• Top News
  • New York Times/Washington Post/AP/CBS News/Washington Examiner: Trump administration ends collective bargaining for TSA officers
  • Axios: Nearly 100 immigration court staff retiring, resigning amid backlog
  • Washington Examiner: Judge layoffs complicate Trump’s deportation plans
  • The Hill/FOX News/USA Today: Noem says DHS has ID’d, will seek prosecution of ‘criminal leakers’
  • FOX News: Noem team demands end to ‘fake news’ reports she spent $650K as governor on credit card — it was $2K
  • Newsweek: Trump Administration Moves Offices from Six Sanctuary Cities
  • New York Times: Trump Seeks to Bar Student Loan Relief to Workers Aiding Migrants and Trans Kids
  • CBS News: [DC] Son of ruthless cartel leader gets life in U.S. prison for trafficking drugs
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Chicago observers relieved a reserved Mayor Brandon Johnson achieved ‘a draw’ with congressional Republicans
  • Newsweek: [TX] Greg Abbott Won’t Rule Out Bounty Hunters to Apprehend Illegal Immigrants
  • FOX News: [CO] Venezuelan gangs are far from a ‘fake’ problem, Colorado DA says: ‘Giant issue’
  • AP: [CA] Federal judge won’t order immigration officials to change school arrests policy
  • Miami Herald: [Haiti] JetBlue to extend flight ban on a country after plane hit with gunfire
  • New York Times: [Panama] Panama Says It Will Release Migrants From Detention Camp
  • Wall Street Journal: [Venezuela] Trump Deportation Plans Hit New Obstacle in Venezuela
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: Trump’s ‘golden visa’ will drive up housing prices as foreign oligarchs swoop in
  • The Hill: The SAVE Act would make it harder to vote — and not just for noncitizens
  • US News & World Report: Trump Is Right To Target Fentanyl. But Tariffs Won’t Do the Trick.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Newsweek/NPR: President Trump brings back practice of detaining families together
  • Washington Post: [DC] ICE’s acting director was demoted two weeks ago. He’s still in the job.
  • Newsweek: [VA] Trump Supporter Wrongly Detained by ICE Now Questions His Vote
  • WSOC: [NC] Bill requires sheriffs to notify ICE before certain suspects are released
  • Yahoo! News: [NC] ICE fails to detain suspect in Charlotte shooting, sheriff says
  • NPR: [FL] Florida says its cops are ready to help ICE with deportations
  • Yahoo! News: [MI] Michigan immigrant father arrested by ICE outside school after dropping off child
  • Chicago Tribune: [IN] Indiana AG: Lake County sheriff didn’t comply with ICE until February
  • Newsweek: [IL] Landlord Made to Pay $80,000 for Threatening to Call ICE on Tenants
  • Border Report: [TX] ICE deports Mexican national wanted in disappearance of 43 Mexican students
  • Yahoo! News: [TX] 20 migrants in custody after ICE operation at Spring business
  • Yahoo! News: [WI] Washington and Winnebago county sheriff’s departments sign agreements to work with ICE
  • Yahoo! News: [AZ] Mexican citizen arrested by ICE agents using armored vehicle pleads guilty to felony
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • NPR/NBC News: Freeze on funding to help green card holders get citizenship stirs uncertainty
  • FOX News: New report reveals illegal immigrant population hit new high during Biden-era crisis
  • Yahoo! News: Tech, GOP scuffle ensues over H-1B visa program
  • Telemundo52: [CA] USCIS proposes to review social networks of applicants for residency, citizenship and asylum in the U.S.
  • The Hill: [South Africa] Trump offers pathway to citizenship for South African farmers, families
  • Yahoo! News: [Ukraine] Trump to consider extension of temporary stay rights for Ukrainians in US
  • NPR: [Pakistan] Afghans in Pakistan awaiting U.S. resettlement are stuck in a treacherous limbo
  • Washington Post: [Pakistan] Afghans promised a future in the U.S. now fear deportation from Pakistan
• Customs and Border Protection
  • CBS News: Some migrants hoping to cross U.S. border consider turning back due to Trump crackdown
  • FOX News: Border state lawmaker demands Border Patrol agents be paid during pending shutdown: ‘Above and beyond’
  • FOX News: Along the southern border, ‘the nonsense has ended’: CBP’s Ronald Vitiello
  • UPI: U.S. Customs and Border Protection unit renamed to honor slain agent
  • Yahoo! News: Nearly 300 Fort Campbell soldiers deploy to US-Mexico border for 2nd time this year
  • Newsweek: How Much Fentanyl Comes Into the US From Canada, Really?
  • Yahoo! News: [MA] Pilot previously arrested at Logan Airport shoots himself in parking lot of MBTA station, police say
  • Yahoo! News: [KY] Soldiers from Fort Campbell deployed to southern border
  • Border Report: [TX] Cartel spy drones monitoring US Border Patrol agents
  • The Hill: [TX] Buoy barriers on Rio Grande have doubled in size
  • Washington Examiner: [TX] Abbott’s border buoys scheme pays off after nearly sinking under Biden
  • CBS Austin: [TX] ‘A chess match’: Ranchers on Texas border test new solutions in battle against smugglers
  • KFOR: [TX] Missing Oklahoma 2-year-old child found safe in El Paso, says OHP
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] Nighttime smuggling attempt stopped after shots disable panga engine
  • Border Report: [Mexico] US repatriating 135 migrants daily to Mexico on flights
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • The Hill: FEMA fires three more people connected to directive to skip homes with Trump signs
  • Washington Examiner: [NY] Fired FEMA official sues DHS over NYC migrant hotel payments she says DOGE cleared
  • Yahoo! News: [KY] FEMA warning Kentuckians of scams following February’s deadly floods
  • Newsweek: [CA] California Changes Drinking Water Restrictions
• Secret Service
  • FOX News: Trump assassination attempt suspect legal team battles DOJ over evidence, test-firing gun
  • USA Today: Honorary Secret Service member Devarjaye Daniel is also an honorary deputy in Wood County
  • FOX News: [PA] New book details security lapses ahead of Trump assassination attempt: ‘Clear there was a problem’
  • CBS Austin: [VA] Romanian citizen arrested after credit card skimmers found at Wal-Marts along East Coast
  • Yahoo! News: [SC] Twice-convicted Florence man facing 2 new counts of sexual exploitation of a minor
  • South Carolina Daily Gazette: [SC] Irmo man pleads not guilty to threatening President Trump, denied bond
  • ABC News: [Russia] US seizes Russian crypto exchange websites, charges head of site with money laundering
• Coast Guard
  • Yahoo! News: US Coast Guard infrastructure is quietly crumbling. It needs at least $7 billion to fix it.
  • Yahoo! News: [MD] Army Corps of Engineers gives green light for next step in Key Bridge replacement
  • Yahoo! News: [WI] U.S. Coast Guard to begin ice breaking operations in Green Bay, reopen waters to commercial traffic
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • CyberScoop: CISA completed its election security review. It won’t make the results public
  • CBS News: Cybersecurity agency’s top recruits decimated by DOGE cuts
  • Yahoo! News: [IL] CPS data breach: Cyberattack exposed personal information of current, former students
  • MeriTalk: [China] White House Gearing Up China Cyber Fight Amid Talent Layoffs
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Harris County teen charged in alleged terrorism plot, accused of coordinating with ISIS fighter
• National Security News
  • AP: [OR] U.S. Army soldiers accused of selling military secrets, including to China
  • CBS Minnesota: [Ukraine] Trump says he’s considering Russia sanctions and tariffs until ceasefire is reached with Ukraine
  • Washington Post: [Ukraine] U.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to Ukraine
  • FOX News: [Ukraine] U.S. continues to share data to protect Ukrainians against Russian strikes, despite intel pause: sources
  • Washington Post: [Russia] Trump threatens ‘large scale’ sanctions on Russia after major attack on Ukraine
  • New York Times: [Iran] Trump Offers to Reopen Nuclear Talks in a Letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader
  • CNN: [Afghanistan] US reviewing visa programs as official says Afghanistan could be included in Trump travel ban
  • Yahoo! News: [China] China bans more US defense firms
  • FOX News: [China] Congress exposes China’s potential loophole for Trump tariffs: ‘Drawing a line in the sand’
  • New York Times: [China] China Hits Canada With Tariffs in Indirect Riposte to Trump
  • AP: [North Korea] North Korea unveils nuclear-powered submarine for the first time

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