• Top News
  • New York Times/AP/Politico: African Nation Says It Will Repatriate Migrants Deported by U.S.
  • Daily Wire/Washington Examiner/Reuters: Surrounded by Angel Parents, Trump Signs Bill Aimed At Ending Fentanyl Drug Crisis
  • The Hill/NewsNation: Noem defends raid on California marijuana farm, vows no amnesty
  • CNN/ABC News/The Hill: Noem teases TSA changes, Trump denies plan to fire Powell
  • Washington Examiner: Democrats stall immigration hearing with flurry of subpoena requests for Noem and Miller
  • Blaze: Desperate Democrats disrupt hearing while Blaze Media writers expose NGOs’ role in immigration nightmare
  • FOX Business: DHS assistant secretary sounds off on ‘absolutely deranged’ Democrats over characterization of ICE agents
  • FOX Business: DHS official vows to give border patrol officers ‘every resource possible’
  • FOX News: ICE official laments how agency’s mission has been turned into a ‘political football’
  • Breitbart: ICE Agents Arrest Illegal Alien with 40 Criminal Convictions, Including Child Sex Abuse
  • Blaze: ICE accuses media of peddling ‘FALSE narrative’ about non-criminal deportations
  • CBS News: Despite vow to remove the worst offenders, ICE data shows less than 1% of deportees had murder convictions
  • Axios: Noncriminal ICE arrests spiked in June
  • AP: Federal lawsuit seeks to stop ICE agents from arresting people at immigration courts
  • Axios: Bill would prevent ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens
  • NewsNation: Border czar: White House considering migrant worker exception
  • Wall Street Journal: In Twist, Some Republicans Push to Protect Unauthorized Immigrants
  • AP: Federal judge says she would block Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide
  • FOX News: Abrego Garcia remains in US for now as judge takes case under advisement
  • Politico: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s fate in limbo as judge weighs whether to release him from criminal custody
  • New York Times: Judge Chastises U.S. Over Secrecy in Moving to Drop Charges Against MS-13 Leader
  • FOX News: Mother of daughter murdered by MS-13 gang member speaks out in favor of new bill
  • Breitbart: Kristi Noem in Talks with 5 Red States to Construct Detention Facilities Inspired by Alligator Alcatraz
  • New York Times: The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center
  • San Diego Union Tribune: Before it was Alligator Alcatraz, this airstrip sparked fury and changed America’s landscape
  • Politico: Republicans and Democrats visited ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for the first time. Here’s what they saw.
  • Univision: Venezuelan immigrant detained in Puerto Rico sent to Alcatraz of the Caymans in Florida
  • Washington Examiner: Trump administration investigating University of Michigan over ‘vulnerabilities to malign foreign influence’
  • AP/ABC News: Pentagon ends deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles
  • NewsMax: Senators Propose Bill Increasing Transparency of Foreign Funds Fueling Left-Wing Riots
  • Daily Wire: Sen. Marsha Blackburn Bill Targets ‘Lawless States,’ No Free Passes After Anti-ICE Riots
  • Reuters: US considered charging Minnesota judges, lawyers in immigration crackdown, sources say
  • Washington Post: Avelo says decision to end West Coast flights not tied to work for ICE
  • AP: Nationwide protests planned against Trump’s immigration crackdown and health care cuts
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Daily Wire: America Will Be Safer With More Immigration Enforcement
  • New York Times: We’re Seeing the Cruelty of This Immigration Agenda
  • New York Post: TSA can’t admit the truth: Why its stupid shoe rule never stood up to scrutiny
  • FOX News: Trump admin tackles urgent electrical grid crisis as AI set to double demand
  • New York Post: [PA] New Butler shooting details expose the Secret Service’s shocking culture of incompetence
  • Bloomberg: [CA] Ordinary People Are Confronting ICE. What Could Go Wrong?
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • NBC News: DHS agent testifies he had to ask a lawyer if arrest of Tufts student was legal
  • The Hill: Democratic Women’s Caucus demands probe of treatment of women in ICE detention
  • Daily Caller: John Kennedy Says Those Who Attack ICE Agents Should ‘Spend Some Quality Time With Bubba’
  • FOX News: Sen. John Kennedy urges for ICE attackers to be ‘sent to jail’
  • FOX News: Eric Swalwell claims ICE agents are running around ‘like masked bank robbers terrorizing women’
  • FOX News: No cages, due process rights intact: ICE agents set the record straight on Trump’s immigration enforcement
  • FOX News: DHS fires back at Durbin for claiming federal agents are just ‘arresting gardeners’ instead of criminals
  • USA Today: GoFundMe campaigns raise nearly $2 million to block deportations, aid families
  • ABC 7 New York: [NJ] Demonstrators demand release of 20 workers from ICE custody after raid at Edison warehouse
  • Washington Examiner: [TX] FBI captures suspected shooter in ambush of ICE agents at Texas detention center
  • FOX News: [OR] Portland City Council considers how to boot ICE out of city facility
  • Blaze: [OR] Hilarious video shows Portland officers enraging anti-ICE protesters by blaring out order in Trump’s voice
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] L.A. County jails are handing inmates to ICE for first time in years
  • Breitbart: [CT] Illegal Migrant Driver Charged with Slamming Connecticut State Troopers
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] FBI Most Wanted suspect captured after North Texas ICE facility ambush
  • Daily Wire: [CA] ICE Will Soon Get More Money Than The FBI, Have Capacity For A Million Annual Deportations
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Festival Chapín postponed due to concerns surrounding ICE raids
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] California’s marijuana industry was already in crisis. Then the ICE raids started
  • CBS Los Angeles/Reuters: [CA] Immigration agents release Army veteran detained during Camarillo farm raid
  • AP: [CA] Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Army vet calls for investigation after being detained for three days in ICE raid
  • Military.com: [CA] Father of 3 Marines Who Was Beaten by ICE Agents Released, Leaving Family to Process His Detention
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Anxiety over ICE raids heat up Costa Mesa City Hall, as residents call for action
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Politician apologizes for ‘satirical’ video calling on gangs to organize against ICE
  • Breitbart: [PR] Puerto Rico: Religion Teacher Charged with Sex Trafficking Two Teen Boys
  • ABC 7 Los Angeles: [Mexico] Mexico considering legal action over migrant’s death during ICE raid at cannabis farm in Camarillo
  • Univision: [Mexico] Mexico assesses denouncing U.S. death of migrant during California raid
  • NPR: [Bhutan] A refugee deported to Bhutan by the U.S. finds himself stranded and stateless
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • AP: Feds charge 3 current or former Louisiana police chiefs in an alleged visa fraud scheme
  • NPR: Democratic senators raise concerns about a new Trump citizenship data system
  • CyberScoop: Senate Democrats seek answers on Trump overhaul of immigrant database to find noncitizen voters
  • CBS News: Workplace raids demonstrate the vulnerability of the federal E-Verify system, experts say
  • FOX Business: Labor Secretary says H-2A visa program improvements will benefit farmers without displacing American workers
  • Washington Post: Can Trump revoke citizenship, and how often does it happen worldwide?
  • Washington Examiner: Trump’s efforts to end TPS for multiple countries tied up in legal battles
  • Bloomberg News: Noem’s Comments on Venezuelans Cast Doubt on Protection Removal
  • Breitbart: [LA] Charges: Corrupt State Police Sold Visas for $5,000
  • NBC News: [SC] Abused and abandoned immigrant youth on special visas fear the future after Trump changes
  • FOX News: [TX] Texas investigates more than 100 potential noncitizens who allegedly cast illegal ballots
  • …NewsMax: [TX] Texas AG Paxton Launches Illegal Voter Probe
  • AP: [CA] California Republican Lawmakers Launch Campaign to Require Voter ID
  • CBS News: [Venezuela] DHS appeals ruling over TPS for Venezuelans
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Breitbart: Trump Cuts Biden’s Parole Scheme by 100% as Zero Migrants Were Freed into U.S. Last Month
  • NewsMax: CBP: Zero Illegal Releases, Record-Low Crossings in June
  • Daily Caller: Tough Trump Border Measures Lead To Lowest Border Crossings Ever Recorded
  • AP: [VT] Government opposes delaying death penalty decision for Zizian charged in border agent’s shooting
  • CBS Los Angeles: [CA] FBI release photo of suspected gunman in Camarillo immigration raid
  • Daily Caller: [Mexico] ‘I’m Taking A Certain Win’: CNN Airs Segment About Family That Self-Deported To Mexico Under Trump
• Transportation Security Administration
  • AP: First the shoes went back on. Now, at US airport security, more liquid in carry-ons may be at hand
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Reuters: Trump administration sued by US states for cutting disaster prevention grants
  • CNN: Millions along the Gulf Coast brace for severe flooding as tropical system approaches
  • Axios: Why flash floods in the U.S. are becoming more common
  • Politico: [MA] Democrats sue Trump over canceled disaster grant program
  • USA Today: [AK] Tsunami advisory canceled after magnitude 7.3 earthquake recorded off Alaska coast
• Secret Service
  • Washington Examiner: Secret Service compliant with nearly half of congressional reform requests
  • Breitbart: [PA] ‘The Drill Down,’ with Susan Crabtree: Secret Service Failures Exposed
  • NewsMax: [PA] Sen. Paul to Newsmax: Appalling No One Fired for Secret Service Lapses
• Coast Guard
  • DailySignal: Coast Guard Seizes Enough Cocaine to Kill Population of 3 Large US States
  • Breitbart: [CT] New England ship company admits to dumping oil waste in Gulf of Mexico
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • CyberScoop: House hearing will use Stuxnet to search for novel ways to confront OT cyberthreats
  • Breitbart: Cybersecurity Expert: American Trains Are Vulnerable to Remote Hacking
  • CyberScoop: Ryuk ransomware operator extradited to US, faces five years in federal prison
  • CyberScoop: SonicWall customers hit by fresh, ongoing attacks targeting fully patched SMA 100 devices
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Chinese hackers targeted UTMB in COVID espionage operation, university officials confirm
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Breitbart: [DC] Ted Cruz Introduces Bill to Label Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Group
  • Axios: [DC] Dem probes Trump’s 22-year-old terror prevention official
  • AP: [FL] Florida State student accused in a mass shooting is set to go to trial in November
  • AP: [MN] Man charged with killing Minnesota lawmaker plans to plead not guilty
  • Los Angeles Times: [Mexico] Case of ‘El Chapo’ son cooperating with U.S. prosecutors roils Mexico
• National Security News
  • New York Times: Senate Democrats Rail at ‘Sloppy, Rushed’ State Dept. Firings
  • CBS News: Trump calls Epstein controversy a "Hoax" and "bulls***," denouncing "weaklings" in GOP
  • The Hill: Trump bashes ‘foolish Republicans’ for getting ‘duped’ on Epstein
  • Blaze: Election officials rage as Trump administration pushes for election security
  • DefenseScoop: Trump names vice chief nominees for Space Force, Air Force
  • Bloomberg: Trump’s Plan To Make US Shipbuilding Great Again: Asia Centric
  • Washington Examiner: [UT] Utah blocks land sale to company tied to Chinese government
  • Breitbart: [Russia] NATO Chief Warns Brazil, China, India to Stop Doing Business with Russia
  • Reuters: [China] US aims to ban Chinese technology in undersea telecommunications cables
  • AP: [China] Faced with geopolitics and trade war, US companies in China report record-low new investment plans
  • AP: [China] Nvidia CEO downplays role in lifting US ban on chip sales to China

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