• Top News
  • Washington Post/FOX News/CBS News/The Hill: 200 Marines sent to Florida to support ICE, U.S. Northern Command says
  • NewsMax: Use of National Guard in Fla. Sparks Praise, Outrage
  • New York Times/FOX News/Washington Post: Court Rejects Effort to Keep Migrants From Being Sent to South Sudan
  • Reuters/USA Today/FOX News/NewsNation: Trump says he is willing to let migrant laborers stay on US farms
  • UPI/NewsMax/CBS News/Reuters: Alleged cartel ties trigger ICE arrest of boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
  • AP: Mexico President Sheinbaum hopes deported boxer Chávez Jr. will serve time in Mexico
  • CBS News/ABC News/CNN: DHS to cut 75% of staff in its intelligence office amid heightened threat environment
  • Bloomberg Government: Noem Warned to Avoid Deep Intelligence Cuts by Law Enforcement
  • Washington Examiner: House hands Trump his July 4 victory with passage of ‘big, beautiful bill’
  • Washington Post: ICE prepares detention blitz with historic $45 billion in funding
  • NPR: How Trump’s big beautiful bill aims to ‘supercharge’ immigration enforcement
  • Breitbart: ICE Director Thanks Trump for ‘Unprecedented Funding’ for Deportations in Big Beautiful Bill
  • Axios: How the GOP spending bill will fund immigration enforcement
  • Los Angeles Times: In Trump’s new budget bill, Latinos pay a hefty price
  • FOX News: Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ bolsters border security by $100 billion
  • Wall Street Journal: How Immigrants Will Help Fund Trump’s Tax Cuts
  • FOX News: Trump touts promises kept at America250 kickoff event at Iowa State Fairgrounds
  • AP/Washington Examiner: First immigration detainees arrive at Florida center in the Everglades
  • Washington Examiner/CNN: Florida Democrats denied entry to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as first detainees arrive
  • NBC News: Despite promises of FEMA funds, Florida has so far received no federal money for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
  • AP: Republican donors and Florida’s hurricane know-how helped build ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ so quickly
  • Washington Examiner: DOJ moves to block eco groups from halting construction of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
  • AP: Aerial video shows the immigration detention center in Florida Everglades
  • Washington Post: Heat, storms, mosquitos the big threats at Alligator Alcatraz, experts say
  • Reuters: Texas may not enforce migrant arrest law, US appeals court rules
  • Breitbart: More than 100 Thousand Patients Identified as Illegal Migrants in Texas Hospital Visits
  • NBC News/NPR/FOX News: Abrego Garcia says he was severely beaten in Salvadoran prison
  • The Hill/Washington Examiner: El Salvador president denies Abrego Garcia was beaten, tortured in prison
  • FOX News: Bukele mocks Abrego Garcia’s torture claims with prison highlight reel
  • NewsMax: DHS: Media Peddling ‘Sob Story’ About Abrego Garcia’s Torture Claims
  • NBC News: Judge orders government to stop making public comments on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case
  • Reuters: Freed from US jail, Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil seizes his new public platform
  • Blaze: Trump fighting ‘unconstitutional power grab’ by Obama judge who reopened the floodgates
  • FOX News: DHS halts migrant flights to California over sanctuary policies
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: Trump’s deportation crusade is a death knell for the American dream
  • NewsMax: Sanctuary Cities Offer No Refuge for Law Abiding Citizens
  • The Hill: [MN] We all have a role in stopping political violence
  • The Hill: [CA] The worst ‘invaders’ in history. MAGA’s demonization of immigrants is preposterous.
  • Washington Post: [Venezuela] Banning Venezuelans doesn’t make the U.S. safer. It makes Maduro stronger.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Washington Post: ICE prepares detention blitz with historic $45 billion in funding
  • FOX News: ICE director says progressive Dem should apologize to voters after calling agency a ‘terrorist force’
  • Daily Caller: Democrats Try Taking ICE Agents’ Face Masks Away, Even As Officers Face Huge Uptick In Assaults
  • FOX News: ICE agent shares fears about family safety as assaults on officials surge
  • Washington Post: ICE increasingly targets undocumented migrants with no criminal record
  • NPR: Immigrants with no criminal convictions represent sharpest growth in ICE detention population
  • AP/USA Today: Honduran family freed from detention after lawsuit against ICE courthouse arrests
  • NBC News: 6-year-old Honduran boy with leukemia who had been seized by ICE is back in L.A.
  • New York Times: Under Trump’s Crackdown, a New Crop of Immigrant Rights Groups Rises
  • The Hill: Joe Rogan on ICE raids, arrests under Trump: ‘It’s insane’
  • FOX News: [NY] Twice-deported Honduran fugitive caught hiding on American soil
  • USA Today: [NY] Haitian immigrant high schooler detained by ICE despite legal status
  • NBC News: [NV] ICE shut down this Latino market — without even showing up
  • New York Times: [VA] Virginia Has Become a Hotbed for Immigration Arrests
  • FOX News: [FL] Florida city commissioner ‘shocked’ to stand alone as colleagues defy Trump immigration crackdown
  • Telemundo51: [FL] Cuban with drug convictions detained by ICE and faces deportation
  • CNN: [LA] ICE detained a mother who was still breastfeeding. Her Marine veteran husband fights for her freedom
  • ABC News: [TX] Newlywed released from ICE detention says she lost ‘5 months of her life’
  • CBS News: [TX] North Texas woman recounts time in ICE custody after 140-day detention
  • Breitbart: [TX] Texas Bail Bondsmen, ICE Officer Indicted in Immigration Related Bribery Case
  • NewsNation: [OK] ICE breaks into Oklahoma man’s car to deport him after decades in US
  • New York Post: [OR] ICE nabs July 4 groper who was allowed to walk free thanks to sanctuary laws
  • The Hill: [CA] ICE agents seen urinating on grounds of California school, officials say
  • CNN: [CA] How ICE raids turned parts of Los Angeles into ghost towns
  • New York Post: [AL] Alaska quips about opening ‘Bear Alcatraz’ as WH chief of staff urges Republican states to work with DHS to build more detention facilities
  • NBC News: [CA] Los Angeles cancels some July Fourth events amid deportation fears
  • New York Post: [CA] Trump admin stops handing over illegal migrant criminals to California for prosecution — it will just deport them instead
  • FOX News: [CA] Multiple arrested as anti-ICE protesters clash with police, US troops in Los Angeles
  • FOX News: [CA] ACLU sues to block ICE raids in Southern California, alleging constitutional violations
  • The Hill: [CA] LA immigrant advocates sue over detention tactics, arrests
  • Univision: [CA] "They’re kidnapping people": ICE sued to stop immigration detentions in Southern California
  • Univision: [CA] ICE arrests Sayda Ayala Pinto accused of defrauding Latino business owners with her trucking company
  • Newsweek: [CA] Trump Voter’s Wife Detained By ICE During Green Card Interview
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Hundreds rally on July 4 against immigration raids, budget bill in downtown L.A.
  • NPR: [CA] ‘Antagonized for being Hispanic’: Growing claims of racial profiling in LA raids
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Bloomberg Law News: DHS Revives Biometric Data Collection Rule for Non-Citizens
  • Washington Post: Immigration lawyers criticize Justice Department push to pull citizenship
  • Telemundo20: Hope for migrants returns in the face of possible resumption of political asylum in the US
  • NBC News: Two pregnant asylum-seekers in neighboring states face different birthright citizenship challenges
  • Washington Post: [VA] At George Washington’s home, dozens become citizens on July 4th
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] ‘Service, sacrifice and selflessness’: 30 immigrant service members from 20 countries receive U.S. citizenship
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Just the News: Homeland Security official says ‘big beautiful bill’ will provide border wall funding, more agents
  • USA Today: Budget bill includes $10B payday for states that spent on border security
  • AP: US expands militarized zones to 1/3 of southern border, stirring controversy
  • NewsNation: Inside Border Patrol’s firearm training
  • FOX News: Airlines secretly sold US travelers’ data to Homeland Security
  • FOX News: From New York to Arizona, migrant facilities shuttering in wake of Trump’s border crackdown
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Texas stands to get $11B back for border expenses under Trump’s megabill
  • The Hill: [TX] Noem signs waivers for 17 miles of waterborne barriers in Rio Grande
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] CBX adds new processing technology for U.S. citizens traveling northbound
• Transportation Security Administration
  • NBC 5 News at 6am: TSA Offers New PreCheck for Military Service Members
  • USA Today: Your sweat stains can set off TSA body scanners
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • NBC News: [TX] 24 dead in Texas flash flooding; search continues for more than 20 missing from camp
  • AP: [TX] Desperate search for missing girls from summer camp after Texas floods kill at least 24
  • CBS News: [TX] Multiple people killed during catastrophic flooding in Central Texas
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Abbott says rescues will continue ‘nonstop’ as total number of missing still unknown
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Houston Fire Department to assist with response to ‘devastating’ Central Texas flooding
  • CBS News: [CA] Madre Fire burning over 70,000 acres in California, largest in the state this year
• Secret Service
  • New York Times/NBC News: Man Is Charged With Creating ‘Hit List’ of Public Officials
• Coast Guard
  • Federal News Network: House lawmakers eye Coast Guard secretary, personnel increases
  • Reuters: Eyeing Arctic dominance, Trump bill earmarks $8.6 billion for US Coast Guard icebreakers
  • Breitbart: Coast Guard Seizes 5,500 Pounds of Drugs in Four Caribbean Sea Interdictions
  • Washington Times: Coast Guard: Recreation boating-related deaths dipped last year while injuries rose
  • HS Today: Coast Guard Academy Welcomes Class of 2029 on Day One of Cadet Training
  • HS Today: Coast Guard and Law Enforcement Step Up Holiday Patrols to Curb Boating Under the Influence in Caribbean Waters
  • HS Today: Coast Guard, National Park Service Teams up to Rescue Mariner
  • DVIDS: U.S. Navy, Coast Guard on Lookout for Piracy
  • Yahoo! News: [MA] Jet ski riders credited with rescuing people thrown from boat on Merrimack River
  • HS Today: [CA] Coast Guard Medevacs Mother and Newborn Baby From Catalina Island, California
  • Yahoo! News: [CA] 2 children, adult saved from SF Bay after sailboat capsizes
  • CBS News: [AK] Authorities search for doctor who went missing in Alaska after leaving cruise ship for hike
  • CBS News: [Colombia] Drone "narco sub" — equipped with Starlink antenna — seized for the first time in the Caribbean
  • Newsweek: [China] Map Tracks US Coast Guard Missions Near China
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Breitbart: [NY] Columbia U. Hit by ‘Hacktivist’ Exposing Sensitive Student Information
• Terrorism Investigations
  • NewsNation: FBI, DHS warn of ‘lone wolf’ July 4 attacks
  • WJLA 24/7 News ON YOUR SIDE at 2: Law Enforcement Warning on Potential of Lone Wolf Attackers
  • CNN: [NY] NYPD steps up security for NYC 4th of July festivities amid heightened threat level
  • New York Post: [NY] NYPD asks feds for OK to take down ‘dangerous’ drones — especially during major events
  • CBS Philadelphia: [PA] 11 people injured in mass shooting at a South Philadelphia night club, police say
  • FOX News: [IN] Indianapolis mass shooting leaves 2 dead, several others wounded
  • ABC News: [IL] 4 killed, 14 hurt in Chicago mass shooting: ‘Absolute chaos’
  • Just the News/Breitbart: [CO] Boulder terror attack suspect charged with murder after victim dies, family could be deported
• National Security News
  • The Hill: House sends megabill to Trump’s desk with $150B in military spending
  • Reuters/New York Times: Trump says tariff letters to 12 countries signed, going out Monday
  • Breitbart: Tulsi Gabbard Accuses Washington Post Reporter of ‘Actively Harassing’ Her Staff
  • NBC News: Patel and Ratcliffe try to bolster claims that FBI and CIA conspired against Trump
  • Daily Wire: [CA] Feds Investigating Alleged China-Linked ‘Rent-A-Womb’ Surrogacy Scandals In California
  • Washington Examiner: [Ukraine] Zelensky confirms call with Trump after Russia launched largest aerial assault of Ukraine war
  • Politico: [Ukraine] Trump speaks with Zelenskyy after he was ‘disappointed’ in call with Putin
  • The Hill: [Ukraine] GOP rep urges Trump administration to get Ukraine weapons pipeline ‘back up and running’
  • AP: [Russia] Putin and Trump discuss Iran and Ukraine in phone call, Kremlin official says
  • Washington Post: [Russia] Russia becomes first country to recognize the Taliban government
  • Reuters: [Israel] Trump says there could be a Gaza deal next week
  • AP: [Israel] Hamas says it has given a ‘positive’ response to the latest ceasefire proposal in Gaza
  • AP: [Israel] Hundreds of Palestinian families flee West Bank camp ahead of Israeli demolition orders
  • Reuters: [Iran] Trump says Iran has not agreed to inspections, give up enrichment
  • FOX News: [Iran] Iran regime escalates repression toward ‘North Korea-style model of isolation and control’
  • FOX News: [Saudi Arabia] Trump meets with Saudi defense minister in ‘secret’ meeting, de-escalation reportedly discussed

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