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Reuters [6/11/2025 3:28 AM, Brad Brooks, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Dietrich Knauth, 51390K] reports several U.S. cities braced for protests on Wednesday against President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration raids, as parts of the country’s second largest city Los Angeles spent the night under curfew in an effort to quell five days of unrest. The Governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, said he will deploy the National Guard this week, ahead of planned protests. Protesters and police in Austin clashed on Monday. Trump’s extraordinary measures of sending National Guard and Marines to quell protests in Los Angeles has sparked a national debate on the use of military on U.S. soil and pitted the Republican president against California’s Democrat governor. "This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk. That’s when the downward spiral began," California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a video address on Tuesday. "He again chose escalation. He chose more force. He chose theatrics over public safety. ... Democracy is under assault.” Newsom, widely seen as preparing for a presidential run in 2028, and the state of California sued Trump and the Defense Department on Monday, seeking to block the deployment of federal troops. Trump in turn has suggested Newsom should be arrested. Hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday under orders from Trump, after he also ordered the deployment of 4,000 National Guard to the city. Marines and National Guard are to be used in the protection of government personnel and buildings and not in police action. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the deployments were not necessary as police could manage the protest, the majority of which have been peaceful, and limited to about five streets. However, due to looting and violence at night she imposed a curfew over one square mile of the city’s downtown, starting Tuesday night. The curfew will last several days. Police said multiple groups stayed on the streets in some areas despite the curfew and "mass arrests" were initiated. Police earlier said that 197 people had already been arrested on Tuesday - more than double the total number of arrests to date. Homeland Security said on Monday its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division had arrested 2,000 immigration offenders per day recently, far above the 311 daily average in fiscal year 2024 under former President Joe Biden. Protests have also taken place in other cities including New York, Atlanta and Chicago, where demonstrators shouted at and scuffled with officers. Some protesters climbed onto the Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza, while others chanted that ICE should be abolished. Texas Governor Abbott said late on Tuesday that he will deploy the National Guard, which "will use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order.” "Texas National Guard will be deployed to locations across the state to ensure peace & order. Peaceful protest is legal.

The New York Times [6/11/2025 3:31 AM, John Yoon, 153395K] reports Marines are expected to be deployed to the streets of Los Angeles on Wednesday, joining the National Guard troops that are already protecting federal property and immigration agents making arrests. The 700 Marines, who have been going through training at an unspecified location in the Los Angeles area, will work alongside the National Guard, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Northern Command said. The action will broaden the federal government’s rare use of military forces on domestic soil. By tradition and law, American troops are supposed to be used inside the United States only in the most dire and extreme circumstances. President Trump mobilized the troops even as protests in Los Angeles were relatively muted on Monday and California officials objected to the deployments. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said that the use of troops was unnecessary and counterproductive. The state of California has filed lawsuits asking the court to restrict the federal government’s use of military personnel in Los Angeles. A federal judge in California scheduled a hearing for Thursday afternoon on the state’s request to limit the use of troops solely to guarding federal buildings. California requested a temporary restraining order by 1 p.m. Pacific time on Tuesday declaring that the Marines and Guard troops could not accompany immigration raids or perform other law enforcement activities, like operating checkpoints. The judge, Charles S. Breyer, declined to impose the order by the deadline. Armed Guard troops accompanied federal immigration enforcement officers in Los Angeles, holding rifles and standing next to them as they detained people, images posted on Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed. Reuters [6/10/2025 7:17 PM, Brad Brooks, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali, and Dietrich Knauth, 51390K] reports hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in the Los Angeles area by Tuesday under orders from President Donald Trump, who has also activated 4,000 National Guard troops to quell protests in the city despite objections from California Governor Gavin Newsom and other local leaders. The city has seen days of public outrage since the Trump administration launched a series of immigration raids on Friday. State officials said Trump’s response was an overreaction to mostly peaceful demonstrations. About 700 Marines were in a staging area awaiting deployment to specific locations, a U.S. official said. The Marines do not have arrest authority and will protect federal property and personnel, according to military officials. There were approximately 2,100 Guard troops in greater Los Angeles on Tuesday, with more on the way, the official said. California sued Trump and the Defense Department on Monday, seeking to block the deployment of federal troops, then on Tuesday sought an immediately ruling on the narrow issue of their participation in police enforcement. The judge set a hearing on that question for Thursday. California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Reuters the state was concerned about allowing federal troops to protect personnel, saying there was a risk that could violate an 1878 law that generally forbids the U.S. military, including the National Guard, from taking part in civilian law enforcement. "The federal property part I understand - defending and protecting federal buildings," Bonta said. "But protecting personnel likely means accompanying ICE agents into communities and neighborhoods, and protecting functions could mean protecting the ICE function of enforcing the immigration law."

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Wall Street Journal [6/10/2025 6:37 PM, Jennifer Calfas, Robert Barba, and Sara Randazzo, 646K] reports some 700 U.S. Marines arrived in the greater Los Angeles area after days of protests against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that have rippled across the U.S. Their arrival comes amid heightened tensions between California leaders, who say they are well-equipped to manage the protesters, and President Trump, who has also deployed thousands of National Guard troops. The state sued the Trump administration over that decision. The first demonstrations began Friday in Los Angeles, when residents reacted to federal agents engaged in what appeared to be an immigration-enforcement operation. Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said that some 800 demonstrators surrounded and breached a federal law-enforcement building. Protests continued throughout the weekend, with a particularly tense standoff occurring Sunday evening in downtown Los Angeles. California Highway Patrol officers used flash-bang stun grenades and tactical positioning to push protesters off Highway 101. Demonstrators threw tree branches, scooters and fireworks from a freeway overpass onto police vehicles, and some protesters set fire to at least five Waymo driverless taxis. Mostly peaceful demonstrations occurred around Los Angeles on Monday. A confrontation between a group of protesters and law enforcement took place late in the afternoon outside a federal building downtown. Protests have also occurred in other U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Austin, New York and Santa Ana, Calif. Demonstrations continued in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Unions and immigrant-rights groups began organizing events late last week in response to ICE activity in Los Angeles, which federal officials say has led to more than 100 recent immigrant arrests. Trump ordered the National Guard to protect ICE agents and government personnel, as well as federal property, according to a memo released by the White House. The Marines will have a similar mandate, and won’t engage with protesters. California sued the Trump administration in federal court Monday, calling the president’s deployment of National Guard troops an unconstitutional use of executive power that usurped the state’s authority. The lawsuit called Trump’s actions an “unprecedented power grab.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has said the move also inflamed tensions in the city. The president in the Oval Office on Tuesday continued to defend his decision to deploy the National Guard and added it would remain in Los Angeles “until there’s no danger.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday said “rioters, looters and thugs” in Los Angeles endangered federal agents. Tom Homan, the president’s border czar, warned California leaders in an interview with NBC News over the weekend they would risk arrest if they impeded law-enforcement officers from doing their job. Newsom then dared Homan to arrest him.

The New York Times [6/10/2025 1:59 AM, Hamed Aleaziz and John Yoon, 138952K] reports armed National Guard troops mobilized by President Trump accompanied federal immigration enforcement officers on raids in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a move that the state of California has called unlawful and inflammatory. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed Tuesday evening that the National Guard was accompanying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on their operations. The Trump administration deployed nearly 5,000 National Guard troops and Marines to the Los Angeles area to stop protests. The deployment enraged officials in California, who filed lawsuits asking the court to intervene in what they said were illegal and provocative moves. Earlier in the evening, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a photo of what appeared to be military personnel with rifles standing with ICE officers on social media. “This We’ll Defend,” he wrote. ICE also posted images on social media of officers detaining individuals while being surrounded by National Guard members who could be identified by the insignia on their uniforms. A federal judge in California set a hearing for Thursday afternoon on the state’s request to restrict the federal government’s use of military personnel in Los Angeles in law enforcement, limiting them only to protecting federal property. The state also demanded an emergency order by Tuesday afternoon declaring that the Marines and other troops could not accompany immigration agents on raids or perform other law enforcement activities, such as operating checkpoints. The judge, Charles S. Breyer, declined to meet the deadline. Bloomberg [6/10/2025 9:38 PM, Isabela Fleischmann, 19320K] reports Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Tuesday that the Guard was providing security for federal law enforcement as they continue operations “to remove the worst of the worst of Los Angeles.” Some of the soldiers had been guarding federal buildings before this. McLaughlin added that “if any rioters attack ICE law enforcement officers, military personnel have the authority to temporarily detain them until law enforcement makes the arrest.” “The violence against ICE law enforcement must end,” she said, adding that the soldiers were also helping to safeguard federal property.

NewsNation [6/10/2025 9:54 PM, Damita Menezes, 5801K] Video HERE reports Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Tuesday the Trump administration will not be deterred by protests and “will double down” on immigration enforcement operations, including those that have sparked unrest in Los Angeles. “We will not be deterred. We will not be intimidated by these violent rioters, and we will keep going,” McLaughlin said on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” She defended the deployment of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles, saying they are necessary to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, who she says are facing increased attacks. McLaughlin said ICE operations in the past 72 hours have resulted in arrests of gang members, a child rapist, murderers and convicted felons. She criticized Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for calling on the federal government to stop the raids, saying Bass is doing a “disservice to citizens” and immigrants alike. The protests in Los Angeles began Friday after ICE raids targeted migrant workers at locations including Home Depot and a clothing store. Approximately 1,000 protesters surrounded ICE officers at a federal building, with some throwing rocks and burning American flags while hoisting foreign flags, according to McLaughlin. President Donald Trump said Los Angeles “was under siege” and that his administration “will not allow the city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy.” McLaughlin said Trump showed “moral courage” in deploying additional law enforcement resources. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [6/10/2025 3:58 PM, Emma Colton, 46878K] reports President Donald Trump said Americans can expect additional immigration raids across the country similar to the ones in California, while warning that any potential riots that break out in response to the raids will be met with "equal or greater force" compared to the government’s handling of recent Los Angeles violence. The president was addressing efforts by federal agencies to address wildfire management and prevention as the nation heads into the summer months, and he took a bevvy of questions from reporters regarding the riots that have spiraled in Los Angeles since Friday. Riots broke out in the left-wing city Friday evening after federal law enforcement officials converged on Los Angeles to carry out immigration raids as part of Trump’s vow to deport illegal aliens who flooded the nation under the Biden administration. Local leaders such as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom, however, quickly denounced the raids in public statements while offering words of support for illegal aliens in the state. Protests over the raids soon devolved into violence as rioters targeted federal law enforcement officials, including throwing rocks, with videos showing people looting stores, setting cars on fire and taking over a freeway. Trump announced Saturday that he was deploying 2,000 National Guard members to help quell the violence, bypassing the governor, who typically activates the National Guard. The move sparked Newsom to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration for efforts to allegedly "federalize the California National Guard," while Democrats across the nation have attempted to pin blame for the violence on Trump’s activation of the National Guard while characterizing the anti-ICE riots as "peaceful" demonstrations. As the riots continued on Monday, the Trump administration deployed hundreds of Marines to respond to the chaos.

Daily Caller [6/10/2025 10:05 AM, Jason Hopkins, 1010K] reports as riots in the City of Los Angeles erupt over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity, the Trump administration is pulling back the curtain on the illegal migrants targeted by the agency. The illegal migrants targeted by ICE raids that have sparked the ongoing riots in the city have previously been convicted or arrested for murder, child molestation, cruelty to children, drug distribution and a slate of other heinous activity, according to information released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday. The Trump administration further called out the rioters for violently demonstrating in defense of such individuals. “These rioters in Los Angeles are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Los Angeles streets,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a prepared statement. “Instead of rioting, they should be thanking ICE officers who every single day wake up and make our communities safer.” Among those apprehended by deportation officers include Eswin Uriel Castro, a previously deported foreign national convicted of child molestation and previously arrested for robbery and domestic violence, and Anastacio Enrique Solis-Salinas, a Nicaraguan national convicted of domestic violence and a hit-and-run and previously arrested for willful cruelty to a child, according to ICE. “These heinous criminals, including child abusers and pedophiles, are some of the illegal aliens arrested yesterday in Los Angeles,” McLaughlin said. “Why do Governor Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass care more about violent criminal illegal aliens than they do about protecting their own citizens?” DHS on Sunday dropped a list of numerous other criminal illegal migrants apprehended in ICE raids in the city. The list included foreign nationals convicted of second degree murder, assault with intent to commit rape, assault with a semi-automatic firearm, sexual battery and an arrest for the distribution of heroin and cocaine, among other serious crimes. Breitbart [6/10/2025 12:58 PM, Hannah Knudsen, 3077K] reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week highlighted crimes associated with the illegal aliens arrested as part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations as rioters across the country continue to protest such actions. DHS has continued to release details on the illegal immigrants arrested as part of its recent operations in Los Angeles, where Mexican flag-waving protests erupted over the weekend. As Breitbart News detailed, some of those arrested have criminal histories including but not limited to sexual battery, second degree murder, assault with intent to commit rape, distribution of cocaine and heroin, domestic violence, and much more. However, DHS released more information on those arrested in a press release Monday, and this batch involves many criminals with crimes against children. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin emphasized in a statement that the illegal aliens arrested include child abusers and pedophiles. "Why do Governor Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass care more about violent criminal illegal aliens than they do about protecting their own citizens?" McLaughlin asked, blasting the rioters for "fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Los Angeles streets." "Instead of rioting, they should be thanking ICE officers who every single day wake up and make our communities safer," she added.

FOX News [6/10/2025 8:12 PM, Staff, 46878K] Video: HERE reports the Department of Homeland Security released a video of protesters attacking vehicles during the Los Angeles riots this week.

CBS News [6/10/2025 4:35 PM, Nicole Sganga, Ed O’Keefe, 51860K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to direct military forces sent to the Los Angeles protests to arrest civilians — a request that would exceed authorities invoked by President Trump when he deployed the National Guard. In a letter sent Sunday, obtained first by the San Francisco Chronicle and whose contents were confirmed to CBS News, Noem wrote to the defense secretary and asked him to give "Direction to DoD forces to either detain, just as they would at any federal facility guarded by military, lawbreakers under Title 18 until they can be arrested and processed by federal law enforcement, or arrest them." Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant DHS secretary, indicated that Noem had sent the letter before the president deployed the Guard troops. She confirmed that Noem had written the letter but said in a statement that it "was sent days ago, prior to the Secretary of Homeland Security and Secretary of Defense meeting with the President." On Monday, Hegseth activated about 700 active-duty Marines to join the 2,100 National Guard troops deployed in Los Angeles, Paramount and Compton, California. But he "did not take any action on Noem’s letter," one of the sources said.

New York Times [6/10/2025 6:07 PM, Eric Schmitt, 138952K] reports in response to often sharp questioning from House Democrats on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the Pentagon’s deployment of nearly 5,000 active-duty Marines and National Guard members to help the police in Los Angeles quell sporadic unrest — at an estimated cost of $134 million. Mr. Hegseth, a National Guard veteran, also suggested in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee that the use of the Guard, part-time citizen soldiers, for homeland defense would expand under President Trump. “I think we’re entering another phase, especially under President Trump with his focus on the homeland, where the National Guard and Reserves become a critical component of how we secure that homeland,” Mr. Hegseth told lawmakers. Officials in Los Angeles, as well as other major cities across the country controlled by Democrats, have expressed concern that the military deployments in California could set a precedent and serve as a test run for other urban areas where the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement could prompt large protests. Mr. Hegseth’s appearance before the House Appropriations Committee — the first of three hearings he has on Capitol Hill this week — was widely anticipated by official Washington. It was his first congressional hearing since a Senate panel considered his nomination in January. In recent months, Mr. Hegseth has sought to fend off a series of contentious issues that threatened to undermine his credibility inside the Pentagon and, more important, inside the White House. Perhaps most damaging were his disclosures on the commercial chat app Signal of flight sequencing of American fighter jets in strikes on Yemen. Mr. Hegseth has also seen the dissolution of his inner circle of close advisers. Four members of the team he brought to the Pentagon have left the department, three of them accused of leaking information and escorted from the building. A fifth — his chief of staff — has also departed his post. Democrats on the committee immediately homed in on those issues.

Los Angeles Times [6/10/2025 5:00 PM, Laura J. Nelson, 14672K] reports California’s two U.S. Senators pushed top military officials Tuesday for more information about how hundreds of U.S. Marines were deployed to Los Angeles over the objections of local leaders and what the active-duty military will do on the ground. In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla asked the Pentagon to explain the legal basis for deploying 700 active-duty Marines amid ongoing protests and unrest over immigration raids across Southern California. California is challenging the legality of the militarization, arguing in a lawsuit filed Monday that the deployment of both the National Guard and the Marines violated the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which spells out the limits of federal power. Schiff and Padilla asked Hegseth to clarify the mission the Marines will be following during their deployment, as well as what training the troops have received for crowd control, use of force and de-escalation. The senators also asked whether the Defense Department received any requests from the White House or the Department of Homeland Security about "the scope of the Marines’ mission and duties."

Washington Post [6/10/2025 6:04 PM, Matt Viser and Cat Zakrzewski, 32099K] reports President Donald Trump lauded his administration’s use of the military against protests in Los Angeles and threatened to use force against any demonstrations at the military parade along the National Mall this weekend, vowing in a speech to troops here to suppress what he called “paid troublemakers” and agents of a “foreign invasion.” “This anarchy will not stand,” Trump said, referring to the Los Angeles protests. “We will not allow federal agents to be attacked, and we will not allow an American city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy,” he said. “Very simply, we will liberate Los Angeles and make it free, clean and safe again. It’s happening very quickly.” Earlier Tuesday, Trump made a similar threat regarding any efforts to protest at Saturday’s scheduled military parade along the Mall. “If there’s any protesters that want to come out, they’re will be met with very big force,” he said. “For those people that want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force. And I haven’t even heard about a protest. But, you know, this is, people that hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force.” People who try to burn the American flag should go to jail for one year, Trump added. The Supreme Court in 1989 upheld the rights of protesters to burn the flag, saying such protests were protected by the First Amendment. “Generations of army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores, only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and Third World lawlessness here at home, like is happening in California,” Trump said. “What you’re witnessing in California is a full-blown assault on peace and public order, and our national sovereignty, carried out by rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion of our country. We’re not going to let that happen.”

CBS News [6/10/2025 6:34 PM, Staff, 51860K] reports President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited Fort Bragg, the nation’s largest military installation, on Tuesday, after sending the National Guard and U.S. Marines to respond to protests in Los Angeles. Members of the Marine Corps arrived in the greater Los Angeles area Tuesday, a defense official told CBS News, after the military activated about 700 active-duty Marines Monday. The Pentagon said the Marines would "seamlessly integrate" with National Guard troops to protect "federal personnel and federal property." There are 2,100 members of the California National Guard now on location in the greater Los Angeles area, operating in Los Angeles, Paramount and Compton. In his speech at Fort Bragg, Mr. Trump called the protests "a full-blown assault on peace, on public order and a national sovereignty" and alleged they are being "carried out by rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion of our country." He vowed to "liberate" Los Angeles. "Generations of Army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and third-world lawlessness here at home," Mr. Trump said. "I want to applaud the courage and the strength of the incredible troops who are right now standing guard to protect federal property and personnel and uphold the supremacy of federal law." Mr. Trump added, "the only flag that will wave triumphant over the streets of Los Angeles is the American flag." The president also called for those who burn the American flag to face a year in jail. Mr. Trump also announced that he would restore the names of several Army installations that were previously named to honor Confederate figures but renamed during the Biden administration. The president listed out seven base names that will be changed back: Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Robert E Lee. "We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It’s no time to change," Mr. Trump said. "And I’m superstitious, you know? I like to keep it going, right? I’m very superstitious." The Trump administration also changed back the names of Fort Bragg and Fort Benning earlier this year. Hegseth traveled to the military base in North Carolina after testifying on Capitol Hill earlier Tuesday. The president claimed Tuesday morning that Los Angeles "would be burning to the ground right now," if not for his actions to federalize the National Guard. A memorandum the president signed Saturday said the troops are authorized to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and other federal law enforcement officials. He invoked Title 10, the U.S. code governing use of the armed forces, allowing the National Guard to come into L.A. in a supporting role. Mr. Trump also called the protesters "paid insurrectionists." The estimated cost of deploying the National Guard and the Marines to the Los Angeles area for up to two months is $134 million, top Pentagon official Bryn MacDonnell told a House panel Tuesday.

Washington Post [6/11/2025 2:25 AM, Matt Viser, Tim Craig, Reis Thebault and Dan Lamothe, 32099K] reports President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that additional protests against federal immigration policies could be “met with equal or greater force” than the 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines he deployed to try to quell demonstrations in Los Angeles. Trump, speaking to soldiers here, said California’s largest city needs to be liberated and defended his decision to send thousands of service members to suppress what he called “paid troublemakers” and agents of a “foreign invasion.” "This anarchy will not stand," Trump said, referring to the protests. Later on Tuesday, in a scathing public address, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) accused Trump of a "brazen abuse of power" for mobilizing the military, and warned that democracy in the United States was "under assault" under a president "who wants to be bound by no law or constitution.” He accused Trump of conducting a "military dragnet" across Los Angeles, charging that his administration had gone well beyond what officials had initially described as an effort to go after violent and serious criminals. Instead, he said, the administration’s mass deportation effort is "indiscriminately targeting hardworking immigrant families" and sweeping up people without warrants on the basis of skin color or suspicion. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Newsom’s address. Meanwhile, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that sparked days of protests in Los Angeles continued Tuesday, resulting in more than 100 arrests. The demonstrations also spread to other cities, including Austin, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon. Most demonstrations remained peaceful, but there were scattered incidents of property damage and clashes with police. In Los Angeles, some blocks downtown turned chaotic, though most of the sprawling city was unaffected. The worst of the violence was limited to a small area near a federal building now being guarded by the National Guard troops that Trump deployed to the city over the weekend. Trump also ordered the U.S. Marines to the area, but there was no visible sign of them Tuesday on L.A.’s streets. That night, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) issued orders for a curfew for part of the city’s downtown, starting at 8 p.m. local time and ending 6 a.m. Wednesday, a step she said was taken "to stop bad actors" from taking advantage of the "chaotic escalation" by Trump. Trump said the show of force in L.A. should serve as a warning that similar demonstrations in other cities would not be tolerated. "If we didn’t attack this one very strongly, you’d have them all over the country," Trump said. "But I can inform the rest of the country that when they do it — if they do it — they’re going to be met with equal or greater force than we met right here.” Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement that U.S. troops are "providing protection for federal law enforcement officers as they continue operations to remove the worst of the worst from Los Angeles.” If anyone attacks ICE personnel, the U.S. troops with them "have the authority to temporarily detain them until law enforcement makes the arrest," she said. "The violence against ICE law enforcement must end.” A defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that although the National Guard initially focused primarily on safeguarding federal property, they were now involved in ICE operations. It was not immediately clear Tuesday night when the shift occurred, the official said.

The Hill [6/10/2025 10:20 AM, Filip Timotija, 18649K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem declared Los Angeles a "city of criminals" while slamming Mayor Karen Bass (D) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) handling of ongoing protests against the Trump administration’s immigration raids. "Today, we had over 400 to 500 targets we were going after that were known members of gangs in LA that have been victimizing people for years, that Gavin Newsom has done absolutely nothing about, that Mayor Bass has done absolutely nothing about," Noem said during a Monday night appearance on Fox News’s "Hannity." "And now she’s [Bass] holding press conferences, talking about the fact that people have the right to peacefully protest and that they’re a city of immigrants," Noem said. "Well, they’re not a city of immigrants, they’re a city of criminals, because she has protected them for so many years," the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief added.

FOX News [6/10/2025 6:02 PM, Staff, 46878K] reports Acting ICE director Todd Lyons weighs in on President Donald Trump deploying troops to California and describes the state of ICE operations on ‘The Story.’ [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

USA Today [6/10/2025 6:07 PM, Tom Vanden Brook, 75552K] reports the Pentagon is reviewing a Department of Homeland Security request to deploy more than 20,000 additional National Guard troops to aid the Trump administration’s widening crackdown on illegal immigration around the United States, according to officials and documents. Meanwhile, Pentagon and Customs and Border Patrol officials have inspected military bases in recent months from New Jersey to California as potential sites to detain an expected influx of migrants. Keeping 20,000 National Guardsmen on duty for one year would cost $3.6 billion, according to a U.S. official briefed on the potential deployment. However, it’s unclear how many Guardsmen are available to fill the request, according to a Defense official. On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated the National Guard would soon take on a larger role in domestic security. He told a House committee on June 10 that the United States was entering a new "phase" in which the National Guard would "become a critical component of how we secure that homeland."

ABC News [6/10/2025 7:37 PM, Ivan Pereira, 31733K] reports President Donald Trump and his administration officials warned that the use of the military in response to protests against his immigration crackdown may not be limited to just Los Angeles, saying it could be the first "of many" -- and that protesters could be met with "equal or greater force.". Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that his administration was going to enforce its deportation policy strictly and that it would not tolerate violent protests against ICE officers. "This is the first, perhaps, of many," Trump said of the deployment of 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to Los Angeles as demonstrators clash with law enforcement amid the protests. Demonstrators have clashed with law enforcement sporadically for days, and Trump called in the National Guard, against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wishes, in an attempt to quell the violence and allow immigration enforcement to continue. "You know, if we didn’t attack this one very strongly, you’d have them all over the country, but I can inform the rest of the country, that when they do it, if they do it, they’re going to be met with equal or greater force," Trump continued. The president’s threats come as California’s leaders and 22 Democratic governors decry Trump’s show of force as a breach of the state’s sovereignty and a provocative escalation. Trump’s words were echoed in testimony given by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill earlier in the day. "So in Los Angeles, we believe that ICE, which is a federal law enforcement agency, has the right to safely conduct operations in any state, in any jurisdiction in the country," Hegseth said. "ICE agents should be allowed to be safe and doing their operations, and we have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect them in the execution of their duties, because we ought to be able to enforce ... immigration law in this country.". The president suggested he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act in response to the protests. The act authorizes the president to deploy military forces inside the United States to suppress rebellion or violence.

AP [6/10/2025 8:10 PM, Meg Kinnard and Adriana Gomez Licon, 56000K] reports President Donald Trump in recent days has sent thousands of National Guard troops and 700 active duty Marines to quell Los Angeles-area protests over immigration enforcement actions, despite the objections of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and local leaders. On Tuesday, National Guard troops were standing guard around officers as they made arrests, an expansion of the troops’ duties from their earlier role of protecting federal property. The actions are in line with what Trump pledged during last year’s campaign, when as a candidate he promised the largest mass deportation effort the U.S. has seen, and said he would be willing to use military might to make it happen. But Trump has changed his position since his 2020 presidential bid, namely around using the Insurrection Act to send military units to respond to unrest in the states. While campaigning in 2024, Trump said he would use the National Guard as part of efforts to deport millions of migrants across the country. He didn’t say how he would carry out the operations and what role the National Guard would play, but added he would resort to the military if “things were getting out of control.” When asked to clarify if he would use the military inland, he said, “I don’t think I’d have to do that. I think the National Guard would be able to do that. If they weren’t able to, then I’d use the military.” Trump told Time that he would deport between 15 million and 20 million people who are in the country illegally. The foreign-born population, including immigrants in the country both legally and illegally, was estimated to be 46.2 million, or nearly 14% of the U.S. total, in 2022, according to the Census Bureau, which also reported about 11 million immigrants in the country illegally. After winning the November election, the possible contours of Trump’s incoming administration and how it would handle issues, including immigration, began to take greater shape. On Nov. 17, after conservative activist Tom Fitton proclaimed in a social media post that the incoming president “will declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program,” Trump replied: “TRUE!!!”

New York Post [6/10/2025 12:08 PM, Jennie Taer, 49956K] reports armed National Guard troops are accompanying immigration agents as they carry out mass deportation raids on the streets of Los Angeles, multiple sources told The Post. The troops, who were mobilized by President Trump, are providing "operational security" to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after they faced attacks and threats from anti-ICE rioters, sources said. It’s "in case s–t hits the fan," said a federal law enforcement source. A second source added: "It’s needed for extra safety and security doing operations.". ICE agents are happy that the National Guard soldiers will have their backs, but some are concerned that their presence could make the federal immigration agents an even bigger target, the first source said. "They’re showing up with Humvees and uniforms," the source said. ICE agents often try to fly below the radar before they swoop in on a target, traveling in unmarked SUVs and operating in street clothes. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. The soldiers are not making any arrests on behalf of ICE. The Trump administration deployed 2,000 National Guard soldiers to LA over the weekend as rioters set cars ablaze and hurled rocks at law enforcement officers. Later, the Department of Defense mobilized 700 active-duty Marines from Twentynine Palms, California, to help maintain order in LA. Roughly 150 Border Patrol agents have also been pulled from the southern border in both California and Arizona to help control the riots, according to sources.

The Hill [6/10/2025 12:45 PM, Ashleigh Fields, 18649K] reports Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.) shouted at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday over a lack of information on funds allocated for Navy submarines. Workforce and capacity issues have delayed the release of two classes of submarines specifically manufactured to combat nuclear attacks. "What is your plan for the future? Can we get that in writing and on paper so that we know where you’re going? Because we don’t have anything today. We have zip, nada, in knowing where you’re going," DeLauro yelled at Hegseth. Earlier in the House Appropriations Committee hearing, Hegseth accused committee members of not supporting the submarine program but later attempted to thank them for investments.

The Hill [6/10/2025 3:09 PM, Zach Schonfeld, 18649K] reports California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) asked a federal judge to immediately intervene on Tuesday to limit President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles. Newsom asked for an emergency ruling by 1 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, a lightning-fast timeline. Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) sued Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a day earlier over Newsom’s objection to Trump’s authorizing several thousand National Guard troops to go into Los Angeles to quell immigration protests, which at times have turned violent. The Pentagon is also deploying 700 Marines to the city. Newsom asked the judge to issue an order prohibiting the National Guard troops from engaging in law enforcement activities beyond the "immediate vicinity" of federal property as the lawsuit proceeds. Many of the most intense demonstrations have taken place near a series of federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles, including the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building, a detention facility and federal courthouse. But the order would block the troops from patrolling communities or otherwise engaging in general law enforcement activities. In a one-paragraph notice submitted shortly after Newsom’s motion, the Justice Department warned that granting it would jeopardize the safety of Department of Homeland Security personnel. The government asked to have until 11 a.m. PDT on Wednesday to submit its arguments in writing before the judge rules. Newsom asked Breyer to issue his order without hearing arguments from the federal government, which objects to the motion, court filings show. FOX News [6/10/2025 5:35 PM, Peter Pinedo, 46878K] reports Newsom and California Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the motion in a federal court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday. The motion asks the court to grant the state a temporary restraining order keeping Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense from the "use of the military and the federalized National Guard to patrol communities or otherwise engage in general law enforcement activities," which they say "creates imminent harm to State Sovereignty, deprives the State of vital resources, escalates tensions and promotes (rather than quells) civil unrest." The next several days saw unrest and violent confrontations between anti-ICE rioters and law enforcement, while the Department of Homeland Security urged California state leaders to "call off their rioting mob." In response to the escalating chaos, Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles. Later, he also ordered 700 U.S. Marines into the city to restore order.

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Daily Signal [6/10/2025 7:32 PM, Virginia Allen, 558K] reports a federal judge on Tuesday afternoon denied California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request to immediately limit President Donald Trump’s use of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles. Newson asked U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer to limit the enforcement activities of the federal troops to the "immediate vicinity" of federal property while Newsom’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over the deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to LA proceeds. The governor asked for a quick ruling on the matter since National Guard troops have already begun arriving in LA to protect federal buildings and personnel from violent rioters protesting immigration enforcement operations. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate now. On Thursday afternoon, the court will hold a hearing on the matter. The judge’s decision to deny Newsom’s request for an immediate restraining order follows five consecutive days of rioting in LA that began Friday in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Videos from the riots show protesters setting fires to vehicles and assaulting law enforcement. A number of police officers have been injured in the riots, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Trump initially ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to LA and on Monday announced he would be sending an additional 2,000 to the California city. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also announced Monday that he was sending 700 Marines from Camp Pendleton to LA. The primary role of the National Guard troops Trump pledged to deploy is the protection of federal government property and federal employees. The National Guard troops "may perform those military protective activities that the Secretary of Defense determines are reasonably necessary to ensure the protection and safety of Federal personnel and property," the White House explained as it announced the deployment of the troops.

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Bloomberg [6/10/2025 6:39 PM, Jordan Erb and David Rovella, 19320K] reports Gavin Newsom is warning that Donald Trump’s use of troops where state and local officials don’t want them is actually a test, one the Republican president may seek to replicate across other American towns and cities as part of his mass deportation effort. "We’re getting word that he’s looking to operationalize that relationship and advance significantly larger-scale ICE operations in partnership and collaboration with the National Guard," the Democratic governor said on the podcast Pod Save America. Such a move would likely be illegal for reasons similar to those Newsom has cited in litigation to stop Trump’s use of the military in Los Angeles. Legal experts have said that, as with many of Trump’s emergency declarations since he took office, there is no legal basis for the Republican’s move to take control of the California National Guard. State and city officials have reported that protests against Trump and his immigration raids have been largely peaceful during the day with minor skirmishes at night, while limited to a few parts of a city that spreads over several hundred square miles. With no reported deaths and few injuries—some among journalists shot with plastic rounds by local police—protests have begun spreading across the country. Demonstrations have been held in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Texas and Washington. Meanwhile, Trump’s federalization of 4,000 members of California National Guard and his ordering of 700 active duty Marines to Los Angeles will reportedly cost $134 million for 60 days.

Breitbart [6/10/2025 12:32 PM, Jeff Poor, 3077K] reports Monday on FNC’s "Hannity," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for her handling of the unrest in her city. Noem called Los Angeles not a "city of immigrants," as advertised, but a "city of criminals" under Bass’ leadership. "[T]hose are the people we’re going after," she said. "I mean those are our targets. Today, we had over 400 to 500 targets we were going after that are known members of gangs in L.A. that have been victimizing people for years, that Gavin Newsom has done absolutely nothing about, that Mayor Bass has done absolutely nothing about. Listen, I served with her in Congress before she was ever mayor. And she is a trainwreck of a mayor now that is endorsing these kind of activities, has allowed her city to be completely devastated with crime. And now, she’s holding press conferences talking about the fact that people have the right to peacefully protest and that they’re a city of immigrants. Well, they’re not a city of immigrants. They’re a city of criminals because she has protected them for so many years.". "And so, we’re coming in and doing what the president has said that he’s going to do, and he’s going to allow people to live in a safe community again," Noem continued. "And we’re going to use the authority that he has as president of the United States to conduct these operations, and the more that people conduct violence against law enforcement officers — boy, we’re going to hit them back, and we’re going to hit them back harder than we ever have before. And we conducted more operations today than we did the day before. And tomorrow, we’re going to double those efforts again. The more that they protest and commit acts of violence against law enforcement officers, the harder ICE is going to kind of come after them because these people are patriots.".

Washington Examiner [6/10/2025 10:27 AM, Asher Notheis, 1934K] reports Border czar Tom Homan denied threatening to arrest Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) amid the Los Angeles riots, but stressed that "no one’s above the law" in preventing the deportation of illegal immigrants. Newsom and President Donald Trump have been feuding online over the decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles, where Homan said things were "out of control" and the governor and Mayor Karen Bass did "nothing." Newsom has since encouraged Homan to arrest him after the border czar warned that obstructing immigration enforcement would lead to an arrest of "anybody," after which Trump revealed he would arrest the governor if he were Homan. Following up on Newsom’s taunt, Homan said that protesters have "the right to protest," but cannot impede law enforcement efforts and harbor illegal immigrants from deportation. "And the question was, ‘Well, how about Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom, what if they cross the line?’ I said they’ll be prosecuted, too," Homan said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. "Haven’t they said for the last four years no one’s above the law? They cross the line, we’ll seek prosecution. You and I would be held accountable. They prosecuted President Trump. No one’s above the law, that’s what they said, even Governor Newsom. If he crosses that line, we’ll ask the attorney general to seek prosecution. It wasn’t a threat. Nobody threatened to arrest him, but if he crosses that line and commits a crime, he’s no better than anybody else. We’ll seek prosecution." Homan also detailed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence in Los Angeles reflects how the agency will continue to "flood the zone" in sanctuary cities. He added that ICE’s work is why Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" must be signed by the president so that border patrol can be properly funded.

NBC News [6/10/2025 7:30 PM, Staff, 44540K] Video: HERE reports Border czar Tom Homan tonight insists that ICE can still carry out its immigration enforcement operations despite protests. And he responded to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s criticism of the deployment of Marines during an interview with Tom Llamas.

NBC News [6/10/2025 6:26 PM, Zoë Richards, 44540K] reports White House border czar Tom Homan said Tuesday that protests in Los Angeles are complicating immigration raids, making them more "difficult" and more "dangerous.". Homan was asked during an interview with NBC’s "Nightly News" anchor Tom Llamas whether demonstrations had slowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the city. "They’re making it more difficult," Homan said, adding that federal officers are "going ahead" and making arrests daily. When pressed on the issue, Homan said the protesters were making the situation "more dangerous," and that ICE operations have continued daily throughout the protests. "We’ve been running the ICE operation in Los Angeles every single day during this protest, and we’re arresting a lot of bad people in that city. We’re going to continue to do that," Homan said. "They’re not going to stop us. They’re not going to slow us down.". Dozens of people have been arrested in Los Angeles since President Donald Trump activated thousands of National Guard members in response to protests that began on Friday. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has condemned Trump’s move as "purposefully inflammatory" and said that local law enforcement were equipped to handle anything that got out of hand.

FOX News [6/10/2025 6:33 PM, Diana Stancy, 46878K] reports California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said he has crafted a plan in the event the Trump administration arrests him after he and President Donald Trump went head-to-head over the handling of the immigration protests in Los Angeles. Newsom said he and his team have "processed" what it would mean for him if the Trump administration secured a federal warrant for his arrest, Newsom said in an interview with the "Pod Save America" podcast hosted by former Obama administration officials that aired Monday night. "What’s so absurd about that question is I’ve actually thought about it," Newsom said when asked about preparations in the event authorities take him into custody. "The fact that we are even having that conversation with our folks, and have had that conversation with our folks in the United States in 2025, I mean, it says everything you need to know about who’s in the White House right now," Newsom said. Newsom also addressed the arrest threats in an interview with Washington Post published Tuesday, signaling that the relationship between the two had reached a point beyond repair. "He just threatened my arrest. One would assume, or presume, that’s the point of no return," Newsom told Washington Post. "I’m constitutionally capable of working with people, even those that call for my arrest. So, I remain resolved in that respect, as I remain resolved to have the backs of kids whose lives are being threatened by his authoritarian tendencies.". Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, first suggested in an interview with NBC News Saturday that Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass could face arrest if they hamper any federal efforts to deport illegal immigrants. In response, Newsom appeared to taunt Homan to take him into custody. "He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me," Newsom told MSNBC News Sunday. "That kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let’s go.". When asked about threats to arrest Newsom, Trump told reporters Monday that Newsom’s primary crime "is running for governor because he’s done such a bad job," adding he would arrest Newsom if he were Homan. Newsom voiced disappointment in response to Trump’s remarks and cautioned the threats amounted to a step toward authoritarianism. "The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor," Newsom said Monday in a post on X. "This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.".

AP [6/11/2025 3:23 AM, Jake Offenhartz, Jaimie Ding, Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, 31733K] reports Los Angeles police swiftly enforced a downtown curfew Tuesday night, making arrests moments after it took effect, while deploying officers on horseback and using crowd control projectiles to break up a group of hundreds demonstrating against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Members of the National Guard stood watch behind plastic shields, but did not appear to participate in the arrests. Hours later, many of the protesters had dispersed, although sporadic confrontations continued that were much smaller than in previous nights. Officials said the curfew was necessary to stop vandalism and theft by agitators looking to cause trouble. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier accused Trump of drawing a "military dragnet" across the nation’s second-largest city with his escalating use of the National Guard. He also deployed Marines, though none were seen on the streets Tuesday. Newsom asked a court to put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents, with some guardsmen now standing in protection around agents as they carried out arrests. He said it would only heighten tensions and promote civil unrest. The judge set a hearing for Thursday, giving the administration several days to continue those activities. The change moves troops closer to engaging in law enforcement actions like deportations as Trump has promised as part of his administration’s immigration crackdown. The Guard has the authority to temporarily detain people who attack officers but any arrests ultimately would be made by law enforcement. Demonstrations have spread to other cities nationwide, including Dallas and Austin, Texas, Chicago and New York, where a thousand people rallied and multiple arrests were made. In Texas, where police in Austin used chemical irritants to disperse several hundred demonstrators Monday, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said Texas National Guard troops were "on standby" in areas where demonstrations are planned, Abbott spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris said Tuesday evening. Guard members were deployed to San Antonio, according to assistant police chief Jesse Salame. He said he did not know how many were sent or details on the deployment. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared a local emergency on the fifth day of protests and said the curfew will run from 8 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday. She said it was expected to last for several days. "We reached a tipping point" after 23 businesses were looted, Bass said during a news conference Tuesday.

CBS News [6/11/2025 2:54 AM, Chelsea Hylton, Matthew Rodriguez, and Dean Fioresi, 51860K] reports California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a statewide address on Tuesday in the wake of immigration operations that sparked days of protest in Los Angeles and the deployment of hundreds of National Guard and U.S. Marines troops to the area by President Trump. "Trump, without consulting California leaders, commandeered 2,000 of our state’s National Guard members to deploy on our streets illegally and for no reason," Newsom said. "This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president enflamed a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers and even our National Guard at risk.” The speech came on the heels of Mayor Karen Bass’ decision to implement a curfew in downtown Los Angeles after five nights of unrest in the city center, and an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order filed by the state in its lawsuit to block further deployment of troops. That curfew resulted in dozens of arrests on Tuesday, with law enforcement swarming the impacted area as soon as it went into effect. Sporadic arrests followed. It was unclear how many were made in all. Since Friday, when the first operations took place in several downtown locations, protesters have taken to the streets to denounce the arrest of dozens of people. In some instances, protests have escalated into violent clashes that left an aftermath of destruction, including graffiti, looting, vandalism and debris. The next night, Mr. Trump declared that the National Guard would be deployed to Los Angeles to help quell the turmoil, despite opposition from California politicians who said it was largely unnecessary. That order was then followed by the deployment of 2,000 more National Guard troops and 700 U.S. Marines to the area as the protests continued, something Newsom called "fanning the flames even harder.” "The President, he did it on purpose. As the news spread throughout L.A., anxiety for family and friends ramped up and protests started again. By night, several dozen lawbreakers became violent and destructive, they vandalized property, they tried to assault police officers," Newsom said. "This situation was winding down and was concentrated in just a few square blocks downtown. But that, that’s not what Donald Trump wanted.” "What we’re witnessing is not law enforcement — it’s authoritarianism. What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence, to be complicit in this moment," Newsom said. "Do not give into him.” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X that people who "lay a hand" on law enforcement officers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. So far, nearly 400 people have been arrested in the series of demonstrations, Newsom said on Tuesday. The Marines began arriving in the LA area on Tuesday morning, a defense official said, joining the thousands of National Guard troops already in the area to respond to the protests. Acting Defense Department comptroller Bryn MacDonnell testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and said the deployment of the National Guard will cost about $134 million.

CNN [6/10/2025 3:31 PM, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Majlie de Puy Kamp, and Casey Tolan, 21433K] reports as federal authorities stage immigration raids across Los Angeles, local police and officials say they are being kept in the dark — a lack of communication the city’s leaders blame for hurting their response to escalating protests. While California has sanctuary laws that limit police from directly helping immigration enforcement, former federal officials tell CNN there’s no prohibition against Immigration and Customs Enforcement sharing basic details about raids with police or government officials. "We do not know where and when the next raids will be. That is the concern," L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said on CNN Monday. "When we find out when and where the other raids are going to happen, that will determine how the police respond." That kind of information sharing is commonplace in other parts of the country, a CNN review of recent ICE actions found. Experts said those communications can help authorities prepare for the kind of violent clashes that erupted in Southern California over the weekend. "You’ve really got to make sure that your state and local partners know when you are doing a large operation just to avoid any potential issues or confusion," said John Sandweg, a former acting director of ICE during the Obama administration. "There is too much risk. It can lead to officer safety issues due to the confusion." The Department of Homeland Seurity did not respond to multiple requests for comment before publication, but after this story published, a DHS spokesperson disputed Los Angeles city leaders’ claims. In response to Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell’s statement that "LAPD was not given advance notice that the federal operations would occur in that area" of Friday’s immigration enforcement, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement, "FALSE. The Los Angeles Police Department was notified two days before the ICE operation began in LA."

FOX News [6/10/2025 10:00 AM, Andrew Mark Miller, 46878K] reports California GOP Congressman Darrell Issa is calling for an investigation into allegations that the Los Angeles Police Department did not promptly respond to protect ICE officers being assaulted as violence broke out in the city on Friday night. Issa, who represents California’s 48th Congressional District and is a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a press release Tuesday he is calling for a "full and complete Congressional investigation" into the response time of the LAPD assisting the ICE officers who, according to a press release from DHS, waited for two hours for assistance. "Last night, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer funded property," DHS said in a press release on Saturday, referring to the previous night when violence broke out in Los Angeles in response to the ICE raids. "It took the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) 2 hours to respond.". LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, who quickly put out a press release Friday reassuring the public that the department does not participate in immigration activities, pushed back against DHS’ claim in a Sunday press conference. "When we heard that, I think anybody who’s a police officer couldn’t believe it, and certainly anyone with LAPD couldn’t imagine how that could happen," McDonnell said to reporters. "Well, it didn’t happen.". McDonnell claimed that the actual response time was 40 minutes due to traffic. In a statement to Fox News Digital on Monday, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stood by the department’s original claim. "The fact remains that it took the Los Angeles Police Department two hours to respond," McLaughlin said. "During that time, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer funded property. DHS is grateful that now the LAPD is stepping up to help restore law and order.".

USA Today [6/10/2025 1:52 PM, BrieAnna J. Frank, 75552K] reports a host of press freedom and civil rights organizations are warning the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers "may have violated the First Amendment rights" of journalists covering protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles. In a June 9 letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, more than two dozen organizations expressed alarm over how the events have unfolded. "The press plays an essential role in our democracy as the public’s eyes and ears," wrote the groups, led by the First Amendment Coalition, Freedom of the Press Foundation and Los Angeles Press Club. "The timely reporting of breaking news is necessary to provide the public with complete information, especially about controversial events." Others signing the letter include the American Civil Liberties Union, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Reporters Without Borders and several unions representing journalists. "A number of reports suggest that federal officers have indiscriminately used force or deployed munitions such as tear gas or pepper balls that caused significant injuries to journalists," the letter said. "In some cases, federal officers appear to have deliberately targeted journalists who were doing nothing more than their job covering the news.". DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin confirmed to USA TODAY that the department received the letter. "This is a whole-of-government approach to restore law and order," McLaughlin said of the collaboration among DHS, the Defense Department and others in the Trump administration to respond to the protests. "We are grateful to our military members and law enforcement who have acted with patriotism in the face of assault, taunts and violence.".

New York Times [6/10/2025 6:56 PM, Alyce McFadden, 138952K] reports more than 350 protesters in at least five cities have been arrested since Friday in demonstrations against federal immigration raids. Though the encounters have turned tense at times, leaving some protesters and law enforcement officers with injuries, the protests have remained largely peaceful and confined to only small sections of cities. More than 160 people have been arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department since the protests began on Friday, with a majority of the arrests happening Monday. Over 100 of those arrested faced charges for failure to disperse, though a few have more serious charges, including assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder with a Molotov cocktail. Fourteen faced charges for looting. As of Tuesday, it was not immediately clear how many of the arrested protesters had been released. In Austin, at least 12 people were arrested on Monday during a protest that began outside the state Capitol. They faced charges including criminal mischief, resisting arrest, harassment and reckless driving. In New York City, three people were arrested and four were issued summonses after blocking traffic outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan. Twenty-four people were issued summonses for a protest at Trump Tower, according to the police. In Dallas, one person was arrested during a protest on Monday for hitting a police car, according to The Dallas Police Department. Protesters also gathered in cities like Philadelphia, Boston and Atlanta over the last few days, but it was not immediately clear if any arrests had been made in connection to the demonstrations.

NPR [6/10/2025 3:15 PM, Vanessa Romo, 37958K] reports federal agents arrested more than 40 people in workplace raids, including about two dozen employees from Ambiance Apparel in downtown LA’s Fashion District. Many of those workers formed part of a close-knit community, with ties to the same indigenous Zapotec town in Veracruz, Mexico. In an emailed statement, ICE officials wrote, "ICE and its federal partners are doing their job, enforcing immigration law and removing criminal aliens from Los Angeles communities." Forty four people were arrested in Friday’s raid, ICE said. According to the statement, ICE, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Marshals Service, among other agencies, assisted in carrying out the arrests for alleged "administrative immigration violations in support of worksite enforcement operations."

New York Times [6/10/2025 6:04 PM, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, 138952K] reports Nick Stern had moved into position to take a photograph of a group of people waving Mexican flags near a line of police officers in the Los Angeles area on Saturday when he felt a sharp pain in his right thigh. Before long, Mr. Stern, a seasoned photojournalist who works mostly with British news outlets, had passed out. Then he was in surgery. A deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had shot Mr. Stern with some kind of projectile, Mr. Stern said, the munition lodging in his thigh and putting him on a weekslong path to recovery. Over the last few days, several journalists have been injured by law enforcement officers during the protests that have played out in parts of downtown Los Angeles and led to an escalating battle between California and the Trump administration. Mr. Stern, 60, has covered protests for decades, and said he always keeps either his press badge or camera visible, to indicate he is a journalist. He said he wasn’t sure if the police targeted him or if the deputy who fired on him was just “a bad shot.” Still, press freedom groups have condemned law enforcement for injuring journalists over the last few days, noting several instances of law enforcement officers firing projectiles at journalists. In one instance, a police officer on Sunday turned in the direction of an Australian reporter during a broadcast and shot her with a projectile. That reporter, Lauren Tomasi, said the officers were with the Los Angeles Police Department. An L.A.P.D. spokesman, Drake Madison, said the department was investigating the deployment of “less lethal” projectiles during the protests, but he did not respond to questions about the incident with Ms. Tomasi. The National Press Club, a professional organization for journalists, said reporters had been singled out, and also called on the L.A.P.D.’s police chief to make sure journalists could “safely observe and report” on the protests. “Police cannot pick and choose when the First Amendment applies,” the group’s president, Mike Balsamo, said in a statement. “Journalists in Los Angeles were not caught in the crossfire — they were targeted.” Journalists have also reported being injured by California Highway Patrol officers and by agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Among several instances compiled by reporters and press freedom groups, a reporter said a Homeland Security agent had shot her with a projectile, and another said he may have been struck with a tear-gas canister fired by a line of Homeland Security agents. The department did not respond to an inquiry. A collection of press freedom groups wrote a letter on Monday to Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, saying that, in some instances, it appeared federal officers had “deliberately targeted journalists.” The groups urged the department to refrain from unlawful force against reporters, “who are merely covering events of public concern in the Los Angeles area.”

ABC News [6/10/2025 3:51 PM, Max Zahn, 31733K] reports authorities released labor leader David Huerta on bond this week, days after his arrest for allegedly obstructing federal officers while protesting an immigration raid in Los Angeles. Huerta, the 58-year-old California president of the Service Employees International Union, one of the nation’s largest labor unions, said he remains focused on immigrants detained in LA. An advocate for workers and immigrants in Southern California for decades, Huerta has become a flashpoint in an ongoing standoff between federal immigration enforcement officers and protesters. Since protests broke out in LA on Friday in response to immigration raids, the Trump administration has deployed 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines to the area. Some demonstrators have damaged property but the protests have been largely peaceful. Huerta was arrested while demonstrating against an immigration raid at a workplace in downtown LA. He was charged with conspiracy to impede an officer, a felony that carries a prison sentence of up to six years.

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Washington Post [6/10/2025 5:24 PM, Praveena Somasundaram, 32099K] reports the ongoing protests in Los Angeles against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown have once again thrust unions into the political spotlight, galvanized by the arrest of one of their own prominent leaders. Federal agents arrested David Huerta — the well-known head of California’s largest public sector union — while he was demonstrating outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a worksite in Los Angeles on Friday. Huerta’s arrest helped fuel the intense, days-long protests in Los Angeles over the weekend, as calls for his release mounted among unions and protesters. It also inspired smaller rallies in cities across the country, many of the latter organized by the union Huerta belongs to, the Service Employees International Union. The United Auto Workers and the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of labor unions, demanded Huerta’s release alongside SEIU. The protests highlight how unions have become a bulwark against Trump’s immigration agenda, challenging his administration’s intensifying enforcement tactics. The shift is in part driven by immigrants who have joined unions in growing numbers since the 1990s — and as organized labor objects to broader Trump policies that affect unions.

Los Angeles Times [6/10/2025 11:40 AM, Nathan Solis, Hannah Fry and Ruben Vives, 14672K] reports as the immigration sweeps in Southern California intensify, some patterns appear to be emerging about federal targets. While some sweeps appear to be centered at certain workplaces, others seem to be chosen at random. Agents were spotted Monday at a courthouse and library in Whittier, Home Depots in Huntington Park and Santa Ana and businesses in Fountain Valley, according to officials and media reports. In April, unmarked vehicles were the first to arrive outside the Home Depot on South Towne Avenue in Pomona around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, where dozens of workers had gathered outside, according to witnesses and advocates. An official with the Department of Homeland Security said 10 people were arrested in the enforcement action. Immigration advocates had previously estimated that as many as 25 were arrested. A Home Depot in the Westlake District of Los Angeles was targeted last Friday. Federal officials have provided few details about how they are choosing targets and how long the operation will last. "I’m telling you what, we’re going to keep enforcing law every day in L.A.," U.S. border policy advisor Tom Homan said Sunday. "Every day in L.A., we’re going to enforce immigration law. I don’t care if they like it or not.". The Wall Street Journal reported the aggressive tactics were suggested by Stephen Miller, the White House official and leader of the administration’s push against illegal immigration. Frustrated that officials were not making enough arrests, Miller reportedly told immigration officials in late May to not just focus on people with arrest records but to make random sweeps. "He directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away," the Journal reported, citing sources.

Blaze [6/10/2025 12:15 PM, Joseph MacKinnon, 1805K] reports Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (Calif.), and other Democrats demonized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday, characterizing its lawful operations in California as terrifying and cruel. The following day, similarly minded radicals swarmed an ICE command post near the Home Depot east of the 710 freeway in Paramount, California. Agents were savagely attacked as they drove away. The FBI has identified one of the thugs suspected of hurling rocks at ICE agents in Paramount — and the Department of Justice made clear Monday that he won’t be on the run for long. Footage shows a radical wearing a helmet throwing fist-sized rocks into the windshields of ICE vehicles leaving the command post while someone off camera cheers him on in Spanish. An individual wearing the same clothing as the rock-thrower appears multiple times in footage captured by KTTV-TV. On one occasion, he can be seen holding a red bottle while standing atop a truck and screaming at U.S. Border Patrol agents. It is clear from video taken inside one of the ICE vehicles that the incoming projectiles threatened the lives of the ICE agents therein and, on at least one occasion, punched through the glass. The FBI put the then-unnamed suspect on its Most Wanted list over the weekend and offered a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the rock-thrower’s identification, arrest, and conviction. Bill Essayli, U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, noted, "We will find him. We will charge him. Justice is coming.". It didn’t take long to put a name to the masked face. The FBI announced Monday evening that agents identified 40-year-old Elpidio Reyna of Compton as their suspect and indicated that he is now considered a fugitive. While Reyna had not been captured as of Monday night, Bondi put him and other possible attackers on notice: "We are coming after you, federally.". Both the recent attacks and the firm response from the legal arm of the Trump administration appear to have emboldened the Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to Blaze News, "Under the leadership of President Trump, we will put the safety of American citizens FIRST, not these criminal illegal aliens that sanctuary city politicians are defending.". "ICE will continue to enforce the law. If you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," added Noem.

The Hill [6/10/2025 11:52 AM, Ashleigh Fields, 18649K] reports Los Angeles police said Tuesday that a body had been discovered in an area where looting has been reported amid protests against federal immigration enforcement actions in the city. The individual was found near West 3rd Street and Broadway shortly after 1:30 a.m. local time, according to KTLA. The body was reportedly found outside a T-Mobile store looted one night earlier. The Los Angeles Police Department did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment. Protests in the city over the past few days have turned violent, with demonstrators defacing federal property and setting cars on fire. In response, President Trump has ordered 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 500 Marines deployed to Los Angeles. That deployment has sparked backlash from California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) as well as a lawsuit.

Blaze [6/10/2025 5:10 PM, Carlos Garcia, 1805K] reports school police in Los Angeles announced new measures to prevent federal agents from enforcing immigration law near public schools in California, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Critics of the Trump administration have pointed to some incidents where agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to gain entry to schools in order to detain illegal aliens in deportation proceedings. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the school police would be deployed to ensure that the families of students were safe from federal enforcement at graduation ceremonies. Los Angeles has seen violent rioting over the weekend from protesters opposed to increased deportation operations ordered by President Donald Trump. Dozens have been arrested by police, and National Guard troops have been deployed to the area as well as some U.S. Marines. Carvalho said school officials were prepared to oppose federal troops if they attempted to gain entry to schools with a judicial warrant. The report noted that if federal officials obtained a judicial warrant, school officials have no legal recourse to oppose their entry into schools.

New York Times [6/10/2025 9:35 AM, Steven Lee Myers, 153395K] reports misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions. The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended to stoke outrage toward immigrants and political leaders, principally Democrats. They also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital and social media through starkly divergent ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part. There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers and setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old conspiracies that the protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the immigration raids. The confrontation escalated on Monday as new protests occurred and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced — on X — that he was mobilizing 700 Marines from a base near Los Angeles to guard federal buildings. They are expected to join 2,000 members of the California National Guard whom Mr. Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who normally has command of the troops. The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread — some purporting to show Marines and the military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of Los Angeles of their civil rights. It features a climactic dogfight over the city’s downtown.

CNN [6/10/2025 10:00 AM, Lex Harvey, 875K] reports Mexico’s red, white and green flag has become a defining symbol of the protests in Los Angeles. Demonstrators have waved flags from Mexico and other Latin American countries, as well as US flags, to express solidarity with immigrants and denounce the Trump administration’s raids, provoking the ire of Trump’s supporters. Los Angeles has been roiled in protests since Friday, when ICE officers raided several workplaces in the city’s garment district. While the protests began peacefully, they have since led to dozens of arrests and some violent clashes. President Donald Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops and Marines, outraging Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who in a complaint defined the mobilization of the California guardsmen an "illegal takeover" and on social media called the potential use of the Marines "a blatant abuse of power.". The Mexican flag has long been a mainstay at immigration-related demonstrations, particularly in LA, which has deep cultural and economic ties to Mexico and is seen as the capital of the Mexican diaspora in the US. More than 3.4 million people of Mexican heritage or born in Mexico live in Los Angeles County, according to Census data, more than any other county in the US. But images and video showing flag-waving protesters facing off with police have drawn anger from Republican officials. "Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers," Vice President JD Vance posted on X Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security has shared on social media several photos and videos of the protests where, amid chaotic scenes, the Mexican flag is featured prominently. Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller described the protesters on social media as "foreign nationals, waving foreign flags, rioting and obstructing federal law enforcement attempting to expel illegal foreign invaders.". Waving a foreign flag – or even destroying an American one – is legal under freedom of expression rights protected by the Constitution’s First Amendment.

Reuters [6/10/2025 3:15 PM, Andrea Shalal, Trevor Hunnicutt, and Brendan O’Boyle, 51390K] reports U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday criticized Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for comments that she said encouraged violence at protests in Los Angeles, drawing a rebuke from the Mexican leader, who denied the claims. At a press conference on Monday, Sheinbaum criticized violent acts during the protests against immigration raids and asked U.S. authorities to respect the rule of law while policing migration. "Claudia Sheinbaum came out and encouraged more protests in L.A., and I condemn her for that," Noem told reporters at the White House. In a post on X, Sheinbaum said Noem "mistakenly mentioned" that she encouraged violent protests, which was "absolutely false." Sheinbaum shared video of her original comments on Monday.

Los Angeles Times [6/10/2025 4:54 PM, Patrick J. McDonnell, 14672K] reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum of encouraging violent protests in Los Angeles. Sheinbaum called Noem’s accusation "absolutely false" and played a clip of remarks she made Monday, when she denounced violence and called on Mexicans to act peacefully. The comments detonated like a cannon across the bow of U.S.-Mexico relations, reverberating on social media and on Mexican news channels. There is no public evidence to support Noem’s assertion.

CBS News [6/10/2025 10:08 PM, Staff, 51860K] reports protests that sprang up in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement raids and prompted President Trump to mobilize National Guard troops and Marines have begun to spread across the country, with more planned into the weekend. The protests in Los Angeles began Friday as Immigration and Customs Enforcement executed several raids in and around the country’s second-largest city. The raids and protests continued throughout the weekend sometimes resulting in clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement, prompting the Trump administration to mobilize thousands of National Guard troops despite California Gov. Gavin Newsom not requesting them and later asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to withdraw the orders. More demonstrations against the immigration raids began popping up in other cities, including Austin, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, this week. Activists are planning more and even larger demonstrations in the coming days, with so-called "No Kings" events across the country on Saturday to coincide with Mr. Trump’s planned military parade through Washington. The Trump administration said it would continue its program of raids and deportations despite the protests. "ICE will continue to enforce the law," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted Tuesday on social media.

CNN [6/10/2025 10:16 PM, Priscilla Alvarez, 875K] reports protests unfolding nationwide against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda come as Immigration and Customs Enforcement races to meet White House arrest quotas. Since Trump took office, ICE, which had previously been operating with a set of guidelines focused on public safety and national security threats, has had to pivot as the key agency at the core of the president’s campaign promise to carry out mass deportations. While the administration has touted its immigration crackdown publicly, privately officials have come under fire for failing to meet White House arrest quotas, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions,. For some agents, the greater latitude was a welcome move, allowing them to have more discretion on who they arrest. Still, agents have continued to come under pressure from senior Trump officials to arrest more people, including those with no criminal records. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, architect of the administration’s most hardline immigration policies, communicated that urgency in a meeting last month with senior ICE officials, telling agents to search anywhere and everywhere for undocumented immigrants, according to multiple sources. ICE agents have shown up at routine immigration checks, immigration courts, and worksites, among other locations. The speed at which agents are trying to arrest migrants in the United States has raised alarm among immigrant advocates and former ICE officials. White House border czar Tom Homan maintained this week that despite protests, ICE operations to enforce Trump’s immigration policies would continue. "They’ll continue every day, not only in California, Los Angeles, they’re gonna continue every city across the country – we have teams throughout the country that are out there looking for those in the country," Homan told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Monday on "The Source." "We’re in every city and country, and ICE is going to be out every single day and will continue to be there regardless what’s happening in LA.” The arrests have also strained ICE detention, serving as yet another reminder of the logistical challenges the administration still faces as it tries to ramp up deportations. As of Monday, there were about 55,000 people in ICE custody. The agency, which relies in part on cooperation with local jails, is only funded for 41,500 beds.

Wall Street Journal [6/10/2025 5:30 AM, Xavier Martinez and Angel Au-Yeung, 646K] reports after days of unrest in Los Angeles over President Trump’s immigration policies, protests spread to San Francisco, testing the resolve of the city’s new moderate mayor. Thousands of people marched for miles Monday night before police declared an unlawful assembly around 10 p.m. A contingent that refused to disperse appeared to resist arrest, and were met with force by San Francisco police, who warned they would deploy chemical agents, batons and projectiles if anyone else tried to flee. That came after about 150 arrests by San Francisco police on Sunday—more than double the arrests reported by police in Los Angeles. The takeaway so far: The city’s assertive response signals a new era in San Francisco. Many eyes in the city are on Mayor Daniel Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir who ran as a moderate Democrat promising to restore the city’s reputation from one of dysfunction to a thriving hub for tech, commerce and culture. His November victory over incumbent London Breed marked the first time since 1911 that voters in the city chose a mayor with no government experience—a reflection of a desire for change.

Los Angeles Times [6/10/2025 9:51 PM, Gustavo Arellano, 14672K] reports that, in Santa Ana, about 120 protesters gathered outside a federal building near City Hall on Monday afternoon. Multiple raids had been conducted across Santa Ana that morning, including at Home Depots and restaurants and in industrial areas of the city. "I feel enraged," said Councilmember Jessie Lopez, standing with the crowd. "If [U.S. Atty.] Bill Essayli cares about criminals, he should start at the White house.” Essayli last week sent a letter to Santa Ana, warning the sanctuary city about its proposal to pass a resolution that would require the Santa Ana Police Department to inform residents whenever they received a courtesy call from Immigration and Customs Enforcement alerting them about upcoming raids. Bethany Anderson was with a group of friends from Fullerton, where they had been receiving calls Monday. They were standing in front of a driveway that led to a small gated garage where unmarked white vans had been driving in and out all day. "I knew they would bring people here" to the federal building, said Anderson, who is accredited by the Department of Justice as a legal representative. "This is not a jail, so we have no idea about the quality of conditions inside, so that’s very worrisome. Suddenly, she saw movement in the driveway and grabbed the bullhorn hanging from her shoulder. "We see you!" Anderson shouted as protesters screamed, "Shame!" and rushed to see what was going on. "We see you, private security guards! You don’t have to do this!". The Orange County Rapid Response Network posted addresses and photos of locations where ICE had conducted raids in Fountain Valley. The group’s co-director, Casey Conway, said he was happy to see so many people show up in Santa Ana. "But this isn’t just today. This has been every day for three weeks. We’re super overwhelmed right now.” The crowd held pro-immigrant and anti-Trump signs and waved Mexican flags. Someone passed around bottled waters and masks as a young woman chanted on a bullhorn, "Move ICE, get out the way!" to artist Ludacris’ song "Move.” Federal police stood by the building’s entrance, where some took photos of the crowd. When they went back inside, the crowd started chanting, "¡Quiere llorar!" — "He wants to cry," a common insult among Mexican soccer and rock fans. Alicia Rojas looked on from the edge of a sidewalk. The Colombian native had her amnesty application denied in the federal building as a child. "This is all triggering," said the 48-year-old artist. Now a U.S. citizen, Rojas grew up in Mission Viejo during the era of Prop. 187 and remembered all the racism against people like her at the time.

New York Times [6/10/2025 10:58 PM, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, 138952K] reports hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday evening against President Trump’s escalating immigration crackdown, continuing several days of protests that began more than 2,400 miles away in Los Angeles. The demonstrators rallied at Foley Square, near a large government building that houses federal immigration offices and the city’s main immigration court, which has become a flashpoint as the Trump administration ramps up the arrest of migrants in courthouses. Shortly after 6 p.m., hundreds moved into streets that snake through the Lower Manhattan neighborhood that is home to federal buildings, marching about a mile north toward another immigration court on Varick Street. They raised bright yellow signs that said “ICE out of NYC” in Spanish and English. A separate group stayed behind and spread out around the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office near Foley Square. The crowd there grew increasingly agitated as night fell, with some chanting “Nazi scum” and taunting police officers. Dozens of officers in riot gear flanked the protesters in an apparent effort to facilitate traffic, leading to the arrest of a number of demonstrators who were escorted away with their hands bound in zip ties throughout the evening. After 10 p.m., a dwindling crowd of about 100 protesters clashed with police officers near Foley Square, with some briefly marching downtown toward the entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge. Officers sought to keep people on sidewalks, pushing some demonstrators to the ground as they arrested them and using pepper spray during some of the arrests. Some people shouted and shoved the officers as they were led away in handcuffs. In New York, demonstrators coalesced near 26 Federal Plaza, a 41-story federal building just a few blocks from City Hall with one of the city’s three immigration courts. Dozens of migrants showing up for hearings have been detained by federal agents at the courthouse this month, sparking pushback from Democrats and drawing activists to the building. The imposing skyscraper also houses the ICE field office in New York. The first day of demonstrations in New York was Saturday, when more than 100 protesters gathered outside 26 Federal Plaza, where they clashed with police officers after the protesters tried to block ICE vehicles carrying detained migrants. The police said 22 people were taken into custody as officers dispersed the crowd. The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, quickly praised the Police Department’s response. “Thankfully, unlike in Los Angeles, the local police department quickly responded to the riots,” D.H.S. said in a statement.

CBS Philadelphia [6/11/2025 12:06 AM, Staff, 51860K] Video: HERE reports fifteen people were arrested Tuesday after 150 protesters gathered in Center City to rally against the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Philadelphia, police said.

New York Times [6/10/2025 9:31 PM, Julie Bosman and Robert Chiarito, 138952K] reports protesters by the thousands marched through Chicago on Tuesday, stopping traffic in the downtown Loop and chanting anti-Trump slogans as they denounced immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities. Marchers, by turns upbeat and defiant, waved Mexican flags and held signs denouncing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Trump, reading “ICE Out of Chicago,” “One mustache away from fascism” and “Immigrants make America great.” They were also joined by protesters supporting Palestinians, wearing kaffiyehs and calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. “From Palestine to Mexico, these border walls have got to go,” the marchers chanted. Late Tuesday evening, the protest diminished in size but turned tense. Some people spray-painted graffiti denouncing ICE and Mr. Trump on buildings and police cars. Dozens of protesters faced off with police outside a federal building downtown. Some protesters chanted “Shame!” at the police officers, saying that they represented ICE and the government, both institutions that were the target of the group’s indignation. A few threw half-full water bottles in the direction of the officers, who quickly donned helmets with face shields. In Chicago, a city with a sizable immigrant population, tensions have been high in predominantly Latino neighborhoods over arrests of undocumented people. In communities like Pilsen, a heavily Mexican neighborhood, some residents have been afraid to go to work or go shopping, worried that they will be detained by federal immigration agents. On Tuesday, Chicago police officers monitored the protests from the sidelines while clearing parts of downtown to allow marchers to pass. On some streets, motorists honked their horns in support and residents of high-rises took pictures from their balconies. Some protesters streamed onto DuSable Lake Shore Drive in the early evening. Cheryl Thomas, 26, said that she had joined the march “because of the injustices being perpetrated against brown and Black people.” “They are basically being kidnapped,” she said, adding that she doesn’t know if the march will make a difference. “Doing nothing sure won’t change anything.” [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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Chicago Tribune [6/11/2025 12:02 AM, Caroline Kubzansky, 3987K] reports a massive demonstration by thousands who marched through Chicago’s Loop in protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown briefly snarled Tuesday evening traffic and resulted in several confrontations between protesters and police as crowds surged into downtown streets and DuSable Lake Shore Drive. Protesters spent hours marching around the loop, beginning at Federal Plaza and wound their way as far north as West Grand Avenue in the River North neighborhood, walking among stopped cars and buses on several main arteries, including DuSable Lake Shore Drive. Multiple city vehicles could be seen with anti-CPD, anti-ICE graffiti. A representative of the Chicago Police Department said late Tuesday night that it was not yet clear how many people had been arrested over the course of the demonstration. Police helicopters hovered as marchers wove between vehicles. Police detained two people around 6:15 p.m. at South State and East Monroe streets as protesters yelled in the intersection. As officers detained people and cars waited in traffic, a woman told to drive west on Monroe had a brief, shouted exchange with an officer. After making a noise of apparent frustration, she drove across the intersection down a street filled with marchers. People screamed and scattered. A few moments later, an officer knelt in front of a woman seated on the sidewalk, holding a little girl in her lap, shaking her head. No one appeared to be injured. The police department said Tuesday night that no report had been filed regarding the incident. Around 7 p.m., as the protest passed the Art Institute of Chicago, four people in black could be seen spray painting anti-ICE slogans on the walls of the building. Other short confrontations erupted back at Federal Plaza, where a squad car sat covered in anti-ICE graffiti, and at the intersection of South Michigan Avenue and East Jackson Boulvard just before 9 p.m. The march had been moving south down Michigan Avenue when an officer appeared to confront a protester. The protester, dressed in all black, hit the ground and a supervisor pulled the officer back. Other officers quickly surrounded the protester as he crawled toward the traffic median. Protests that sprang up in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement raids and prompted President Donald Trump to mobilize National Guard troops and the Marines have begun to spread across the country, with more planned into the weekend. From Seattle to Austin and Washington, D.C., marchers have chanted slogans, carried signs against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and snarled traffic through downtown avenues and outside federal offices. While many were peaceful, some have resulted in clashes with law enforcement as officers made arrests and used chemical irritants to disperse crowds. In Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker has been a loud opponent of Trump’s enforcement campaign. And Chicago has long been a "sanctuary city" that prohibits its law enforcement from inquiring about residents’ immigration status or cooperating with federal immigration officials. Trump’s "border czar" Tom Homan pledged just before the new administration took office that sanctuary cities such as Chicago would be epicenters for Trump’s promised crackdown on immigrants in the country without legal permission. But the city hasn’t seen major unrest related to the raids so far, besides a June 4 clash between immigration authorities and advocates and some City Council members outside an ICE field office in the South Loop.

FOX News [6/10/2025 11:29 PM, Audrey Conklin, 46878K] reports a car drove through a crowd of demonstrators Tuesday night as hundreds of anti-ICE protesters gathered in Downtown Chicago. The protests in Chicago come as Los Angeles has faced days of unrest. Protests in LA started on June 7, with rioters burning cars, throwing objects and fireworks at police, smashing the windows of the LAPD’s headquarters and looting stores. Tuesday’s footage from FOX 32 Chicago shows what appeared to be a woman driving through the Chicago demonstrators walking with signs and biking on Wabash and Monroe. A police officer attempted to hit the window of the moving vehicle in an apparent attempt to get the driver to stop, but it kept moving, FOX 32 reported. It is unclear if anyone was injured during the incident. The Chicago Police Department told Fox News Digital on Tuesday evening that they were waiting to hear from responding officers when asked if the car’s driver would face charges for driving through protesters. While most Chicago protesters were peaceful on Tuesday, some demonstrators clashed and vandalized police vehicles, and public transportation was temporarily suspended downtown, FOX 32 reported. Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez noted on X that multiple police cars had been vandalized. "I guess we haven’t learned," he wrote in one Tuesday evening post. "I’m so sick of anarchy apologists and their ‘It’s not violent, just property damage bro’ bull----," he said in another. An earlier protest Tuesday was part of a campaign called "From LA to Chicago: ICE Out!" according to FOX 32. "I just think it’s not right what’s going on right now … people are being snatched off the street, so you just gotta do something about it," Benjamin Rose, one of the protesters, told the outlet. Demonstrations have been popping up across the country, from Asheville, North Carolina, to Chicago to Los Angeles, where unrest broke out over the weekend following a raid. The Department of Homeland Security said ICE raids in LA over the weekend resulted in "hundreds of illegal aliens [being] arrested by ICE officers and agents," including "many with a criminal history and criminal convictions.” DHS listed more information about 19 suspects that ICE Los Angeles arrested on June 7 who are accused of crimes ranging from robbery to second-degree murder to rape. "America’s brave ICE officers are removing the worst of the worst from LA’s streets, while LA’s leaders are working tirelessly against them," DHS said in a Sunday statement as riots continued through the weekend.

FOX News [6/10/2025 6:26 PM, Emma Colton Fox, 46878K] reports three Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) field offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City have temporarily closed their doors in the face of violence stemming from anti-ICE riots and protests, HUD confirmed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. The temporary closures due to the violence come just weeks after Democrats such as California Rep. Maxine Waters and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib claimed HUD field offices would permanently close due to Department of Government Efficiency efforts, with Waters saying such closures would affect "families and communities across the country who rely on HUD for housing assistance, community and economic development projects.". HUD Secretary Scott Turner exclusively told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that liberals’ claims in recent weeks that HUD would shutter field offices were "fake news" while lambasting Democrats for "encouraging riots" that have caused the three offices to temporarily shutter. "The left and legacy media spread fake news over false reports that HUD is closing field offices," Turner told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "Now they’re encouraging riots that have actually forced at least three field offices to temporarily close.". "Democrat-run blue states like California are suffering from failed leadership, resulting in record homelessness, unchecked illegal alien crime and, as we’re seeing now on full display, pandemonium, chaos and destruction," he added. "The American people deserve better. HUD will continue to serve communities in the face of this reckless violence while prioritizing safety and security.". Now, three field offices are temporarily closed as riots and protests spiral in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City. Los Angeles has seen widespread riots since Friday, when federal law enforcement officials converged on the city to conduct immigration raids as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign vow to deport the millions of illegal immigrants who crossed the border under the Biden administration.

Houston Chronicle [6/10/2025 9:26 PM, Nancy M. Preyor-Johnson, Sig Christenson, 1982K] reports Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has deployed National Guard troops to San Antonio in advance of planned protests in the city against a Trump administration crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The San Antonio Police Department said Chief William McManus contacted state officials Monday night seeking to confirm the presence of guardsmen in the city. McManus "was able to confirm that Gov. Greg Abbott deployed National Guard troops to San Antonio," SAPD Assistant Chief Jesse Salame told the San Antonio Express-News. State officials provided no other details, Salame said. Without mentioning San Antonio specifically, Abbott’s press secretary, Andrew Mahaleris, told the Express-News that National Guard soldiers "are on standby in areas where mass demonstrations are planned in case they are needed. "Peaceful protests are part of the fabric of our nation, but Texas will not tolerate the lawlessness we have seen in Los Angeles," Mahaleris said in a statement Tuesday night. "Anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property will be swiftly held accountable to the full extent of the law.” Texas National Guard officials did not respond to a request for comment. City leaders have scheduled a Wednesday morning news conference to discuss preparations for protests planned for Wednesday and Saturday evening in downtown San Antonio. McManus, Mayor Ron Nirenberg and City Manager Erik Walsh will provide details on "the city’s plan to support peaceful demonstrations while ensuring public safety," according to a news release. The news conference is scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday at City Hall. Last week, there were protests outside City Hall and federal immigration court in San Antonio and at federal courthouses across the country, where federal agents have been arresting immigrants as they arrive for scheduled court appearances. The Guard deployment in San Antonio comes amid nationwide demonstrations against immigration enforcement. In Los Angeles, protesters clashed with federal agents and local law enforcement after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers began arresting immigrants at a Home Depot parking lot in the Los Angeles area. In response, President Donald Trump deployed California National Guard troops over the opposition of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed up by sending active-duty Marines to Los Angeles to help confront demonstrators. On Monday, Texas Department of Public Safety officers arrested six men in Austin during what the department called a "planned and well-publicized protest" near the State Capitol. The six were charged with felony criminal mischief, resisting arrest and other offenses. "Texas is a law-and-order state, and the department has zero tolerance for individuals disrupting public order or endangering law enforcement officers," DPS said in a news release.

The Washington Post [6/10/2025 6:56 PM, Meagan Flynn, 32099K] reports House lawmakers voted Tuesday to repeal a pair of D.C. laws that have been friction points for years between the deep-blue city and Republicans in Congress: a law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections and another that prohibits the D.C. police union from bargaining on officer discipline. The two efforts would still have to pass in the Senate. Dozens of Democrats joined Republicans in voting to revoke the laws in a striking show of bipartisan interest in intervening in local policy. The dual action underscored the city’s vulnerability at a time when it is repeatedly playing defense on Capitol Hill and in the shadow of a president who has casually floated taking it over. The votes are among three scheduled this week, with another Wednesday seeking to repeal D.C.’s "sanctuary city" law limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. "The right to vote is a defining privilege of American citizenship," Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on the House floor. "Diluting that right by extending it to noncitizens — whether here legally or illegally — undermines the voice of D.C. residents.". The vote to repeal the city’s noncitizen voting law marked the third time the House has sought to block the law in as many years, showing the GOP’s relentless mission to stop the policy ever since it passed the D.C. Council in 2022. The repeal effort has repeatedly garnered broad bipartisan support, with 56 Democrats joining Republicans in the 266-148-1 vote this time, a slight uptick from previous years. Republicans have also long eyed repealing provisions in a large police reform package that had rankled the D.C. police union, namely excluding the union from negotiations over officer discipline and giving more power to the police chief in those decisions. "When we undermine law enforcement, we embolden the criminals," said Rep. Andrew R. Garbarino (R-New York), who sponsored the repeal and described it as an effort to reverse the department’s challenges retaining officers. "If Washington, D.C., won’t fix this problem, it’s our job to.". A spokeswoman for the mayor said in a text message that "Mayor Bowser continues to oppose all congressional interference in the lives of Washingtonians. DC will continue to fight to protect our home rule and self-determination. If Congress wants to be helpful, they should pass the District of Columbia Local Funds Act to fix their damage to DC’s FY25 budget.". The New York Post [6/10/2025 6:56 PM, Ryan King, 49956K] reports that “Free and fair elections are a prerequisite for a healthy republic," Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), who introduced the bill, said in a statement. "The radical DC Council’s decision to allow noncitizens—including illegal aliens and foreign agents—to vote in local elections dilutes the voting power of the citizen voter.". "That power must be defended, and I am thrilled House Republicans took action today to do so.". Under the DC Home Rule Act of 1973, the nation’s capital has certain authority, such as the ability to elect its own mayor and city council, but Congress can scuttle local laws. Congress had gone over 30 years without meddling in DC affairs, but ended that streak in 2023 when it nixed a local law that rolled back penalties for certain felonies, such as armed robbery. Former President Joe Biden backed the overturning of that law, despite initially signaling a veto. Last year, House Republicans attempted to nix the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act, but were unable to get it through the Senate, which has since flipped into GOP control. DC is not the only municipality that allows noncitizens to vote in local election contests. There are cities in California, Vermont, and Maryland that also allow it. The nation’s capital allows noncitizens to vote for mayor, attorney general, city council, city ballot measures and more. Noncitizens are also allowed to run for office in DC. Later this week, the House is expected to take up a third bill targeting the nation’s capital, titled the "District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act," which axes city policies to limit compliance with immigration enforcement authorities.

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New York Post [6/10/2025 5:14 PM, Josh Christenson, 49956K] reports a House Republican panel is demanding records from more than 200 non-governmental organizations that nabbed billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money to settle migrants in the US under ex-President Joe Biden. One of the targeted groups is among those embroiled in the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Subcommittee Chairman Josh Breechen (R-Okla.) fired off letters to the 215 organizations Tuesday, accusing each of having "helped fuel the worst border crisis in our nation’s history." The powerful Republican chairman and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee leader said the groups created a "pull factor" in providing taxpayer-funded transportation, translation, housing and other services to migrants, most of whom were released into the country after crossing the border illegally.

The Hill [6/10/2025 6:10 PM, Al Weaver, 18649K] reports the protests in Los Angeles over the White House’s deportation efforts are providing a boost to the GOP’s "big, beautiful bill" as members come under pressure to approve fresh immigration enforcement funding or risk appearing on the side of California Democrats. The White House and administration allies are using the protests to push members to line up behind the massive piece of legislation, highlighting the package’s border provisions while making the case that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) needs an infusion of support. "It’s been a high priority before what happened in Los Angeles, and I think the American people are seeing firsthand what happens when lawlessness rules the streets and you’re undercutting the very important mission of ICE," Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), a top ally of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), said. "It helps illustrate the consequences of not having ICE fully supported, whether that is supported by government officials, as well as the needed financial support to make sure they have the capacity to do their job," Daines added. Senate Republicans are in the midst of a key week in the process of passing the bill — the linchpin of the party’s overall agenda — with an eye toward completing work by July 4. Though leaders are hoping to roll out key portions of the bill, deep divisions remain on crucial issues including taxes, deficit reduction, Medicaid and more. But most Senate Republicans have long agreed that border provisions are a crucial part of the bill. Earlier this year, as Senate Republicans pushed an alternative two-bill approach, they included immigration funding in what would have been the first of two bills, aiming to quickly get it to Trump’s desk. The bill includes $46.5 billion to beef up the border wall, with $4.1 billion also going towards hiring 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 5,000 new customs officers. More than $2 billion is included for signing and retention bonuses. On top of that, the legislation includes an additional $1,000 fee for individuals filing for asylum in the U.S.

AP [6/10/2025 10:53 PM, Lisa Mascaro, 56000K] reports President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in Congress includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into the administration’s mass deportation agenda. Republican leaders capitalized Tuesday on the demonstrations in Los Angeles, where people are protesting Trump’s immigration raids at Home Depot and other places, to make the case for swift passage of their sprawling 1,000-plus-page bill over staunch Democratic opposition. House Speaker Mike Johnson said the One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers “much-needed reinforcements,” including 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, $45 billion to expand migrant detention facilities and billions more to carry out at least 1 million deportations a year. “All you have to do is look at what’s happening in Los Angeles to realize that our law enforcement needs all the support that we can possibly give them,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. The focus on some $350 billion in national security funding comes as action on the massive package is lumbering along in Congress at a critical moment. Trump wants the bill on his desk by the Fourth of July. But Senate Republicans trying to heave it to passage without Democrats are also running up against objections from within their GOP ranks over the details. At the same time, Democrats are warning that Trump’s executive reach into California — sending in the National Guard over the governor’s objections and calling up the Marines — is inflaming tensions in what had been isolated protests in pockets of LA. They warned the president’s heavy-handed approach has the potential to spread, if unchecked, to other communities nationwide. “We are at a dangerous inflection point in our country,” said Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who represents the Los Angeles area. “Trump created this political distraction to divide us and keep our focus away from his policies that are wreaking havoc on our economy and hurting working families,” he said. “It’s a deliberate attempt by Trump to incite unrest, test the limits of executive power and distract from the lawlessness of his administration.” At its core, the bill extends some $4.5 trillion in existing tax breaks that would otherwise expire at the end of the year without action in Congress, cutting some $1.4 trillion in spending over the decade to help offset costs. The package includes about $150 billion for border security and deportation operations, including funding for hiring 10,000 new ICE officers — with what Johnson said are $10,000 hiring bonuses — as well as 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and other field operations and support staff. There’s also funding for a daily detention capacity for 100,000 migrants and for flights for 1 million deportations annually. The package includes $46 billion for construction of Trump’s long promised wall between the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Hill [6/10/2025 6:52 PM, Alexander Bolton, 18649K] reports Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told reporters Tuesday that his panel will unveil changes to the House-passed bill to enact President Trump’s agenda that will be more "conservative" and propose dramatically less money for border security. Paul has argued for weeks that Congress doesn’t need to spend $150 billion to secure the border and beef up immigration enforcement since border crossings plunged after Trump took office in January. "It will actually be the conservative version of how much money we spend" on the border, Paul told reporters. He said the Senate’s text under the jurisdiction of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would propose about "half as much money" as the $150 billion passed by the House. "The wall, if you look at the [Customs and Border Protection (CBP)] website — until they removed it yesterday — they said it would cost $6.5 million per mile" to build the border wall, Paul said. "If you add that up for about 1,000 miles that’s $6.5 billion. They asked for $46.5 billion, so they got a math problem," he added. "Instead of addressing the math problem, CBP took that off their website two days ago.". Paul posted on social media Monday that Congress doesn’t need to spend $150 billion to secure the border and enforce immigration law through deportations and other actions, arguing that the Trump administration could get the job done for half the cost.

The AP [6/10/2025 4:58 PM, Sophia Tareen, 56000K [ reports an immigrant man who was falsely accused of threatening to assassinate President Donald Trump can be released from a Wisconsin prison on bond, an immigration judge determined Tuesday. Ramón Morales Reyes was accused of a writing a letter threatening Trump in a blistering social media post by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The post includes Morales Reyes’ photo and an excerpt from the letter he purportedly wrote in English. But the claims quickly fell apart as Wisconsin authorities determined that Reyes, who doesn’t speak English well or write in the language, was framed. The immigrant from Mexico was a victim in a violent 2023 attack where his bike was stolen. According to authorities, the alleged attacker, Demetric D. Scott, forged the letter to try to clear his case. Morales Reyes was set to be a witness in Scott’s July trial for armed robbery and aggravated battery. Homeland Security issued a statement to reporters last week saying that although Morales Reyes was no longer considered a threat to Trump, federal attorneys would still pursue an immigration case. The government alleges that Morales Reyes reentered the U.S. times numerous times without a visa. However, Noem’s social media post blaming Morales Reyes for an assassination attempt, which was circulated by Trump supporters, remains online. Cain Oulahan, an attorney for Morales Reyes, said his client is a crime victim and blasted the misinformation. NBC News [6/10/2025 12:47 PM, Marlene Lenthang and Halle Lukasiewicz, 44540K] reports that at a bond hearing in Chicago immigration court on Tuesday, Judge Carla Espinoza set Morales Reyes’ bond at $7,500 after the court and Department of Homeland Security had time to review the evidence about the forged threatening letters. The judge noted that though Morales Reyes had several arrests from 1996, he was only convicted for disorderly conduct. The DHS described Morales Reyes as an "illegal alien" when he was taken into ICE custody. Last week a senior DHS official told NBC News Morales Reyes will remain in custody because, "this individual was determined to be in the country illegally and that he had a criminal record.". He had entered the U.S. illegally at least nine times from 1998 to 2005, and had a criminal record with arrests on charges of felony hit and run, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct with a domestic abuse modifier, the DHS said. The New York Times [6/10/2025 4:50 PM, Mitch Smith, 138952K] reports that when Mr. Morales Reyes appeared by video in immigration court on Tuesday, Judge Carla Espinoza said she had found “that the respondent is not currently a danger to the community” and that he could be released on $7,500 bond. The government has until next month to appeal that decision. A Homeland Security lawyer did not argue against Judge Espinoza’s decision during the hearing. In a statement, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security, said that while Mr. Morales Reyes was no longer accused of threatening the president, “he is in the country illegally with previous arrests.” The department did not respond directly to questions about whether it planned to appeal his bond

FOX News [6/10/2025 12:15 PM, Audrey Conklin, 46878K] reports federal prosecutors are pushing back against Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan’s motion to dismiss an indictment filed against her for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the Milwaukee County Courthouse last month. Dugan, 65, was indicted last month on federal charges of obstruction of proceedings before a U.S. agency and unlawful concealment of an individual subject to arrest. Her attorneys say she is entitled to judicial immunity and that the federal government overstepped its authority by arresting and charging her, violating her 10th Amendment rights and the principle of separation of powers, according to court documents filed in late May. On Wednesday, prosecutors filed a response to her motion to dismiss, noting that "the Supreme Court has made clear that judges are not immune from criminal liability.". "In the end, Dugan asks for this Court to develop a novel doctrine of judicial immunity from criminal prosecution, and to apply it to the facts alleged in the indictment, all without reasonable basis—directly or indirectly—in the Constitution, statutes, or case law," prosecutors wrote. "In her lengthy memorandum, Dugan concedes that ‘[j]udges, like legislators and executive officials, are not above the law,’" they said. "Dugan’s desired ruling would, in essence, say that judges are ‘above the law,’ and uniquely entitled to interfere with federal law enforcement," prosecutors added. Federal prosecutors allege that the Milwaukee Circuit Court judge personally escorted Mexican illegal immigrant and domestic battery suspect Eduardo Flores-Ruiz out of the courthouse on April 18 while ICE agents were attempting to serve a warrant. The surveillance footage recently released by Milwaukee County in response to an open records request appears to show Dugan, wearing her black robe, confronting ICE agents in the courthouse hallway. Federal prosecutors say members of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), along with federal partners from the FBI, DEA, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, were preparing to serve Flores-Ruiz with a warrant in a public courthouse hallway on April 18 before his scheduled court appearance with Dugan.

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Blaze.com [6/10/2025 5:25 PM, Candace Hathaway, 1805K] reports Massachusetts’ sanctuary policies, combined with the former Biden administration’s immigration crisis, have resulted in a disastrous situation for the state’s overwhelmed shelter system, which has become a hotbed of criminal activity and has led to the mismanagement of taxpayer funds. Jon Fetherston, a former director for one of those emergency shelters, a Marlborough Holiday Inn that housed hundreds of individuals, gained firsthand experience with some of the shelter program’s most egregious and disturbing issues. Fetherston, who worked as the shelter’s director in 2023 and 2024, announced that his experiences prompted him to demand the federal government investigate Democratic Governor Maura Healey’s migrant shelters. Fetherston called Healey’s program "dangerous and corrupt," urging Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday to "immediately launch a full investigation" into "a disturbing pattern of criminal activity, sexual assaults, financial abuse, and the widespread use of no-bid contracts." He described the program as a "disaster for public safety, government transparency, and fiscal accountability" that has failed Massachusetts residents and the migrants it is supposed to help.

CBS Boston [6/10/2025 6:27 PM, Louisa Moller, 51860K] Video: HERE reports Boston Mayor Michelle Wu went on offense against the Trump administration on Tuesday, declaring she signed an executive order asking ICE to provide information on who they are arresting in the city. "My advice to Tom Homan and ICE is to take a time out," Wu said during a press conference, "Reassess what you are doing and how you are doing it. A little friendly advice from the safest major city in the country.". Wu told reporters she has no idea how many Boston residents have been detained by ICE since President Trump took office. She said her executive order declares that the city will seek that data through freedom of information requests. "We don’t have any information at all and we have asked," Wu said. During the press conference, city councilors also declared that Boston is taking active steps to help immigrants. "We were here signing the amended budget where the mayor invested and then the city council invested on top of that for legal assistance for our immigrant communities," said City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune. Councilor Enrique Pepen said that he has helped to organize a volunteer group that alerts residents to ICE activities. "They got word that there were ICE agents out and they deployed 20 residents to go to every single small business to let them know that ICE agents were in the neighborhood," Pepen said.

FOX News [6/10/2025 6:11 PM, Diana Stancy, 46878K] reports Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took a shot at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for how he handled the 2020 riots in his state, claiming that the Trump administration wouldn’t let history repeat itself in Los Angeles amid immigration protests. Noem, who previously served as governor of South Dakota, defended the Trump administration’s decision to deploy thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to address the protests in Los Angeles, using Minnesota as an example of what happens when a "bad governor" is in charge. "I was a governor of a neighboring state to Tim Walz and watched him let his city burn," Noem told reporters Tuesday. "And the president and I have talked about this in the past, and he was not going to let that happen to another city and to another community where a bad governor made a bad decision.". Walz was first elected governor of Minnesota in 2019, leading the state as protests broke out after the death of Black man George Floyd at the hands of a White police officer in 2020. While Walz has said he takes the blame for a delayed response activating the National Guard in his state, he has also said he is proud of how Minnesota reacted. "I’m proud of Minnesota’s response. I’m proud of Minnesota’s first responders who were out there, from firefighters to police to the National Guard to citizens that were out there," Walz said in a 2022 gubernatorial debate. Walz’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

DailySignal [6/10/2025 5:28 PM, George Caldwell, 558K] reports Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday, and he’s sure to be grilled on "sanctuary city" policies in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Walz, who was the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate last year on the presidential ticket of former Vice President Kamala Harris, will testify alongside Democrat Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Kathy Hochul of New York.

New York Times [6/10/2025 4:48 PM, Alan Feuer, 138952K] reports the Trump administration on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to block a lower court’s order directing the Trump administration to provide due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported without hearings to El Salvador in March under a wartime law. The emergency request by the Justice Department, filed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, came one day before the administration was supposed to send the lower court judge its proposal for how to allow nearly 140 of the deported Venezuelans to challenge their expulsion. The men, accused of being members of a violent street gang called Tren de Aragua, are being held in a maximum-security Salvadoran prison. The White House deported the men on March 15 on a series of flights, using a powerful 18th-century statute known as the Alien Enemies Act. That law, which has been used on only three occasions in U.S. history, is meant to be used in times of declared war or during an invasion by a foreign nation. The fight over the Venezuelans is merely one of the many bitter battles that have pitted courts across the country against an administration that is aggressively seeking to deport as many as immigrants as possible through methods that have repeatedly strained the boundaries of the law. Time and again, judges have settled on a similar bottom line, saying that the immigrants must be afforded basic due process rights before being expelled from the country.

Washington Examiner [6/10/2025 7:00 PM, Christian Datoc, Kaelan Deese and Marisa Schultz, 1934K] reports President Donald Trump on Tuesday attempted to link former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco to the immigration crisis and former President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen in office. Trump, speaking to reporters during a wildfire briefing at the White House on Tuesday morning, faced down a number of questions regarding protests and riots opposing his deportation agenda. The president defended his decision to mobilize National Guard soldiers to assist local law enforcement over the weekend while attempting to shift blame back onto Biden for allowing the immigration crisis to occur. "As you know, we’re moving murderers out of our country that were put here by Biden or the autopen. The auto pen really did it. I mean, the people — whether it’s Lisa Monaco or whoever operated the autopen — these are criminals," Trump said. "People are criminals who allow criminals into our country. And I don’t think that Biden knew what the hell he was doing. I don’t think he even knew about it.". House Republicans have launched an investigation into Biden’s use of an autopen to sign controversial, preemptive pardons during his final days in office. The Senate is taking up another investigation to determine whether Biden was fit for office. And just last week, Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate whether Biden’s senior staff took advantage of his age to take executive action in his stead. However, Monaco was not among the Biden officials targeted by GOP investigators in public. A DOJ official confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the administration was looking into Monaco in relation to the Biden administration’s decision to apply U.S. Code 1512 in the federal prosecution of hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants. Trump later granted clemency for all of the Jan. 6 defendants on his first day back in office. When asked about Monaco, a spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee said the panel "will conduct a thorough investigation and many witnesses will be called to provide testimony.". Biden leaned on Monaco, who previously served as homeland security adviser in former President Barack Obama’s second term, to oversee the dismantling of Trump’s first-term immigration policies. Trump has blamed Biden’s reversal on policy for the border crisis and the need for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation operation that sparked the Los Angeles protests.

AP [6/10/2025 5:07 PM, Ben Finley] reports lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of pretending for weeks to be powerless to bring him back to the United States from El Salvador, despite orders from a federal judge and the Supreme Court to facilitate his return. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys made the allegation in a court filing shortly after the Maryland construction worker was flown to Tennessee on Friday to face federal human smuggling charges. The attorneys said the lawsuit over his mistaken deportation has not concluded in a Maryland federal court. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys made that argument in response to a filing by the Trump administration to halt the lawsuit’s proceedings because he’s back in the U.S. U.S. attorneys asked for an immediate stay after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the charges in Tennessee. The attorneys wrote that the government complied with the Maryland federal court’s order to return Abrego Garcia. The U.S. intends to file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. In a court filing on Tuesday, the Trump administration pushed back against the accusations of Abrego Garcia’s lawyers, describing them as baseless, desperate and disappointing.

CBS News [6/10/2025 9:35 PM, Caitlin Yilek, 51860K] reports a lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the mistakenly deported man who was recently brought back from El Salvador to face charges in the U.S., said his case is bigger than one individual. Chris Newman, who represents Abrego Garcia’s family, told CBS News’ Major Garrett in an interview that he does not see the case as a referendum on immigration, but as a potential turning point in the erosion of due process rights in the U.S. "The Trump administration is very invested in making this a referendum on the immigration debate, which, as you know, has become coarsened and polarized," Newman said. "And that is one way to look at it. And I think certainly a lot of people view it that way. I don’t view it that way. I view this as a core constitutional order case, a core due process case. And it just so happens that a Salvadoran immigrant is defending bedrock constitutional protections for all of us." Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S. on Friday to face charges of human smuggling, amid an escalating battle between the Trump administration and the courts. The case ignited widespread outrage after Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador and held in an infamous supermax prison along with hundreds of other deportees, despite a judge ruling years earlier that he shouldn’t be deported to El Salvador. The Trump administration admitted that his deportation was an "administrative error." A judge had ordered the government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S., but the administration did not bring him back for months, arguing it was up to the Salvadoran government whether to release him. The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges that Abrego Garcia and others transported thousands of migrants across the U.S. who were in the country illegally. It also claims that many of the undocumented migrants were members of the gang MS-13. The administration has also accused Abrego Garcia of MS-13 membership, which his family and attorneys strongly deny. "Until Friday, Kilmar Abrego Garcia had never been charged with any crime, either in the United States or El Salvador, but you wouldn’t know that if you watched White House press briefings for the last two months," Newman said. "All we’ve been asking up until this point is for Kilmar to have his day in court so he could defend himself." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Examiner [6/10/2025 9:15 AM, W. James Antle III, 1934K] reports in the days since the anti-ICE riots pushed President Donald Trump’s feud with Elon Musk off the front page, there have been growing signs of tension between populist and libertarian elements of the Republican Party. The rift has largely been over the so-called one big, beautiful bill, a reconciliation legislative package that narrowly passed the House on a largely party-line vote and is now being considered by the Senate. While much of the emphasis has been on extending the Trump tax cuts, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has increasingly focused on the reconciliation bill’s funding for the president’s immigration-enforcement priorities. Last week, Miller described the bill as funding the "most significant border security and deportation effort in history, including the entire wall — up front, now, with no possibility of Democrat obstruction." He added that this makes it "the most important legislation for the conservative project in the history of the nation."

Blaze.com [6/10/2025 4:40 PM, Candace Hathaway, 1805K] reports outside of the left’s fiery anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots in Los Angeles, its relentless campaign to vilify law enforcement is floundering, as most recently evidenced by a robust turnout at the Department of Homeland Security’s latest recruiting event. Blaze News exclusively learned that the DHS 2025 career expo for law enforcement experienced "record-breaking success," with thousands of Americans attending the large-scale hiring event last week in Chantilly, Virginia. A DHS press release obtained by Blaze News revealed that the expo aimed to "fill mission-critical law and immigration enforcement, border security, and national security roles across the department." More than 3,000 Americans attended, leading the DHS to issue over 1,000 tentative job offers. These latest recruiting numbers are nearly double those from the DHS’ 2023 law enforcement hiring expo, the last time a two-day event of this kind was held, where the department made only 564 tentative job offers. The DHS credited Trump and Noem for restoring "excellence across federal agencies" and contributing to the "historic recruiting success."

New York Post [6/10/2025 6:29 PM, Phillip Linderman, 49956K] reports after three years and more than $5 billion, the State Department is finally closing down a program that ushered thousands of poorly vetted Afghans into the United States — from a nation known to harbor deadly terrorist operatives. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently informed Congress he will close the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts office, which brought to America more than 200,000 Afghan nationals who qualified for Special Immigrant Visas and the United States Refugee Program. But the American public, and especially our veterans of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, deserve to know the truth: CARE and the whole enterprise known as "Enduring Welcome" failed in its basic mission — to ensure that only those Afghans who served honorably alongside Americans were welcomed into this country. Under former President Joe Biden, CARE became another dangerous and irresponsible open-border migration project, dramatically failing to make America safer, stronger or more prosperous. After his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, Biden created the CARE office to assist Afghans who cooperated with the US mission in that country. The intent was to grant safe haven to Afghans who had put their lives in danger by working or partnering with the US military or American diplomats. Yet, as Americans well know from the disaster at the nation’s southern border, senior Biden officials never cared about seriously screening any US-bound migrants, no matter their origin. Over four years, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken pursued one overriding migration priority: thwarting the law to admit millions of foreigners. Thus, the CARE office became just another pathway for Biden’s open-border extremism. Multiple State Department whistleblowers have documented how CARE authorized the admission of countless Afghans who neither worked for the United States nor demonstrated a legitimate fear of the Taliban. These unqualified Afghans were allowed to bypass vetting rules and perpetrate identity fraud to gain a place in line with deserving applicants. They systematically fabricated recommendation letters, identity cards, employment records and other documents — while unscrupulous CARE contractors, many of Afghan heritage themselves, handed out special favors to extended-family members and other undeserving applicants who only wanted a free ticket from a clueless Uncle Sam. On paper, all applicants claimed fear of Taliban reprisals. Yet some who were approved later traveled back to Afghanistan — belying their claims, and in some cases hinting at active Taliban connections.

Wall Street Journal [6/10/2025 5:06 PM, Jason L. Riley, 646K] reports the Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services struck a welcome blow for equal treatment under the law. Even better, it was a unanimous decision written by a reliable liberal, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and praised in a concurring opinion written by a reliable conservative, Justice Clarence Thomas. The case involved a heterosexual woman who alleged that she had been denied a job promotion because of her sexual orientation, and that a less-qualified gay candidate had been chosen instead. The court held that federal civil-rights statutes give members of majority groups the same right to sue as minorities. “By establishing the same protections for every ‘individual’—without regard to that individual’s membership in a minority or majority group—Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone,” Justice Jackson wrote. Discrimination is discrimination, regardless of whether the target is black, white, gay or straight. This sort of principled clarity is useful, and it can be contrasted with the fuzzy logic our political class employs as protests against the Trump administration’s immigration raids accelerate. Rioting is wrong, and it ought to be condemned. Yet President Trump and his Democratic opponents seem to believe that it depends on the circumstances. Mr. Trump had no trouble vilifying troublemakers who were out in force following George Floyd’s murder. But he praised and ultimately pardoned virtually all of the Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted police officers, smashed windows and left feces in the Capitol’s corridors. Mr. Trump is back to denouncing violent street protests again, but only a fool would believe that his law-and-order rhetoric is based on principle rather than political expediency. Democrats are no less guilty of selective outrage. They rightly condemned the attack on the Capitol, yet they have made excuses for everything from violence against Jews on college campuses to arson and looting at Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Given the left’s calls to defund the police and abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, no one is too surprised. Democrats have long considered the welfare of violent offenders to be more important than public safety. Republicans typically have held themselves to a higher standard, and some consistency might help Mr. Trump meet it.

Wall Street Journal [6/10/2025 4:40 PM, Staff, 646K] reports the U.S. is exposed to many threats besides ballistic missiles—ranging from drones and spy blimps to cruise missiles launched by submarines—and President Trump deserves credit for prioritizing a layered missile shield that exploits new technology and existing systems. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

The Washington Post [6/10/2025 9:28 PM, Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck, 32099K] reports a federal grand jury indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-New Jersey) for allegedly interfering with law enforcement during a confrontation last month outside an immigration detention center in Newark, the top prosecutor in New Jersey announced Tuesday evening. The unusual decision to bring federal charges against a congresswoman for a standoff in which no one was injured reflects the Justice Department’s pledge to prosecute officials who it thinks are hindering President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement efforts. McIver and other congressional Democrats have decried the charges as political retaliation and predicted that the congresswoman will be cleared in court. Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, filed a criminal complaint last month laying out the government’s allegations against McIver, stemming from a clash after she and other elected officials arrived to tour the detention center as part of what they called an oversight visit. An indictment means prosecutors presented their case to a grand jury that found that the government had enough probable cause — a much lower threshold than is needed for a jury to convict someone — to bring the charges. McIver is charged with two felony and one misdemeanor count of assaulting, resisting, impeding and interfering with a federal officer, according to the indictment. Prosecutors allege that she assaulted two officers as they attempted to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside Delaney Hall, a newly opened immigration detention center. She is accused of slamming her forearm into the body of one officer and striking another officer with her forearms. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-New Jersey), other lawmakers and protesters formed a circle around Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) as officers arrested him on May 9. (Video: Reuters). Habba, who is a close ally of Trump and his former personal defense attorney, said McIver faces up to eight years in prison if convicted on the felony charges and up to a year if found guilty of the misdemeanor. An arraignment date for McIver to enter her plea has not been scheduled. "As I have stated in the past, it is my Constitutional obligation as the Chief Federal Law Enforcement Officer for New Jersey to ensure that our federal partners are protected when executing their duties," Habba said in a statement on social media. "While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve.” Axios [6/10/2025 7:48 PM, Andrew Solender, 13599K] reports Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury and plans to plead not guilty, according to statements from the congresswoman and the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey. Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said McIver is facing a three-count indictment for allegedly "forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers," and faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted. McIver has denied the charges and said in a statement that "the facts of this case will prove I was simply doing my job and will expose these proceedings for what they are: a brazen attempt at political intimidation." She said she plans to enter a plea of not guilty. McIver and Reps. Rob Menendez Jr. (D-N.J.) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) were involved in a scuffle with law enforcement outside the Delany Hall detention facility in Newark last month. The incident occurred as ICE officers went to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, with body camera video showing McIver elbowing an officer. McIver has said she was the one who was assaulted in the clash. Habba said in a post on X that "it is my Constitutional obligation ... to ensure that our federal partners are protected when executing their duties." "While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a manner that endangers law enforcement and the communities those officers serve," she said. Reuters [6/10/2025 10:09 PM, Christian Martinez, 51390K] reports that McIver, a Democrat from Newark, New Jersey, was charged in May with assault and impeding law enforcement during a scuffle that was caught on video at a privately run immigration detention center. In a statement posted on X on Tuesday, McIver said the "indictment is no more justified than the original charges.". "The facts of this case will prove I was simply doing my job and will expose these proceedings for what they are: a brazen attempt at political intimidation.". "We are eager to challenge these allegations head-on in court and fully expect the Congresswoman’s exoneration," McIver’s counsel Paul J. Fishman said in a statement.

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NBC News [6/11/2025 5:00 AM, Julia Ainsley, 44540K] reports a recent memo to immigration judges obtained by NBC News provides fresh insight into how the Trump administration is pulling off a new tactic — dismissing pending immigration cases, then immediately moving to arrest the immigrants — that is part of its bid to quickly increase the number of immigrants it is detaining. In the memo, the Justice Department instructs immigration judges, who report to the executive branch and are not part of the independent judiciary, to allow Department of Homeland Security lawyers to make motions to dismiss orally and then move quickly to grant those dismissals, rather than allow immigrants the 10-day response time that had been typical. “Oral Decisions must be completed within the same hearing slot on the day testimony and arguments are concluded,” says the memo, which is dated May 30. It also tells the judges that “[n]o additional documentation or briefing is required” to grant the dismissals. Once their cases are dismissed, the immigrants in question may be put in expedited removal proceedings, which means they can be deported without a chance to make their cases for asylum before immigration judges. The memo notes that people in expedited removal proceedings “are subject to mandatory detention” and can be taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which falls under DHS. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment. A source close to the immigration judges’ union said that the move is legal but that it is still upsetting to many immigration judges.

New York Times [6/11/2025 12:20 AM, Hamed Aleaziz, 153395K] reports demands from the White House for a drastic increase in arrests of people who have entered the country illegally have pushed immigration officials into overdrive to fulfill President Trump’s pledge of mass deportations. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is carrying out workplace raids across the country like the one in the garment district of Los Angeles last week that kicked off protests and a vast federal response. The agency is staggering shifts so agents are available seven days a week to try to meet arrest goals and asking criminal investigators who usually focus on issues like human trafficking to help identify targets. It is also asking the public to call in tips to report illegal immigration. ICE’s work is being aided by a new mapping app that locates people with deportation orders who can be swiftly expelled, drawn from data housed in agencies across the government, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. “I said it from Day 1, if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table,” Thomas D. Homan, Mr. Trump’s border czar, said in an interview. “So, we’re opening that aperture up.” Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has been deeply engaged in the effort behind the scenes, meeting with top ICE officials in recent weeks and scrutinizing the numbers, according to people familiar with his involvement.

Reuters [6/10/2025 10:57 PM, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke, 51390K] reports migrant workers picked up at a well-known Italian restaurant in San Diego. A high school volleyball player detained and held for deportation after a traffic stop in Massachusetts. Courthouse arrests of people who entered the U.S. legally and were not hiding. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been intensifying efforts in recent weeks to deliver on Republican President Donald Trump’s promise of record-level deportations. The White House has demanded the agency sharply increase arrests of migrants in the U.S. illegally, sources have told Reuters. That has meant changing tactics to achieve higher quotas of 3,000 arrests per day, far above the earlier target of 1,000 per day. Community members and Democrats have pushed back, arguing that ICE is targeting people indiscriminately and stoking fear. Tensions boiled over in Los Angeles over the weekend when protesters took to the streets after ICE arrested migrants at Home Depot stores, a garment factory and a warehouse, according to migrant advocates. "It seems like they’re just arresting people they think might be in the country without status and amenable to deportation," said Julia Gelatt, associate director of the U.S. immigration policy program at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. The apparent shift further undercuts the Trump administration message that they are focused on the "worst of the worst" criminal offenders, and suggests they are pursuing more people solely on the basis of immigration violations. Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, told Reuters in late May that the administration had deported around 200,000 people over four months. The total lags deportations during a similar period under former President Joe Biden, who faced higher levels of illegal immigration and quickly deported many recent crossers. ICE’s operations appeared to intensify after Stephen Miller, a top White House official and the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda, excoriated senior ICE officials in a late May meeting over what he said were insufficient arrests. During the meeting, Miller said ICE should pick up any immigration offenders and not worry about targeted operations that focus on criminals or other priorities for deportation, three people familiar with the matter said, requesting anonymity to share the details. Miller said ICE should target stores where migrant workers often congregate, such as the home improvement retailer Home Depot and 7-Eleven convenience stores, two of the people said. The message was "all about the numbers, not the level of criminality," one of the people said. Miller did not seem to be taking into account the complexities of immigration enforcement, one former ICE official said. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson defended Trump’s enforcement push. "If you are present in the United States illegally, you will be deported," she said in a statement to Reuters. "This is the promise President Trump made to the American people and the administration is committed to keeping it.". A DHS spokesperson said ICE officers executed criminal search warrants at the restaurant in San Diego; that the high school volleyball player in Massachusetts was subject to deportation; and that courthouse arrests were aimed at speeding up removals of migrants who entered under Biden.

Axios [6/10/2025 7:32 PM, Hans Nichols and Andrew Solender, 13599K] reports some GOP lawmakers are starting to warn the Trump administration to reconsider its all-in deportation push. Republicans are convinced they have a clear mandate to kick out hardened criminals and gang members. But differences are emerging on how aggressively ICE should deport workers, longtime residents and some people who’ve sought refuge from brutal regimes. The White House wants ICE to arrest 3,000 people a day, and dramatically boost their deportation numbers. That could lead to more workplace raids. Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.) is urging Trump officials to "prioritize the removal of known criminals over the hardworking people who have lived peacefully in the Valley for years." Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) is worried about deporting people "that have been here for a while. There’s some talk of jobs, etc., and also disrupting parts of the economy. We need to work something else out for those," he told us. Some of the most vulnerable House Republicans said they have few qualms about the way Trump’s deportation campaign is being carried out. "Rule of law is important," Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told Axios. But "each case-by-case could be different, and I trust our ICE to do it by the book." Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) said his primary concern is Afghan SIV applicants, but that he has had "nothing but success in being able to help those folks." He added: "Now for folks who come here illegally, that’s a different story. And I think ICE has a job to do."

NewsNation [6/10/2025 8:22 PM, Jordan Perkins, 5801K] Video HERE reports protests in Los Angeles against recent ICE raids in Southern California have entered a fifth day. The Trump administration recently deployed thousands of National Guard troops and 700 U.S. Marines to L.A. in order to quell the protests and assist law enforcement. Mayor Karen Bass has spoken out against the agents being in the city, saying it has created unrest. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas that sending the ICE agents was necessary because they are arresting dangerous criminals and that the department “will not be deterred from doing their jobs.” According to The Washington Post, immigration officials within the Trump administration have reportedly issued arrest quotas for agents totaling 3,000 a day. Geraldo Rivera, NewsNation’s correspondent-at-large, said the recent raids are “deeply offensive,” as he believes that the dangerous criminals the administration says they are targeting are not being caught as frequently and that ICE and DHS need to come up with a better way of making sure they’re arrested. “There is no doubt that the DHS-Trump axis has bitten off more than it can chew,” Rivera said. “It has promised quotas that are deeply disturbing, and have very little to do with the problem they are seeking to solve with regulating the immigration problem in this country.” [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

New York Post [6/10/2025 6:46 PM, Shane Galvin, 49956K] reports a huge mob surrounded a uniformed Department of Homeland Security official involved in a car accident outside a grammar school in Long Island on Tuesday after locals suspected they were part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement measures, according to a report. Dozens of people surrounded the crash scene at roughly 1:30 p.m. just one block from Park Avenue Elementary School, where an unmarked silver car carrying federal agents collided with a black Nissan pickup truck, according to a report from Newsday. The unruly group berated the federal agents, who were wearing Homeland Security Investigation insignias on their uniforms, as well as a mass of first responders, which included police officers, mounted units, and ambulances the report stated citing Nassau County Police. Video posted to social media showed dozens of angry people recording the officers with their phones, shouting expletives in Spanish with some occasionally yelling in English "Get the f–k out of here!" and "You f–king b—h!" at the federal officer. One person in the mob could be heard suggesting the officer was going to the Park Avenue Elementary School. "Get the f–k out of Westbury!," one man, who spoke mostly Spanish, said in a video from the scene. "I’m a mom and I’m speaking up with a voice because a lot of people can’t talk. They’re scared. Thank God I’m legal in this country, but a lot of people are not blessed," Hernandez, whose son is a Marine, told the outlet. The federal investigators involved in the crash were not working with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the time of the accident but instead were investigating a separate matter, according to that report. There were no arrests stemming from the incident, the report stated.

(B) WJLA 24/7 News ON YOUR SIDE at 3 [6/10/2025 3:03 PM, Staff] reports Virginia is quickly emerging as one of the top states for aggressive immigration enforcement. Recently, more than 2000 people were given removal orders. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has instructed federal agents recently to triple the amount of arrests, aiming for 3000 arrests daily. Governor Glenn Youngkin has directed state law enforcement to collaborate with federal law enforcement under 21 active or pending agreements. There has been little transparency from state or federal officials about the identities of the these targeted or the criteria used to identify suspected gang affiliations. Several school districts in the state have declared safe zones from immigration enforcement. Fairfax County has been in the top ten US localities for most immigrant deportation orders.

AP [6/10/2025 7:32 PM, Gary D. Robertson, 56000K] reports Republicans at the North Carolina legislature gave final approval Tuesday two pieces of legislation that would compel state agencies to participate in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and would toughen a recent law that required sheriffs to help federal agents seeking criminal defendants. The series of House and Senate votes on the measures could mean an early showdown between the GOP-controlled General Assembly and new Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, who since taking office in January has tried to build rapport with lawmakers on consensus issues like Hurricane Helene aid. Stein has yet to a veto a bill, and pressure will build on him to use his stamp on one or both bills given overwhelming Democratic opposition to the measures during floor votes. The GOP’s legislative maneuvers happened while National Guard troops have been deployed by Trump to Los Angeles to confront protesters angry with federal conducting sweeps that led to immigrant arrests. Should Stein issue vetoes, Republicans in the ninth-largest state could face challenges in overriding them, since the GOP is currently one seat shy of a veto-proof majority. Republican leaders would need at least one Democrat for their side during an override vote or hope some Democrats are absent.

ABC News [6/10/2025 2:13 PM, Doc Louallen, 31733K] reports a recent high school graduate in Ohio is facing deportation to Honduras just weeks after receiving his diploma, sparking protests from community members and teammates in Cincinnati. Emerson Colindres, who arrived in the United States as a child over a decade ago, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during what his supporters say was a routine check-in at an ICE facility in Cincinnati suburb Blue Ash last Wednesday. According to his soccer coach Brian Williams, ICE agents were waiting for Colindres at the facility, which operates the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) -- an alternative to detention. "That’s when they informed us that they were detaining and deporting Emerson only," Williams told Cincinnati ABC affiliate WCPO. "No explanation was given." Colindres and his family sought asylum after arriving from Honduras, but their case and subsequent appeal were denied with a final removal order issued in 2023. His supporters say the family had been regularly checking in with ICE and were never explicitly told to leave the country. The Department of Homeland Security, responding to inquiries about the case, emphasized their current enforcement policies in a statement to ABC News. “Emerson Colindres is an illegal alien who has had a final order of removal since 2023," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told ABC News. "As is the law if you are in the country illegally and a judge has ordered you to be removed, that is precisely what will happen. During the Biden administration, thousands of illegal aliens—including violent criminals—with final orders of removal were on ATD and allowed to roam our communities. This should never have been the case. Thanks to the leadership of Secretary Noem and President Trump, the proper policy is back in place." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Detroit Free Press [6/10/2025 11:28 PM, Niraj Warikoo, 4241K] reports a Detroit high school student detained by ICE has asked to be released to graduate. Congressman Shri Thanedar said Maykol Bogoya Duarte should be "released immediately.” The case illustrates why local police should not rely on immigration agents for language barriers, advocates said. A Detroit high school student facing deportation after being arrested by Border Patrol in May while on a field trip is now pleading with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release him so he can graduate. He has gained the support of some advocates and U.S. House Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Detroit, who said Tuesday, June 10, the student "should be released immediately and allowed to get his diploma.” Maykol Bogoya Duarte, 18, of Detroit, was stopped by a Rockwood police officer on May 20 while on his way to a Downriver park, accused of tailgating the officer. The police officer, who was driving in an unmarked car, then called Border Patrol because of a "language barrier," according to a Rockwood police report obtained Monday, June 9, by the Free Press. Duarte, an immigrant from Colombia, was later transported five hours north to an ICE detention center at the Chippewa County Correctional Facility in Sault Ste. Marie and is now in a Louisiana detention center. He has no criminal record, his attorney said, but had lost his appeal to stay in the U.S. Duarte was notified Sunday, June 8, "that he was going to be moved and his deportation was imminent," his attorney, Ruby Robinson, told the Free Press Monday. On Tuesday, Duarte was being held at Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana, the ICE locator website for detainees showed. "Louisiana is usually the staging area for removals outside the U.S.," Robinson said, fearing he could be removed soon along with other Colombian nationals. Duarte has only a few more credits to graduate and could voluntarily leave the U.S. after he gets his high school diploma, Robinson and advocates said. Robinson said he filed on Monday an application with the Detroit ICE office "to stay his removal so that he can graduate from high school. He has three and a half credits left, and we think he’ll be able to finish that before the end of the year.” A spokesman for ICE did not return a message Tuesday, June 10. Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which Border Patrol is a part of, previously told the Free Press that Duarte, who has lived in the U.S. for about a year and a half, had a previous order to leave the country, describing him as an "illegal alien with a final deportation order.” Duarte had arrived in the U.S. from Colombia along with his mother, crossing the border and applying for asylum. They lost their appeal to stay in the U.S. One challenge is that Duarte does not have a Colombian passport, which he would need to be sent back to Colombia, Robinson said.

CBS News [6/10/2025 9:20 AM, Briauna Brown, 51860K] Video: HERE reports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it returned 122 immigrants, including people convicted of "egregious crimes," back to China aboard a charter flight. The Department of Homeland Security effort occurred on June 3. The flight included 96 men and 26 women, ages ranging from 19 to 68, who were ordered to be deported from ICE detention facilities across the country, officials said. According to ICE, notable deportations included: "Through our interagency partnerships and coordination across ICE field offices, we have successfully removed these individuals, many who were convicted of egregious crimes," ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Dallas acting Field Office Director Josh Johnson said. FOX News [6/10/2025 4:28 PM, Jasmine Baehr, 46878K] reports that the June 3 deportation flight, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Dallas, was part of a nationwide push to protect American communities and restore law and order. According to an official ICE press release, the group included 96 men and 26 women, ranging in age from 19 to 68. All had final orders of removal and were held in ICE detention centers across the country. ICE officials say the charter flight to China was in the interest of public safety.

Houston Chronicle [6/10/2025 6:08 PM, Sam González Kelly, 1982K] reports plainclothes immigration officers arrested three more asylum seekers who showed up for their hearings Tuesday at the southwest Houston immigration court for the second day in a row. Two of the detainees were from Venezuela, while the third was from Mexico, according to immigration lawyer Bianca Santorini, who sat in on the court proceedings. Immigration agents detained all three men after a judge dismissed their asylum cases — over their objections — and were set to be deported under the expanded expedited removal policy that President Donald Trump enacted through an executive order on his first day in office. Under Trump’s expanded removal policy, immigration officers can expedite the deportation of certain non-citizens who have been in the United States for less than two years, from anywhere in the country, without giving them an appearance before a judge. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have used the expanded policy to detain asylum seekers in courthouses across the country for nearly a month, as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up immigration arrests and make good on its promise of "mass deportations now."

Houston Chronicle [6/10/2025 5:21 PM, John Wayne Ferguson, 1982K] reports three men were arrested at a southwest Houston immigration court Monday by ICE agents. The arrests appeared to be a local example of an ICE strategy happening around the United States: arresting people after they show up to their hearing at immigration court. The strategy is one of the ways the Trump administration is attempting to increase the number of people being deported from the country. It has drawn the ire of immigrant rights groups and attorneys, who say the process takes away immigrants’ rights to make a case to stay in the United States. According to lawyers and advocates, courthouse arrests appear to be targeting people who have asked for asylum in the United States. The asylum process can take years to complete and requires a person to appear before an immigration judge for hearings. During the proceeding a person is barred from being deported. After a person’s case has been dismissed, ICE agents have been moving in to take the now case-less person into custody, and begin a deportation process known as expedited removal. Now, attorneys and advocates say lawyers are dismissing the case and coordinating with ICE to fast-track arrests and deportations, a process they say violates due process. ICE hasn’t released specific information about the people it has arrested at courthouses, or other details about its operations. There have been rumors about arrests at Houston immigration courts for weeks. The Department of Homeland Security outlined the dismissal strategy in a memo on May 20, according to the New York Times.

CBS Austin [6/10/2025 10:35 PM, Andrew Freeman, 558K] reports the country has seen ICE protests coast-to-coast in recent days, including several here in Texas. Not just Austin, but Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, too. While California’s governor has criticized President Trump’s deployment of 4,000 National Guard and more than 700 Marines in his state, Texas Governor Greg Abbott praised the move. He ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to be on standby to assist with the protests we’ve seen here. In Austin, two separate protests happened downtown Monday evening to protest ICE and stand in solidarity with Los Angeles. "We will not be silenced. We will not be afraid." Laiba Khan, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, said. "Immigrants are the backbone of our society. Once again, they are all of us. They are our family members. They are our community members.” Austin Police ultimately declared a gathering outside the J.J. Pickle Federal Building unlawful. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers eventually deployed tear gas. The Austin Police Department arrested eight people while the Texas DPS arrested five. Four Austin police officers were injured. Hundreds showed up for protests in San Antonio and Houston over the weekend, and in Dallas, one was arrested during its own protests Monday evening. "Don’t cross that line. We will, in fact, come down hard on you, because we’re going to enforce the law," Kevin Lawrence, Texas Municipal Police Association Executive Director, said. "One of the great things about being a cop in Texas is that Texas has a history of enforcing the law.” Lawrence applauds Governor Abbott’s strong response and the cooperation between agencies. "It’s about public safety," Lawrence said. "It’s not to protect our cops. It’s not to protect our politicians. It is to protect the general public as much as we possibly can.” In a post on X early this morning, Governor Greg Abbott said, in part: "Peaceful protesting is legal. But once you cross the line, you will be arrested.” Caro Achar with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas says the response is no surprise, given his use of state troopers against student protestors at the University of Texas at Austin last year. "If you only have free speech rights when you’re saying something the government approves of, that’s not a right, that’s just a privilege," Achar said. "And that’s a privilege that can be taken away as easily as it can be granted.”

Houston Chronicle [6/10/2025 10:48 AM, Caroline Wilburn, 1982K] reports protesters gathered in Dallas and Austin on Monday night to join demonstration efforts against recent immigration raids in Los Angeles and the increased presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in cities across the country. Monday’s protests followed gatherings in Houston and San Antonio over the weekend as tensions continued to grow in L.A., where President Donald Trump has deployed more than 2,000 members of the National Guard in an effort to quell protesters. Additional protests are planned for Saturday in Houston and around the country as part of the No Kings movement, countering plans for a large military parade on Trump’s 79th birthday. In preparation for upcoming protests, a No Kings town hall was scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday. Protesters plan to gather at Houston City Hall on Saturday morning. Police in both Dallas and Austin used pepper spray against protesters as crowds grew more tense later in the evening. No arrests were reported in Dallas, however, police arrested several protesters in Austin, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Reuters [6/10/2025 10:41 PM, Kanishka Singh and Kristina Cooke, 51390K] reports an immigration raid on Tuesday at a meat production plant in Omaha, Nebraska was the "largest worksite enforcement operation" in the state during the Trump presidency, the Homeland Security Department said. U.S. Congressman Don Bacon told local media 75-80 people were detained. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid happened at a plant of Glenn Valley Foods. The food packaging company said it was surprised by the raid and had followed the rules regarding immigration status. Chad Hartmann, president of Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, said the plant that was raided used E-Verify, a federal database used for checking employees’ immigration status. He told Reuters that when he said this to a federal agent, the agent responded "the system is broken" and urged him to contact his local congressional representative. ICE officers have been intensifying efforts in recent weeks to deliver on U.S. President Donald Trump’s promise of record-level deportations. The White House has demanded the agency sharply increase arrests of migrants in the U.S. illegally, sources have told Reuters. Tensions boiled over in Los Angeles over the weekend when protesters took to the streets after ICE arrested migrants at Home Depot stores, a garment factory and a warehouse, according to migrant advocates. Local police in Omaha said they were informed by immigration officials about the raid in advance while the company said it got no notice about the operation ahead of time. Hartmann said federal agents had a warrant that said they had identified 107 people who they believed were using fraudulent documents. "This was the largest worksite enforcement operation in Nebraska under the Trump Administration," the Homeland Security Department said on X, adding no law enforcement official was hurt. ICE said a criminal investigation was ongoing into what immigration officials called a large-scale employment of immigrants who are present in the U.S. illegally. "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and federal law enforcement partners, executed a federal search warrant at Glenn Valley Foods, today, based on an ongoing criminal investigation into the large-scale employment of aliens without authorization to work in the United States," an ICE spokesperson told an ABC News affiliate. More than half of all meatpacking workers in the U.S. are immigrants, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a think tank. Rights advocates, including the ACLU of Nebraska, condemned the raid.

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NewsNation [6/10/2025 8:18 PM, Ali Bradley, 5801K] reports federal agents arrested more than 100 people Tuesday during what officials called Nebraska’s largest workplace enforcement operation under President Donald Trump, executing a civil search warrant at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha as workers scattered and hid throughout the facility. NewsNation takes you in an exclusive multiagency operation involving about 70 officers and agents from ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, IRS Criminal Investigations, the DEA and U.S. Marshals, targeting workers suspected of using fraudulent identification documents. Out of the 107 who were targeted, 70 people were detained after ICE determined their status. Many workers attempted to avoid arrest by hiding in building rafters and walk-in freezers with subzero temperatures, prompting EMTs to respond and check individuals for health and safety concerns, according to federal agents on scene. One man barricaded himself in a wall compartment and pulled box cutters on agents when they attempted to remove him, leading to charges of assault on a federal officer. "So we did execute a civil search warrant here at this location, for personnel from Glenn Valley Foods that were using fake IDs, fraudulent IDs, or some type of combination of IDs that weren’t real," an ICE agent told NewsNation. The operation comes amid nationwide protests over immigration enforcement, particularly in Los Angeles, where similar workplace raids last week triggered demonstrations that prompted Trump to deploy National Guard troops.

FOX News [6/10/2025 8:07 PM, Peter Pinedo, 46878K] reports that, after a workplace ICE raid that resulted in the arrests of about 70 alleged illegal aliens at a meatpacking plant in Omaha, several protesters threw rocks and jumped on federal vehicles carrying out the operation. The AP reported that federal immigration authorities made the arrests at Glenn Valley Foods Tuesday morning. ICE officials told the AP the raid was "based on an ongoing criminal investigation into the large-scale employment of aliens without authorization to work in the United States" and that it was likely the largest "worksite enforcement operation" in Nebraska since President Donald Trump took office. The Flatwater Free Press reported that the situation grew tense after protesters began gathering as a caravan of federal vehicles was leaving the plant. The outlet reported that several protesters jumped on moving law enforcement vehicles and "threw rocks and debris at the cars, shattering one window.” Video posted by the outlet shows what appears to be a line of federal vehicles surrounded by protesters on either side throwing objects, kicking the cars and yelling profanity and slogans like "f--- you, pig.” At one point during the video, a window can be heard smashing. In another video posted by the outlet, two protesters jumped on the hood of a vehicle as it attempts to travel off. Violence erupted in Omaha with Los Angeles still battling violent anti-ICE riots and the rest of the country facing widespread protests against the Trump administration ramping up of ICE arrests and deportations. Protests over the raids in Los Angeles devolved into violence over the weekend as rioters targeted federal law enforcement officials by throwing rocks, and videos showed people looting stores, setting cars on fire and taking over a freeway.

AP [6/10/2025 7:02 PM, Rio Yamat, 56000K] reports Khaby Lame, the world’s most popular TikTok personality with millions of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa. The Senegalese-Italian influencer, whose legal name is Seringe Khabane Lame, was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed in a statement. Lame arrived in the U.S. on April 30 and "overstayed the terms of his visa," the ICE spokesperson said. The Associated Press sent a message seeking comment Tuesday to the email address listed on Lame’s Instagram account. He has not publicly commented on his detainment. His detainment and voluntary departure from the U.S. comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating crackdown on immigration, including raids in Los Angeles that sparked days of protests against ICE, as the president tests the bounds of his executive authority. A voluntary departure — which was granted to Lame — allows those facing removal from the U.S. to avoid a deportation order on their immigration record, which could prevent them from being allowed back into the U.S. for up to a decade. The 25-year-old rose to international fame during the pandemic without ever saying a word in his videos, which would show him reacting to absurdly complicated "life hacks." He has over 162 million followers on TikTok alone.

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NewsNation [6/10/2025 6:57 PM, Jordan Perkins, 5801K] reports the city of Glendale, California, has canceled a contract it had in place with ICE that allowed for the agency to house detainees within its local jail. "(T)he City recognizes that public perception of the ICE contract—no matter how limited or carefully managed, no matter the good—has become divisive," city officials said in a statement released Sunday. Officials added they did not want to undermine community trust. ICE’s agreement with the city of Glendale had been in place since 2007. The city stated that it has never enforced immigration law and will not do so in order to remain in compliance with California Senate Bill 54, which prohibits local enforcement from using resources for immigration enforcement. Ara Najarian, Glendale’s mayor, told NewsNation that the city began receiving threats that protests would occur due to the standing agreement with ICE. He said without a doubt unrest like what is being seen in Los Angeles would have happened in his city.

Newsweek [6/10/2025 4:34 PM, Billal Rahman, 52220K] reports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has criticized a Californian city after it terminated its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid protests against deportation policies. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek that the City of Glendale’s decision was "deeply disturbing," and accused state officials of siding with criminals over public safety after unrest in Los Angeles. The Trump administration plans to send 2,000 more National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests over immigration policy, adding to the 2,000 already in place and the 700 Marines deployed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office told Newsweek that only about 300 of the original Guard troops have been deployed so far. His administration has filed a lawsuit challenging the deployment as unlawful. The move follows a weekend of unrest tied to opposition to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, with reports of arson and looting in downtown Los Angeles and 42 arrests. On Sunday, the City of Glendale in Los Angeles County said that it was ending an agreement with the DHS and ICE that had allowed detainees to be held at the Glendale Police Department, where they had access to virtual and in-person visits. A press release issued by city officials said the decision was "not made lightly." Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek: "It is deeply disturbing that sanctuary politicians in Glendale, California, would terminate an agreement to hold ICE detainees and violent criminals—which the city has had with DHS for more than 15 years—just as violent rioters are destroying Los Angeles and assaulting federal law enforcement." "Glendale’s politicians stand with criminal illegal aliens, including gang members, rapists, and murderers over American citizens," McLaughlin added. "[Homeland Security] Secretary [Kristi] Noem has a clear message for the LA rioters and sanctuary politicians: You will not stop us or slow us down. ICE will continue to enforce the law." City officials clarified that the Glendale Police Department does not enforce immigration laws and remains in compliance with the "California Values Act."

New York Times [6/10/2025 4:01 PM, Michael M. Grynbaum, 138952K] reports the protests and scattered clashes with law enforcement in Los Angeles have played out live on cable news, with top anchors scrambling to cover the events in person. They have been joined by Dr. Phil. On Friday, Dr. McGraw and a camera crew from his fledgling television network, MeritTV, were recording in Los Angeles before and after the raids by agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Dr. McGraw seemed to be promoting Mr. Trump’s anti-immigration agenda by embedding with immigration agents during a raid in Chicago in January. A MeritTV spokesman said that in Los Angeles Dr. McGraw spent time with immigration enforcement agents but did not participate in any raids himself. “In order to not escalate any situation, Dr. Phil McGraw did not join and was not embedded, as he previously was in Chicago,” the spokesman, Jerry Sharell, said in a statement. Dr. McGraw also interviewed Thomas D. Homan, Mr. Trump’s border czar. Mr. Sharell said their conversation was taped on the days before and after Friday’s raids, although Dr. McGraw did spend time with Mr. Homan at a local Homeland Security field office in Los Angeles on Friday. The interview is airing on MeritTV, which features true crime programming and talk shows like “Dr. Phil Primetime.”

AP [6/10/2025 11:50 PM, Dorany Pineda and Amy Taxin, 3077K] reports Jacob Vasquez began working at a clothing warehouse in Los Angeles soon after arriving from Mexico less than three years ago. He is among dozens of workers detained by federal immigration authorities in a series of raids in LA’s fashion district and at Home Depot parking lots in Southern California. More than 100 people have been detained. The raids have triggered days of turbulent protests across the city and beyond and led President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops and Marines to the LA area, the latest development in the administration’s immigration crackdown. Protests in the city’s downtown have ranged from peaceful to raucous, with demonstrators blocking a major freeway and setting cars on fire over the weekend. Immigrant advocates say the workers who were detained do not have criminal histories and are being denied their due process rights. Vasquez has a three-month-old baby, according to his family who spoke to reporters outside the Ambiance Apparel warehouse, a clothing company founded in 1999, and where the young father worked. "Jacob is a family man and the sole breadwinner of his household," said his brother Gabriel, speaking in Spanish during a news conference Monday. He doesn’t know if he’s OK, he later said in an interview. "We don’t know where he is.” About 10% of LA County residents do not have legal immigration status. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass denounced the raids and the deployment of troops, saying Tuesday that the actions were aimed at intimidating the area’s vast immigrant population, one of the country’s largest. She said she has heard even immigrants with legal status are being swept up and that the raids may continue for months. An estimated 950,000 people in Los Angeles County do not have legal immigration status, according to the Migration Policy Institute. That is about a tenth of the county’s population, and they include cooks, nannies, hotel employees, street vendors, gardeners, construction workers and garment workers. "Families across the city are terrified," Bass said. "They don’t know if they should go to work, they don’t know if they should go to school.” She said many of those detained have had no contact with their loved ones or lawyers. The raids have only fueled unrest in the city, Bass said.

Los Angeles Times [6/10/2025 9:55 PM, Jessica Garrison, Melissa Gomez and Andrea Castillo, 14672K] reports alarm spread through California agricultural centers Tuesday as panicked workers reported that federal immigration authorities — who had largely refrained from major enforcement action in farming communities in the first months of the Trump administration — were showing up at farm fields and packinghouses from the Central Coast to the San Joaquin Valley. “Today we are seeing an uptick in the chaotic presence of immigration enforcement, particularly the Border Patrol,” said Elizabeth Strater, vice president of the United Farm Workers. “We’re seeing it in multiple areas.” Department of Homeland Security officials declined to confirm specific locations, but said enforcement actions were taking place across the southern area of the state. Advocates from numerous immigrant advocacy groups said their phones were lighting up with calls, videos and texts from multiple counties. The Times reviewed a video that showed a worker running through a field under the cover of early morning fog, with at least one agent in pursuit on foot and a Border Patrol truck racing along an adjacent dirt road. Eventually, the worker was caught. In Tulare County, near the community of Richgrove, immigration agents emerged near a field where farm laborers were picking blueberries, causing some workers to flee. In Fresno County, workers reported federal agents, some in Border Patrol trucks, in the fields near Kingsburg. And in Oxnard in Ventura County, organizers responded to multiple calls of federal immigration authorities staging near fields and entering a packinghouse at Boskovich Farms. Hazel Davalos of the group Cause, said there were reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents trying to access multiple farms in Oxnard, but that in many cases, they were denied entry. Strater said that she did not yet have information about the number of people detained in the raids, but that the fear among workers was pervasive. At least half of the estimated 255,700 farmworkers in California are undocumented, according to UC Merced research. “These are people who are going to be afraid to take their kids to school, afraid to go to graduation, afraid to go to the grocery store,” Strater said. “The harm is going to be done.”

Politico [6/10/2025 12:33 PM, Nahal Toosi and Myah Ward, 2100K] reports the Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up sending undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay starting this week, with at least 9,000 people being vetted for transfer, according to documents obtained by POLITICO. That would be an exponential increase from the roughly 500 migrants who have been held for short periods at the base since February and a major step toward realizing a plan President Donald Trump announced in January to use the facility to hold as many as 30,000 migrants. The transfers to Guantanamo could start as soon as Wednesday, the documents state. The expectation is that the detainees would be at the facility temporarily before being deported to their countries of origin. The official reason for the transfers is to free up bed space at detention facilities on domestic American soil, but the use of the notorious facility, which has long housed terrorism suspects, would also send another signal aimed at deterring illegal immigration to the United States. The plans have come together only in the last few days and could still change, the documents say. But the Department of Homeland Security may not notify the countries of the individuals affected in advance, according to the documents. Spokespeople for DHS and the State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. NewsMax [6/10/2025 4:32 PM, Jim Thomas, 4622K] reports that the government is set to significantly expand the use of the military facility to detain illegal migrants, with at least 9,000 individuals being vetted for transfer as early as Wednesday. This marks a dramatic rise from the approximately 500 migrants who have been held at the base since February as part of a broader strategy President Donald Trump outlined in January. That plan includes the eventual use of the facility to detain as many as 30,000 illegal migrants. While the official justification for the transfers is to free up capacity at domestic detention facilities, the use of Guantanamo — long associated with terrorism suspects — signals a starkly deterrent message aimed at curbing illegal immigration. According to the documents, the Department of Homeland Security may move forward without notifying the migrants’ home countries in advance. One document lists about 800 European nationals — including 170 Russians, 100 Romanians, and one Austrian — as potential candidates for the transfers. That element of the proposal has caused alarm among State Department officials who argue that most European nations cooperate in accepting deportees, making such measures unnecessary.

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Bloomberg Law [6/10/2025 11:18 AM, Andrew Kreighbaum, 1707K] reports the Department of Homeland Security has reopened processing of benefits, including applications for asylum and employment-based green cards, for immigrants admitted to the US through Biden-era humanitarian parole programs. Angelica Alfonso-Royals, acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, authorized adjudication of pending benefit requests in memo issued Monday, the agency told a federal district court. The memo covers immigrants paroled through the Uniting for Ukraine and Family Reunification Parole programs as well as a process for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parolees. It comes in response to litigation brought by a group of immigrants and US citizen sponsors challenging the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle those programs and a Feb. 14 memo freezing adjudication of benefits for recipients. While the memo allows for processing of parole renewals, initial claims and sponsor applications remain on hold, according to the declaration from USCIS. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a May 28 preliminary injunction directing the Department of Homeland Security to lift the pause on benefits. She issued an order last week directing the agency to let the court know what steps it was taking to comply after plaintiffs said no action had been taken. Talwani in April also temporarily blocked DHS from revoking parole status for immigrants from CHNV applicants. The US Supreme Court on May 30 granted an emergency request from Secretary Kristi Noem allowing the agency to move ahead with the terminations.

USA Today [6/10/2025 4:30 PM, Francesca Chambers, 75552K] reports President Donald Trump has launched a sweeping crackdown on legal entry into the U.S. through a revived travel ban, as his administration takes dramatic steps to block millions of people from taking up temporary or permanent residency. Trump’s extensive effort to keep visitors from nearly two dozen countries out of the U.S. had led the administration to block most travel from places including Haiti and Somalia, revoke temporary protected immigration status for hundreds of thousands of people from nations trapped in conflict, clamp down on student visas − and all but cease refugee admissions. An unconventional approach melding immigration reforms and national security policy has resulted in the most dramatic restructuring of admissions policy in a generation, with the second Trump administration taking full advantage of a rare do-over in government.

Washington Examiner [6/10/2025 9:59 AM, Bethany Blankley, 1934K] reports the Texas Secretary of State has referred the names of 33 potential noncitizens to the Office of Attorney General to investigate alleged voter fraud. The referral was made after the SOS was given access to a federal database to check its voter rolls after suing the previous administration to have access. Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security made available a database to state governments to check their voter rolls to determine if any illegal foreign nationals registered to vote or voted in their states. Under DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) uses the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program to make immigration status information available to state agencies. It was created to share information with federal, state and local agencies "for any legal purpose, such as credentials, background investigations, and voter registration," a lawsuit filed against DHS by Florida last year states. Florida has been engaged in more than a decade of litigation and interactions with DHS on the issue, The Center Square reported.

NewsMax [6/10/2025 7:14 PM, Jim Mishler, 4622K] reports Republicans in the House have concerns about security along America’s northern border as much as they want the southern border to be tightened up. They have introduced legislation to get more attention focused on the northern border by calling for an updated threat analysis and steps to increase recruitment and hiring, with current staffing near a critically low level. House Republican Leadership Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is one of the three lawmakers introducing the bill. She said in a release that, "I am working with DHS [Department of Homeland Security] to update the northern border threat analysis and prioritize the staffing challenges that have left our state vulnerable to illegal migration, including terrorists, drug traffickers, and gang members.". She pointed out that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) offices are facing a huge issue with "critical staffing shortages at northern ports of entry where officer retirements, recruitment challenges, and rising national security threats demand urgent and sustained attention.". A May 30 release from CBP noted a regular series of immigration arrests along the northern border in Maine. "After a record-breaking month of arrests in April, the United States Border Patrol (USBP) in Maine is continuing to see elevated numbers of apprehensions.".

Border Report [6/10/2025 7:06PM, Sandra Sanchez, 5801K] reports undocumented immigrants who leave the United States on their own won’t face daily fines, the Department of Homeland Security has announced. Immigrants with final deportation orders who self-deport through the CBP Home app will receive forgiveness of any civil fines or penalties for failing to depart the United States, DHS said Monday. Those who stay in the country despite being told by a court to leave face fines of up to $1,000 per day. However, those fines will be waived, DHS says. "If you are here illegally, use the CBP Home app to take control of your departure and receive financial support to return home," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. "If you don’t, you will be subjected to fines, arrest, deportation and will never be allowed to return. If you are in this country illegally, self-deport now and preserve your opportunity to potentially return the legal, right way.". Last month, the agency announced that those who declare they are leaving the country via the CBP Home app can receive free airfare and up to a $1,000 stipend once their return to their home country. DHS appears to have added waiving of fines as even more incentive as the agency seeks to remove more undocumented immigrants as a priority goal of the Trump administration.

NewsNation [6/10/2025 6:02 PM, Jeff Arnold, 5801K] reports agents from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s elite tactical unit are among the federal officers who have been dispatched to Los Angeles as part of the Trump administration’s response to ongoing anti-ICE demonstrations and unrest. Members of the unit, known within U.S. Customs and Border Protection as BORTAC, were sent to LA late last week, NewsNation has learned. These agents represent the special operations group within CBP, which is often called in to deal with emergent situations. But the role the group is serving in LA remains unknown, as officials from the agencies are remaining quiet on the unit’s participation. In a social media post over the weekend, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, wrote that BORTAC, which is based in his district, "has been worn hard" and that it is "important to let them catch their breath.". The same unit was credited with the apprehension of Grant Hardin, the former Arkansas police chief who was convicted of murder and other charges and who was on the run for almost two weeks after escaping from prison. Hardin was taken into custody on June 6, one day after the BORTAC unit, headquartered in El Paso, Texas, was assigned to assist with the search, NewsNation reported last week. Gonzales’ spokesperson told NewsNation on Tuesday that the congressman was noting the unit is being called on frequently and was not inferring that the unit should not have been activated to Los Angeles. Spokespersons from CBP and U.S. Border Patrol did not respond to multiple requests for comment from NewsNation this week on what role BORTAC agents are serving in Los Angeles. BORTAC agents are part of a larger federal response to Los Angeles, where more than 4,100 National Guard troops and 700 U.S. Marines have been deployed by Trump and members of his administration at a cost of an estimated $134 million, Pentagon officials announced on Tuesday. Critics of the operation insisted that, despite being trained in similar ways to U.S. special forces units, BORTAC agents had not received specific training for operations in urban environments. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told New York Times in 2020 that the training received by the elite unit of the Border Patrol "aligned with their appropriate training" and that agents received additional training for their deployment in the city.".

NBC News [6/10/2025 4:45 PM, Nicole Acevedo, 44540K] reports a 28-year-old pregnant woman set to give birth as early as next week is speaking out about being detained by immigration authorities in California, even after telling agents she was a U.S. citizen. Cary López Alvarado lost her balance as agents "shoved her" during her arrest over the weekend, she tearfully told NBC Los Angeles on Monday from a hospital bed. After being released Sunday, López Alvarado said she started experiencing sharp pains in her stomach and was hospitalized. With just one week left before her due date, her doctors said they are monitoring López Alvarado as well as her baby, NBC Los Angeles reported. Masked men wearing Border Patrol uniforms pulled up to a building’s private parking in the city of Hawthorne in marked U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicles on Sunday, after following a white pickup truck with two undocumented workers, one of which is López Alvarado’s partner. López Alvarado captured her interactions with immigration enforcement agents on video. López Alvarado said agents told her she was taken into custody for trying to obstruct their operation. López Alvarado was released shortly after the arrest and taken to her home. She was told that agents would contact her at a later time about the obstruction allegations. She said no one gave her any documents or citations in connection with the arrest. Her cousin, Sandoval, was not released because he faces assault charges, his mother María Alvarado, told Telemundo 52.

New York Post [6/10/2025 10:21 AM, Asia Grace, 49956K] reports an apple a day keeps the doctor away — too bad the fruit doesn’t have the same effect on security dogs at TSA. Dina, a travel influencer, was temporarily detained by US Customs and Border Protection officials and in danger of being slapped with over $800 in fines after a K9 police pooch smelled the undeclared produce she’d accidentally packed away in her carry-on following an overseas trip to the Netherlands. "Don’t make this mistake!" urged Dina, from North Carolina, in the caption of her cautionary TikTok clip with over 777,000 views. "I was standing there waiting for my luggage, and a Customs & Border Control Officer came up to me, saying the K9 was smelling food and asking me if I had anything.". "Shoot…I forgot I had an apple on me from Amsterdam that I was supposed to declare at customs," wrote the pro globetrotter with Global Entry — a privileged status that expedites the border crossing process for pre-approved passengers. "They took my passport and went through all my bags," Dina lamented. She claims officers told her that if she’d lied about the apple, she would have been slammed with a $300 penalty, as well as an additional $500 fee for breaking airport rules as a Global Entry traveler. So if you’re thinking of snacking on a crisp, juicy goody before an international flight, you’re barking up the wrong tree, pal. "Travelers entering the United States must declare all agricultural or wildlife products to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials," the authorities advised. "You must also tell them if you visited a farm or were in contact with animals before traveling to the United States." Customs and Border Protections echo similar sentiments on its site. The powers that be encourage jet-setters to declare fruits and vegetables, plants and cut flowers, meat and animal products, and live animals before going through security checkpoints.

Reuters [6/10/2025 5:15 PM, Nathan Layne, 51390K] reports President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he planned to start "phasing out" the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the hurricane season and that states would receive less federal aid to respond to natural disasters. Trump also said he planned to distribute disaster relief funds directly from the president’s office. Trump’s comments were among the most direct to date indicating his intention to significantly downsize if not outright eliminate FEMA, which has an annual budget of around $30 billion and employed more than 20,000 people, including reservists, prior to layoffs earlier this year. Distributing funds directly from the White House would also mark a departure from current protocols, under which FEMA oversees the dissemination of financial aid to the states following the president’s declaration of a disaster. Also at the briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that FEMA "fundamentally needs to go away as it exists" and that governors were being encouraged to work together to respond to disasters. "We’re building communication and mutual aid agreements among states ... so that they can stand on their own two feet with the federal government coming in in catastrophic circumstances with funding," Noem said.

Washington Post [6/10/2025 6:19 PM, Scott Dance, 32099K] reports President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration plans to “wean” states off Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance after this year’s hurricane season, offering in the most explicit terms yet his plans for states to respond to natural disasters and other emergencies on their own. “We’re moving it back to the states, so the governors can handle. That’s why they’re governors,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “If they can’t handle it, they shouldn’t be governor.” Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem have for months said they wanted to eliminate FEMA as it currently exists and hand control over emergency managements to states. That has puzzled some emergency managers who say that states have always led disaster response, and only seek federal aid and the help of FEMA staff if they need additional assistance. It is up to the president to issue a federal disaster declaration and allow FEMA aid to flow to states, communities and individual disaster victims. In the weeks after Hurricane Helene last fall, FEMA under the Biden administration spent $4.3 billion on response and recovery efforts, including debris removal, temporary housing for storm victims and money for local governments, individuals and families. A recent Trump budget proposal included $26.5 billion for disaster aid — $4 billion more than President Joe Biden’s last budget request. But in comments Tuesday, Trump and Noem said they planned for FEMA’s role to look dramatically different in future disasters, after a recently convened FEMA Review Council completes a study of how disaster response can be improved in the United States. The council includes current and former Republican governors and emergency management officials from Texas and Florida, and it’s co-chaired by Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Its goal is to figure out how to streamline FEMA operations and ensure the agency “delivers rapid, efficient, and mission-focused relief to Americans in need,” according to an April announcement.

The Hill [6/10/2025 6:02 PM, Rachel Frazin, 18649K] reports President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem detailed changes they hope to make to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), both indicating they intend to eliminate the agency "as it exists today" and also dole out less money to states that are hit by disasters. "We want to wean off of FEMA and we want to bring it down to the state level … we’re moving it back to the states," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Trump also indicated that changes could come after the current hurricane season, which lasts from June through November. Both Trump and Noem have called for axing the disaster agency, which helps coordinate responses to hurricanes, wildfires and more. Noem reiterated those calls on Tuesday, telling Trump, "You’ve been very clear that you want to see FEMA eliminated as it exists today, so I’m preparing all of these governors that they will have more control over the decisions on how they respond to their communities so that it can happen faster." She added that the administration was "building communication and mutual aid agreements among states to respond to each other so that they can stand on their own two feet with the federal government coming in in catastrophic circumstances with funding."

CNN [6/11/2025 2:34 AM, Gabe Cohen, 21433K] reports President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this year’s hurricane season, offering the clearest timeline yet for his administration’s long-term plans to dismantle the disaster relief agency and shift responsibility for response and recovery onto states. "We want to wean off of FEMA, and we want to bring it down to the state level," Trump told reporters during a briefing in the Oval Office, later saying, "A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.” Trump added that the federal government will start distributing less federal aid for disaster recovery and that the funding will come directly from the president’s office. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects this year’s hurricane season, which officially ends on November 30, to be particularly intense and potentially deadly. For months, Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA, have vowed to eliminate the agency, repeatedly criticizing it as ineffective and unnecessary. Noem reiterated those plans Tuesday in the Oval Office, saying FEMA "fundamentally needs to go away as it exists.” "We all know from the past that FEMA has failed thousand if not millions of people, and President Trump does not want to see that continue into the future," Noem said. "While we are running this hurricane season, making sure that we have pre-staged and worked with the regions that are traditionally hit in these areas, we’re also building communication and mutual aid agreements among states to respond to each other so that they can stand on their own two feet with the federal government coming in in catastrophic circumstances with funding," she said. Noem is co-chairing a new FEMA Review Council, established under Trump, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The council is expected to submit recommendations in the coming months to drastically reduce the agency’s footprint and reform its operations and mission. Plans to eliminate FEMA have baffled federal and state emergency managers, who doubt localized efforts could replace the agency’s robust infrastructure for disaster response. Most states, they said, do not have the budget or personnel to handle catastrophic disasters on their own, even if the federal government provides a financial backstop in the most dire situations. "This is a complete misunderstanding of the role of the federal government in emergency management and disaster response and recovery, and it’s an abdication of that role when a state is overwhelmed," a longtime FEMA leader told CNN. "It is clear from the president’s remarks that their plan is to limp through hurricane season and then dismantle the agency.”

Breitbart.com [6/10/2025 4:10 PM, Nick Gilbertson, 3077K] reports President Donald Trump blasted California officials on forest management during an Oval Office press conference on wildfires Tuesday. Trump said that one leader of a "forest nation" once told him that their trees were "much more flammable than" those in California, but they do not have wildfire problems because they maintain the ground. Trump, flanked by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, said his administration is going to start cleaning the forests.

Washington Examiner [6/10/2025 7:17 PM, Elaine Mallon, 1934K] reports President Donald Trump shared with reporters inside the Oval Office on Tuesday that he intends to use "heavy force" against anyone protesting his June 14 parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary. "If there’s any protester that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force," Trump said. "I haven’t even heard about a protest, but you know, these are people who hate our country, but they will be met with very heavy force.". Trump’s comments came after he deployed the National Guard and 700 Marines to quell the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles. Trump’s decision to organize a military parade, which happens to fall on his birthday and Flag Day, has drawn criticism rooted in its $45 million price tag and accusations that the festivities serve to stroke Trump’s ego. Walmart heiress Christy Walton purchased a full colored page ad in New York Times advertising June 14 as "No Kings Day." While the ad does not explicitly mention Trump, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) asserted that the mobilization call is "a nationwide counter protest schedule for Trump’s birthday.". The Secret Service shared on Monday that it is currently tracking nine small protests. "From a Secret Service perspective, it’s simply people using that First Amendment right to protest because we’re not going to do anything with that," Matt McCool, special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Washington Field Office, told ABC News. "But if that turns violent or any laws are broken, that’s when [the Metropolitan Police Department], Park Police, Secret Service will be involved.". The parade will take place in downtown Washington, D.C. It will feature 50 military vehicles, including 25 M1 Abrams main battle tanks and 50 helicopters, as well as performances from seven military bands "to highlight the Army’s 250 years of service to the nation," according to Army officials. There will also be 6,000 military troops present, wearing the uniforms of U.S. military service members from every military conflict since the Revolutionary War.

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NBC News [6/11/2025 5:00 AM, Peter Nicholas, 44540K] reports Donald Trump is getting the parade he wanted showcasing America’s military power — but he’ll also be getting mass protests exposing the nation’s partisan divisions. The tanks and artillery launchers rolling through Washington on Saturday will honor the Army’s 250th anniversary, which falls on the day Trump turns 79. About 7,000 soldiers will march. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line up along Constitution Avenue on the co-birthdays and cheer. Trump is set to watch the spectacle from a viewing stand south of the White House. But in Washington and in all 50 states, organizers will be staging protests that could dwarf the parade in size. A coalition of pro-democracy, labor and liberal activists is arranging a full day of counterprogramming to make the case that Trump is hijacking the Army celebration to venerate himself. “The goal here is to deprive Trump of what he wants in this moment, which is a story about him being the all-powerful political figure of our time, and instead create a contrast with normal, everyday people demonstrating that power in this country still resides with the people,” said Ezra Levin, a co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible, who is helping organize what participants have dubbed a nationwide “No Kings” demonstration. Another group called Women’s March is also arranging protests to coincide with the parade, with a theme of “Kick Out the Clowns.” Organizers expect up to 5,000 people to participate in Madison, Wisconsin, alone, said Tamika Middleton, chief political and strategy officer of Women’s March. On Tuesday, Rand Paul of Kentucky became the first Senate Republican to criticize the parade, citing the imagery. Showing off lethal hardware is something other countries do, not the United States, he said.

New York Post [6/10/2025 10:59 AM, Emily Crane, 49956K] reports would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was talking to imaginary people, dancing alone in his room, and even researched the distance involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy before the shooting that shocked the world last July. The 20-year-old’s spiraling mental state in the months before he tried to kill Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., was laid bare in a lengthy New York Times report that reviewed police interviews, his internet searches and even school records. After the assassination attempt, Crooks’ father had told the feds that he’d noticed his son’s mental health started to decline roughly a year before the assassination attempt. The dad, who noted a family history of mental issues, recalled seeing Crooks talking to himself and dancing in his bedroom at night. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) — who was among those working on the congressional task force on the shooting — told the outlet that Crooks was "having conversations with someone that wasn’t there" in the lead up. "There was a mysteriousness to Thomas Crooks’ descent into madness," he said, adding he learned the worrisome details while investigating the ordeal. Crooks ended up being shot dead by a Secret Service counter-sniper just moments after he managed to clip Trump in the ear with one of his bullets and killed a bystander.

The Hill [6/10/2025 1:13 PM, Anna Kutz, 18649K] reports that U.S. Secret Service, FBI, and other federal security officials on Monday afternoon gave an update on the protective measures for next week’s parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary. The parade will bring more than 150 armored vehicles, tanks, and more than 6,000 soldiers to the nation’s capital. The soldiers will be housed in nearby federal buildings. Army officials estimate around 200,000 people will attend the highly anticipated military parade on Saturday, which is also Flag Day and President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. With an influx of soldiers, weapons and potential protestors headed toward Washington, D.C., the parade will be classified as a national special security event, according to plans obtained by the Associated Press. The Federal Aviation Administration will be suspending flight operations on the day of the parade, and encourage anyone with flight plans that evening to check with their airlines for any changes. Pamela Smith, Chief of Police at the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, said there are no known credible threats to the parade. The screening checkpoint for the 250th birthday parade will open at 2:00 p.m. EDT at 14th Street between Independence and Constitution Avenues, and C Street NW between 18th and 19th Street.

Chicago Tribune [6/10/2025 3:18 PM, Staff, 3987K] reports three men, including one from Schererville, are facing multiple charges after traveling to an Illinois hotel expecting to have sex with a minor. Devonte Robinson, 28, of Country Club Hills; Nicholas Flesher, 55, of Schererville; and Cameron Konter, 24, of Braceville, Illinois, were all charged with traveling to meet a minor, a Class 3 felony; grooming, a Class 4 felony; and solicitation to meet a child, a Class 4 felony, according to a DuPage County, Illinois State’s Attorney news release. On June 4, the Downers Grove Police Department, in cooperation with the Westmont and Carol Stream police departments, and the DuPage Metropolitan Enforcement Group (DuMeg) conducted an underage grooming operation using undercover police officers posing as minor children. After the fictitious poster told them of her actual age, each of the defendants traveled to a Downers Grove hotel to engage in sexual activity with her. Each defendant was arrested at the hotel upon their arrival, the release states. The men had their initial appearance in court last week, then were released pre-trial with electronic monitoring and informed that they must have no contact with anyone under the age of 18. "The allegations against these three men are extremely disturbing," DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said in the release. "The predatory actions allegedly committed by each of these men, as they sought to have inappropriate sexual relations with an underage girl, will not be tolerated in DuPage County. I thank the Downers Grove Police Department for their work on this case and their continued efforts in protecting some of society’s most vulnerable as well as the United States Secret Service, DuMeg, and the Westmont and Carol Stream Police Departments for their assistance. I also thank Assistant State’s Attorney Grace Barsanti for her efforts not only on this case but for their continued work in protecting our children from sexual predators as is alleged in this case."

CBS News [6/10/2025 6:37 PM, J.D. Miles, 51860K] Video: HERE reports authorities call it a successful round up of child sex offenders, but it also shows how widespread the crime is in North Texas. The Dallas FBI office and some of the 70 law enforcement agencies that participated announced the results of Operation Soteria Shield on Tuesday. These are the faces of the 244 men and women charged with exploiting children for the purpose of sex trafficking or pornography. It’s the end of a month-long investigation by federal and local enforcement of a crime that authorities say is a year-round problem. "The number of offenders arrested and the children rescued in this operation are stunning," said Jay Combs, the U.S. Attorney Eastern District of Texas. "It’s stunning to hear them repeated here.". Operation Soteria Shield, which began in April, led to the rescue of 109 children. "During this operation, many of the children recognized or rescued were previously unidentified," said Plano Police Department Assistant Chief Dan Curtis. "They’d never been reported missing. They had never had their abuse known to authorities.". The operation not only led to arrests and rescues but also to the seizure of terabytes of child abuse sex material through a collaborative effort that started 10 years ago and now includes 70 Texas law enforcement agencies.

Bloomberg [6/10/2025 7:24 AM, Alex Longley, 19320K] reports the US Coast Guard released images of a ship that was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean after catching fire last week. The fire on board the Morning Midas vessel continues to burn, its manager said Tuesday, after breaking out on June 3 on a deck carrying electric vehicles. There are no signs of pollution and the vessel’s watertight integrity remains intact, Zodiac Maritime said. Images released by the US Coast Guard show significant damage to the outside of the vessel and some smoke still evident. Zodiac said the first of three vessels aiming to help salvage the ship arrived Monday afternoon, with the next six days away and another due to arrive in 12 days.

San Diego Union Tribune [6/10/2025 8:31 PM, Karen Kucher, 1611K] reports the search for survivors from a downed Cessna plane that crashed into the ocean Sunday was suspended Tuesday morning after personnel used aircraft and boats to scour 300 square miles of ocean. “They are still unaccounted for,” a Coast Guard spokesperson said of the six victims presumed to have died. The search began Sunday afternoon after the twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed several miles off the coast of Sunset Cliffs. The pilot had reported he was “just struggling” to maintain altitude shortly after taking off from San Diego International Airport as he talked with an air traffic controller. The flight was bound for Phoenix. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the aircraft plunged into the ocean around 12:30 p.m. Nearby boats reported seeing a large splash, and San Diego lifeguards rushed to the area, where they found an oil sheen and debris from the plane. The FAA reported the crash as being about 5 miles off the coast. The Coast Guard said its personnel at the Joint Harbor Operations Center in San Diego received the initial report at 12:45 p.m. It also pinpointed the crash site about 3 miles west of Point Loma. Because the area where the crash occurred was in deep water — thought to be 200 feet or more — Coast Guard crew members took the lead in the search effort, eventually working along with other partners to search more than 35 combined hours. “The decision to suspend a search is never an easy one,” Lt. Cmdr. Justin Brooks, a search and rescue mission coordinator at Coast Guard Sector San Diego, said in a statement. “We appreciate the work of our partners throughout the search efforts, and our hearts are with the loved ones of those involved in the crash.” The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash.

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CyberScoop [6/10/2025 11:52 AM, Tim Starks] reports a House panel approved a fiscal 2026 funding bill Monday that would cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $135 million from fiscal 2025, significantly less than the Trump administration’s proposed $495 million. The chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Rep. Mark Amodei, said the annual Department of Homeland Security funding measure “responsibly trimmed” the CISA budget. But Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood, the top Democrat on his panel, said the legislation “fails to address the catastrophic cybersecurity threats facing our critical infrastructure.” The subcommittee approved the bill by a vote of 8-4. CISA would get $2.7 billion under the measure, according to a committee fact sheet, or $134.8 million less than the prior year. While the full committee chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said “the bill provides critical support for cybersecurity technology,” Republicans also criticized the agency’s past work.

CyberScoop [6/10/2025 4:50 PM, Tim Starks] reports Congress is losing a cybersecurity advocate in Mark Green, the Tennessee Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee and announced his pending retirement Monday — a decision that could put new pressures on the fate of cyber legislation in the months ahead. As head of the committee, Green has championed cyber workforce legislation as his top priority, and recently called for a vote on the measure on the House floor. He has supported reauthorizing a cybersecurity 2015 information sharing law that expires in September. Last month, his committee held a field hearing on cybersecurity in California. Green said he would leave for an unspecified job in the private sector following a final vote on the legislation alternatively called President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill, a rescission package or the “big, beautiful bill.” The Senate has yet to act on that legislation, but House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he’s still targeting July 4 for final passage in his chamber. The measure advanced in the House last month by a single vote. “The cybersecurity community is going to feel this loss,” Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, said of Green’s impending move. “At a time when the administration probably considers the border the top issue, he’s gone out of his way to both handle the border and actually prioritize cyber.” Green’s exit could mark at least the temporary return of the panel’s next most senior Republican, Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, to lead a committee he chaired from 2013 to 2019. Green and McCaul have reportedly discussed the idea of McCaul taking over until 2026 so candidates interested in fully replacing Green could mount campaigns.

CyberScoop [6/10/2025 5:54 PM, Matt Kapko] reports Microsoft addressed 66 vulnerabilities across its suite of products and systems, including a zero-day in WebDAV that allows unauthorized attackers to remotely execute code, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday. The espionage group Stealth Falcon exploited the zero-day — CVE-2025-33053 — to execute malware on a defense company in Turkey in March, Check Point Research said in a threat report Tuesday. “Stealth Falcon’s activities are largely focused on the Middle East and Africa, with high-profile targets in the government and defense sectors observed in Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and Yemen,” researchers said. According to security researchers, Stealth Falcon has been carrying espionage operations and deploying spyware against journalists, activists and dissidents since at least 2012. “We are aware of a few organizations [impacted by the zero-day exploit] at the moment, and the CVE was only used by Stealth Falcon,” Eli Smadga, research group manager at Check Point Research, said via email. “The activity appears to be highly targeted, affecting specific victims rather than being widespread.”

NBC News [6/10/2025 7:06 PM, Ken Dilanian, 44540K] reports the Trump administration plans to eliminate a Department of Homeland Security terrorism prevention program that former government officials and experts say has helped thwart attacks in the United States. The DHS budget submitted to Congress last month cancels the $18 million terrorism prevention grant program, saying it "does not align with DHS priorities.". "That line should be quoted after every future mass casualty event in this country," said a current senior DHS official who declined to be named, citing fear of being fired. Former DHS officials say they believe the modest program, which costs about 4% of the military’s marching band budget, has stopped violent attacks. It is designed to prevent a type of terrorism that has become increasingly common: lone-wolf attacks by individuals who are not members of an organized group. Examples include the recent firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, on demonstrators marching in support of Israeli hostages; the murder of a young couple outside the Capitol Jewish Museum; the killing of 14 people in a New Year’s attack in New Orleans; and the shooting of a United Health Care executive in Manhattan. "When people say, ‘You can’t prove prevention doesn’t work,’ I ask them, ‘Do you go to the doctor? Do you have a smoke detector in your home?’ Then you believe in prevention," said Bill Braniff, a Biden administration appointee who oversaw the program as the director of DHS’s Center for Prevention Partnerships and Programs. John Cohen, a former senior DHS counterterrorism official in the Obama and Biden administrations, said the threat is growing. "Why was DHS created? To help the nation be better prepared to stop terrorist attacks following Sept. 11," he said. "We have had since January a number of school shootings and four terrorist incidents — all by people who fit those behavioral profiles.". The White House and DHS did not respond to requests for comment.

Daily Caller [6/10/2025 11:13 AM, Tayte Christensen, 1010K] reports the U.S. Department of State announced Monday it will offer up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of two sons of imprisoned Mexican Cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera. The reward, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Narcotics Rewards Program, is targeting Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Salazar, two of El Chapo’s children, and members of the Los Chapitos cartel (a faction of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel), according to a U.S. Department of State press release. The Narcotics Rewards Program allows the Secretary of State to offer rewards of up to $25 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of illegal foreign drug traffickers. The offer comes after the State Department designated the Sinaloa Cartel as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) in February. Los Chapitos is also a target of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)’s sanctions, according to a Monday press release. "Los Chapitos is a powerful, hyperviolent faction of the Sinaloa Cartel at the forefront of fentanyl trafficking into the United States," Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said in the press release. The Treasury Department said laboratories controlled by Los Chapitos allegedly added fentanyl to counterfeit pills produced by the Sinaloa Cartel and trafficked into the U.S., according to the press release. The sanctions and designation of the brothers are pursuant to executive orders 14059 and 13224, allowing the U.S. to both block terrorist funding and place sanctions on foreign individuals associated with illegal drug trading.

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FOX News [6/10/2025 2:23 PM, Danielle Wallace, 46878K] reports Republican attorneys general from at least 27 states want to coordinate a "game plan" with the FBI and the Department of Justice to "root out antisemitic domestic terrorism.". Fox News Digital first obtained a copy of their letter to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday requesting "assistance in the fight against antisemitic domestic terrorism in the United States.". "We hope to meet with you personally to discuss ways that the states can support the excellent work of the FBI and partner with the Department of Justice to ensure those who are committing these egregious acts are held accountable to the fullest extent of the law," the letter, spearheaded by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, says. "Like you, we were horrified by the Hamas terrorist attacks against the people of Israel on October 7, 2023, and we are concerned with the increase in antisemitism that has unfolded since that fateful day," the state attorneys general wrote. "Domestic terrorists have become more emboldened to commit horrific crimes against Jews and supporters of Israel since October 7, and our collective response will impact the trajectory of that development.". The letter references how two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot and killed outside the Lillian & Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum on May 21. The victims – 30-year-old Yaron Lischinsky and 26-year-old Sarah Milgrim – were leaving an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee when they were attacked. The couple was reportedly set to be engaged.

NewsMax [6/10/2025 10:43 PM, Michael Katz, 4622K] reports a Pakistani national living in Canada who has been charged in connection with a plot to conduct an Islamic State group-inspired terrorist attack at a Jewish center in Brooklyn was extradited Tuesday to the U.S. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, was charged in federal court in the Southern District of New York with attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, ISIS, and attempting to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries. He is scheduled to make an initial court appearance Wednesday, the Department of Justice said in a news release. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. "The foreign terrorist organization ISIS remains a clear and present danger to the American people, and our Jewish citizens are especially targeted by evil groups like these," Attorney General Pam Bondi said. "The Department of Justice is proud to help secure this extradition, and we will prosecute this man to the fullest extent of the law.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Khan on Sept. 4, 2024, based on a criminal complaint filed by the FBI in the Southern District of New York. That day, the DOJ said he planned to reach the U.S. border, using three cars to travel through Canada before he was stopped by Canadian authorities near Ormstown, Quebec, approximately 12 miles from the border. "Khan allegedly tried to enter the United States to commit an attack on the Jewish community in New York City, planning an ISIS-inspired mass shooting around the one-year anniversary of the attack on Gaza by Hamas," FBI Director Kash Patel said. "Thankfully, the great work of the FBI and our partners shut that down, and Khan has now been extradited to New York to face American justice.” Khan intended to use automatic and semi-automatic weapons in the mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, the DOJ said. He began posting on social media and communicating with others on an encrypted messaging app about his support for ISIS around November 2023, when, among other things, he distributed ISIS propaganda videos and literature. Khan then began communicating with two undercover officers.

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New York Post [6/10/2025 8:03 PM, Caitlin Doornbos, 49956K] reports the Department of Justice on Tuesday extradited an ISIS supporter living in Canada who had been caught planning a mass shooting attack on a Jewish center in New York that would have coincided with the first anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, tried to travel from Canada to New York City on Sept. 4 in preparation to carry out the horrific attack on New York Jews – but was caught just short of the US border, according to the Department of Justice. Khan, also known as "Shahzeb Jadoon," was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to ISIS. A plane carrying Khan, originally of Pakistan, touched down in the US on Tuesday afternoon, one day ahead of his scheduled first appearance on the charges before a US court. "He planned to use automatic weapons to kill as many members of our Jewish community as possible, all in support of ISIS," US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement Tuesday. "Khan’s deadly, antisemitic plan was thwarted by the diligent work of our law enforcement partners and the career prosecutors in this Office who are committed to rooting out antisemitism and stopping terror.” "Thanks to their efforts, Khan will now face justice in New York.” US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Khan’s case serves as a reminder that ISIS is still attempting to target Americans. "The foreign terrorist organization ISIS remains a clear and present danger to the American people, and our Jewish citizens are especially targeted by evil groups like these," Bondi said. "The Department of Justice is proud to help secure this extradition, and we will prosecute this man to the fullest extent of the law.” Khan began sharing ISIS propaganda videos and expressing his support for the terror group in social media posts in 2023, according to the federal complaint. Khan was caught after he told undercover FBI agents that he and another ISIS supporter based in the US were plotting attacks on Jewish centers in America and were seeking assault rifles and other materials to make them happen, the Justice Department said. "During subsequent conversations, Khan repeatedly instructed the [undercover agents] to obtain AR-style assault rifles, ammunition, and other materials to carry out the attacks, and identified locations … where the attacks would take place," the DOJ wrote in a summary of the crime. "Khan also told the [agents] that he had identified a human smuggler who would help him cross the border from Canada into the United States for the attack.”

New York Post [6/10/2025 9:51 PM, Victor Nava, 49956K] reports US officials encountered 55 Afghan evacuees on the terrorist watchlist after the Biden administration’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country, according to a Justice Department inspector general report. The report, released Tuesday, confirmed longstanding suspicions from Republican lawmakers that the Biden administration failed to properly vet US-bound refugees as the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan. "I’ve sounded the alarm about the need to thoroughly vet Afghan evacuee applicants since August 2021," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a statement, reacting to the DOJ IG report. "The Biden-Harris administration, my Democrat colleagues in Congress and many in the media were quick to dismiss glaring red flags that a nonpartisan national security analysis now confirms.” The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) identified 55 Afghans that were either already on the terrorist watchlist and made it to a US port of entry or were added to the database during the evacuation and resettlement process, the report found. Of those, at least 21 were added to the terror list after they had already entered the US. After investigations, the FBI eventually removed 46 evacuees from the watchlist, determining that they posed no threat to the homeland. However, nine remained in the terror database as of July 2024 and eight were in the US. "As if it wasn’t already obvious, the Biden-Harris administration endangered American lives by allowing suspected terrorists to enter the United States and roam free for years," Grassley argued, noting that his "oversight of this matter will continue.” Roughly 90,000 Afghans were allowed entry into the US and became eligible for Special immigrant Visas under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Refuge (OAR) and Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) programs, which provided the foreign nationals immigration processing and resettlement support. "According to the FBI, the need to immediately evacuate Afghans overtook the normal processes required to determine whether individuals attempting to enter the United States pose a threat to national security, which increased the risk that bad actors could try to exploit the expedited evacuation," the DOJ IG report stated. Despite the 55 individuals flagged, the DOJ inspector general determined that overall "each of the responsible elements of the FBI effectively communicated and addressed any potential national security risks identified.”

Washington Times [6/10/2025 6:08 PM, Stephen Dinan, 2106K] reports that the chaotic airlift to evacuate Afghans amid the fall of Kabul in 2021 allowed at least 82 people who have been on the terrorism watchlist to get into the U.S., an inspector general said Tuesday. That includes 55 who were already on the watchlist before the summer of 2021 or were placed there during the evacuation, and 27 more who weren’t added to the list until after settling in the U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said the FBI, once it learned of the names, generally took the right steps to track them, working to confirm if they were threats. “In each instance we found that the FBI’s screening, vetting, investigative and continuous identity discovery efforts revealed potential threats that existed, and appropriate mitigation steps were taken in response to those threats,” the audit concluded. Tens of thousands of Afghans were airlifted out of Kabul in July and August 2021 as President Joseph R. Biden scrambled to salvage a disastrous troop withdrawal. While the airlift was supposed to be rescuing Afghans who assisted the U.S. in its 20-year war effort, experts said a large amount — perhaps most — of those evacuated lacked those ties but were lucky to get through the Taliban’s roadblocks and into the airport perimeter. The goal of the audit was to evaluate how the FBI handled evacuees who were on the watchlist, which is why it focused on the 55 allowed into the U.S. even after their identities were known.

ABC News [6/10/2025 11:39 AM, Luis Martinez, 31733K] reports Democratic lawmakers will submit a bill in the Senate on Tuesday that would reverse the Pentagon’s new ban on transgender military service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria who now face being forced out if they had not previously self-identified as transgender. The "Fit to Serve Act" would prohibit the Defense Department from banning transgender service members from serving in the military. If passed, the law would prevent the Defense Department from denying access to healthcare on the basis of gender identity, and it would also prohibit the military from forcing service members to serve in their sex assigned at birth. It would also make it illegal for the military to discriminate against service members on the basis of gender identity. The Defense Department’s policy was required by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office that banned transgender individuals from serving in the military. In outlining the policy in a memo issued in late February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote that " individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are incompatible with the high mental and physical standards necessary for military service.". "We recruit and train the best and bravest to protect our country -- losing highly qualified service members, who meet strict standards to join the military, makes us less safe," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who is the lead sponsor of the bill that is being filed in the Senate on Tuesday, which was first announced last month. "By prohibiting this discrimination on the basis of gender identity, this legislation will help to ensure transgender individuals who are qualified to serve may do so" said Sen. Marie Hirono, D-Hawaii, one of the bill’s co-sponsors. Under the Pentagon’s new policy, transgender service members had until June 6 to self-identify and begin the process of voluntary separation. With the passing of that deadline, the Pentagon has begun a process of involuntary separation of service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria, which is defined as "psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity.". Ahead of that deadline, the Pentagon said more than 1,000 service members had self-identified as having been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. It is unclear whether that number increased ahead of the deadline or how officials had reached that estimate. National Guard and Reserve service members have until July 7 to self-identify for voluntary separation. The Pentagon’s new ban went into effect in early May shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could enforce the ban on transgender people in the military while legal challenges to the ban proceed in lower courts. Navy Cmdr. Emily Shilling, who is a lead plaintiff in one of the legal challenges, told ABC News that she has chosen to voluntarily separate. "Yes I am ‘volunteering’ to retire but I do want to make it clear that myself and most others I have spoken to in SPARTA feel it is under duress," said Shilling who is the president of Sparta Pride, an organization advocating for 2,400 transgender people in the military. "For me, it’s the only way I believe I can continue to uphold my oath," said Shilling. "I’m stepping away from active duty service, but not service to my country. My fight is only beginning.". The Democratic senators argue that instead of improving military readiness the implementation of the ban will have the opposite effect. "This ban undermines our military readiness and national security by removing thousands of talented, experienced service members and signaling to potential recruits that the military does not respect them, their colleagues, their family, or their friends simply because of who they are," said a description of the Fit to Serve Act. "It also wastes billions of taxpayer dollars invested in training these troops to become leaders to keep all of us safe.".

Reuters [6/10/2025 9:58 AM, Staff, 4622K] reports U.S. government agencies tracked foreign nationals’ visits to Elon Musk’s proprieties amid concerns over possible attempts to influence the tech billionaire, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The investigation, which tracked the foreigners in 2022 and 2023, included the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, according to the report. It focused on people visiting the Musk from countries in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, the Journal said. Musk, who runs five companies and has sensitive government contracts, has had unprecedented access to top government officials from countries around the world. The U.S. investigation focused on possible attempts to influence Musk, the Tesla chief executive, the newspaper said. No charges were filed and the status of the probe was not clear, according to the Journal. The world’s richest person, Musk was tapped by President Donald Trump to lead what became a chaotic drive to slash the federal government. He was a top adviser to Trump until the two men had a public rupture last week. Officials at several agencies including the FBI have been briefed on the investigation, which predated the Trump administration, the newspaper reported. The Journal said Musk did not respond to requests for comment and the FBI declined to Comment.

Wall Street Journal [6/10/2025 9:50 PM, Staff, 646K] reports Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the two countries will take the deal back to President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping for final approval. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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