• Top News
  • Washington Post/Axios/ABC News/Politico/AP/Breitbart: Newark mayor charged with trespassing after arrest at ICE detention center
  • AP/Bloomberg/New York Post: Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, released after arrest at immigration detention center
  • FOX News: ICE facility stormed by Dems houses ‘worst of the worst,’ DHS official says
  • FOX News: White House blasts Dems ‘crossing the line’ by storming ICE facility
  • Breitbart: Dem Rep. Garcia: ‘Shameful’ Trump Administration Arrested Newark Mayor
  • Washington Post/New York Times/Daily Caller: Tufts student arrested by ICE freed from detention
  • The Hill/Washington Examiner/NewsMax/CNN: White House ‘actively looking’ at suspending habeas corpus in immigration crackdown
  • FOX News: Senators answer questions about ‘due process’ as Trump cracks down on illegal immigration
  • New York Post: Trump offers illegal migrants an ‘exit bonus’ — and ‘free flight out of our country’ — via self-deport executive order
  • Breitbart: Trump Hires U.N. Migration Agency to Help Migrants Self-Deport
  • New York Times: Trump Calls for 20,000 Extra Officers to Help With Deportation Efforts
  • Wall Street Journal: Private Prisons Count on ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ for Immigration Payday
  • Breitbart: Soros-Linked Groups Sue to Stop Trump’s Migrant Child Trafficking Crackdown
  • The Hill: DHS sued over lifting deportation protections for Afghans, Cameroonians
  • Reuters: Trump cannot use new executive order to skirt ‘sanctuary’ cities ruling, judge says
  • Bloomberg Law: Justices to Consider Procedure in Birthright Citizenship Suit
  • Politico: Judges have a warning about Trump’s rapid deportations: Americans could be next
  • Breitbart: Trump Urges SCOTUS to Permit End of Biden-Era Mass Migration Pipeline
  • CBS News: Columbia activist Mohsen Mahdawi can remain free from custody while suing over detention, appeals court says
  • Blaze: GOP saboteurs join Democrats to derail Trump’s justice agenda
  • CNBC: Cargo thieves are attacking the U.S. supply chain at alarming rates
  • Politico: Trump ramps up plans for 2026 World Cup amid friction with neighbors: ‘Tensions are a good thing’
  • The Hill: [NY] Trump to meet NYC Mayor Eric Adams at White House
  • Wall Street Journal: [NY] Columbia Suspends 65 Students Over Pro-Palestinian Protest
  • New York Post: [TN] House Homeland Security Chairman demands ‘unredacted’ video, docs from Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s traffic stop
  • Federalist: [IL] There’s No ‘Sanctuary’ For Family Of Woman Allegedly Killed By Illegal Alien
  • Chicago Sun-Times: [IL] What’s known about Springfield men told by Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem they were being deported
  • Reuters: [TX] Migrants told of Libya deportation waited hours on tarmac, attorney says
  • Independent: [TX] Texas Republicans pushing for death penalty in all 50 states for undocumented murderers
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Texas mother’s deportation ignites discussion on U.S. citizen children’s protection
  • Dakota News Now: [SD] Madison-based group to join students in protest of Noem’s arrival at DSU
  • Telemundo20: [CA] Mexican court charged with migrant death in Del Mar panga crash
  • CBS News: [Guatemala] Guatemala extradites suspected drug trafficker "Chicharra" to the U.S.
  • Blaze: [El Salvador] Homeland Security Committee chair explains why he rejected Democrats’ taxpayer trip to El Salvador
  • AP: [El Salvador] Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador
  • New York Times: [El Salvador] El Salvador Put Trump Deportees Behind Bars. Now Their Families are Suing.
  • Washington Examiner: [El Salvador] Trump gets temporary win in lawsuit over man deported to El Salvador
  • Houston Chronicle: [El Salvador] Venezuelan man who came to Texas through refugee process among those deported to El Salvador
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Washington Post: [Op-Ed] America is becoming less ready for natural disasters
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Washington Post: From give us ‘your huddled masses’ to we’ll pay you to go away
  • Washington Post: The dark insult rooted in Trump’s pay-to-go-away immigrant stipend
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] Opinion: Smugglers aren’t the problem. A broken immigration system is.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • NPR: Cities aiming to thwart immigrant detention centers wield a secret weapon: local laws
  • NewsMax: Trump’s ICE Raids Make Forgetful Left Clutch Pearls
  • Washington Examiner: Trump moves to reopen prisons and shuttered immigrant detention facilities for ICE
  • Washington Examiner: How terrorists hide as legal immigrants
  • NBC News: [MA] Massachusetts police hold girl’s face to the ground as ICE arrests her mother, video shows
  • New York Times: [NJ] Newark’s Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center
  • New York Times: [LA] Tufts Student Arrested by ICE Is Released From Detention
  • Newsweek: [MN] Son of Vietnam War Vet Detained by ICE
  • Washington Post: [TX] ICE moves detainees to Texas facility where judge declined to halt deportations
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] A Houston-headquartered airline will run deportation flights for ICE. Residents are speaking out.
  • NBC News: [TX] Deported family of U.S. citizen girl recovering from rare brain tumor is determined to return
  • CBS Mornings: [MT] ICE Request Space at Gallatin County Detention Center
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] San Diego parish joins lawsuit to block immigration enforcement in ‘sensitive locations’
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • NC Newsline: Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to end humanitarian protections for migrants from 4 nations
  • Washington Examiner: US Customs and Border Protection employees told not to use DEI terms
  • Los Angeles Times: Migrant children languish in custody for months because of new federal rules, lawsuit says
  • Washington Examiner: H-1B visas are hurting American students
  • New York Post: ‘Balkan beauty’ hedge funder known for steamy bikini selfies banned from US over immigration ‘lies’: sources
  • Daily Mail: [FL] Glamorous Miami hedge funder banned from US as she is accused of lying to immigration officials
  • NBC News: [South Africa] The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees
  • Washington Post: [South Africa] Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Breitbart: Hegseth Warns Migrants Crossing into Pentagon’s Border Zone: ‘You Will Be Charged’
  • CBS News: Democrats urge Trump administration to ramp up efforts to curb trafficking of U.S.-made guns across border
  • El Diario de Sonora: CBP eliminates protections for sick, pregnant, and child immigrants
  • Telemundo51: [FL] Investigating immigrants’ landing near luxurious resort in Palm Beach; 10 detainees
  • Detroit Free Press: [MI] Feds: About $3M in suspected cocaine in truck at Ambassador Bridge
  • Breitbart: [Mexico] Southern Border Migrant Apprehensions Continue Record-Shattering Decline
• Transportation Security Administration
  • FedScoop: Senators want TSA to scale back facial recognition at airports
  • Blaze: REAL ID enforcement begins: What it means for ‘desensitized’ American travelers
  • AOL: [NJ] Newly Released Documents Show What the Feds Knew About the New Jersey Drone Scare
  • Wall Street Journal: [NJ] Newark Airport Suffers Another Tech Outage, FAA Says
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Washington Examiner/Daily Caller: FEMA leader fired after undercutting Trump in testimony: Leavitt
  • The National News Desk: Trump Fires Acting FEMA Chief
  • Politico: ‘I alone will speak on behalf of FEMA,’ new agency chief tells staff
  • Reuters: New FEMA head says he’ll ‘run right over’ staff who resist changes
  • FOX News: Trump, lawmakers at odds over whether FEMA should be elevated to Cabinet-level agency or completely overhauled
  • Axios: [LA] Leadership shakeup at FEMA raises alarms in Louisiana
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] FEMA chief out, NOAA disaster database cut as Houston braces for hurricane season
• Secret Service
  • FOX Business: Secret Service receives 10 vehicles for agent training from General Motors
• Coast Guard
  • Military Times: US Coast Guard to add heavy icebreaker amid shipbuilding overhaul
  • FOX 5/KUSI: [CA] Coast Guard stops illegally chartered ‘pleasure craft’ in San Diego
  • Yahoo News: [CA] Body found at Santa Cruz beach
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Federal News Network: What might change in a CISA 2015 reauthorization
  • CyberScoop: SonicWall customers confront resurgence of actively exploited vulnerabilities
  • NTD: [China] CISA Director Highlights US Efforts to Protect Against Chinese Cyber Threats
• Terrorism Investigations
  • DailySignal: [DC] Report Damns FBI Spin of 2017 Congressional Baseball Game Shooting
  • AP: [WI] Wisconsin dad charged in school shooting is latest parent accused in gun violence
• National Security News
  • FOX News: President Trump’s Saudi Arabia trip sets up a strategic reset in the Middle East
  • Breitbart: Trump faces Mideast tensions on return to his ‘happy place’
  • Washington Examiner: Trump looks to reestablish US influence in Middle East with foreign foray
  • Axios: Hegseth cancels Israel trip to join Trump on Air Force One
  • Breitbart: Trump to Shred Biden Export Rule that Undermines American Leadership in AI
  • The Hill: Cotton unveils legislation requiring location verification for advanced AI chip exports
  • Free Beacon: [PA] Trump Admin Turns Spotlight on Penn Over Years of ‘Inaccurate’ Foreign Funding Disclosures
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Texas House passes bill banning Chinese citizens from buying state land
  • FOX News: [TX] Texas pushes back against foreign land grab with ‘strongest bill in the nation’ against China, Iran, Russia
  • CNN: [Greenland] Pentagon considers shifting Greenland to US Northern Command, sparking concerns over Trump’s ambitions for the territory
  • FOX News: [Ukraine] Trump is committed to 10% baseline tariff, White House says, despite UK trade deal announcement
  • Washington Examiner: [Ukraine] Trump renews call for Ukraine war ceasefire, as Putin oversees massive Victory Day parade in Moscow
  • Reuters: [Russia] Russia says Ukraine keeps trying to breach border
  • Reuters: [Israel] Israel to Be Involved in Gaza Security, Not Aid Distribution, US Envoy Says
  • NBC News: [Syria] In Syria, the search is on for the remains of Americans killed by ISIS a decade ago
  • Reuters: [Syria] Exclusive: Qataris search for bodies of Americans killed by Islamic State in Syria
  • CBS News: [Iran] What to expect from fourth round of U.S., Iran nuclear talks
  • Blaze: [India] JD Vance pushes America First position on India-Pakistan conflict: ‘None of our business’
  • CyberScoop: [China] Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors
  • Federalist: [China] Inside China’s Massive Tariff-Dodging Scheme That Kills Its Competition
  • New York Times: [China] Trump Suggests Openness to Slashing China Tariffs Ahead of Trade Talks
  • CNN: [Switzerland] US and China begin talks on easing trade war, Chinese state media says

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