tape Is the Biggest Crop on Some Farms
  • New York Times: It Was Never Just About Crime
  • The Hill: Ending birthright citizenship would create a chaotic nightmare
  • Blaze: Homeland Security plays games while deportations fall flat
  • Los Angeles Times: [Mexico] How the Trump administration can build on what’s working in the war on drugs
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Los Angeles Times: ICE will ‘ramp up’ immigration raids in Los Angeles, other ‘sanctuary cities,’ border czar says
  • Univision: Trump’s border czar says ICE will "intensify" operations in ‘sanctuary cities’ after Labor Day.
  • Politico: Tom Homan: Newsom is an ‘embarrassment’ for saying ICE is Trump’s ‘private police force’
  • Washington Examiner: White House defends masked ICE agents after Bowser rebuke
  • The Hill: Border czar: ‘I don’t particularly like masks, but the agents need the mask’
  • FOX News: Blue states deflect blame in Trump probe after illegal immigrant trucker crash kills 3 in Florida
  • Washington Examiner: Democrats find new deportation messaging after ‘abolish ICE’ backlash
  • The Hill: [ME] How did an undocumented migrant get hired as a cop in Maine?
  • New York Post: [NY] Migrant pimp convicted of trafficking woman he drugged, beat and sold for sex on Long Island
  • Breitbart: [PA] Trump-Led ICE Triples Migrant Arrests in Pittsburgh
  • Axios: [PA] ICE arrests rise across Pittsburgh region
  • Washington Blade: [MD] DHS plans to deport transgender Brazilian woman arrested in Md.
  • Univision: [GA] Hispanic journalist in ICE custody speaks after bond hearing: "I had no illusions"
  • Telemundo 48 El Paso: [FL] Detainees transferred from Alligator Alcatraz to a detention center in El Paso, according to ICE.
  • Daily Caller: [IL] ICE Preparing To Target Chicago For Immigration Crackdown
  • CBS Chicago: [IL] Mexican Independence Parade to step off Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood despite worries about ICE, federal troops
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Trial date scheduled on child porn charges for ex-School City of Hammond maintenance director
  • Axios: [UT] Utah’s unauthorized immigrant population rose to 140K in 2023
  • Telemundo52: [CA] Eight people arrested in immigration operation outside Westlake’s Home Depot
  • Breitbart: [CA] Sanctuary State California: ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Convicted Pedophile Found Living Inside Daycare for Children
  • AP: [CA] Immigration Agents Signed up to Recruit at a California University. Then the Protests Started
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents’ knowledge
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • NBC News: Immigrant activist’s detention highlights DACA recipients’ growing deportation risks
  • Breitbart: Trump’s USCIS Resumes Strict Vetting of Legal Immigrants Seeking Naturalized American Citizenship
  • The Hill: Trump administration proposes shortening visa stays for foreign journalists
  • Daily Caller: Trump DHS Cracks Down On ‘Forever Student’ Visa Abuse
  • Daily Caller: [China] Trump’s Welcome Of 600,000 Chinese Students Risks Playing Into Beijing’s Hands
• Customs and Border Protection
  • CBS News: "De minimis" U.S. tariffs exemption for low-value imports ends
  • Axios: End of "de minimis" exemption means new tariffs on millions of packages
  • Reuters: End of US low-value package tariff exemption is permanent, Trump officials say
  • USA Today: Over 30 countries suspended or restricted shipments to US. Here’s a list.
  • FOX Business: Mexico suspends package shipments to US ahead of Trump tariff deadline
  • Telemundo: Border Patrol denies changes in immigration processes advertised on social media
  • USA Today: [LA] Robot helps arrest man wanted for murder inside Louisiana home, video shows
  • Daily Signal: [TX] Tunnel Vision: Border Patrol Aims to Plug Gap in El Paso
  • AP: [WA] 2 firefighters battling Washington state wildfire arrested by Border Patrol
  • New York Times: [WA] Washington Governor Criticizes Border Patrol Arrests at Wildfire Site
  • USA Today: [WA] Immigration arrests of firefighters renews debate about White House priorities
• Transportation Security Administration
  • Daily Caller: [MN] Catholic School Shooter Reportedly Bought Guns Legally
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Daily Caller: Kristi Noem Cutting Thousands Of DEI, Wasteful Spending Contracts
  • FOX News: Noem hits back at FEMA critics, reveals vision for disaster relief agency
  • AP: Trump proposed getting rid of FEMA, but his review council seems focused on reforming the agency
  • Bloomberg: Disaster Survivors Face Shorter Time for Claims in FEMA Overhaul
  • USA Today: FEMA puts employees who signed critical letter on leave
  • Bloomberg Government: Katrina’s Legacy Haunts Disaster Workers as Trump Weakens FEMA
  • NPR: Public media stations in rural America say emergency-alert funding is in jeopardy
  • FOX Weather: Potentially life-threatening flooding setup puts millions on alert from Plains to Deep South
  • CBS News: [MS] 20 years after Katrina, a Mississippi town is still waiting on FEMA funding to rebuild
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Here’s how Texas lawmakers are responding to the Kerr County floods
• Coast Guard
  • NewsMax: Leavitt: Trump to Use Full US Power to Stop Drug Flow
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Breitbart: Hegseth Ends Microsoft’s ‘Digital Escort’ Program After Pentagon Systems Exposed to Chinese Coders
  • DefenseScoop: Pentagon terminates use of China-based engineers to support cloud systems
  • NewsMax: Hackers Expose 4.4M in US via TransUnion Data Breach
  • CyberScoop: What happens if CISA 2015 lapses?
  • Bloomberg: TransUnion Says Hackers Accessed 4.4 Million Customers’ Data
  • FOX News: US agencies distance themselves from Chinese-founded PDF software
  • StateScoop: [NV] Nevada officials confirm data stolen in ransomware attack
  • Federal News Network: [China] CISA warns about another China-linked cyber espionage campaign
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Washington Examiner: Multiple colleges experience shooting hoaxes
  • Axios: School shooter hoaxes will only get worse, experts say
  • NewsMax: [NY] NYC Boosts Church Protection After Shooting
  • Daily Wire: [DC] Trump’s DC Force Thwarts Juvenile School Shooter Threat Hoarding 7 Weapons
  • NBC News: [MN] Investigators say no red flags were raised before Minneapolis church shooter amassed an arsenal of guns
  • Breitbart: [MN] Kash Patel: FBI Investigating the ‘Barbaric’ Catholic School Attack Carried Out by ‘Robert Westman, the Male Subject’
  • ABC News: [MN] FBI investigating Minneapolis shooting as domestic terrorism, hate crime
  • NewsMax: [MN] Melania: Need ‘Preemptive Intervention’ to Stop Violence
  • USA Today: [MN] What we know about Minneapolis shooting suspect Robin Westman
  • New York Post: [MN] Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman indiscriminately fired 116 rifle rounds at children who he ‘wanted to watch suffer’
  • The Hill: [MN] Minneapolis school shooter’s videos, writings examined in search for motive
  • Washington Examiner: [MN] Minneapolis shooter ‘expressed hate’ for nearly ‘every group imaginable’: US attorney
  • NPR: [MN] Minnesota shooter’s online persona emulated mass shooters
  • Daily Caller: [MN] Catholic School Shooter Reportedly Bought Guns Legally
  • New York Times: [Saudi Arabia] Judge Rejects Saudis’ Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit by 9/11 Families
• National Security News
  • DefenseScoop: Hegseth orders Army secretary to create new joint interagency counter-drone task force
  • Wall Street Journal: Trump Leans on National Security to Justify Next Wave of Tariffs
  • Reuters: [Haiti] US pushes UN Security Council to boost gang-fighting support to Haiti
  • USA Today: [Denmark] White House tells Denmark to ‘calm down’ over report about Greenland influence operation
  • Washington Examiner: [Ukraine] Trump administration approves $825 million weapons sale to Ukraine
  • Reuters: [Ukraine] Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says Europe must clearly define security guarantees
  • Reuters: [China] China’s military, coast guard patrol disputed South China Sea atoll

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