• Top News
  • Los Angeles Times/AP: Kristi Noem, Trump’s secretary of Homeland Security, meets Mexican president
  • AP/New York Times: US Judge temporarily halts deportations to third countries without a chance to challenge
  • Newsweek: Donald Trump Dealt Three Back-to-Back Legal Blows by Judges
  • New York Times/Wall Street Journal/Washington Post: Trump Deportation Fight Reaches Supreme Court
  • Politico/Washington Post: Judge orders release of Venezuelan couple caught up in Trump gang crackdown
  • FOX News: HUD chief puts illegal aliens living in government-funded housing on notice: Americans are ‘our only priority’
  • NBC News: Legal groups helping immigrant children who survived sex trafficking, abuse sue to regain federal funding
  • New York Times: How Colleges Are Cracking Down on Students Now
  • Washington Examiner: The Trump administration turns the screws on free speech
  • USA Today: Fear, anxiety spread among Muslim Americans as Trump travel ban looms
  • AP: Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook
  • Reuters: [MA] US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts
  • NBC News: [MA] Detained Tufts student’s lawyer says immigration officials are ‘stalking Muslim students’ during Ramadan
  • Yahoo! News: [MA] ‘Deeply troubling’: Lawmakers demand feds release Tufts student from ICE custody, restore her visa
  • Reuters: [NJ] Columbia University protester Khalil remains jailed while judge weighs case transfer
  • FOX News: [NJ] Ivy League anti-Israel ringleader Mahmoud Khalil fights deportation in New Jersey court
  • New York Times/Politico: [NJ] Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyer urges NJ judge not to transfer his case to Louisiana
  • AP: [AL] Lawyer says an Iranian student targeted for ‘national security concerns’ was not a campus protestor
  • USA Today:[El Salvador] DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posed in front of El Salvador prisoners wearing $50k watch: reports
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: Hospitals are under digital siege, and it’s a national security threat
  • The Hill: The IRS isn’t ICE for a reason: Let’s keep it that way
  • Washington Post: Under Trump, free speech is a right for the chosen
  • Bloomberg: [MA] Rumeysa Ozturk’s ICE Detention Is a Wake-Up Call
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • FOX News: IRS sharing info with ICE would put illegal immigrants between ‘rock and a hard place’: expert
  • USA Today: Internal DHS, FBI docs question using tattoos to ID Venezuelan gang members
  • AP: Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
  • CBS Austin: ICE’s struggle to monitor kids raises trafficking and exploitation fears
  • New York Times: The Self-Deporters
  • FOX News: [MA] Tufts University student arrest: Top Dems want answers from Noem, Rubio, ICE on ‘deeply troubling’ incident
  • The Hill: [MA] Democrats demand answers on arrest of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [NY] ICE and federal agents arrest eight workers in dairy farm operation
  • Yahoo! News: [NY] ICE nabs Queens woman arrested for shoplifting from Victoria’s Secret
  • CBS Austin: [NJ] ICE arrests alleged Chinese spy in New Jersey
  • Yahoo! News: [PA] Honduras citizen indicted in Pittsburgh for illegal re-entry and Social Security fraud
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [TN] Accused of murder for death of baby in nursery allegedly illegal
  • Washington Examiner: [AL] ICE arrests Iranian University of Alabama student on a visa
  • Yahoo! News: [FL] Dozens of Central Florida law enforcement officers train to join ICE task force
  • Miami Herald: [FL] ICE illegally deported South Florida dad to Guatemala, perhaps others, lawsuit claims
  • Telemundo: [FL] Cuban arrested in Krome asks to be deported
  • Washington Post: [LA] ICE detains Harvard researcher from Russia who protested Ukraine war
  • AP: [LA] Immigrant students and scholars are being detained at remote facilities in Louisiana over objections
  • Newsweek: [OH] Migrant Workers Hired to Build Jail Turned In to ICE, Sheriff Says
  • New York Times: [MN] University of Minnesota Student Detained by Immigration Agents
  • Yahoo! News: [TX] ICE: Member of Barrio Azteca gang arrested in El Paso
  • Axios: [WA] Washington state seeks oversight of Tacoma ICE center
  • CBS Austin: [WA] Police arrest man for posing as ICE officer with fake emblems on SUV
  • ABC News: [WA] Man charged for posing as ICE officer, placed fake emblems on SUV: Police
  • Miami Herald: [WA] ICE arrests spark protest at Tacoma immigration detention center
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] California international students on alert as Trump ramps up arrests of pro-Palestine activists
  • Lodi News-Sentinel: [CA] ICE arrests Indian national in San Joaquin County, seizes stash of guns
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] General manager and 3 workers charged after immigration raid at East County business
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] ‘He is my lifeline’: Man in limbo after brother from Venezuela is detained by ICE while trying to donate kidney
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • New York Times: Rubio Says He Has Revoked 300 or More Visas in Trump’s Deportation Push
  • Newsweek: Millions to Be Banned From American Citizenship if Bill Passes
  • Newsweek: Tracking Birthright Citizenship Is Harder Than It Seems
  • Telemundo: Trump revokes humanitarian parole for more than 530,000 migrants in the U.S.
  • Washington Examiner: State Department revoking visas of pro-Hamas students involved in campus riots ‘every day’: Spokeswoman
  • AZCentral: ‘I’m a little scared’: Why more legal U.S. residents are suddenly applying for citizenship
  • Washington Examiner: Trump’s multimillion-dollar gold card visas plan could help pay down national debt
  • Newsweek: How Legal Immigrants Could Boost US Economy
  • NPR: What green card and visa holders should know before traveling abroad
  • Reuters: [MA] Haitian ex-mayor guilty of US visa fraud linked to torture
  • CBS Boston: [MA] Tufts student’s visa revoked days before she was taken into custody by ICE
  • CNN: [Afghanistan] Afghan pilots who fought in 20-year war against Taliban in limbo after Trump blocks US resettlement plans
• Customs and Border Protection
  • FOX News: Migrant border encounters under Trump continue to dwarf Biden’s record highs
  • FOX News: Stryker armored vehicles deploy to US-Mexico border under Trump administration
  • El Paso Times: Fort Bliss migrant deportation site preparation, construction set to start
  • NBC News: Denied, deported, detained: U.S. border incidents have travelers thinking twice
  • Yahoo! News: [NY] ‘I stand with the officers’: Border Czar Thomas Homan shows support for RPD in statement
  • Yahoo! News: [NY] Teen provides false ID to MCSO deputies, turned over to Border Patrol
  • Mississippi Clarion Ledger: [MS] US Border Patrol arrest 25 undocumented immigrants in Mississippi Highway Operation
  • CBS Miami: [FL] 50 pounds of cocaine seized from boat about 5 miles offshore from Fort Lauderdale
  • ABC News: [LA] Russian researcher at Harvard being held after failing to declare frog embryos at customs
  • KRQE: [TX] Albuquerque man caught trying to smuggle 242 lbs of bologna into the country
  • El Paso Times: [TX] CBP El Paso seize bologna, meth and fentanyl; man sentenced in $6 million fraud scheme
  • CBS Austin: [TX] ‘James Bond’-style border crossing stuns law enforcement in Eagle Pass
  • Border Report: [NM] Border Patrol agent hurt in ATV crash in New Mexico
  • Yahoo! News: [NM] Stryker team deployed to New Mexico’s southern border under president’s directive
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] California principal blocked Border Patrol from career fair
• Transportation Security Administration
  • Miami Herald: What you need to know about the bill calling to abolish TSA
  • Yahoo! News: [PA] Airport authorities make shocking discovery while inspecting traveler at security checkpoint: ‘This is the first time we have come across [this]’
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Politico: Trump zeros in on two state officials as FEMA finalists
  • The Hill: Noem’s vow to ‘eliminate’ FEMA raises alarms
  • The Hill: Trump considers axing FEMA grants over immigration
  • Politico: FEMA blocks $10B in disaster aid over immigration concerns
  • Yahoo! News: NOAA firings came just before a U.S. tornado outbreak. Did public warning systems work?
  • USA Today: Fires rage, spread across Carolinas as central US braces for severe weekend weather
  • Yahoo! News: Charlotte starting to see air quality impacts from Carolina fires
  • FOX News: Tornado Alley shifts to the Southeast, storm shelters become more popular
  • AP: Drought, wind, and debris from recent hurricanes are stoking fires across the US
  • New York Times: Severe Storms and Tornado Threat Loom Over Central and Eastern U.S.
  • CNN: Half the US population could be in the path of severe thunderstorms early next week
  • South Carolina Daily Gazette: [SC] No injuries or damage to structures as SC wildfires expand past 10,000 acres
  • AP: [SC] South Carolina wildfire keeps growing as firefighters protect homes
  • Yahoo! News: [SC] SC Gov. Henry McMaster and state agency leaders give updates on Table Rock Complex fires
  • Yahoo! News: [GA] Multiple Southeast Georgia counties battling wildfires along Highway 82
  • Yahoo! News: [FL] 61 wildfires burning in Florida, Red Flag Warnings out. Map shows where fires are
  • AP: [TX] At least 4 dead after severe storms in the South Texas-Mexico border region and hundreds rescued
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Laguna Beach awarded FEMA and state grant funding to mitigate wildfire hazards in two canyon areas
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Elderly, disabled were left stranded during L.A. fires as evacuation plans broke down
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] What to know about L.A. fires’ toxic slow burn
• Secret Service
  • Yahoo! News: [CA] ‘That’s what I get for trying to watch regular porn: ‘ Shafter man admits to having links to child porn on his phone
• Coast Guard
  • 90.3 FM Norfolk: The Norfolk-based USS Gravely joins the Navy’s southern border mission
  • ABC 12 Milwaukee: Wisconsin man airlifted from cruise ship after suffering four strokes at sea
  • HS Today: Half-Billion Dollar Drug Haul Offloaded by Coast Guard in Pacific Operation
  • NBC 11 Minneapolis: USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul making its maiden deployment
  • HS Today: Coast Guard Cutter Naushon Decommissioned After Nearly 40 Years of Service
  • HS Today: [FL] Coast Guard Intercepted Drug-Laden Vessel in $6M Bust Off Florida Coast
  • HS Today: [FL] Coast Guard Terminates Unauthorized Boat Charter Ignoring Port Order in Miami
  • CBS Detroit: [MI] Michigan, Ontario officials monitoring crude oil spill, cleanup in St. Clair River
  • Maritime Executive: [PR] USCG Finds Hazardous Ammonia at Puerto Rico Terminal Violating Safety Order
  • HS Today: [Marshal Islands] Medical Emergency Prompts Coast Guard Rescue from Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • CyberScoop: Trump’s ‘preparedness’ executive order would shift cyber defense burden where it doesn’t belong, experts say
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Axios: "Tesla Takedown" movement plans mass protests amid U.S. crackdown
  • FOX News: Feds on alert for Tesla ‘Global Day of Action’ after nationwide violence leads to arrests
  • FOX News: [NY] Tesla Cybertruck vandals caught on video scrawling ‘Nazis’ and swastika: NYPD
  • Yahoo! News: [NY] Swastikas, word ‘Nazis’ carved into Tesla parked in Brooklyn: NYPD
  • The Hill: [NY] NYPD investigating hate crime criminal mischief incident involving Tesla vandalism
  • AZCentral: [NV] Man arrested in connection with Las Vegas Tesla arson facing federal charges
• National Security News
  • The Hill: Nat sec officials discussion of ‘clearly classified’ information violated law, experts say
  • Reuters: Trump administration sues to invalidate dozens of union contracts
  • Federal News Network: Trump’s order to end collective bargaining for ‘national security’ reasons impacts most agencies
  • Newsweek: Hegseth Announces US Missile Plan Likely to Inflame China Tensions
  • AP: Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon
  • Wall Street Journal: Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials
  • Bloomberg: [Canada] Carney says conversation with Trump ‘very constructive’
  • New York Times: [Greenland] Vance Makes Quick Trip to Greenland, a Place That Doesn’t Want Him
  • Jefferson Public Radio: [Greenland] Vance tours U.S. base in Greenland as Trump talks up a takeover of the territory
  • Newsweek: [Russia] Putin Issues Arctic ‘Conflicts’ Warning Over Trump’s Greenland Plans
  • CBS News: [Lithuania] U.S. Army says recovering 4 soldiers missing in Lithuania "will be a long and difficult" operation
  • ABC News: [Syria] US embassy in Syria tells Americans to leave, warns of ‘potential imminent attacks’
  • Reuters: [Syria] Chemical weapons inspectors granted access to Assad-era sites in Syria, say sources
  • Newsweek: [Israel] Israeli Official Says Neither Israel nor Hamas Will Rule Gaza After War
  • Newsweek: [China] China Puts the Squeeze on Neighbors as US Alliances Wobble Under Trump
  • Newsweek: [China] China’s ‘Monster Ship’ Puts on Show of Force Near US Treaty Ally
  • Washington Examiner: [Philippines] US deploying more advanced military capabilities to Philippines
  • AP: [China] US, Japan, Philippines stage navy drills in disputed South China Sea as a Chinese ship keeps watch

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