• Top News
  • Reuters: Trump calls on US Congress to boost funding for border security
  • ABC News: Trump pushes border crackdown at House Republican retreat as he caps first week in office
  • CNN: Trump immigration crackdown underway as he’s expected to sign orders to reshape military
  • FOX News: Trump’s reinstatement of troops booted over COVID vaccine hailed as win for freedom: ‘Great day for patriots’
  • FOX News: Comer launches investigation of sanctuary cities, asks mayors to testify
  • AP: [VT] Woman charged in the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont to appear in federal court
  • CBS New York: [NY] Mayor Eric Adams called to testify before Congress on New York’s sanctuary city status
  • Axios: [TN] Tennessee lawmakers to consider Trump-inspired immigration bill
  • CBS Miami: [FL] Immigration bills submitted for Florida Legislature’s special session
  • Yahoo! News: [IL] Johnson summoned to testify before Congress on Chicago’s sanctuary city policies
  • FOX News: [IL] Chicago officials walk back claim repeated by gov that ICE raided school, reveal what really happened
  • FOX News/Newsweek: [TX] Mexican cartels fire at Border Patrol agents as Trump ramps up enforcement: officials
  • Washington Examiner: [TX] Suspected Mexican cartel gunman opens fire at US Border Patrol
  • Border Report: [TX] It saddens me’: Protesters take to the Texas Capitol after ICE operations in Austin
  • CNN: [OK] Oklahoma Board of Education to vote on proposal requiring parents to prove citizenship when enrolling students
  • Border Report: [Mexico] Juarez looking for jobs for migrants
  • Reuters: [Guatemala] Exclusive: US military aircraft with deported migrants lands in Guatemala, officials say
  • Reuters/Washington Examiner: [Colombia] Colombia Avoids Trade War With US as Business Community, Citizens Call for Cooler Heads
  • New York Times: [Colombia] Trump’s Colombia Tariff Threat Targeted a Vibrant Alternative to China
  • New York Times: [Colombia] Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations
  • CBS News: [Ecuador] Ecuador arrests leader of Los Lobos, powerful crime syndicates targeted by U.S.
  • Washington Post: [Brazil] Brazil demands answers from U.S. after deportees allege mistreatment
  • Reuters: [China] China signals willingness to repatriate confirmed Chinese nationals from the US
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Washington Post: What America needs is some big citizenship
  • The Hill: America needs a strategy for advanced drones and other emerging technologies
  • The Hill: Latin America will not put up with Trump’s new Monroe Doctrine
  • Wall Street Journal: Trump Has a Point About Eliminating FEMA
  • Bloomberg: [Mexico] Destabilizing Mexico Would Make the US Less Safe and Wealthy
  • Bloomberg: [Mexico] Trump’s revival of his punitive immigration playbook will overwhelm Mexico’s overburdened state, sandbag regional economic growth and enrich criminal cartels.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • FOX News: Trump administration carries out multiple raids targeting ‘criminal aliens’ in first weekend
  • NBC News: Here are the cities where ICE raids are taking place
  • Washington Examiner/NBC News/Newsweek: ICE arrests 2,373 illegal immigrants across US in Trump’s first week
  • FOX News: Trump officials give ICE goal on number of arrests per day: report
  • Washington Post: Countries refusing deportees could hinder Trump’s immigration plans
  • CBS 7: Trump told ICE agents to dress for the camera in the coming days of raids, report says
  • The Hill: Homan responds to immigration raids: ‘No apologies’
  • CBS Austin: Homan doubles down on ICE activity in schools: ‘If they don’t like it, change the law’
  • Newsweek: Homan Accuses Pritzker of ‘Scaring Children’ with School Targeting Claims
  • The Hill: Trump deportation blitz intensifies — as does the criticism
  • The Hill: Speaker Johnson brushes aside economic concerns associated with ICE raids
  • NPR: How districts are responding after Trump cleared the way for immigration arrests at schools
  • NPR: Immigration raids are sending migrants into a deep panic, advocates say
  • AP: [MD] Immigration officers say ‘the worst go first,’ but now there’s no ‘free pass’
  • NBC News/Reuters: [MD] Quaker groups file suit over end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [GA] ICE agents arrive at a church and take a parishioner away.
  • CBS Miami: [FL] Anxious relatives await word on loved ones outside ICE facility in Miramar
  • Miami Herald: [FL] Federal agents arrest immigrants in South Florida as national raids underway
  • Washington Examiner: [MI] Detroit mayor says he won’t shield illegal immigrants from ICE
  • Reuters: [IL] TV host ‘Dr. Phil’ films as ICE targets migrants in Chicago
  • FOX News: [TX] Sinaloa cartel member arrested by ICE in Texas: sources
  • Border Report: [TX] ICE begins ‘enhanced targeted operations’ in Austin
  • CBS Austin: [TX] Teacher asks ICE to raid his school, says many students ‘don’t even speak English’
  • Yahoo! News: [TX] Texas substitute teacher under investigation after allegedly asking ICE to deport students
  • CBS 7: [TX] ICE officers deport accused child rapist who has illegally entered US 4 times back to Mexico
  • Dallas Morning News: [TX] ICE arrests more than 80 in Dallas-Fort Worth area in ‘targeted operations,’ official says
  • CBS News: [CO] Raids in Colorado target apparent gang members as Colombia reverses deportation stance
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] Bay Area ICE arrests: Mayor confirms federal immigration ‘operation’ in San Jose
  • Telemundo 48 - Area de la Bahia: [CA] Rapid Response Network confirms ICE presence for second consecutive day in San Jose
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • AP: A ceremony to grant US citizenship celebrated immigration even as the debate around it swirls
  • CBS News: Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown targets some legal means to enter U.S., too
  • Yahoo! News: [Ukraine] US suspends Ukrainian refugee program after Trump’s immigration order
• Customs and Border Protection
  • FOX News: Border agents record shockingly-low number of illegal crossings, one week into second Trump presidency
  • The Hill/Border Report: [TX] Texas governor sending helicopters, 400 soldiers to border
  • Border Report: [TX] Alleged La Linea member caught with 38 pounds of cocaine in El Paso
  • Yahoo! News: [TX] CBP officers seize cocaine worth $1.4M in two U.S.-Mexico border busts
  • CBS Los Angeles: [CA] Federal prosecutors allege that local group smuggled more than $200 million in counterfeit, illegal goods through LA ports
  • KTLA: [CA] Feds near border seize 180 lbs. of meth in 1 hour
  • CBS Los Angeles: [CA] Border Patrol agents make nearly a dozen arrests in Dana Point Harbor
  • Border Report: [Mexico] Mexico begins sealing up cross-border smuggling tunnel in Juarez
• Transportation Security Administration
  • FOX News: Mike Lee continues calling for abolition of TSA
  • CBS Pittsburgh: [PA] Airport contractor caught by TSA with loaded gun at Pittsburgh International Airport
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Axios: Trump, Vance vault FEMA overhaul high on agenda
  • Bloomberg: The Future of FEMA
  • NBC News: [ME] Earthquake off Maine coast rattles New England
  • Washington Examiner: [VA] Vance pledges to cut through red tape to help Virginia recover from Hurricane Helene
  • Asheville Citizen Times: [NC] Rep. Edwards calls FEMA ‘broken’; will serve on Trump task force overseeing agency after Helene
  • WSOC: [NC] FEMA homes sit unoccupied despite urgent need for housing in western North Carolina
  • Washington Examiner: [CA] Trump grants FEMA more power to combat LA wildfires after threatening to curtail agency
  • USA Today/NBC News: [CA] Trump issues new California water order as wildfires continue to burn: What to know
  • AP: [CA] Rain douses wildfires in Southern California without causing serious mudslides
  • Yahoo! News: [CA] California wildfire death toll climbs to 29
  • CNN: [CA] Video of sparks point to Eaton fire’s origins, lawsuit says
  • SFGate: [CA] Trump And Newsom Embrace In Fire-Ravaged La, But Now The President Wants To Tie Federal Aid To Voter Id
  • AP: [CA] L.A. wildfire survivors struggling with FEMA applications could benefit from disaster case managers
• Secret Service
  • ABC News: [DC] Person claiming to have Molotov cocktail, knife stopped outside Capitol
  • CBS News: [TX] Las Vegas man sentenced to nearly 22 years for soliciting explicit photos from 8-year-old Texas girl
• Coast Guard
  • Yahoo! News: Coast Guard assists in Homeland Security-led operation “alien expulsion”
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Wall Street Journal: MGM Agrees to Pay $45 Million to Settle Data-Breach Lawsuit
• Terrorism Investigations
  • CBS Austin: [TN] Trump designates Venezuelan gang with Tennessee presence as foreign terror organization
  • Miami Herald: [IN] Police fatally shoot gunman accused of killing two inside Indiana supermarket
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] No one injured after former employee fires shots outside Katy Walmart, Sheriff says
  • Yahoo! News: [TX] 1 Killed, 8 Injured in Mass Shooting After Suspect Exits Car and Begins Firing into Nightclub: Police
• National Security News
  • The Hill: Graham: Senate needs to investigate Trump decision to pull Bolton’s security
  • The Hill: After new CIA finding, China says ‘extremely unlikely’ COVID came from a lab
  • VOA News: New US defense secretary promises agility, accountability
  • AP: Trump says Microsoft is one of the companies eyeing TikTok
  • Washington Post: [Sweden] Sweden seizes vessel after new cable breach in Baltic Sea
  • VOA News: [Sweden] Sweden intercepts Bulgarian ship over damaged Baltic cable
  • Bloomberg: [India] Trump Says India’s Modi Expected at White House in February
  • Newsweek/CBS News: [Israel] Donald Trump Faces Backlash for Gaza ‘Clean Out’ Plan: ‘Catastrophic Mistake’
  • VOA News: [Afghanistan] Taliban caution US against bounty threats over alleged American detainees
  • Bloomberg: [China] DeepSeek’s AI Model Tests Limits of US Restrictions on Nvidia Chips
  • CyberScoop: [China] DeepSeek AI claims services are facing ‘large-scale malicious attacks’
  • CBS News: [China] China targets U.S. service members on social media in "virtual espionage"
  • Newsweek: [Philippines] Chinese Military Confronts US Ally in South China Sea

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