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Blaze [11/3/2025 4:00 PM, Cooper Williamson, 1442K] reports deportations and border security have been a crucial part of the second Trump administration, and nine months in, the government has started to release some results. Despite seemingly constant obstruction from Democrats, the administration has begun to deliver on its promises of mass deportations. "The president is all about results, ... and what President Trump, Secretary Noem, and our law enforcement have been able to do in the past 270 days, despite the injunctions, despite the obstruction from sanctuary city politicians and these activist judges, is really nothing short of extraordinary," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Fox News interview on Monday. She went on to report that over 2 million illegal aliens have left the country since the beginning of Trump’s term, citing an October 27 press release. McLaughlin claimed in the press release that the majority of the deportations have been voluntary: "More than 2 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. including 1.6 million who have voluntarily self-deported and over 527,000 deportations."

NewsMax [11/3/2025 5:04 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports President Donald Trump has ordered his national security and defense teams to expand classified briefings for Congress on his administration’s anti-narcotics operations in the Caribbean and Pacific, Axios reported Monday. The move comes as lawmakers in both parties demand more transparency after a wave of deadly maritime interdictions and increased U.S. military activity near Venezuela. Axios reports U.S. forces have sunk at least 15 vessels and killed more than 60 suspected smugglers since the spring. Pentagon officials say the operations are meant to "disrupt and dismantle" criminal networks, though they warn cartels are increasingly armed and confrontational.

NewsMax [11/3/2025 10:30 AM, Charlie McCarthy, 4109K] reports the Trump administration reportedly has begun training U.S. troops for a potential mission to target drug cartels inside Mexico. Two current and two former U.S. officials told NBC News that the early stage training involves Joint Special Operations Command units and intelligence officers under Title 50 authority, which allows covert operations led by the CIA. The effort could represent a major escalation in President Donald Trump’s campaign against cartels, expanding from recent strikes in Venezuela and maritime operations in the Caribbean to potential ground missions in Mexico. Newsmax has reached out to the White House for comment. The CIA declined comment, while the Pentagon referred inquiries to the White House. According to NBC News, U.S. forces would focus primarily on drone strikes against cartel drug labs and leadership targets, with some drones requiring on-the-ground operators for precision and safety. Although no final decision has been made, officials described ongoing debates over the mission’s scale and whether it should proceed with or without coordination from the Mexican government. "The Trump administration is committed to utilizing an all-of-government approach to address the threats cartels pose to American citizens," a senior administration official told NBC. The reported planning comes as the administration intensifies efforts to dismantle human smuggling and narcotics networks linked to cartels operating across Mexico, Venezuela, and beyond. NBC News [11/3/2025 5:00 AM, Courtney Kube, Dan De Luce, and Gordon Lubold, 34509K] reports that the early stages of training for the potential mission, which would include ground operations inside Mexico, has already begun, the two current U.S. officials said. But a deployment to Mexico is not imminent, the two U.S. officials and one of the former U.S. officials said. Discussions about the scope of the mission are ongoing, and a final decision has not been made, the two current U.S. officials said. The U.S. troops, many of whom would be from Joint Special Operations Command, would operate under the authority of the U.S. intelligence community, known as Title 50 status, the two current officials said. They said officers from the Central Intelligence Agency also would participate. A U.S. mission using American forces to hit drug cartel targets inside Mexico would open a new front in President Donald Trump’s military campaign against drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere. So far, the administration has focused on Venezuela and conducting strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats.

FOX News [11/3/2025 8:29 AM, Ashley Carnahan, 40621K] Video: HERE reports President Donald Trump said he believes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids "haven’t gone far enough" when asked about the federal agency’s tactics that have sparked protests and lawsuits. Trump sat down for a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell, who asked the president about videos of an ICE agent shoving a woman to the floor at an immigration courthouse, federal agents deploying tear gas in Chicago’s Irving Park neighborhood and smashing car windows. "Have some of these raids gone too far?" O’Donnell asked. "No. I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the – by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama," Trump replied. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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FOX News [11/3/2025 11:25 AM, Staff, 40621K] reports DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin joins ‘America’s Newsroom’ after the president’s interview, revealing that ICE will be ‘surging resources’ in the coming days for immigration raids. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

NewsMax [11/3/2025 11:55 AM, Staff, 4109K] reports Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs, sharply criticized Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker during a Monday morning appearance on Newsmax, accusing the Democrat governor of "dehumanizing and vilifying" Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal law enforcement officers. McLaughlin said Pritzker’s rhetoric misrepresents the actions of federal officers and distorts the reality of violent confrontations that law enforcement faces. "The way he’s been framing this is completely to whitewash and manipulate the American people," she said on "Wake Up America." "He’s acting as if there’s tear gassing of the public going on. That’s absolutely not true," McLauglin added. McLauglin also described increasingly hostile encounters between federal officers and organized agitators. "What the facts on the ground are, we are routinely seeing highly organized agitators and rioters not only stalk our law enforcement but then surround them, begin throwing rocks at them, and otherwise assaulting them," McLaughlin said. "They will deploy tear gas to control that crowd as a method to make sure that the public is safe.” McLaughlin charged that Pritzker’s characterization of law enforcement actions emboldens criminal elements and undermines public safety in cities like Chicago.

CBS News [11/3/2025 7:50 PM, Nicole Sganga, Laura Geller, 39474K] reports Matt McCaffery was a relatively unknown GOP chair in suburban Pennsylvania when police showed up at his door last year after an anonymous tip accused the Marine veteran of holding his family hostage — a swatting incident meant to terrorize him and his family just hours after he endorsed Kamala Harris for president. "If it could happen to me, small-town Matt McCaffery, it can happen to you," said the former chairman of the Upper Merion Republican Committee. The hoax call was just one of nearly 2,000 records of threats to local officials identified over the past decade in new data from the Impact Project and the Public Service Alliance. CBS News received exclusive access to the dataset, dubbed the "Security Map," ahead of its public release. It compiles more than a decade of cases from court filings, news reports and academic databases. The findings show that violent threats targeting public officials have surged across all levels of government and political parties. At the same time, the threat landscape has "fundamentally changed," according to researchers. "We’re seeing not only an increase in volume, but also an expansion in who’s being targeted," Abby André, executive director and cofounder of the Impact Project, said in a statement. "A decade ago, threats were concentrated at the federal level. Today, school board members, county clerks, and even mail carriers face similar dangers.” While federal officials remain the most frequent targets, threats against local officials are growing and now make up roughly one-third of all documented threats, researchers found. "That’s what we see in the map. The threats facing public servants — they span the entire country," said Isa Ulloa, founder of the Public Service Alliance. Threats were recorded in every state, with roughly a quarter of incidents concentrated in the seven battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan. And for every physical threat, researchers found nine verbal or online threats — fueling what they call a dangerous chilling effect. Both Democrats and Republicans were targeted at almost equal rates, with 58% of reviewed threats affecting Democrats. Ulloa isn’t just measuring the problem — her organization also offers security and privacy tools for the nation’s roughly 40 million current and former public officials, including McCaffery, who is considering another run for office. "Who wants to run for public office if your family’s being put in threat, even at the local level where most of the decisions in your life are being made? If they’re too scared to do it, we’re not gonna have anybody run," McCaffery said.

New York Times [11/3/2025 6:44 PM, Devlin Barrett, 135475K] reports federal and state criminal investigations into a Virginia woman who distributed leaflets disclosing the home address of a White House official, Stephen Miller, have prompted a secret court fight over the balance between personal safety and free speech at a time of rising political violence, recently unsealed court documents show. The records, which were reviewed by The New York Times, reveal that a local court approved the search of a cellphone belonging to the woman as part of an investigation that included multiple local law enforcement agencies as well as the F.B.I. and Secret Service. The activist, Barbara Wien, has not been charged with any crime, though the Virginia State Police still have her phone. The investigation remains active, leaving it unclear whether law enforcement has since gathered additional evidence. The dispute captures the fierce tensions over political activism that have become a defining feature of the second Trump presidency, pitting the Miller family’s concerns for their security against the First Amendment claims of a critic of the administration. In an atmosphere in which political violence against Republicans and Democrats has become more common, administration officials have increasingly voiced worries about their security, citing in particular the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and two attempts in 2024 to kill Donald J. Trump. But liberal groups and activists say the White House is seeking to demonize its political opponents and use the levers of government to stamp out opposing views in the name of public safety. At the heart of the clash is whether the involvement of federal authorities in investigating a local act of protest, and the tactics used by state and federal investigators, amount to overkill, or whether Ms. Wien posed a true threat to Mr. Miller and his family. A lawyer for Ms. Wien and a county prosecutor have raised concerns over the conduct of the investigation, including the involvement of multiple federal and state agencies. They have also raised questions about the issuance of the search warrant for Ms. Wien’s phone by state authorities based on evidence that she might have committed a misdemeanor. Ms. Wien’s lawyer, Bradley R. Haywood, said law enforcement agencies were misusing their authority to pursue a political critic. The county prosecutor, a Democrat, has accused the state attorney general’s office, led by a Republican, of overstepping its authority in trying to intervene in the case. A White House spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson, said that the law enforcement response was warranted, noting that Mr. Trump and others in his administration had been targets of members of the public. “Doxxing and any other actions that directly threaten the safety of officials and their families should be resoundingly denounced and thoroughly investigated to ensure attacks against members of the administration are not realized,” she said.

Breitbart [11/3/2025 5:58 PM, Warner Todd Huston, 2416K] reports pro-migrant lawyers proved to be far more interested in uncovering intel on Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller than they were in Chicago ICE actions during a legal deposition by Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino. Bovino was dragged into court by activists who claim that his immigration agents are indiscriminately using violence against anti-Trump and pro-illegal migrant protesters in Chicago. Obama-appointed District Judge Sara Ellis ordered Bovino to give a deposition last week, but it seemed to quickly grind to a halt, as the Chicago Tribune reported. The activist lawyers and Judge Ellis seemed far more interested in uncovering communications between ICE and Border Patrol and Stephen Miller than they were in local Chicago ICE actions. Justice Department attorney Sarmad Khojasteh protested all the questions about Miller and said she was "sandbagged" after concentrating her preparation on what was going on in Chicago. Khojasteh said she worked to prep Bovino on the local issues, only to have plaintiffs’ attorneys throw a "grab bag of anything" at him that had nothing to do with what was going on in Chicago.

Breitbart [11/3/2025 3:39 PM, John Binder, 2416K] reports Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), a fierce defender of sanctuary policies, is getting called out as an illegal alien is accused of killing a local elected Republican official and his wife last week. As Breitbart News reported, 34-year-old illegal alien Edwin Pacheco-Meza of Honduras was driving a van on Oct. 24 when he crossed the center lane and struck 71-year-old Michael Clayton and his wife, 66-year-old Gail Clayton — killing them instantly. Pacheco-Meza, who crossed the southern border as an unknown got-away, was in his vehicle with 18-year-old illegal alien Juan Morales-Martinez of Guatemala, who crossed the border in December 2023 and was released into the United States interior by the Biden administration.

Chicago Tribune [11/3/2025 1:03 PM, Jason Meisner, 4829K] reports the deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino nearly ground to a halt last week as government lawyers repeatedly objected to questions by plaintiffs’ attorneys, including some about communications between Bovino and White House advisor Stephen Miller, court records obtained by the Tribune show. The impasse prompted attorneys for both sides to go before U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in the middle of Bovino’s sworn testimony on Thursday, where lawyers for the Justice Department complained that Bovino was being asked questions that were overbroad, poorly constructed and were not directly tied to the claims in the underlying lawsuit about the use of force by immigration agents during "Operation Midway Blitz." During the hearing, Justice Department attorney Sarmad Khojasteh piqued the frustration of the judge by repeatedly interrupting her and fumbling over the facts of the case. Kosjasteh, who filed his first appearance in the case the day before Bovino’s deposition, repeatedly referred to the Chicago immigration push as "Operation Midway Drift" and had to apologize for being new to the table. "This is the problem when people come in, right, and we’ve got a revolving door of attorneys and they haven’t been here for the entire thing," Ellis told Khojasteh, according to a transcript of the proceedings. "…They haven’t sat through people’s testimony, they haven’t sat through these hearings, and so now I’m having to explain myself multiple times. And I find it at this point extremely frustrating and a waste of time."

Chicago Tribune [11/3/2025 7:30 AM, Sam Charles, Laura Rodríguez Presa, and Rebecca Johnson 4829K] reports the rate of 911 calls made in Chicago has dropped precipitously in the two months since the start of Operation Midway Blitz, a Tribune review of city data found. And nowhere is the decrease more pronounced than in Little Village, home to Chicago’s largest Mexican American population, where calls to 911 have fallen by more than 21% since the surge of federal immigration officers began, city data show. Neighborhood leaders acknowledge a sharp year-over-year decline in crime, but note that the wave of immigration enforcement has left many residents in fear of calling 911 for help during that stretch. The decline reflects more than just safer streets in Little Village, said Matt DeMateo, executive director of New Life Centers, a nonprofit serving youths and families in Little Village. It’s residents’ fear, fueled by federal immigration enforcement, that may be driving the decline. "It’s less about trust in police, it’s more about fear," DeMateo said. "ICE is creating chaos, and people are making decisions for their own safety."

Chicago Tribune [11/3/2025 7:33 PM, Adriana Pérez and Laura Turbay, 4829K] reports family members of a man hospitalized after being arrested by federal immigration agents in Melrose Park on Sunday morning said they were not allowed to see Ricardo Aguayo Rodriguez during his stay in the hospital and no longer know where he is. According to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security: "He will remain in custody under medical supervision pending removal proceedings.” Stephanie Suane, 33, Aguayo Rodriguez’s niece, said her uncle was released Monday afternoon from Loyola Medicine’s Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, but the doctor did not tell them where he was sent. The family believes he may have been moved to the Broadview detention facility. Dora Suane, Aguayo Rodriguez’s older sister, said earlier Monday that she was denied a visit by the Melrose Park hospital for a second day in a row. Videos shared on social media show Aguayo Rodriguez struggling on the ground, lying next to a white truck, while a federal agent kept him in a headlock. "Por favor, amigo," he can be heard pleading as he groans and yells in pain. "Please, friend.” According to the DHS statement, Aguayo Rodriguez fled from U.S. Border Patrol agents and resisted arrest. "He actively resisted and assaulted law enforcement," the statement said. "The agent deployed pepper spray to deescalate the situation and stop the assaults. After Rodriguez continued to violently resist and put law enforcement in danger, the agent delivered strikes as a last resort. As a precaution, Border Patrol took the suspect to a hospital for medical treatment. He will remain in custody under medical supervision pending removal proceedings.” Aguayo Rodriguez has a criminal record that includes convictions for assault and battery as well as possession of a controlled substance, according to the statement. A hospital spokesperson said in an emailed statement: "Loyola Medicine treats federal agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the same way we treat all law enforcement personnel. If they need to enter our facilities, they coordinate with our Security team. This morning, ICE personnel came to Gottlieb Memorial Hospital to accompany a patient in their custody who required medical care. Visitation is restricted for any patient in custody and is at the discretion of the law enforcement agency. Hospital staff have been in contact with the family to update them on the patient’s condition.”

Wall Street Journal [11/3/2025 4:10 PM, Staff, 646K] reports federal officers from various agencies have been reassigned to assist with immigration enforcement operations. WSJ analyzes the use of force, high-risk maneuvers and military-style tactics agents from elite units have deployed in Chicago. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

USA Today [11/4/2025 12:07 AM, Michael Loria, 67103K] reports a woman on her way to work got into a traffic accident that turned into an ordeal where masked federal agents holding weapons dragged her out of her car and detained her without telling her why, the woman’s family says. The video of masked men detaining Dayanne Figueroa, a U.S. citizen and paralegal, after a traffic accident in Chicago is the latest to make the rounds in the city where federal agents have faced scrutiny over aggressive tactics. Figueroa’s account of the incident comes as the Supreme Court weighs whether to allow President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard to the city. The White House says a rebellion is potentially underway in the Prairie State and troops are needed to help carry out Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown known as Operation Midway Blitz. Local Democratic leaders view the Republican president’s efforts to deploy the military as a power grab. Many Chicagoans and residents of the surrounding areas view federal agents already deployed to the city as an occupying force. Reached on the phone by USA TODAY, the Figueroa family declined to immediately speak, citing potential upcoming litigation. Dayanne Figueroa released a statement online. "I was in shock and terrified," she said of the moment when she was dragged from her car and pinned to the asphalt. "Agents crashed into me. I was not involved in any protest or related activity and I intend to seek justice for how I was treated.” Figueroa’s encounter with agents came on Oct. 10 and was covered by the Chicago Tribune on Nov. 3. The woman’s account of her detainment comes just days after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters at a news conference in Gary, Indiana, that no U.S. citizens had been detained in connection with the blitz crackdown. Homeland Security officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the incident or on Noem’s comment. The Figueroa family is raising funds for legal and medical fees associated with the incident. The woman says the encounter came after a recent kidney surgery and that afterwards she went to the hospital "because of the excessive force used during her detention.” Video published on YouTube by the Figueroa family shows immigration agents detaining a man on a city street while a handful of passersby protest the arrest.

Axios [11/3/2025 12:54 PM, Carrie Shepherd, 12972K] reports that the Chicago Sun-Times has told the Department of Homeland Security to stop using the newspaper’s photos and videos in the federal agency’s videos of immigration enforcement. Why it matters: In a letter to the department, the Sun-Times accuses DHS of using three of the paper’s photos in its social media posts, which the paper’s attorney says is intellectual property rights infringement, but also implies that the paper "endorses" DHS’ enforcement tactics. What they’re saying: "It is imperative that, as a news organization, CSTM [Chicago Sun-Times Media] maintains its independence in order to fairly report on government agencies," attorney Steven Mandell wrote in the letter. DHS’ "false implication that CSTM gave permission for its intellectual property to be used in connection with the Department’s publicity campaign damages CSTM’s credibility and interferes with its ability to report on these issues." Zoom in: One of the examples Mandell cites is a photo of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents walking in front of Trump Tower, taken by Sun-Times photo editor Ashlee Rezin in September. Two other examples cited include photos in a montage posted last week by DHS of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino in a video superimposed with the text: "We Will Not be Stopped." Zoom out: This is not the first time DHS has been called out by artists and photographers for using their work in the department’s media, including a Thomas Kincaide painting that the late artist’s foundation asked DHS to remove, according to ABC News. When asked if DHS has responded to the letter, Mandell told Axios: "Crickets."

AP [11/3/2025 11:35 PM, Claire Rush and Gene Johnson, 31753K] reports a federal judge in Oregon on Sunday barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday, saying she "found no credible evidence" that protests in the city grew out of control before the president federalized the troops earlier this fall. The city and state sued in September to block the deployment. It is the latest development in weeks of legal back-and-forth in Portland, Chicago and other U.S. cities as the Trump administration has moved to federalize and deploy the National Guard in city streets to quell protests. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, followed a three-day trial in which both sides argued over whether protests at the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building met the conditions for using the military domestically under federal law. In a 16-page filing late Sunday, Immergut said she would issue a final order on Friday due to the voluminous evidence presented at trial, including more than 750 exhibits. The purpose of the deployment, according to the Trump administration, is to protect federal personnel and property where protests are occurring or likely to occur. Legal experts said that a higher appellate court order that remains in effect would have barred troops from being deployed anyway. Immergut wrote that most violence appeared to be between protesters and counter-protesters and found no evidence of "significant damage" to the immigration facility at the center of the protests.

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NPR [11/3/2025 5:00 AM, Kat Lonsdorf, 28013K] reports President Trump’s deployments of National Guard troops to U.S. cities have outraged his political rivals, tested legal precedents and led to nationwide protests. The courts are weighing in on their legality. But — if successful — they could also fulfill a long-running administration goal of employing America’s military to aid in the mass deportation of immigrants without legal status, according to an NPR review of past comments from Trump and his allies. It’s a move that would stray significantly from past federal use of the Guard, challenging laws that dictate how the U.S. military can be used domestically. And with the 2026 midterms looming, some experts worry Guard troops could even be used as a tool of systemic voter suppression and intimidation. Trump has sent troops into four Democratic-led cities and threatened to send them to several more, claiming they are needed to crack down on crime and protect federal immigration facilities and officers. Those deployments, and the White House’s rhetoric around them, have regularly conflated violent crime and illegal immigration into a single crisis, blurring the lines around the role of the Guard and federal agents. Taken one at a time, the deployments can seem random or fickle — Trump will often muse about sending troops into a city, only to back track his comments and focus on a different city days later. But the president and several others in his inner circle — most notably Stephen Miller, a senior aide to Trump in his first term, and now Trump’s right hand man on immigration — have long talked about using the National Guard to help with mass deportations and immigration raids, despite U.S. laws broadly preventing the military from being used for domestic policing. To get around those laws, both Trump and Miller have talked about invoking the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to deploy the military within the U.S. in certain situations. Legal experts, activists and watchdog groups worry the Trump administration could fundamentally change the way the military is used on U.S. soil, specifically raising concerns about the upcoming 2026 midterm elections and what armed troops on the streets could mean as voters cast ballots.

New York Times [11/4/2025 2:47 AM, Bora Erden, 330K] reports that, with the Border Patrol marching through Chicago and the National Guard patrolling Memphis, the variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. Often, it can be difficult for the public to tell them apart, or to understand what powers each agency has. Here is a guide to how these forces are operating, including alongside local law enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the primary immigration law enforcement agency in the country, and its officers wear a variety of uniforms and identifiers. ICE is made up of two main branches. The officers of Enforcement and Removal Operations typically handle arrests and deportations. In the past, Homeland Security Investigations focused on transnational crimes, but Mr. Trump has called on its officers to make other arrests in the field. Confusion over immigration officers’ relationship to other law enforcement is not new. In 2020, community organizations in California sued ICE, claiming officers misrepresented themselves as the police during immigration operations. The lawsuit was settled in August and mandated that officers clearly identify themselves as ICE on their clothing. Elsewhere, ICE officers may operate in plain clothes with no or minimal identification but are supposed to identify themselves during arrests. One case involving a Turkish doctoral student sparked outrage when footage surfaced of plainclothes agents confronting her on the street outside Boston in March. Still other ICE officers may appear in full military-style fatigues, like the agency’s Special Response Teams, who are trained for high-risk operations. Since the anti-ICE summer protests in Los Angeles, they have also been guarding ICE facilities and making some street arrests. Customs and Border Protection is charged with law enforcement at the border, but Mr. Trump has deployed its agents nationwide to arrest immigrants. Within 100 miles of the border, they have greater authority than local law enforcement to conduct certain searches. Like ICE officers, their uniforms vary. After protests mounted over his immigration crackdown, Mr. Trump sent National Guard troops to Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., citing a need to protect immigration agents and federal property. He also has called upon the National Guard to work alongside the local police in Memphis and Washington, D.C. Local officials in most of these cities, which are led by Democrats, have strongly objected to the deployments, saying Mr. Trump is misusing the Guard, a part-time military force that most often is called upon during natural disasters, wars or civil unrest. Where the president’s deportation and crime-prevention campaigns intersect, the lines have blurred, and all types of law enforcement share overlapping roles. While immigration enforcement is the purview of ICE and Border Patrol, other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security and in the Justice Department have increasingly taken on this work. ICE often conducts raids on residences, and the agency has revived workplace raids, a practice largely suspended under the previous administration. Officers more often now stop people on the street, sometimes detaining U.S. citizens. ICE and Border Patrol agents also make arrests at courthouse immigration hearings, a practice legal groups say violates due process protections. In many places, the local police work directly with Homeland Security to arrest immigrants, or to detain them until immigration officers arrive. In Washington, at least eight federal agencies were part of Mr. Trump’s efforts to take control of law enforcement. The local police helped immigration officers identify targets during stops for minor infractions, and immigration officers helped with arrests for nonimmigration crimes.

Wall Street Journal [11/3/2025 3:09 PM, Angus Loten, 646K] reports the Department of Homeland Security is directing border-patrol agents to screen all foreign travelers with facial recognition tools as they enter and leave the U.S., seeking to identify immigrants who entered the country illegally or overstayed visas, the agency said. Expanding the use of facial recognition at border checkpoints will “make the process for verifying the identity of aliens more efficient, accurate and secure,” DHS said. The move, set to take effect in late December, would also create a massive biometric database—what DHS is calling a “gallery”—on countless non-U. S. citizens that risks becoming a rich source for deepfakes and other cybercrimes, security experts said. Biometric data can include fingerprints or voice patterns to identify individuals. Initially, the new directive will apply only to photos and at commercial airports. The agency plans to eventually extend the screening to all air, sea and land ports of entry. “Anytime you collect and build a large, centralized database of biometrics, especially one which can span decades and include data from millions of individuals, it creates the opportunity for long-term risk,” said Patrick Joyce, global resident chief information security officer at cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. “As we’ve seen in other attacks, such systems are incredibly valuable targets,” Joyce said. Beyond secure storage, passing biometric data along to other government agencies or third-party contractors can create additional vulnerabilities, said Mark McCreary, co-chair of the privacy and data security practice at law firm Fox Rothschild. McCreary said there is an “ongoing concern about the potential for data breaches, mission creep and the lack of transparency around how data is shared across agencies and with commercial partners.” Extending biometric data-gathering to include foreign travelers leaving the U.S. also comes with added risks, McCreary said. Because exit-screening is relatively new and untested, the initial program will likely rely on a mix of government and airline-provided cameras, along with mobile devices used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, he said: “This hybrid approach increases the number of entities handling sensitive biometric data, amplifying the risk of unauthorized access or misuse.”

NBC News [11/3/2025 12:38 PM, Megan Lebowitz and Ryan J. Reilly, 34509K] reports jury selection started Monday in the trial of former Justice Department employee Sean Dunn, also known as the "sandwich guy," months after he went viral for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington, D.C., at close range. In return, prosecutors hit Dunn with a misdemeanor assault charge in August. That came a day after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office failed to persuade a grand jury to indict Dunn on felony charges — a sub-optimal result for prosecutors. Dunn pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge in September. The case is proceeding after a judge rejected the government’s motion to delay the trial because of a disagreement over jury instructions. Jury selection is being done in open court, but U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols is using technology, including a white noise machine, to block members of the public and the media from hearing what the potential jurors are being asked and what they’re answering. In the past, such broad restrictions on jury selection have been found to be unconstitutional. Dunn’s lawyers have claimed the case is "selective and vindictive prosecution," arguing he was singled out for prosecution "not because of the nature of his alleged conduct — throwing a soft object that caused no injury — but because his outspoken, viral critique of the current administration’s policing and immigration policies made him a political target.” Federal prosecutors opposed Dunn’s lawyers’ motion to dismiss the charge, writing that Dunn was "recorded throwing a sandwich at a federal officer at point-blank range."

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CNN [11/3/2025 5:47 PM, Holmes Lybrand] reports potential jurors who were not selected to serve in the trial of a DC man accused of throwing a sub sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer expressed deep skepticism of the federal case. A group of eight dismissed jurors spoke to CNN Monday, questioning whether any jury in DC would convict the accused sandwich-thrower, Sean Dunn. Dunn has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. A jury was selected in the trial Monday afternoon. A grand jury declined to hand up a more severe assault charge against Dunn over the summer, which carried a maximum sentence of nearly a decade in prison. Prosecutors then filed a complaint against Dunn that carries a far lower maximum sentence of 1 year. Dunn, who worked at the Justice Department at the time of the alleged sandwich throwing, was quickly fired after the incident, which Attorney General Pam Bondi publicly announced. Prosecutors say Dunn, in early August, yelled offensive things at a group of officers before throwing the sandwich and running away.

(B) CBS Mornings [11/3/2025 10:56 AM, Staff] reports that a semi-truck driver who allegedly hit and killed three people in a crash in southern California will no longer be charged with a felony DUI. Prosecutors now say he was not under the influence during the wreck. The San Bernadino County district attorney said toxicology reports confirm Jashanpreet Singh was not under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or any tested substances. He remains in jail and still facing vehicular manslaughter charges. The Department of Homeland Security said Singh is in the country illegally.

The Hill [11/3/2025 9:12 PM, Filip Timotija, 12595K] reports the White House argued lethal military strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific do not rise to the level of "hostilities" that would warrant authorization from Congress under the War Powers Resolution (WPR). The administration said the WPR, which Congress passed in 1973, would only apply when putting the U.S. in harm’s way and that the strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats, which so far have killed at least 64 people, are not endangering military personnel since they are "largely" conducted by unmanned aerial vehicles that take off from Navy vessels. "Here, the operation comprises precise strikes conducted largely by unmanned aerial vehicles launched from naval vessels in international waters at distances too far away for the crews of the targeted vessels to endanger American personnel," a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Hill on Monday. Monday marked the 60-day deadline since the White House first notified Congress of its initial strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel. The WPR says the president needs to discontinue military operations after 60 days if an authorization from Congress is not obtained or the commander-in-chief can request a 30-day extension. The administration official said the escalating strikes do not meet the threshold of "hostilities" and that the Trump administration’s Office of Legal Counsel’s (OLC) position on the matter is "consistent with its traditional approach," pointing to legal opinions authored by assistant attorneys general during the Clinton and Reagan presidencies. In a 1996 opinion, Walter Dellinger, the assistant attorney general in the OLC, did not discuss the 60-day limit when addressing former President Clinton’s deployment of peacekeeping forces to Haiti, but added the decision would "not involve the risk of major or prolonged hostilities or serious casualties to either the United States or Haiti.” "The Executive Branch has taken the position from the very beginning" that the WPR "does not constitute a legally binding definition of Presidential authority to deploy our armed forces," former Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson wrote in the 1984 legal opinion, referenced by the White House. Other administrations have made similar arguments. In 2011, the Obama administration said the WPR was not applicable since there were no U.S. troops on the ground and continued fighting with opposing forces during the air campaign against Libya. The strikes targeting alleged drug-smuggling boats have continued, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announcing late Saturday that the U.S. military took out a "narco-trafficking" vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization in the Caribbean, killing three. "On the campaign trail, President Trump promised to take on the cartels — and he has taken unprecedented action to stop the scourge of narcoterrorism that has resulted in the needless deaths of innocent Americans," the administration official said Monday. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have asked the administration for more information about the legal rationale the White House is relying on for the strikes. Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee were not satisfied with last week’s briefing on the boat strikes, expressing frustration with the answers they have gotten on the legality of the operations and the White House’s "end game.” The administration official pushed back, saying by "regularly notifying and briefing the House and the Senate on this important matter, the Administration continues to demonstrate great transparency in its communications" with Congress.

Washington Examiner [11/3/2025 7:11 AM, Jamie McIntyre, 1394K] reports if President Donald Trump’s strategy is to keep everybody guessing whether he is considering airstrikes on Venezuela, he doesn’t seem to be fooling anyone, but he’s doing his best not to say what is looking more and more likely — that military action is coming. Asked on Friday by a reporter on Air Force One, whether reports were true that he was "considering strikes within Venezuela," Trump said flatly, "No, it’s not true." The same day, he sat for a lengthy interview with 60 Minutes, which aired last night, and gave contradictory answers to CBS correspondent Norah O’Donnell. "Are we going to war against Venezuela?" O’Donnell asked. "I doubt it. I don’t think so." Trump said, only to indicate just a few minutes later that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro may soon be deposed. "Are Maduro’s days as president numbered?" asked O’Donnell. "I would say yeah. I think so, yeah," Trump replied. "And this issue of potential land strikes in Venezuela, is that true?" she pressed. "I don’t tell you that. I mean, I’m not saying it’s true or untrue, but you know, I wouldn’t be inclined to say that I would do that." Later on Air Force One, Trump berated a reporter for even asking the question. "How can I answer a question like that? Are there plans for a strike on Venezuela? Who would say that? Supposing there were, would I say that to you? Listen, we have very secret plans."

Houston Chronicle [11/3/2025 6:00 AM, Staff, 2983K] reports she is poised and impossibly polite. Through a blur of calls with a case worker, a social worker, another case worker, the 42-year-old mother doesn’t snap. Even as she’s told her video calls with her son will be limited to weekly 15-minute phone calls. Even as her questions are met with scripted non-answers. Still, every indignant word the mother speaks is carefully calibrated. But the moment Maria García hears her son’s voice over the phone, her own voice breaks. When he asks how she’s doing, she doesn’t tell him about the sleepless nights, about the tears, about the hours clutching her rosary – praying for an end to this nightmare. She steadies her voice and asks what any mom would: "Are they taking good care of you?" she says into a speaker phone, as a member of the editorial board listens nearby. The 15-year-old gives one-word answers. Trapped inside a federal children’s detention center in Houston, Emmanuel Gonzalez García says he’s bored. He’s desperate. On Oct. 4, Emmanuel wandered from his mother’s side on the corner of Clay and Hempstead Road, disappearing on a Metro bus in the time it took her to finish preparing a spicy-sweet mango snack for a customer from her makeshift roadside stall. For nearly a week, Maria had no idea where her son was. She had no way to know whether her baby was dead or alive – even as the Houston Police Department, the very people she turned to for help, knew exactly where he was. Even as they knew they’d handed her child over to immigration authorities and put him at risk of deportation. The disappearance of Emmanuel is a story that has ricocheted in our city and beyond in recent weeks – breathlessly covered by TV news outlets, dissected on Facebook and debated at City Hall.

NewsMax [11/3/2025 12:06 PM, Michael Dorstewitz, 4109K] reports one of the first things President Trump did at the start of his second term was to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship — the notion that a woman could cross the border into the United States and deliver a child for one purpose: To grant the child U.S. citizenship. Birthright citizenship is based on the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. It states, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." On the surface that would appear to end all debate. Birthright citizenship is the law of the land and therefor so called "anchor babies" are legitimate American citizens — until you consider the purpose of the amendment. It was among the three post-Civil War amendments known as the Reconstruction Amendments. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery, the 14th granted citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law, and the 15th prohibited states from denying the right to vote based on race. Getting to specifics, the Citizenship Clause was included to reverse a portion of the Dred Scott decision. It held that African Americans were not and could not become United States citizens or enjoy any of the privileges and immunities of citizenship. So the Citizenship Clause was included in the Reconstruction Amendments to clearly make former slaves, and children of those former slavers, American citizens. It was meant to correct a past wrong, and never intended to create "anchor babies."

FOX News [11/3/2025 5:00 AM, Nate Morris, 40621K] reports President Joe Biden’s decision to allow the free flow of illegal immigration into our country has resulted in 20 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. We knew nothing about these people. We didn’t know where they came from or why they were here. Now Americans are forced to compete even more with illegal immigrants for jobs and housing, to have their children share our classrooms, to wait longer at the hospital, and to even have their lawfully earned, government-funded benefits depleted because of them. Why? All because career politicians either turned a blind eye to it, or, as I suspect, more insidiously cheered it on. But illegal immigration is frankly a symptom of the broader disease that, if we choose to ignore, will cost us our country. This very minute, New York City is on the precipice of electing a Ugandan immigrant who is hell-bent on the destruction of a once great city. There’s a member of Congress from Mogadishu whose entire existence is predicated on turning America into Somalia. These are not isolated incidents, either — they’re a sign of things to come. This is what happens when career politicians have contempt for a secure border.

Wall Street Journal [11/3/2025 4:59 PM, Walter Russell Mead, 646K] reports “On Venezuela in particular,” CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell asked President Trump on “60 Minutes” Sunday, “are Maduro’s days as president numbered?” “I would say yeah. I think so, yeah,” he replied. “And this issue of potential land strikes in Venezuela, is that true?” “I don’t tell you that. . . . You know, you’re a wonderful reporter, you’re very talented, but I’m not gonna tell you what I’m gonna do with Venezuela, if I was gonna do it or if I wasn’t going to do it.” And that’s where matters stand. With a carrier strike group joining eight warships already in the region, a squadron of F-35s in Puerto Rico, and assorted elite military units in the area, the Trump administration has ramped up its standoff with Venezuela. Regime change is clearly the goal; the timetable and means are unspecified. In normal times, a crisis of this magnitude would dominate world news, but in our era it struggles to stay on the front page. The Venezuela crisis escalated to the brink of war the same week Mr. Trump’s lightning Asia tour concluded with a summit with Xi Jinping. While senators such as Kentucky’s Rand Paul denounced what they called illegal American strikes against alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, lawyers on both sides were prepping oral arguments for the historic Supreme Court showdown over the legality of Mr. Trump’s tariffs, which have upended world trade. Russian troops ground out more gains in Ukraine even as the air war between Kyiv and its nuclear-armed neighbor raged. Scenes of horror unfolded in Darfur as Sudan descended deeper into civil war. The fragile cease-fire in Gaza hung by a thread. Meanwhile, on Truth Social, Mr. Trump threatened to attack Nigeria if that country doesn’t do a better job of protecting Christians. Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt has an American president been this powerful or this busy.

The Hill [11/3/2025 1:00 PM, Harlan Ullman, 12595K] reports that the U.S. Navy nuclear carrier USS Gerald Ford and its battle group, which includes some 80 strike and other aircraft and Tomahawk equipped surface combatants, is about to join a dozen other warships including a force of about 2,000 Marines, in the Caribbean. Part of this force includes the U.S. Military Sealift Command’s Ocean Trader, a 22,000-ton mystery ship over two football fields in length with a crew of about 40 and up to 200 special forces and their equipment embarked. All are off the Venezuelan coast as B-52’s and B-2’s pass overhead like wolves circling prey. A word of advice: Do not invade Venezuela. This is not Operation Just Cause of December 1989, in which George H.W. Bush ordered 27,000 U.S. troops to capture Panamanian President Manuel Noriega. The U.S. had a base in Panama facilitating that operation. No such base exists in or near Venezuela. And Venezuela is 12 times larger than Panama with about six times the population. As far as regime change, the White House needs to be reminded of a bit of history. We tried that in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq as well as a number of attempts in Central America. Further, Venezuela is viewed as the center of gravity for these operations. But U.S. intelligence and law enforcement reports show that Colombia and especially Mexico are the villains in the drug and fentanyl trade. Venezuela is a sideshow. The White House has already disclosed that CIA units have been authorized to operate in Venezuela in what are now non-covert ways.

FOX News [11/3/2025 5:25 PM, Maria Lencki, 40621K] reports acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons is pledging to keep President Donald Trump’s promise to have one of the largest deportation efforts the country has seen. The president was pressed on his immigration policy on Sunday’s "60 Minutes" interview on CBS, where he was asked if some of the raids have gone "too far.” "No, I think they haven’t gone far enough, because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama," Trump said. "You have to get the people out, you know? You have, look at the people. Many of them are murderers. Many of them are people that were thrown out of their countries because they were, you know, criminals.” Lyons told "America Reports" ICE will work with state and local partners as they identify as many illegal immigrants as they can and "take action on them.” "No one’s off the table," he warned. "We’re going to use all the tools in the toolbox. We have great federal partners. Department of Justice has been outstanding with us, and we are going to team up with everyone that wants to work with us, and we’re to go out there and keep the president’s promise to sure that we have one of the largest deportation efforts ever.” The acting ICE director, who says many agents have been targeted due to the rhetoric against them, explained that officials are being swarmed by protesters before even making arrests.

FOX News [11/3/2025 8:02 PM, Peter Pinedo, 40621K] reports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued its crackdown on the "worst of the worst" dangerous illegal immigrants over Halloween weekend, arresting criminals convicted of intercourse with minor, sexual abuse, kidnapping, homicide and other serious crimes. The Department of Homeland Security highlighted that 70 percent of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S., according to a statement to Fox News Digital. One criminal illegal, Sisawang Khambounheuang, from Laos, was arrested by ICE after being convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor in San Diego. Just to the north, another criminal illegal alien, Milton Rene Mendez-Arevalo, from Guatemala, was arrested after a conviction for kidnapping in Los Angeles. In Houston, where ICE arrested over 120 illegal immigrants over the weekend, the agency nabbed Honduran criminal illegal Hector Eugenio Ramirez-Martinez, who was convicted for indecency with child sexual contact in Harris County. Another, Francisco Nava-Garcia, from Mexico, was arrested in Houston after being convicted of assault on a family/household member. Elsewhere in Texas, ICE arrested Kunal Chhetri, an illegal alien from India, who was convicted for alien smuggling in the United States District Court, Western District of Texas. ICE also continued its crackdown in Florida, arresting Lazaro Mateo Ruiz, from Cuba, who was convicted for homicide, weapon offense and robbery in Miami-Dade County. Over in Florida’s gulf coast, ICE arrested Juan Gomez-Gutierrez, from Colombia, who was convicted for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms of cocaine while aboard a vessel in Tampa. Another drug distributor, Juan Brito-Rios, from Mexico, was arrested by ICE following his conviction for possession with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, five kilograms or more of cocaine and money laundering in the U.S. Middle District Court of Tennessee. In Illinois, a sanctuary state that has been resisting the Trump administration’s crackdown, ICE arrested Brigidio Ovido Gomez Garcia, from Guatemala, who was convicted of aggravated domestic battery/strangle, domestic battery, and driving under the influence in Wheaton, a Chicago suburb. Commenting on the arrests, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin pointed out that amidst pushback from pro-sanctuary politicians, 70 percent of all ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. "President Trump and Secretary Noem unleashed ICE to remove the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from American communities," McLaughlin told Fox News Digital. "Despite the Democrats’ government shutdown, ICE is continuing to arrest criminal illegal aliens across the country," she continued. "While Americans enjoyed their weekends, ICE was hard at work getting the worst of the worst off our streets—including pedophiles, murderers, and kidnappers.”

NPR [11/3/2025 4:59 AM, Mose Buchele, 28013K] Audio: HERE reports in some parts of the U.S., ICE agents are seizing people directly from county jails to take into immigration custody. The tactic has raised concerns over due process. [Editorial note: consult audio at source link]

AP [11/3/2025 5:48 PM, Maryclaire Dale, 19051K] reports two separate courts have ordered immigration officials not to deport a Pennsylvania man who spent four decades in prison before his murder conviction was overturned. Subramanyam Vedam, 64, is currently detained at a short-term holding center in Alexandria, Louisiana, that’s equipped with an airstrip for deportations. Vedam, a legal permanent resident known as "Subu," was transferred there from central Pennsylvania last week, relatives said. An immigration judge stayed his deportation on Thursday until the Bureau of Immigration Appeals decides whether to review his case. That could take several months. Vedam’s lawyers also got a stay the same day in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, but said that case may be on hold given the immigration court ruling. Vedam came to the U.S. legally from India as an infant and grew up in State College, where his father taught at Penn State. He was serving a life sentence in a friend’s 1980 death before his conviction was overturned this year. He was released from state prison on Oct. 3, only to be taken straight into immigration custody. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking to deport Vedam over his no contest plea to charges of LSD delivery, filed when he was about 20. His lawyers argue that the four decades he wrongly spent in prison, where he earned degrees and tutored fellow inmates, should outweigh the drug case. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Monday that the reversal in the murder case does not negate the drug conviction. "Having a single conviction vacated will not stop ICE’s enforcement of the federal immigration law," Tricia McLaughlin," Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, said in an email.

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Chicago Tribune [11/3/2025 12:55 PM, Laura Rodríguez Presa and Jonathan Bullington, 4829K] reports Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn - a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area - and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, "You hit her! We have it on video!" agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. The Department of Homeland Security later released a statement claiming that Figueroa was at fault, saying "she crashed into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers." Figueroa was released the same day a few hours later without charges. Figueroa’s arrest highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. Federal enforcement actions in Chicago have increasingly drawn scrutiny amid reports of aggressive tactics and blurred lines between immigration enforcement and public safety, including incidents involving deploying tear gas in residential areas and arrests of bystanders filming agents or for following the unmarked vehicles. While DHS says its operations are being impeded and that there will be consequences for interfering with federal agents, many individuals who are detained are released without charges. DHS, however, maintains that Figueroa was taken into custody because she "violently resisted" arrest. In a statement to the Tribune, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin alleged that Figueroa "used her vehicle to block in agents, honking her horn," and that she "stuck an unmarked government vehicle" as agents were departing. "In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers attempted to remove her from the vehicle. She violently resisted, kicking two agents and causing injuries. This agitator was arrested for assault on a federal agent," McLaughlin said.

Chicago Tribune [11/3/2025 6:00 AM, Zareen Syed, 4829K] reports most days as of late, a heaviness envelops 26th Street in Chicago’s Little Village. Some restaurants are closing earlier than usual, street vendors are fewer and farther away, and more and more customers are using food delivery services instead of dining in. On a recent Wednesday, only a handful of people were nervously standing at the bus stop on Hamlin Avenue across from Carnitas Uruapan. Inside the popular Mexican restaurant, tables sat empty during what would typically be a busy weekday lunch hour. Staff were screening customers at the door before letting them in. It had been a chaotic morning marked by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the city’s Southwest Side. Federal immigration agents, accompanied by Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, had swarmed one of Chicago’s oldest and largest immigrant communities - known as "Mexico of the Midwest" - and neighboring Cicero, arresting at least seven people, including U.S. citizens, and clashing with residents who filmed them. The security camera at Carnitas Uruapan had caught what appeared to be an ICE agent trying to enter - but the door was locked. "We’re being selective about who we let in today, I guarantee most places out here right now have their doors locked," Marcos Carbajal, owner of Carnitas Uruapan, told the Tribune on Oct. 22. "Lately, we have to keep an eye on the door just to make sure we’re only letting people in who look like they’re a regular diner."

Chicago Tribune [11/3/2025 7:12 PM, Daniel I. Dorfman, 4829K] reports amid growing concern about recent actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Lake Bluff officials are weighing possible steps to formally object to the agency’s practices. The Trump administration in September launched "Operation Midway Blitz," an initiative it said was aimed at detaining "criminal illegal aliens." The effort has prompted anxiety in several Chicago-area communities, including Lake Bluff. During his report at the Oct. 27 Village Board meeting, Village President Regis Charlot said the village had received multiple letters and phone calls from residents about the impact of ICE raids in the greater Chicago region. "This is a very sad conversation," Charlot said. Charlot’s comments came before reports surfaced of Border Patrol agents appearing in Evanston and other nearby communities, encounters that in some cases led to confrontations with residents. Trustee Shana Fried said she has heard from residents with family members who were detained in the area. "It is an issue that is already affecting our community and is having real practical and financial consequences," Fried said.

ABC News [11/3/2025 8:14 PM, Gaby Vinick, 30493K] reports faith leaders denounced Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for rejecting access to give Communion to immigrants being held at an Illinois facility over the weekend. The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL), a Catholic and Christian-rooted nonprofit, organized a Mass by the immigration processing center on All Saints Day and Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. Organizers estimate some 2,000 people attended on Saturday, as many prayed, sang and held signs protesting ICE. "Operation Midway Blitz has caused chaos and mayhem in our city," Michael Okińczyc-Cruz, the executive director of CSPL, told ABC News, referring to the immigration crackdown in Chicago. "It’s creating such fear and trauma for so many of the families that we work with and that are members of our coalition," he said. Okińczyc-Cruz said that CSPL formally submitted a letter requesting access more than a week in advance and took numerous steps for ministers to give Communion to migrants in the Broadview facility. This is the second time they were denied entry since their first attempt on Oct. 11, he told ABC News. "These days are so symbolically important for us in the Catholic Church to honor the saints who’ve come before us," Okińczyc-Cruz said. Katrina Thompson, the mayor of Broadview, also submitted a letter on their behalf to DHS and ICE requesting permission on Oct. 22. It went unanswered, according to Okińczyc-Cruz. ABC News reached out but did not immediately hear back from DHS. Sister JoAnn Persch is the president of Catherine’s Caring Cause, an organization that supports asylum seekers with housing, legal and medical needs. She and Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado led the delegation on Saturday. For nearly two decades, Persch and the late Sister Pat Murphy prayed for immigrants outside of the center, she said. A starkly different scene on Saturday emerged: leaders were not permitted to walk all the way down to the building, she told ABC News. "We never saw an ICE officer -- except when they kept riding up and down the street during the Mass," Persch said. Some members interpreted this to be an intimidation tactic, according to Okińczyc-Cruz.

New York Times [11/3/2025 5:06 PM, Adam Crafton, 153395K] reports on Thursday evening, at the official welcome reception for New Zealand’s rugby union test match against Ireland, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson took to the stage. “Holding this game at Soldier Field is a testament to Chicago’s vibrant spirit,” Johnson, a Democrat, began. “It is also about our ability to bring people from all around the world together. That is so critical at this time, because as a global city, we have a deep sense of local pride. We understand the combination of the ideal world, where we can bring all people together to understand the importance of not just the game, but also of our collective strength to uphold our humanity.” For Chicago, it has been a fraught period in which the city, and the broader state of Illinois, has found itself at odds with President Donald Trump’s administration. The federal government says there is a crime crisis in Chicago. In September, the administration launched Operation Midway Blitz, led by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, with the stated objective to target “criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois.” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin accused Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, also a Democrat, of “making Chicago a magnet for criminals” — a claim he denies — and said the operation would target “the worst of the worst.”

Breitbart [11/3/2025 9:15 PM, Jasmyn Jordan, 2416K] reports Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh discussed a plan during a podcast interview involving coordination between city leadership and community-based organizations to ensure elected officials and neighborhood groups are informed before potential immigration enforcement activity. Fateh, a Minnesota state senator and self-described democratic socialist now running for mayor of Minneapolis, said during a podcast interview: “We need to strengthen our separation ordinance. We need to have better communication between the mayor and the chief, and also the city council members, so that whenever we know something is coming down the pike, the city council is alerted immediately because they’re the connection point to the community, and they can articulate that and disseminate that information to folks. We really have to work really hard to better work with some of those boots-on-the-ground organizations that I just spoke about right now that are already providing the ‘Know Your Rights’ training, legal counseling, multilingual services. They’re the ones that are finding out a lot of times what’s happening on the ground. Because the city cannot do it alone, and we need to lock arms not just cross-jurisdictionally but with these organizations as well, because things are scary, and it’s going to get scarier as well.” According to a mayor’s update from Jacob Frey, the separation ordinance is described as: "City employees — including police officers and firefighters — are prohibited from participating in civil immigration enforcement.” Fateh is running on a platform that includes limiting police power, increasing non-police emergency response services, opposing cooperation between the Minneapolis Police Department and ICE, expanding funding for immigrant rights initiatives, and implementing carbon fees approved by the City Council. He previously supported legislation to provide taxpayer-funded college tuition to households earning under $80,000 per year, regardless of immigration status. He accused Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) of "white supremacy" for opposing taxpayer-funded tuition for illegal aliens, and labeled the U.S. policing system "systemically white supremacist.” Breitbart News has also reported that Fateh opened his campaign office as a support hub during the 2020 George Floyd riots, returned thousands in campaign donations tied to the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme after donors were identified in FBI warrants, pushed Amazon on mandatory prayer breaks for Muslim workers, supported banning tear gas and rubber bullets, cast an "uncommitted" vote in Minnesota’s 2024 Super Tuesday primary over the Biden administration’s Israel policy, and advocated raising the Minneapolis minimum wage to $20 per hour by 2028. Fateh received the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s endorsement for mayor in July 2025, but the endorsement was later revoked by the DFL’s Constitution, Bylaws & Rules Committee following verification of voting errors at the convention. Fateh criticized that decision and urged supporters to continue engaging in his campaign. He has drawn support from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) in recent months.

AP [11/3/2025 2:45 PM, Uriel J. Garcia, Colleen Duguzman, Alex Nguyen, and Carla Astudillo, 31753K] reports that on the evening of July 1, Luis Medrano called Houston police for help after his wife had gotten violent and punched him twice in the face during a schizophrenic episode in which she was hearing tormenting voices, according to a police report. Medrano, 50, a Mexican immigrant who met his wife when they crossed the Rio Grande with a group of about a dozen other migrants more than three decades ago, had tried to take his 47-year-old wife to the hospital, but she refused to go. So he did what he’d done three times before: called the police so they would take her to a hospital. But this time, the officer arrested her on suspicion of assault and booked her into jail. And after a prosecutor dismissed the case, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE, picked her up from jail and eventually deported her to Mexico. In Texas, which has the second-largest population of immigrants living illegally in the country — with more than 1.6 million of the estimated 13.7 million nationally — the local criminal justice system has become the main funnel sending immigrants into ICE custody, according to a Texas Tribune analysis of federal government data. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, responded to questions from the Tribune by citing an Oct. 30 social media post by DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin that said "70% of illegal aliens ICE has arrested have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. "And that doesn’t even account for those wanted for violent crimes in their country of origin or another country, INTERPOL notices, human rights abusers, gang members, terrorists," the post says. "The list goes on. The media continues to act as a PR firm for criminals."

Breitbart [11/3/2025 3:23 PM, Randy Clark, 2416K] reports more than 120 illegal aliens were arrested on Texas roadways in the greater Houston area in a single day. The operation that stretched into the late hours of October 29 cleared the roads of often unlicensed and uninsured illegal aliens, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A social media post on Sunday shows a video of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers carrying out the arrests in a parking lot near a Houston-area business and during several vehicle stops. The video described the activities with a statement saying, "We made over 120 arrests in Houston Oct.29-clearing our roads of dangerous, often uninsured, illegal aliens who should NOT be behind the wheel." As reported by Breitbart Texas, ERO officers and other federal agents in the greater Houston area have ramped up day and nighttime operations in targeted operations that have resulted in multiple arrests of illegal aliens around local businesses and on Houston roadways. During one nighttime sweep just days before the latest operation, Breitbart Texas’s Bob Price rode with a team of 40 federal officers and agents as the group arrested approximately 25 illegal aliens, many with criminal records. Moving through Houston’s high-crime corridors, Breitbart Texas observed the officers and agents, now armed with a new data-driven targeting system that seemed to send a clear message: ICE is now a 24/7 presence in Texas.

Houston Chronicle [11/3/2025 6:04 PM, Julián Aguilar, Haajrah Gilani, 2983K] reports an Episcopal priest and immigrant who was legally employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Conroe after being detained last month, the Episcopal Diocese of Texas said. The diocese said it’s unclear why the Kenyan man, the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi, was detained while returning from his job Oct. 25. Doyle told Religion News Service, who first reported the story, that it’s unclear why the priest was taken into custody, adding that the immigrant had a valid work permit.

New York Times [11/3/2025 6:59 PM, Jack Healy, 135475K] reports Brice Current, the police chief in Durango, Colo., knew there was a problem the moment he saw the video of an immigration agent putting a protester into what the chief saw as a chokehold and throwing her down an embankment. Immigration agents had arrested a Colombian man and his two children on their way to school last week, provoking a furious response from this liberal college town of 20,000 in the mountains of southwest Colorado. Dozens of residents — many with their arms linked — descended on the small Immigration and Customs Enforcement building where the family was being held, set up camp outside the razor-wire gates and tried to block authorities from removing the family from Durango. What set the protest apart from similar clashes between residents and immigration agents in Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities was Chief Current’s determination that the masked federal agent involved in the scuffle had crossed a line and his request for an investigation. He said he even considered filing criminal charges himself against the agent. “It appeared to be an out-of-policy and possibly illegal use of force,” he said in an interview at police headquarters. The scene from Durango, captured by fellow protesters and put on social media, was violent and jarring, but no more so than many others across the country. Several protesters, including elected officials and a Democratic congressional candidate, have been arrested or charged with federal crimes at immigration detention centers. American citizens have been whisked into unmarked vehicles and charged with resisting arrest or attacking officers, though the people arrested have maintained they did no such thing. Protesters, journalists and clergy have sued over federal agents’ use of tear gas and crowd-control munitions against protesters. A U.S. citizen who was violently thrown to ground in Chicago has vowed to “pursue all legal avenues” against the agents involved. But so far, no local prosecutors are known to have filed criminal charges against immigration agents. That might change. At Chief Current’s request, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the incident in Durango, putting Democratic-led Colorado on a potential collision course with the Trump administration, which has threatened to prosecute any local officials if they charge federal agents carrying out President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Washington Examiner [11/3/2025 6:30 PM, Mia Cathell, 1394K] reports an illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes in Oregon, a sanctuary state for unlawful immigration, held various advisory positions on state policymaking committees as a so-called "Latinx" community leader. Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia, a criminally convicted Venezuelan national who had overstayed his visa, according to U.S. immigration authorities, served in several committee roles advising the state of Oregon on policy areas such as behavioral health, "health equity," and healthcare for all, regardless of immigration status. Before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security nabbed Garcia, a Portland-area activist and "educator," he was on Oregon’s Community Engagement and Communications Committee to the Universal Health Plan Governance Board, which is tasked with creating a comprehensive plan for financing and administering a single-payer healthcare system that covers all Oregonians, no matter their immigration status. Garcia’s committee is responsible for developing community outreach recommendations and informational material, as part of the universal health plan that the board will present to Gov. Tina Kotek (D-OR) and the Oregon legislature. The board looks to committee members for "expertise and lived experience." Committee members are recruited by the governor-appointed board and are supposed to embody "equitable representation from every region and population around the state.” On the Oregon government website, the board’s community engagement committee describes Garcia as the executive director of LatinX Recovery Center, who is "currently in recovery from substance abuse with a criminal justice history.” Over video conference, Garcia attended the committee’s monthly meetings as recently as Sept. 24 and would offer insight in Spanish. Garcia, whose record reportedly includes sexual abuse and bestiality, was also an active member of the Behavioral Health Crisis System Advisory Committee, which advises the Oregon Health Authority, the state’s health department, on overseeing the statewide crisis response system. While on the committee, Garcia served as a certified peer support specialist. Committee members were eligible for a $166 stipend each day of work on the advisory council. As of September 23, Garcia regularly appeared at committee meetings via video call and participated in discussions ranging from funding deliberations to legislative proposals. "It is SICKENING this monster was hiding in Oregon thanks to the state’s sanctuary policies," the Department of Homeland Security said in an X post announcing that Garcia was in the United States on an overstayed B2 tourist visa. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, if you break the law, you will face the consequences," DHS wrote. "Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.

New York Times [11/3/2025 7:46 PM, Soumya Karlamangla, 135475K] reports lawyers for a man shot last week by an immigration agent in Southern California are disputing the account given by federal officials who charged him with assault. The lawyers for Carlos Jimenez, 25, said on Monday that he was a bystander asking federal agents to move away from a bus stop where schoolchildren would soon be gathering. At the time, the immigration officers had stopped a vehicle near the bus stop in Ontario, Calif., about 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Lawyers for Mr. Jimenez, a U.S. citizen, said he was later shot in the shoulder as he drove away from federal agents, but said that he did not try to use his vehicle to harm anyone. Federal prosecutors, however, said last week in a criminal complaint that an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer shot Mr. Jimenez because he pulled forward, turned his wheels and “rapidly accelerated” toward an officer during the vehicle stop on Thursday. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said on Monday that at about 6:30 a.m. on Thursday morning, Mr. Jimenez drove up to a team of immigration officers overseeing a vehicle stop. He then “engaged in a verbal altercation with the officers,” according to the criminal complaint filed against him, and officers ordered him to leave. Mr. Jimenez reversed his car toward them and “an ICE officer, fearing for his life, fired defensive shots at the vehicle,” she said. He was charged on Friday with assault of a federal officer following the incident. He was released on bond. The altercation was the latest high-profile incident in which federal agents fired shots at drivers whom they accused of endangering them during immigration enforcement operations. Last month, a Mexican man targeted by immigration authorities was injured by gunfire during an operation in Los Angeles. In September, during a traffic stop in Chicago, an ICE agent shot and killed a man who authorities said had hit an officer with his car. A New York Times examination of video from the scene called into question elements of the official D.H.S. account of the encounter. Ms. McLaughlin called the most recent incident an example of increasing threats that ICE officers face “as they risk their lives to enforce the law and arrest criminals.” She said that anyone who gets in the way of federal officers’ duties or threatens them will be arrested and prosecuted. Mr. Jimenez’s lawyers told a very different story. They described him, in an interview on Monday, as a father of three young children who lives in a mobile home park near where the officers were conducting their stop. He was headed to his job at a food bank, where he prepares and delivers donation boxes, when he noticed the officers blocking traffic, said Cynthia Santiago, one of his lawyers.

AP [11/3/2025 5:48 PM, Maryclaire Dale] reports two separate courts have ordered immigration officials not to deport a Pennsylvania man who spent four decades in prison before his murder conviction was overturned. Subramanyam Vedam, 64, is currently detained at a short-term holding center in Alexandria, Louisiana, that’s equipped with an airstrip for deportations. Vedam, known as "Subu," was transferred there from central Pennsylvania last week, relatives said. An immigration judge stayed his deportation on Thursday until the Bureau of Immigration Appeals decides whether to review his case. That could take several months. Vedam’s lawyers also got a stay the same day in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, but said that case may be on hold given the immigration court ruling. Vedam came to the U.S. legally from India as an infant and grew up in State College, where his father taught at Penn State. He was serving a life sentence in a friend’s 1980 death before his conviction was overturned this year. He was released from state prison on Oct. 3, only to be taken straight into immigration custody. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking to deport Vedam over his no contest plea to charges of LSD delivery, filed when he was about 20. His lawyers argue that the four decades he wrongly spent in prison, where he earned degrees and tutored fellow inmates, should outweigh the drug case. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Monday that the reversal in the murder case does not negate the drug conviction.

Los Angeles Times [11/3/2025 6:00 AM, Rachel Uranga, 14862K] reports Carmen’s abusive husband came home drunk one night last summer. He pounded and kicked the door. He threatened to kill her as her young son watched in horror. She called police, eventually obtaining a restraining order. Months later he returned and beat her again. Police came again and he was eventually deported. Thinking she finally escaped his cruelty, Carmen applied for what is known as a U-Visa. The visa provides crime victims a way to stay in the United States legally, but the Trump administration has routinely ignored pending applications. During a regular immigration check-in in June, Carmen was detained. Two months later, she was put on a plane with her 8-year-old son, who just completed second grade. She was headed to her home country, terrified her husband would find her. Lawyers for Carmen along with several immigrant victims of human trafficking, domestic violence and other crimes last month sued the Trump administration in the Central District of California for detaining and deporting survivors with pending visa applications, some of whom have been granted status to stay and sometimes work. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, defended the practice of deporting those stuck in limbo, saying every unauthorized immigrant ICE removes "has had due process and has a final order of removal — meaning they have no legal right to be in the country.” The lawsuit argues the administration violated procedural rules in referencing the executive order "Protecting the American People Against Invasion" as the main justification for the policy. The invasion, it states, is "fictional" but the rhetoric has allowed Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem and the immigration agencies to wage an "arbitrary, xenophobic and militarized mass deportation campaign that has terrorized immigrant communities and further victimized survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking and other serious crimes who Congress sought to protect."

San Francisco Chronicle [11/3/2025 12:00 PM, St. John Barned-Smith, 4722K] reports Bay Area immigration advocates called on San Francisco city leaders Monday to strengthen protections for the city’s undocumented community. The move comes just weeks after President Donald Trump vowed to dispatch scores of federal immigration agents to San Francisco, only to about-face the following day after a conversation with Mayor Daniel Lurie. San Francisco Rising Executive Director Celi Tamayo-Lee said the threatened surge was "a drill," that Bay Area leaders should take note of in the face of future raids or immigration enforcement. "The crisis we’re in presents an opportunity to work with the community. Last week, we realized we have a city of people dedicated to helping our immigrant neighbors in material ways. … This is a good time for an agenda to pose proactive measures to support our immigrant community." The 10-page letter from SF Rising, an alliance of grassroots organizations, provides guidance on reforms or other actions that Tamayo-Lee and others say are critical to protecting San Francisco’s undocumented community. It asks to create a community safety plan that clarifies what residents can expect in case of a National Guard deployment, where to access resources, and how the city would protect people’s safety and rights. The measures are meant to help the city’s immigrant community be more prepared to fight potential deportation raids, strengthen the city’s legal defense programs for its immigrants, and provide other resources to support San Francisco’s immigrant community. In its letter, SF Rising called on city leaders to improve communication with organizations that provide immigration services and rapid response networks that track sightings of ICE raids or agents.

Chicago Tribune [11/3/2025 5:34 PM, Meredith Colias-Pete and Kate Perez, 4829K] reports when federal immigration agents raided Martha Porcallo Martinez’s East Chicago, Indiana home on June 12, they also arrested her 26-year-old daughter who has schizophrenia. They were separated even before she got to Porter County Jail. For a week or two, she had no idea where her daughter was taken. When her lawyer intervened to ask, they found out she was at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Kentucky. For Porcallo Martinez’s family, the one anonymous phone call to a U.S. Homeland Security tip line in November that led to the arrest has had far-reaching consequences. Now, her daughter went missing a week ago in Mexico, her lawyer Adam Tavitas said in court Monday.

Breitbart [11/3/2025 6:35 PM, John Binder, 2416K] reports President Donald Trump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is streamlining the government’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program in the hopes of eliminating non-citizen voting from elections. On Monday, USCIS Director Joseph Edlow announced upgrades to the SAVE program, which allows states to verify that only American citizens are voting in federal elections. Previously, when verifying voter eligibility, states would have to input all nine digits of a voter registrant’s Social Security Number. Now, thanks to the agency’s reforms, states will only be required to use the last four digits of a registrant’s Social Security Number. "USCIS remains dedicated to eliminating barriers to securing the nation’s electoral process," agency spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a statement: By allowing states to efficiently verify voter eligibility, we are reinforcing the principle that America’s elections are reserved exclusively for American citizens. We encourage all federal, state, and local agencies to use the SAVE program. [Emphasis added].

Federalist [11/3/2025 12:58 PM, Brianna Lyman, 785K] reports that a federal judge on Friday ruled President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote is unconstitutional, making it even more necessary that Republicans in Congress take advantage of Trump’s momentum and pass the SAVE Act. Trump signed the executive order in March, directing that within 30 days, "the Election Assistance Commission shall take appropriate action to require, in its national mail voter registration form issued under 52 U.S.C. 20508 … documentary proof of United States citizenship." The order also required state and local officials to record the type of documentation used and the date such documentation was issued. Some examples of documentary proof of citizenship include a United States passport, a REAL ID that indicates citizenship, a military identification card, and a valid federal or state government-issued identification. But District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled the order is unconstitutional, arguing Trump "lacks the authority to direct such changes." "Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the states and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes."

Telemundo51 [11/3/2025 4:47 PM, Alejandro Isturiz, 182K] reports Temporary Protected Status (TPS) expires at midnight on November 7 for thousands of Venezuelans in the United States. For many, returning to their country is not an option, and they say the most painful part is the possibility of losing what they have built over the years on American soil. It is estimated that some 250,000 Venezuelans will face deportation or will have to leave the country on their own. To prevent the cancellation of TPS, various Venezuelan organizations in the United States had filed injunctions and legal appeals seeking judicial approval. William Díaz, director of Casa Venezuela, says that "a DED, a deferred deportation, means that no one can be expelled or deported." Thus began a long journey through different courts until, on October 3, the Supreme Court confirmed a May decision, and Venezuelans with TPS will be left without work permits and will technically become undocumented. With its decision, the Supreme Court left 600,000 Venezuelans residing in the country without legal protection under that immigration benefit. The Trump administration has appealed the ruling, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals must now rule on the case.

The Hill [11/3/2025 3:06 PM, Ali Bradley, 12595K] reports criminal cartels are offering payments of $10,000 to shooters who fire at U.S. Border Patrol agents on the southern border, federal authorities said in an internal communication. It says the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector had received information about "a coordinated attack" in which cartels may be offering the $10,000 payments "to individuals who engage in shooting at" agents. The threat is believed to have originated from northern Sonora, Mexico, according to the communication. Sources said Border Patrol stations in Brownsville and Kingsville were the initial targets. NewsMax [11/3/2025 4:31 PM, Nicole Weatherholtz, 4109K] reports that the alert, which was obtained by NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley, said that "additional reporting suggests that assailants may wear Mexican military uniforms to avoid raising suspicion while carrying long arms or machine guns." The threat is reportedly thought to have originated in northern Sonora, Mexico. Sources told The Hill that the Brownsville and Kingsville Border Patrol stations were the initial targets.

Telemundo [11/3/2025 11:57 PM, Shelby Bremer, 57K] reports that, according to multiple sources, the Trump administration is planning a major restructuring of immigration enforcement, with the goal of putting Border Patrol leaders in charge of ICE operations in cities across the United States. This move comes after senior officials expressed frustration with the pace of deportations, as nationwide arrests average around 1,100 per day, well below the target of 3,000. "The mindset is that CBP does what it’s told, and the administration believes ICE is not doing its job well," a Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News. "So CBP will take charge." Both the Border Patrol and ICE in San Diego said they could not comment because the matter is being handled by DHS in Washington, D.C. Previously limited to operations at or near the border, the Border Patrol has seen its powers expanded since Trump took office. It was the Border Patrol that was deployed to step up enforcement in Los Angeles and then in Chicago, where El Centro Sector Chief Greg Bovino was caught on video firing tear gas into a crowd. "This administration has reinstated mobile patrols like we’ve never seen before," said San Diego activist Benjamin Prado, who leads community patrols in response to police operations with his organization Unión del Barrio. "Everything indicates that this will be a much more aggressive and hostile entity than we have seen so far." DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the agency does not plan to announce any personnel changes at this time, but stated in a release: "This is one team, one fight. President Trump has a brilliant and tenacious team, led by Secretary Noem, to fulfill the American people’s mandate to remove illegal immigrants with criminal records from the country." On the program 60 Minutes, President Donald Trump himself said he believed law enforcement had not gone far enough. "I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, the liberal judges that Biden and Obama appointed," Trump said. When asked if he agreed with those tactics, Trump replied, "Yes, because you have to get people out." "It’s very concerning," Prado said. "All of this indicates that we will see many more citizens and migrant workers being assaulted and attacked." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Examiner [11/3/2025 8:00 AM, Anna Giaritelli, 1394K] reports the Border Patrol is in a rare position to get its back-of-house in tip-top shape while illegal immigration at the southern border is at a historic low. Current and former senior Border Patrol agents, as well as a U.S. congressman who represents the largest district on the U.S.-Mexico border, shared their top recommendations for how the federal law enforcement organization should be preparing during this lull for when President Donald Trump leaves office in 2029. Arrests of illegal border crossers have come crashing down from as much as 250,000 per month during former President Joe Biden’s tenure to less than 10,000 per month under President Donald Trump. The drop in illegal border crossers means agents are not busy inside processing facilities, interviewing migrants, transporting them, and the gamut of tasks associated with temporary detention. It has freed up Border Patrol to be able to assist ICE by deploying its own agents across the country to assist their partners at the Department of Homeland Security, tracking down illegal immigrants who have criminal histories or who a judge has ordered be deported. Last week, ICE and Border Patrol officials disclosed to the Washington Examiner that tensions are running high between agencies as border agents have moved in to help ICE, and senior border officials are being installed at ICE’s top ranks. Both feel the other is to blame for the millions of illegal immigrants who were released into the United States during the Biden administration and have struggled recently to work together and emerge as one united front. Despite its work with ICE, Border Patrol still has plenty of time to focus on drug smuggling and other threats, as well as take a step back and consider what needs to be addressed internally to be more effective in the future.

Reuters [11/3/2025 7:19 PM, Anshuman Tripathy, 36480K] reports a travel association has urged the U.S. Congress in a letter on Monday to reopen the federal government ahead of the Thanksgiving travel rush, as the shutdown stretches into its 34th day. The prolonged shutdown has led to a spike in airline delays, affecting airports and 3.2 million passengers due to a high number of absences in air traffic controllers, with many of them taking up second jobs to cope. The shutdown is estimated to cost the U.S. economy between $7 billion and $14 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. "Air travel’s number one priority is safety and while safety will be maintained, travelers will pay a heavy and completely unnecessary price in terms of delays, cancellations and lost confidence in the air travel experience," said U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman. In a letter that was signed by 500 organizations, including Hilton (HLT.N) and MGM Resorts (MGM.N), Freeman urged the Congress that the fastest way to restore confidence and restart travel was to reopen the government by passing a clean continuing resolution. "The damage from this shutdown is growing by the hour with 60% of Americans reconsidering their travel plans". The shutdown has forced 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers to work without pay and snarled tens of thousands of flights.

San Diego Union Tribune [11/3/2025 6:30 PM, Alex Riggins, 1538K] reports operations were back to normal Monday at San Diego International Airport, a day after tower staffing issues linked to the federal government shutdown caused widespread delays, airport officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground delay Sunday afternoon, and an FAA website indicated the delays were caused by staffing issues in the control tower. By Sunday night, the flight-tracking website FlightAware reported that all inbound and departing flights out of the downtown San Diego airport were delayed by about an hour. An airport spokesperson said there was no lingering impact Monday from the delays. In a statement nearly identical to one issued Sunday, the spokesperson advised passengers traveling out of San Diego International to check their flight status before leaving for the airport, and to arrive two hours early for flights. Los Angeles International Airport and other large airports around the country also experienced delays due to staffing shortages Sunday. While most appeared to be back to normal operations Monday, the FAA reported that three airports in Texas — Dallas Love Field, Dallas/Fort Worth International and Austin-Bergstrom International — were all experiencing widespread delays Monday due to staffing issues.

Miami Herald [11/3/2025 5:39 PM, David Goodhue] reports the $100 bills look real at first glance, but they are marked as fake and say they are only meant for use in making motion pictures, according to sheriff’s office spokesman Adam Lindhard. Most of the counterfeit cash is turning up in the Lower Keys and Key West, Linhardt said. The Key West Police Department recently issued a similar warning about fake $20 bills finding their way to the Southernmost City. Linhardt said the bogus bills are likely left over from a previous film production in the Keys. Authorities are warning people and businesses to double-check all cash they receive. The Sheriff’s Office has received reports of fake/counterfeit money that’s used in films/movies circulating in Monroe County, notably the Lower Keys and Key West.

FOX News [11/3/2025 9:17 PM, Greg Wehner, 40621K] reports federal agents say an Illinois man allegedly called for President Donald Trump’s execution in a string of profanity-laced Instagram videos, prompting a Secret Service investigation that led to a federal charge of making interstate threats to kill public officials. In a criminal complaint filed Oct. 31 in the Northern District of Illinois and unsealed Monday morning, Trent Schneider, 57, of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, was charged with allegedly making a true threat to injure another person in interstate commerce. According to the allegations, Schneider posted violent videos and memes on social media calling for Trump’s execution as his home neared foreclosure. In one video posted Oct. 16, he allegedly looked directly into the camera and railed against judges, doctors, lawyers and police, saying, "People like me have suffered real f---ing crimes from f---ing judges, doctors, lawyers, police. They all should be killed. All of them should be executed for what they’ve done.” "They need to be killed. They need to be executed, ok? They are frauds, ok? I think it’s time. I’ve waited long enough," he allegedly continued. "I’m going to get some guns. I know where I can get a lot of f---ing guns and I am going to take care of business myself. I’m tired of all you f---ing frauds. People need to f---ing die and people are going to die. F--- all of you, especially you, Trump. You should be executed.” Prosecutors allege Schneider reposted the same video nearly 20 times over several days, often tagging Trump Tower Chicago. Each post carried the same caption: "THIS IS NOT A THREAT!!! … AFTER LOSING EVERYTHING and My House Auction date is 11.04.2025 @realDonaldTrump SHOULD BE EXECUTED!!!". A viewer in Florida allegedly saw one of the videos and reported it to authorities, according to court documents. That tip led the U.S. Secret Service to begin investigating Schneider and identify his Instagram account, which agents say he used to post threats viewable nationwide. Agents went to Schneider’s home in Winthrop Harbor on Oct. 22 to question him, according to the affidavit. When they arrived, they allegedly saw cameras set up on tripods in the driveway. Schneider came outside, yelled at the officers to get off his property and later posted a video of them walking away – with the same caption calling for Trump’s execution. Law enforcement had previously encountered Schneider, according to the complaint. In 2022, agents interviewed him over violent social media posts targeting public officials, and later that year he was arrested after allegedly threatening to "shoot up" a T-Mobile store. A court found him unfit to stand trial in 2023, according to the complaint.

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CBS Chicago [11/3/2025 5:06 PM, Staff, 39474K] Video: HERE reports a Winthrop Harbor man under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service was arrested Monday morning at his home in Lake County, Illinois.

(B) GMA3 [11/3/2025 1:26 PM, Staff] reports Secret Service is investigating a home in Winthrop Harbor in Lake County, Illinois. Sources say a man is under investigation for allegedly making threats against President Trump and other online. The Secret Service will only say that they are working with local law enforcement on a protective intelligence investigation.

(B) NBC News Daily [11/3/2025 3:23 PM, Staff] reports that according to Broward Sheriff’s officials, a fire erupted on a 35-foot vessel in the waters near Dania Beach and Hollywood. Two people were onboard when the fire started. The boat appears to be completely destroyed. The two passengers were taken aboard at US Coast Guard vessel. There were no injuries to report.

CBS Miami [11/3/2025 6:12 PM, Staff, 39474K] Video: HERE reports CBS News Chopper 4 captured the moment crews put out the blaze as the boat sank. Investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire.

Bloomberg [11/3/2025 6:21 PM, Patrick Howell O’Neill, 1538K] reports that, as voters across the U.S. from New York City to New Jersey and Virginia to California prepare to cast ballots Tuesday, election officials are operating with sharply reduced support from a federal government agency that had previously helped states and localities counter bomb threats and cyberattacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has abandoned an Election Day situation room it had operated for years to share vital intelligence on physical and cyber threats with state and local authorities, said Paul Lux, chair of the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a national coalition of election officials. CISA’s decision to end the information-sharing arrangement follows the dismantling of the agency’s election security team earlier this year. Remaining election personnel with CISA, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, have since been prohibited from working with or contacting state election officials, according to a person familiar with the matter. The cuts have sent state and local officials responsible for running elections searching for ways to shore up potential gaps in cybersecurity, threat monitoring and physical protection of polling places. Changes at Homeland Security are sinking in as the nation confronts a bitterly divided political climate marked by violent outbursts including the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. Americans will head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the winners of gubernatorial, mayoral and legislative races, as well as judicial seats and ballot initiatives. Election Day marks the first real test of the political landscape since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, offering an early glimpse of how his administration will oversee elections whose integrity he and his allies have repeatedly challenged. The New York City mayoral race, in particular, has drawn national attention as a proxy battle over urban governance, progressive politics and the future of the Democratic party. Homeland Security officials continue to communicate and provide guidance to state and local personnel on other matters, according to an agency spokesperson. "Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, CISA has refocused on its core mission and leads the nation’s effort to secure critical infrastructure, and that includes election infrastructure from cyber and physical threats," said DHS spokesperson Scott McConnell. "Every day, DHS and CISA are providing our partners the most capable and timely threat intelligence, expertise and resources they need to defend against risks.” DHS officials forcibly reassigned or put on leave members of CISA’s election security and resilience team in the months after Trump returned to power in January, according to people familiar with the matter. The CISA team was charged with coordinating election security efforts among the more than 10,000 election jurisdictions throughout the U.S. The federal government has historically taken a lead in uniting, informing, and enabling state and local election officials to secure elections. In February, CISA froze all election security activities and the department initiated a review of CISA’s role in helping state and local officials, Politico reported. Nine months later, the result has not been made public.

Bloomberg [11/3/2025 4:16 PM, Jake Bleiberg, 18207K] reports three employees at cybersecurity companies spent years moonlighting as criminal hackers, launching their own ransomware attacks in a plot to extort millions of dollars from victims around the country, US prosecutors alleged in court filings. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, the former director of incident response at Sygnia Consulting Ltd., and Kevin Tyler Martin, who was a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, were charged with working together to hack five businesses starting in May 2023. In one instance, they, along with a third person, received a ransom payment of nearly $1.3 million worth of cryptocurrency from a medical device company based in Tampa, Florida, according to prosecutors. The trio worked in a part of the cybersecurity industry that has sprung up to help companies negotiate with hackers to unfreeze their computer networks — sometimes by paying ransom. They are also accused of sharing their illicit profits with the developers of the type of ransomware they allegedly used on their victims. DigitalMint informed some customers about the charges last week, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News. The other person who was allegedly involved in the scheme was also a ransomware negotiator at the same firm as Martin but wasn’t charged, according to court records. The person wasn’t identified in court records, nor are the companies that the defendants’ former employers. Sygnia confirmed Goldberg had worked there. Martin last year gave a talk at a law school, which listed him as an employee of DigitalMint. Goldberg is being held in a federal jail in Florida and his lawyer, federal public defender MaeAnn Renee Dunker, declined to comment. Court records don’t indicate whether Goldberg has entered a plea. Martin, who was released on bond, has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer, Tor Ekeland, declined to comment.

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NPR [11/4/2025 4:41 AM, Jenna McLaughlin, 34837K] reports a team of academics studying satellites accidentally intercepted phone calls, texts and other sensitive communications. They were able to intercept the data with just a satellite dish on the roof. [Editorial note: consult audio at source link]

Reuters [11/3/2025 12:32 PM, Andrew Goudsward, 36480K] reports federal prosecutors have charged two men tied to what they allege was an ISIS-inspired plot based out of Michigan to carry out an attack in the U.S., according to a court document made public on Monday. Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud each purchased firearms, including AR-15-style rifles, in recent months and participated in online conversations indicating they had knowledge of an attack plot, according to an FBI affidavit. Ali and Mahmoud were each charged under a federal law that bars attempting or conspiring to transfer firearms and ammunition that the person believes would be used in a crime of terrorism, in this case providing material support to ISIS. The pair have not yet entered pleas. A lawyer for Ali did not immediately respond to a request for comment and attorney information for Mahmoud was not immediately available. Prosecutors allege that five people, including at least one juvenile, were involved in the plot though only two are so far facing federal charges. The group used encrypted messaging platforms and social media to share ISIS-related messages encouraging attacks, according to court documents. U.S. authorities allege both men practiced shooting firearms at gun ranges in recent weeks and appeared to set October 31, Halloween, as the date for the attack, according to the FBI affidavit. The document does not identify any specific targets for the alleged plot. The New York Times [11/3/2025 4:54 PM, Karoun Demirjian, 135475K] reports that the affidavit does not specify whether the accused individuals and their accused co-conspirators ever settled on a target for their attack, even as they chose to time it around Halloween — using the word “pumpkin” to refer to the date. But it surmises that Person 1, Mr. Ali and Mr. Mahmoud were “scouting possible L.G.B.T.Q.+-friendly attack locations in Ferndale,” a suburb of Detroit. CNN [11/3/2025 4:00 PM, Alaa Elassar, 18595K] reports that an FBI raid on Halloween morning stunned neighbors in Dearborn, the second-safest city in Michigan and home to the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US. Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud face charges of "Receiving and transferring, and attempting and conspiring to transfer, firearms and ammunition knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that the firearms and ammunition would be used to commit a Federal crime of terrorism," according to a criminal complaint. "Our newly unsealed complaint reveals a major ISIS-linked terror plot," US Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X. "According to the complaint, subjects had multiple AR-15 rifles, tactical gear, and a detailed plan to carry out an attack on American soil," she said, thanking officials for averting an attack "before innocent lives were lost.” If convicted, Ali and Mahmoud could face up to 15 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine, a spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan said. Ali and an unidentified juvenile were "planning to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States on behalf of the designated foreign terrorist organization ISIS," an FBI agent wrote in the criminal complaint, citing communications on an encrypted app. Further investigation revealed Mahmoud and others were co-conspirators in the plot, the agent said. Ali purchased a shotgun, an AR-15-style rifle and multiple accessories, including "a forced reset trigger that allows a shooter to increase the rate of fire in a semiautomatic weapon," the complaint says. Mahmoud also bought an AR-15-style rifle and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition that could be used in AR-15 style rifles he and Ali had purchased, the agent said. A suspect mentions doing the ‘same thing as France’ on Halloween. In addition to meeting in person, Ali, Mahmoud, the juvenile and co-conspirators chatted online, sharing "extremist and ISIS-related materials that encourage attacks similar to what they planned," the FBI agent wrote. Ali and the juvenile "discussed when to conduct their attack, which they appeared to set for Halloween," the complaint says. The Washington Examiner [11/3/2025 12:05 PM, David Zimmermann, 1394K] reports that on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced multiple suspects who allegedly planned a "potential terrorist attack" were arrested. "The FBI stopped a potential terrorist attack in Michigan before it could unfold," Patel said in a subsequent post later that day. "Thanks to swift action and coordination with our partners, a violent plot tied to international terrorism was disrupted. This is what defending the homeland looks like — vigilance saves lives." Law enforcement initially detained at least five suspects, two of whom were released after being questioned. The other three remain in custody. The suspects were apprehended in Dearborn, a city with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States, and nearby Inkster. The FBI has revealed few details of the foiled terror attack since Friday, but according to federal authorities, it was expected to take place over the holiday weekend.

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FOX News [11/3/2025 2:37 PM, Michael Ruiz, 40621K] Video: HERE reports two Michigan men have been charged in a foiled ISIS-inspired terror attack that allegedly would have involved a massacre in a Detroit suburb on Halloween, according to an FBI affidavit. Mohmed Ali, of Dearborn, Michigan, and Majed Mahmoud are accused of plotting to launch a terror-inspired mass shooting codenamed "pumpkin," according to court documents. They’ve been charged with receiving, transferring and attempting to receive and transfer firearms knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that they would be used to commit terrorism. Ali practiced shooting at a local gun range multiple times, including with Mahmoud, a juvenile suspect referred to as "Person 1" and under the alias "Athari" — and once with an unnamed "Co-conspirator 4," according to the complaint. The charges come after Amir Makled, a lawyer for Ali, who was arrested Friday, claimed to The Associated Press that there was no plot and that he did not expect charges to be filed. Makled did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital Monday. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

The Hill [11/3/2025 8:34 AM, Sarah Fortinsky, 12595K] reports a defense attorney in Michigan is pushing back on the FBI’s allegations that his client and a group of young men arrested on Friday were planning to carry out a violent attack over the Halloween weekend. FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrests of multiple individuals on Friday that he said were plotting a "potential terrorist attack." He said more details would be forthcoming. Amir Makled, the lawyer for a Dearborn, Mich., man who was still detained on Saturday, said he hasn’t gotten many details about the case, but told The Associated Press that, after reviewing the matter, he doesn’t expect any charges to be filed. He said he concluded no terror attack was being planned. "I don’t know where this hysteria and this fearmongering came from," Makled said. "If these young men were on forums that they should not have been on or things of that nature, then we’ll have to wait and see," Makled added. "But I don’t believe that there’s anything illegal about any of the activity they were doing."

Detroit Free Press [11/3/2025 5:03 PM, Andrea May Sahouri, 4030K] reports ever since FBI Director Kash Patel posted on Oct. 31 about the alleged thwarted Halloween terrorism plot, it’s been a "here-we-go-again" moment for many in Dearborn who say they’ve grown too accustomed to racism and Islamophobia against their largely Arab and Muslim community. The FBI says that two men from Michigan − Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud − were part of a larger group that shared ISIS-related extremist materials online and in encrypted chats. According to federal investigators: The group talked about and encouraged terrorist attacks and members bought AR-15 rifles along with large amounts of ammunition. They held multiple gun training sessions over a period of about three months. And they also scouted locations in LGBTQI+-friendly Ferndale as possible targets for an attack on Halloween. The FBI’s investigation began about a year ago and involved an undercover informant who recorded the group’s conversations. Authorities say the men had planned and trained for months to carry out a possible attack in Michigan over Halloween weekend.

Detroit Free Press [11/3/2025 4:11 PM, Dave Boucher, 4030K] reports Ferndale’s top law enforcement officer said the city may have bourne the brunt of brutal violence but for the swift actions of federal agents to thwart what prosecutors call a terrorism plot. The comments come hours after federal prosecutors revealed charges against two people accused of plotting a terrorism attack Halloween weekend in Ferndale. As of Monday, Nov. 3, prosecutors charged Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, both 20, with receiving and transferring, and attempting and conspiring to transfer, firearms and ammunition with the intent to commit terrorism. The two men are accused of scouting "possible LGBTQ+-friendly attack locations in Ferndale," according to the 73-page criminal complaint. Prosecutors say a group of men conspired to commit an atrocity in the name of the terrorist group ISIS, collecting AR-15-style firearms and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition while scouting possible locations for an attack. Both men charged in this case are scheduled to appear in federal court again next week.

FOX News [11/3/2025 9:46 PM, Emma Bussey, 40621K] reports the mystery surrounding the motive for the Tesla Cybertruck attack outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day only deepened after the final investigative report from local police provided few new details. The 78-page "after-action" report released Monday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), confirmed that Matthew Livelsberger, who died by suicide before the explosion, left a manifesto on his phone, which investigators recovered during forensic analysis. The Department of War declared the manifesto classified, and the investigation was turned over to the federal government, the report said. The report, seen by Fox News Digital, confirms that the Green Beret was on leave from his Special Forces unit and had rented a Tesla Cybertruck through the car-sharing platform Turo. He filled it with fireworks, gas cans and camping fuel, and drove it to the Trump International Hotel just after 8:40 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2025. There, the vehicle detonated, causing damage and injuring six people. LVMPD and federal investigators described the incident as a premeditated vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) attack "with the potential to cause mass casualties and extensive structural damage" but did not call it terrorism. Investigators also reconstructed Livelsberger’s final days using phone data, bank records and surveillance footage. Surveillance video showed Livelsberger pouring accelerant into the truck bed moments before detonation, an act LVMPD said reflected planning rather than impulse. Counterterrorism investigators concluded he sought to make "a very big, very public statement," suggesting the Las Vegas location was chosen for visibility and impact. He also left behind a note claiming the attack was not terror-related, but a way for the soldier to "cleanse" his mind but criticized the "feckless leadership" of a U.S. that is "near collapse," officials said. "This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake-up call," Livelsberger wrote in the notes app on his phone. "Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives," Livelsberger wrote. One of his messages was said to have gone to Shawn Ryan, an ex-Navy SEAL and CIA contractor. Fox News Digital has reached out to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for comment.

Daily Caller [11/3/2025 9:37 AM, Jason Hopkins, 835K] reports a conservative watchdog group is urging the Trump administration to take a closer look at its contracts with Microsoft as the Biden-era "Arctic Frost" probe continues to unravel. The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) is demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) review its contracts with Microsoft after the tech giant hired former Biden Justice Department official Lisa Monaco, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter warns that Monaco’s senior position poses a national security risk, as she is privy to sensitive information between Microsoft and the federal government. "The risk that Monaco could again use access to information contained in Department contracts to turn against her political opponents, or even those Microsoft users within the government with whom she disagrees, is great given her past outrageous behavior," CASA Director James Fitzpatrick stated to DHS. "Considering the various national security implications of Microsoft’s government contracts being overseen by Monaco, we ask you to immediately initiate a review of Microsoft’s contracts with the Department for potential termination." Appointed earlier this year as Microsoft’s president of global affairs, Monaco previously served as deputy attorney general under President Joe Biden. As a top prosecutor within the Biden administration, Monaco played an integral role in "Arctic Frost," a wide-ranging investigation that Republicans contend used an election interference case as a pretense to essentially target the entire Republican Party.

The Hill [11/3/2025 6:48 PM, Sylvan Lane, 12595K] reports the main question looming over the case is whether Trump can use emergency powers to justify his worldwide levies as he seeks to transform global trade — an untested expansion of executive authority. Trump has justified the bulk of his sweeping tariff agenda by pointing to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which gives the president power to "regulate" imports in response to certain emergencies. Small businesses and Democratic-led states will make the case Wednesday that Congress never envisioned "regulate" to include tariffs when it passed IEEPA in 1977. No president before Trump invoked the law to impose tariffs, so the Supreme Court has never decided that question. The justices’ answer may depend on how they view a 50-year-old appellate decision dating back to former President Nixon. An appeals court’s 50-year-old decision could come into play regarding Trump’s own statements about his banner policy.

ABC News [11/3/2025 6:06 PM, Mariam Khan, 30493K] reports the State Department on Monday officially updated its designation for Nigeria as a "Country of Particular Concern" for its alleged severe violations of religious freedom and persecution of Christians. The CPC label is given by the U.S. government to nations "engaged in severe violations of religious freedom" under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. The designation is largely symbolic, but U.S. law states that governments must "take targeted responses to violations of religious freedom.” The move comes after President Donald Trump accused the Nigerian government of not doing enough to protect Christians from violence. He also instructed the Pentagon on Saturday to prepare for possible action in Nigeria and threatened to cut U.S. aid. The secretary of state is responsible for deeming a country a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC). Other countries designated as CPCs include Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Trump previously designated Nigeria as a CPC in December 2020 during his first term in office, but that designation was reversed the following year under the Biden administration. Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Nigeria from the CPC designation list in November 2021 after assessing it did not meet the criteria a formal designation of concern regarding "systematic, ongoing, and egregious" violations of religious freedom. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom blasted the move at the time and said the decision to remove Nigeria from the special designation was "unexplainable" and appalling. According to the State Department, the International Religious Freedom Act requires an annual review of the status of religious freedom worldwide and the designation of countries that have "engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom" during the reporting period. The IRFA defines particularly severe violations of religious freedom as "systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom, including violations such as torture, degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, abduction or clandestine detention, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, or the security of persons," according to the State Department.

Axios [11/3/2025 8:56 AM, Avery Lotz, 12972K] reports President Trump instructed the Pentagon over the weekend to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria, threatening to enter the West African nation "guns-a-blazing" over accusations of violence against Christians. Violence and instability in Nigeria has affected Muslims and Christians alike for more than a decade. It’s highly unlikely that the U.S. would be able to solve the problem with a swift strike, as Trump suggested. Trump did not rule out U.S. boots on the ground in Nigeria while traveling aboard Air Force One Sunday. Asked if he could envisage boots on the ground or air strikes, he replied, "Could be." Trump wrote that if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians," the U.S. will cease all aid to the country. He added that the U.S. "may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities." If there is a U.S. attack, he said, it "will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!" Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to the president’s post: "Yes sir," and added that his department was "preparing for action."

Breitbart [11/3/2025 8:46 AM, Frances Martel, 2416K] reports Nigerian President Bola Tinubu condemned President Donald Trump’s statements acknowledging the ongoing genocide of Christians in his country in remarks on Saturday, claiming they did not reflect "reality," while a top adviser told local media Tinubu planned to meet Trump "in the coming days.” "The characterisation of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does not reflect our national reality," Tinubu said in a statement on Saturday, "nor does it take into consideration the consistent and sincere efforts of the government to safeguard freedom of religion and beliefs for all Nigerians." The president claimed his administration "maintained an open and active engagement with Christian and Muslim leaders alike." His statement did not address the top jihadist threats in his country – ethnic Fulani jihadist militias and the terrorist organization Boko Haram – by name. On Sunday, Tinubu special adviser Daniel Bwala announced on social media that the Nigerian president expected to hold meetings with Trump in person in the near future. "Both President Bola Tinubu and President Donald Trump have shared interest in the fight against insurgency and all forms of terrorism against humanity," Bwala wrote, in a much more conciliatory message towards Trump than Tinubu’s initial remarks. "President Trump has assisted Nigeria a lot by authorizing the sale of arms to Nigeria, and President Tinubu has adequately utilized the opportunity in the fight against terrorism, for which we have massive results to show for it," Bwala highlighted, adding that the disagreement over the existence of the ongoing Christian genocide "would be discussed and resolved" in the near future.

CNN [11/3/2025 11:45 AM, Nimi Princewill, 606K] reports US President Donald Trump caused alarm across Nigeria over the weekend when he said he was contemplating military action in Africa’s most populous nation in response to what he claimed was a "mass slaughter" of Christians by Islamist insurgents. The reality on the ground, experts and analysts say, is a more complex and nuanced one. Both Christians and Muslims — the two main religious groups in the country of more than 230 million people — have been victims of attacks by radical Islamists, they say. The West African nation has grappled for years with deep-rooted security problems that are driven by various factors, including religiously motivated attacks. Observers say other violent conflicts arise from communal and ethnic tensions, as well as disputes between farmers and herders over limited access to land and water resources. The Nigerian government rejects claims that it is not doing enough to protect Christians from violence, saying it was bewildered by Trump’s suggestion of a potential military intervention. "We are shocked that President Trump is mulling an invasion of our country," Nigerian presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga told CNN after the US president instructed the Pentagon to prepare for possible military action. Additionally, Trump threatened to stop all US aid to Nigeria if its government fails to take steps to stop the killings of Christians. He warned that the proposed intervention would be "fast and vicious," aimed at eliminating the "Islamic Terrorists" he said were responsible for these atrocities.

FOX News [11/3/2025 12:33 PM, Ashley J., 40621K] reports the U.S. State Department has issued an increased travel advisory pertaining to Tanzania, adding an "unrest" risk indicator. The Level 2 advisory was increased to Level 3 on Oct. 31, following the presidential, Parliament and council elections there. "Reconsider travel to Tanzania due to unrest, crime, terrorism and targeting of gay and lesbian individuals," the advisory says. "Some areas [carry] increased risk.” The State Department has warned that demonstrations can be unpredictable, and the Tanzanian government has increased security presence around protests. "Members of the gay and lesbian community have been arrested, targeted and harassed. People who identify as gay or lesbian may experience a higher likelihood of being targeted by police," the advisory says. The advisory adds, "People detained under suspicion of same-sex sexual conduct may face invasive physical exams.” Violent crime is also listed as common; the advisory mentioned the risk of robberies, assault and sexual assault. The State Department also says there’s a risk of "terrorist violence," stating that it is most common in the Mtwara Region.

Los Angeles Times [11/3/2025 12:01 PM, Wafaa Shurafa and Julia Frankel, 14862K] reports Israel handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians on Monday, the Red Cross said, a day after militants returned the remains of three hostages. Israeli officials identified the three as soldiers who were killed in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that triggered the war in Gaza. The exchange marked another step forward for the tenuous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire intended to end the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas. Since the truce took effect on Oct. 10, Palestinian militants have released the remains of 20 hostages, with eight now remaining in Gaza. For each hostage returned, Israel has been releasing the remains of 15 Palestinians. With Monday’s return, the bodies of 270 Palestinians have been handed back since the start of the ceasefire.

New York Post [11/3/2025 6:49 PM, Maria Lencki, 42219K] reports for decades, security concerns shaped relations between Iraq and the United States almost exclusively. Long wars, the fight against terrorism and heavy sacrifices on both sides left deep marks. Yet Iraq today is no longer the country it was 20 years ago. Our armed forces are stronger, our institutions more mature, and — thanks to cooperation with the United States and the international coalition — we are increasingly capable of defending our sovereignty. The gradual reduction of coalition troops is not a retreat but a reflection of Iraq’s growing confidence and its willingness to shoulder responsibility. This transition marks the beginning of a new era — one focused on prosperity rather than mere survival. Iraq now seeks a partnership rooted in economic opportunity: We need investment, jobs and access to markets, while the United States brings leading expertise in technology, energy and agriculture, along with unmatched investment capacity. By combining Iraq’s natural wealth with America’s innovation, both nations stand to benefit. Recent agreements with companies like Chevron and General Electric are not just contracts on paper; they represent real jobs, stronger infrastructure and a more stable Middle East. Iraq is a young nation: 40% of our citizens are under age 15. This demographic reality can be either a powerful engine for growth — or a breeding ground for despair. If we provide education and employment, our youth will drive Iraq forward; if we fail, we risk exposing them to extremism. That is why Iraq does not seek aid but investment — partnerships that generate sustainable opportunity.

CNN [11/3/2025 10:19 AM, Chris Isidore, 606K] reports China has agreed to allow the export of chips critical to auto production, averting widespread shutdowns that had been predicted by the industry. The chips are provided by Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands. It’s a critical supplier for the global auto industry, providing 40% of the automotive chips in the market segment that includes transistors and diodes, according to research firm TechInsights. After the Dutch government took control of Nexperia several weeks ago and removed its Chinese CEO, citing national security concerns, Beijing suspended shipments from China. Auto industry trade groups in the United States and Europe both feared the trade dispute would lead them to run out of the chips they needed. That could drive up car prices, as happened in the years following the pandemic. China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement that "The Dutch government’s inappropriate interference in the company’s internal affairs has led to the current chaos in the global supply chain." But after US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met last week, Beijing said it would allow customers to apply for exemptions from a recently imposed export control and get the chips they need.

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