Top News
WaPo/NYT/Reuters/NY Post/The Hill/FOX News: Immigration raids begin in Charlotte; Guard pulls back in two cities
NewsMax: Michael Banks to Newsmax: Border Patrol Will Help ICE Anywhere in US
New York Times/New York Post/AP: 4 Dead After Suspected Migrant Boat Overturns Near a San Diego Area Beach
NBC 5 Chicago: DHS closes command center at Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago: Official
NewsMax: FBI, Homeland Security Launch Task Force
CBS News: DHS fires back as Maryland pushes bill to limit immigration enforcement
New York Times: Church and College Leaders Work to Free a Detained Afghan Student
FOX News: Border czar Tom Homan slams Catholic Church, says a ‘secure border saves lives’
New York Times: The Department of Deportation
Breitbart: Trump issues secnd pardons for crimes related to Jan. 6
Latin Times: DHS Runs Multi-Million-Dollar Streaming Ad Campaign in Latest Push to Ramp Up ICE Recruitment
Opinion – Editorials
New York Post: [NY] Zohran Mamdani setting up NYC for violence with resistance to immigration enforcement
Opinion – Op-Eds
New York Times: I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.
San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] The federal government’s ‘new’ slogan reveals its vision for immigration policy
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Daily Caller/The Hill: [WI] Illegal In Indicted Judge Hannah Dugan’s Case Deported
Univision: [IL] Only 16 of the more than 600 people detained by ICE in Chicago had criminal records, according to records.
Law Enforcement Today: [IL] ICE Busts Senate Aide for Bogus Lawyer Ruse to Release Criminal Migrant
Washington Post: [AZ] Purple Heart recipient who served prison sentence deported, lawyer says
KJZZ 91.5 Phoenix: [AZ] Solitary confinement surges in ICE detention centers — and Arizona leads
Citizenship and Immigration Services
Univision19: Immigration cases that are being processed faster and those that are progressing slower
Univision: Why Trump’s immigration policies also cause uncertainty among naturalized citizens
Los Angeles Times: [CA] California to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants
Customs and Border Protection
FOX News: Border Patrol chief praises ‘record’ data as Trump admin delivers on milestone
AP: [NC] Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte
Washington Post: [CA] Man accused of smuggling protected parakeets in his underwear
FOX News: [CA] Former CBP officer sentenced to 15 years in prison for role in drug trafficking scheme at southern border
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Los Angeles Times: [CA] Storm of the season pounds Southern California as burn areas brace for mudslides, flooding
Federal Protective Service
New York Times: [NJ] Man Arrested After Appearing at Alina Habba’s Office With Bat, U.S. Says
Secret Service
CBS News: [TN] Tennessee police officer working Vance motorcade in critical condition after crash
Coast Guard
AP: Trump says stopping suspected drug boats doesn’t work. But the US reports record cocaine seizures
Yahoo! News: [MA] ‘Once More Into The Fray’: Kristi Noem Treats The US Coast Guard Academy To an Inspirational Locker Room Poem
NBC News: [CA] 2 killed and 5-year-old missing as southern California braces for more devastating rain
Terrorism Investigations
CNN: Terror plot arrests reveal ‘more dangerous’ online pathway to ISIS radicalization in America
AP: [TX] Feds expand terrorism charges in July shooting at Texas immigration detention center
National Security News
Washington Examiner: [DC] House Republican warns of potential sabotage tactics by Maduro in Venezuela
AP: [Ukraine] Zelenskyy says Ukraine is working on prisoner exchange with Russia
CNN: [Russia] Last nuclear treaty between US and Russia nears expiration as Trump and Putin trade testing threats
New York Post: [Iran] Iran says it seized oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz as US drone watched from above
AP: [South Korea] U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Visits HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and Confirms World-Class Naval Shipbuilding Capabilities
Reuters: [Japan] China Coast Guard ship formation sails through Japan-administered Senkaku Islands
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