• Top News
  • NPR/CBS News/The Hill/AP/New York Post: Trump tours "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center in Florida
  • Breitbart/FOX News: Kristi Noem: Illegal Aliens Can Avoid Detainment at Facilities Such as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ if They Self-Deport
  • Washington Examiner: Trump at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘Deportation’ is the only way out for illegal immigrants
  • FOX News: ‘Major kudos to President Trump’ for getting ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ up and running, says Homeland Security spokesperson
  • Breitbart: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Boasts 400+ Security Personnel, 1,000 Staffers, 24/7 AC
  • Breitbart.com: Trump: We Used FEMA Money Biden Allocated for Luxury Housing for Illegals in NYC to Construct ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
  • FOX News: Trump taunts Newsom to visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and ‘learn something’ about immigration
  • NewsNation: Alligator Alcatraz’ plan lacks transparency: Environmental advocate
  • Politico: House Homeland Security Democrats allude to internment camps as they slam ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility
  • Yahoo News: ‘We don’t want this’: Hundreds protest ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in South Florida
  • ABC News: Florida tribe fights new ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant facility near Everglades homes
  • US News & World Report: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Spotlights Trump Immigration Contradictions
  • Politico/FOX News/AP: Judge blocks Trump’s early termination of temporary protections for Haitian immigrants
  • New York Post/FOX News: US captured cannibal illegal migrant who tried to eat his own arms during deportation flight, Kristi Noem reveals in wild press conference
  • FOX News: Kristi Noem dubs ICE agents ‘absolute heroes’ for capturing ‘cannibals, deranged individuals’
  • FOX Business: Dems have ‘villainized’ ICE agents, DHS official says
  • New York Post/FOX News: [CA] Homeland Security denies ‘hoax’ that bounty hunters kidnapped LA mother, claims ICE doesn’t use freelancers
  • Washington Examiner: Federal police hires boom as Trump makes officers respected again
  • Reuters: US federal workforce remains steady despite Trump’s efforts
  • AP/NPR: 20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials
  • Axios/New York Post/Reuters: Trump and Noem want CNN prosecuted for Iran, immigration reporting
  • The Hill: Homan: DOJ needs to ‘look’ at CNN’s ICE reporting
  • FOX News: Attorney General Pam Bondi warns ICEBlock app developer to ‘watch out,’ says DOJ is ‘looking at him’
  • Daily Caller: ‘Nerd’ Who Built ICE-Dodging App Wants All Americans To ‘Be Antifa’
  • FOX News: Trump, Noem vow to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE app, Iran strike
  • FOX News: Trump admin rails against ‘ICE-spotting’ app amid surge in violence against agents
  • Washington Times/Blaze: Trump hints at investigating former DHS Secretary Mayorkas
  • NewsMax: Homan to Newsmax: Mayorkas ‘Needs to Be Held Accountable’
  • CBS News: U.S. holding detainees from Asia, Africa and Europe at Guantanamo Bay immigration facilities
  • FOX Business: Social Security insolvency could speed up with illegal immigration crackdown
  • Breitbart: SBA approves Gov. Newsom’s disaster relief request after LA protests
  • FOX News: Trump admin approves Newsom’s request to ‘bail him out’ of damage left by violent LA riots: SBA
  • Los Angeles Times: Mayor Karen Bass accuses Trump of waging ‘an all-out assault on Los Angeles’
  • Univision: Judge again delays release of Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García due to risk of deportation
  • Telemundo: Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of ‘El Chapo’ to plead guilty in drug trafficking case in Chicago court
  • Federal News Network/FOX News: DHS terminates two contracts, moving work to GSA
  • Washington Post/Washington Examiner: Senate passes Trump’s massive tax bill, sending it to House for final passage
  • USA Today: Vance: Medicaid cuts in Senate tax bill ‘immaterial’ compared to ICE increases
  • Los Angeles Times: How Trump’s big budget bill would jumpstart his immigration agenda
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Los Angeles Times: Family separation 2.0 compounds the trauma on children of immigrants
  • The Hill: Trump’s latest attack on the courts: suing the judges themselves
  • USA Today: I’m the daughter of Haitian immigrants. Trump’s cruelty is personal.
  • The Hill: [China] China is using pollution as a geopolitical weapon, and the US must respond
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • New York Post: Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will ‘turbocharge’ mass deportations with hiring of 10K new ICE agents: WH
  • Federal News Network: House appropriators slam DHS for ‘egregious’ ICE overspending
  • ABC News: Trump vowed to deport the ‘worst of the worst’ -- but new data shows a shift to also arresting non-criminals
  • Los Angeles Times: New bill in Congress would bar federal immigration agents from covering their faces
  • Washington Post: What is and isn’t legal when ICE officers make an immigration arrest
  • Breitbart: ‘Sick-of-ICE, Sick-of-Trump’ Sickout Protests Kick Off Nationwide
  • USA Today: Groups express ‘deep concern’ about 2026 World Cup in US due to Trump’s policies
  • ABC News: Trump again brings up the idea of deporting US citizens for crimes
  • Washington Examiner: [RI] City of Providence partners with activist groups to help illegal immigrants evade ICE capture
  • Bloomberg: [NY] NYC’s Immigration Arrests Jump 31%, Putting Sanctuary City to Test
  • Axios: [NY] Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani if he doesn’t cooperate with ICE
  • Washington Post: Mamdani on Trump’s deportation threat: We won’t ‘accept this intimidation’
  • FOX News: [NY] DOJ silent on whether NYC politician who allegedly assaulted ICE officer will face charges
  • FOX News: [MD] ICE investigation leads to prison sentence for ‘dangerous predator’ who abused 2-year-old
  • AP: [GA] Immigration judge grants bond for Spanish-language journalist arrested during protest
  • AP: [FL] Florida cooperation with immigration enforcement sparks fears people will disappear into jails
  • Detroit Free Press: [MI] ICE raid of Detroit home leads to three arrests, police use of pepper spray
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Skeptical aldermen urge Chicago police to not work with ICE on Trump deportations
  • Univision: [NM] Mexico insists its citizens have an "alert button" if they are arrested by ICE.
  • Washington Examiner: [CA] California GOP asks Trump to stop ICE raids on farm and hospitality industries for ‘noncriminal’ workers
  • NBC News: [CA] LAPD tells officers to ‘keep the peace’ when called to ICE arrests and confrontations
  • Univision: [CA] Federal agents are caught on video beating a man with a baton in Santa Ana.
  • AP: [CA] A day outside an LA detention center shows profound impact of ICE raids on families
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • The Hill: DOJ memo pushes for broader effort to revoke naturalized US citizenship
  • AP: What the Justice Department’s push to bring denaturalization cases means
  • Daily Caller: Trump’s War To End Birthright Citizenship Is Far From Over
  • Bloomberg: US Gives Birthright Case Judge Assurances Amid Deportation Fears
  • AP: Ongoing birthright citizenship uncertainty raises concerns for undocumented parents and their US-born children
  • Washington Post: U.S. revokes visas for British band that chanted, ‘Death, death to the IDF’
  • The Hill: Bob Vylan says it’s being targeted for speaking up about Gaza
  • ABC News: Government attempts to deport stateless Palestinian woman again
  • New York Post: [NY] NYC driving school rigged driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants — even if they couldn’t drive: DA
• Customs and Border Protection
  • CBS News: Unlawful crossings along southern border reach new historic low
  • New York Post: Trump border czar Tom Homan reveals staggering drop in border crossings last month: ‘Less than a single day under Biden’
  • Just the News: Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin highlights the Trump administration’s border control plans and deportation strategies
  • FOX Business: Border official says immigration concerns were relayed to Biden admin, but they ‘refused to listen’
  • FOX News: Border crisis under Biden reveals shocking abuse of migrant children placed with unvetted sponsors: DHS
  • AP: [VT] Woman charged in Vermont border agent’s death seeks 6-month delay in death penalty decision
  • FOX News: [Mexico] Mexico business owners report calmer conditions at border under Trump
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Washington Examiner: NOAA to end key weather program used by military
  • USA Today: NOAA budget spells out plans to reduce spending and abandon climate research
  • USA Today: Hurricane Flossie tracker: See projected path of storm
  • FOX News/New York Times: [CA] Pentagon releases 150 National Guard troops from security mission deployment in LA as wildfire threats mount
• Federal Protective Service
  • Washington Post: [DC] Trump administration targets building that housed USAID for FBI
• Secret Service
  • Boston.com: [WI] Former Mass. sheriff’s deputy indicted on child porn charge
• Coast Guard
  • UPI: Coast Guard reports fewest boating deaths in more than 50 years
  • AP: US, Indo-Pacific partners agree to strengthen maritime, critical minerals cooperation
  • DVIDS: [IL] Coast Guard relieves commanding officer of Station Chicago
  • USA Today: [Bahamas] Video captures family rescue from boat off Bahamas coast by Coast Guard
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • AP: US calls reported threats by pro-Iran hackers to release Trump-tied material a ‘smear campaign’
  • Federal News Network: New executive order targets federal cybersecurity gaps
  • CyberScoop: US sanctions bulletproof hosting provider for supporting ransomware, infostealer operations
  • DefenseScoop: Cyber Command significantly increases funding request for defense in Indo-Pacific region
  • FOX News: SparkKitty mobile malware targets Android and iPhone
  • New York Times: [NY] Columbia Cyberattack Appears Politically Motivated, University Says
• Terrorism Investigations
  • ABC News: Lone wolf actor biggest threat to 4th of July festivities in New York, San Francisco: FBI, DHS bulletins
  • AP: [NY] MS-13 leader to be sentenced in racketeering case involving 8 murders
  • ABC News: [ID] Probe into Idaho firefighter ambush suspect digging into childhood, gun familiarity
  • NewsMax: [ID] Family of Idaho Sniper Speaks After Fatal Ambush
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] LAPD disputes Charter Spectrum’s ‘terrorism’ label for last month’s fiber lines vandalism
  • FOX News: [Nigeria] Pope, State Department condemn latest massacre of Christians by Islamist militants in Nigeria
• National Security News
  • Free Beacon: Trump Admin Demands UN Fire Palestinian Rights Envoy Over ‘Virulent Antisemitism and Support for Terrorism’
  • New York Post: FBI blocked probe into alleged 2020 election plot by China because it would ‘contradict Director Wray’s testimony’ to Congress, docs show
  • FOX News: Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ pick for top military post brings outsider vision to Pentagon
  • The Hill: [Cuba] Trump eyes tougher sanctions on Cuba
  • Wall Street Journal: [Ukraine] U.S. Halts Key Weapons for Ukraine in New Sign of Weakening Support for Kyiv
  • AP: [Iran] Iran assesses the damage and lashes out after Israeli and US strikes damage its nuclear sites
  • Washington Post: [Iran] Iranian authorities make sweeping arrests in wake of war with Israel
  • Reuters: [Iran] Iran made preparations to mine the Strait of Hormuz, US sources say
  • Breitbart: [Lebanon] Hezbollah Resurfaces After Absence During Iran War, Vowing to ‘Never Bow Down’
  • FOX News: [China] Two Chinese nationals arrested for spying on US Navy personnel and bases
  • AP: [China] 2 Chinese nationals charged with spying inside the US for Beijing, Justice Department says
  • Daily Wire: [China] Chinese Nationals Arrested Over Plot To Recruit American Military Personnel
  • Reuters: [China] China’s Huawei must face US criminal charges, judge rules

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