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CBS News [11/6/2025 5:59 PM, Camilo Montoya-Galvez, 39474K] reports the number of detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody increased to 66,000 this week, setting a new record high as President Trump intensifies his crackdown on illegal immigration, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News. Never before has ICE held so many detainees facing deportation at any given time, according to officials, historical data and immigration policy experts. ICE’s detainee population has ballooned by nearly 70% since Mr. Trump took office for a second time in January, when ICE was holding around 39,000 individuals in its detention system. ICE now has enough detention beds to hold as many as 70,000 detainees at any time, up from its 41,500 bed capacity at the beginning of the second Trump administration, a U.S. official told CBS News. That capacity is expected to continue increasing, as ICE received $45 billion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act just to expand detention levels. Officials have talked about using the unprecedented infusion of funds to operate 100,000 detention beds. The internal Department of Homeland Security figures show just over half — or around 33,000 — of the individuals in ICE detention as of Thursday morning did not have criminal charges or convictions and were being held solely because of civil immigration violations. ICE calls them "immigration violators." The other half, nearly 33,000 detainees, had criminal charges or convictions, according to the data. Since the summer, the fastest growing group of detainees initially arrested by ICE — as opposed to those transferred to the agency’s custody by Border Patrol agents — has been comprised of unauthorized immigrants who lack criminal records, government figures show. It’s unclear how many of those in ICE custody with criminal records have been convicted of or charged with violent or serious crimes, as opposed to misdemeanors or immigration-related crimes. ICE’s detainee numbers fluctuate frequently, as the agency routinely deports or releases individuals and admits new detainees. In a statement to CBS News, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said looking at those arrested by ICE since Mr. Trump took office — as opposed to those currently in custody — would provide a more "accurate account of criminality."

NewsMax [11/6/2025 11:28 AM, Staff, 4109K] reports a convicted pedophile and repeat illegal alien from El Salvador brutally assaulted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during an arrest in Houston, the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. Walter Leonel Perez Rodriguez, 39, attacked an ICE agent with a metal coffee cup during his apprehension on Nov. 3, splitting the officer’s lip and burning the side of his face, DHS said. The officer required 13 stitches for his injuries. Perez’s criminal history reads like a rap sheet of horror: sexual assault of a child under 17, child fondling, multiple DUIs, and repeated illegal entries into the U.S. He was first deported in 2013 after an immigration judge ordered his removal, only to sneak back across the border and be deported again in 2020. This week’s violent encounter marks at least his third known illegal entry, officials said. Perez is now in ICE custody. DHS officials said the assault underscores a growing danger faced by federal immigration officers who are tasked with arresting violent offenders. "Our brave ICE officers are facing record-high assaults — including a 1,000% increase in attacks — as they lock up pedophiles and other depraved criminals to keep American families safe," said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. She added that under President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the administration will take a zero-tolerance approach to those who assault federal officers. "This repeated criminal illegal alien is about to find out the hard way that there’s a new sheriff in town," McLaughlin said.

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AP [11/6/2025 4:19 PM, Staff, 31753K] reports the Trump administration is speeding up the implementation of new rules that would give the agency tasked with protecting federal government facilities greater authority to charge people for a broader array of offenses on or off those properties. The changes outlining the powers of the Federal Protective Service, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, were put forward in early January under the Biden administration and were slated to take effect on Jan. 1 of next year but instead went into effect Wednesday. The administration said the rules were being changed ahead of time so they could address a "recent surge in violence.” They come as protests have surged against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, especially near buildings associated with immigration enforcement, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices or facilities. They also come as the Trump administration is facing lawsuits in both Chicago and Portland against what critics say is the excessive use of force by federal officers against protesters and others or unjustified attempts to bring in federal forces to protect facilities. Activists and many political leaders have accused Homeland Security of aggressively suppressing peaceful protests and targeting activists trying to hold them accountable. Critics said the new rules could be used to target protesters. "DHS is using every tool possible to protect the lives of our law enforcement as they face a surge in violence and lawlessness at many of our federal facilities," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a news release announcing the sped-up schedule. The release cited a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, an incident that killed two detainees. The new rules empower officers from the Federal Protective Service to make arrests and charge people for actions near the federal property, and they include new rules regulating unauthorized use of drones and tampering with digital networks. The Homeland Security news release gave some examples of conduct that the Federal Protective Service could now charge someone for, both on federal property and off, including wearing a mask while committing a crime, obstructing access to federal property and tampering with government IT systems like card readers.

Breitbart [11/6/2025 1:24 PM, Christian K. Caruzo, 2416K] reports President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa on Wednesday vowed to curb U.S.-bound drug trafficking routes coming from the coastal provinces of Manabí and Santa Elena during Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Kristi Noem’s visit to the country. Sec. Noem traveled to Ecuador on Wednesday and met with President Noboa. Her two-day visit marks the second time Noem has visited the South American country this year. The officials discussed the possible installation of Homeland Security bases in the coastal cities of Manta and Salinas as part of Noboa’s efforts to combat organized transnational crime, given their strategic access to Pacific waters and already-available infrastructure. Noboa and Noem toured an Ecuadorian Air Force base in Manta, Manabí, where the United States had a military drug-fighting presence from 1999 to 2009. At the time, the government of socialist former president and convicted fugitive Rafael Correa took control of the base. President Noboa and Sec. Noem reportedly held a private meeting at the base. In 2008, the then-ruling socialists introduced a constitutional reform that prohibits the establishment of foreign military bases. Throughout 2025, Noboa’s administration has led efforts to promote a referendum on November 16 that will ask the Ecuadorian electorate if they agree with eliminating the foreign military base prohibition clause as well as a separate question asking if the Ecuadorian state should continue to finance political parties. "The visit by the Secretary of Homeland Security aims to consolidate technical cooperation mechanisms between the security institutions of both countries and strengthen capabilities in the fight against transnational organized crime," the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry said on social media. After touring the Air Force base at Manta, Sec. Noem traveled to the city of Salinas, Santa Elena, where she joined President Noboa and his wife, Lavinia Valbonesi, for a horseback ride at the Ulpiano Páez air base. On Thursday, Sec. Noem inspected the Cosme Rennella Barbatto Military Aviation School to assess the possible installation of a U.S. base in the facility. Noboa published photos of the ride on his Instagram account, writing, "This is real. Let’s go after all those who were allowed to do whatever they wanted since 2008.” President Noboa, 37, first took office in 2023 after winning a snap election to conclude the remainder of the term of his predecessor, conservative former President Guillermo Lasso. Noboa was reelected for a second, full four-year term in April. Since then, the U.S.-friendly Ecuadorian president has reached out to President Donald Trump to establish a security alliance and receive American help in the fight against gang crime and drug trafficking in Ecuador. Noboa met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in April. Bloomberg reported in late October that Noboa is seeking a meeting with President Trump days before the November 16 referendum. "Let’s remember that this is [Noem’s] second visit. We are here to discuss security cooperation issues. We are visiting this location [Manta] precisely to remember the close cooperation and assistance that the United States and Ecuador maintained in the fight against drug trafficking," Ecuadorian Defense Minister Gian Carlo Loffredo reportedly said on Wednesday.

UPI [11/6/2025 1:32 PM, Macarena Hermosilla, 1847K] reports Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem toured facilities at the former U.S. military base in Manta, in Manabí province, to evaluate a possible foreign military presence in the country. The visit is part of a technical review that the two governments have carried out since the beginning of the year. Manta and Salinas are possible sites for expanded security cooperation. According to an official statement from the Ecuadorian government, the discussions included assessing the use of existing infrastructure for "potential bases" under a framework that has not yet been made public. The possible establishment of a U.S. base marks a shift in Ecuador’s defense policy, which has explicitly prohibited foreign military forces on its territory since 2008. To change that rule, the Noboa administration is promoting a constitutional reform to allow foreign troops in the country. It will be put to a referendum Nov. 16.

ABC 4 Charleston [11/7/2025 12:06 AM, Jessica Klinger, 30493K] reports Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the Lowcountry, receiving the Nathan Hale Award from the Citadel Republican Society at its annual Patriot Dinner Thursday. The dinner supports the Society’s cadets on their annual trip to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C. Hale was a soldier who was executed by the British during the American Revolutionary War. Hale is known for his famous quote, "My only regret is that I have but one life to give for my country." "[Hale’s quote is] my hope and my prayer for all of us as Americans today, that we recognize that that freedom is not something that we eternally will have, that it needs to be preserved, it needs to be fought for, and it needs to be protected each and every day," says Noem. Other notable recipients of the Nathan Hale Award include President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, Rep. Tim Scott, and Gov. Henry McMaster.

The Wall Street Journal [11/6/2025 4:25 PM, C. Ryan Barber, 646K] reports a man who became an internet sensation after throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal agent was acquitted Thursday of assault, the latest defeat for prosecutors in cases stemming from the Trump administration’s law-enforcement surge. It took jurors a day to reach their verdict in a case that required them to decide whether Sean Dunn’s hurling of a foot-long at a U.S. Border Patrol agent’s chest constituted a misdemeanor criminal offense. The charge turned in part on questions of whether the sandwich toss could have reasonably caused bodily harm. His lawyers argued that the throw was a harmless gesture—directed at an officer in a ballistic vest—that punctuated an outburst in which Dunn condemned President Trump’s law-enforcement takeover of Washington. They noted that the sandwich remained largely intact after impact, resulting in little more than mustard on the officer’s uniform and onion hanging on his radio antenna. Prosecutors argued that antipathy to Trump’s policies doesn’t confer the right to throw objects at law-enforcement officials. “When we have disputes, we settle them verbally. We don’t let them turn physical,” Justice Department lawyer John Parron told the jury. The Washington Post [11/6/2025 4:50 PM, Salvador Rizzo, 24149K] reports that the defendant, Sean C. Dunn, said he was speaking out against what he characterized as fascism and anti-migrant policies from the Trump administration. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office said the 37-year-old Air Force veteran was not on trial for protesting but for “throwing a sandwich at a federal officer at point-blank range.” Prosecutors sought to indict Dunn on a felony assault count, but a grand jury rejected that charge, and prosecutors downgraded it to a misdemeanor. The trial jury in U.S. District Court rejected that charge as well, deliberating for seven hours over two days before returning the not-guilty verdict. It was the highest-profile repudiation to date of Pirro’s efforts to ratchet up penalties for local offenses. Grand juries have declined to indict several people accused of assaulting federal officers this year. A trial jury last month acquitted a D.C. woman, Sydney L. Reid, who had rowdily protested an immigration arrest at the doors of the city jail and was charged with the same misdemeanor as Dunn. The prosecution called two witnesses: the Customs and Border Protection agent who was on the receiving end of the sandwich and a Metro Transit Police detective who saw the Aug. 10 incident unfold. Defense attorneys called no witnesses. Judge Carl J. Nichols instructed the jury that to convict Dunn, they would have to find he acted forcibly and generated a “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” Dunn’s attorneys said Lairmore was “very heavily armed” and with a group of law enforcement officers, in addition to wearing the bulletproof vest. “If that vest … is going to keep you safe from military rifle fire, it is certainly going to keep you safe from a sandwich,” Shroff said. CBS News [11/6/2025 2:27 PM, Staff, 39474K] reports that the acquittal of the man, Sean Dunn, comes after federal prosecutors failed to secure a felony indictment against him from a grand jury in Washington in the immediate aftermath of the incident. He instead faced a federal misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating and interfering with a federal officer. According to charging documents, Dunn threw a "submarine-style sandwich" at a Customs and Border Patrol officer stationed at a busy intersection in Northwest Washington in August. The incident was widely publicized and quickly became a symbol of resistance against President Trump’s federal policing crackdown and National Guard deployment in the nation’s capital, which is now in its third month. In video of the incident that was cited in the charges and played in court, Dunn can be seen yelling at the agent and other officers in his vicinity before throwing the wrapped sandwich at the officer’s chest. Dunn attempted to flee on foot before being apprehended, documents and video of the incident shows. According to the affidavit, Dunn yelled, "F*** you! You f***ing fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city," before crossing the street. He later returned and threw the sandwich. "He did it, he threw the sandwich," Dunn’s attorney Julia Gatto said in her opening statement to a D.C. jury, adding their client has "very strong feelings" about the Trump administration’s influx of federal law enforcement into D.C. Gatto called the viral incident a "harmless gesture that did not, could not, cause injury.” Customs and Border Patrol Agent Gregory Lairmore, who was hit with the footlong sub, testified Tuesday, saying that he caught most of Dunn’s anger and attention before being hit in his ballistic vest with the Subway sandwich. To laughs from the crowded courtroom, Lairmore said he "could feel it through his ballistic vest" and it "exploded all over" him. He said he "could smell the onions and mustard" on his uniform, and even had an onion string hanging by his police radio later that night. The fast-food mustard, he said, stained his shirt. Dunn did not testify in his own defense, and his legal team did not present a counter to the Justice Department’s arguments in the case. Instead they moved to dismiss the case, but that was denied by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who oversaw the trial. During closing arguments in front of a fully packed courtroom, prosecutors said that "this case is not about someone with strong opinions ... it’s about an individual who crossed the line." They said Dunn had the right to express his anger at the federal agents, but he did not have the right to strike them, "even with a sandwich.” "Here we have the defendant, throwing a sandwich, but he’s throwing it hard," the prosecutor said. "That meets the definition of force.” Dunn’s attorney, Sabrina Schroff, then argued to the jury that "the sandwich that was thrown in this case was not forcible," and equated her client’s actions to that of a child’s bedtime temper tantrum. Schroff said that when a child "takes that stuffed animal with which he sleeps ... and throws it at you … Are you offended? Are you scared you might suffer bodily injury? No.” She also said Lairmore could not have been assaulted because the sandwich throw did not place the officer in "reasonable fear of immediate bodily harm.” "Think about where the sandwich landed," Schroff said, arguing that Lairmore’s bulletproof vest that Dunn threw the sub at was "definitely going to keep you safe from a sandwich," if it protects against gunfire. "A footlong from Subway could not and certainly did not inflict bodily harm," Schroff said. "This isn’t just a sandwich, this is a seven minute tirade," prosecutors argued in their rebuttal. After his arrest, Dunn was fired from his job as a paralegal in the Justice Department. According to a Justice Department source, Dunn worked at the Office of International Affairs within the department’s Criminal Division as a paralegal.

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AP [11/6/2025 4:36 PM, Christine Fernando and Sophia Tareen, 30493K] reports a federal judge said Thursday she will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against peaceful protesters and news media outlets, saying current practices violate their constitutional rights. The preliminary injunction came in response to a lawsuit alleging federal agents have used excessive force in their immigration crackdown in the Chicago area. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ‘s ruling, which is expected to be appealed by President Donald Trump’s administration, refines an earlier temporary order that required agents to wear badges and banned them from using certain riot-control techniques, such as tear gas, against peaceful protesters and journalists. After repeatedly chastising federal officials for not following her previous orders, she added a requirement for body cameras. Ellis, who began Thursday’s hearing by describing Chicago as a "vibrant place" and reading from poet Carl Sandburg’s famous poem about the city, said it is "simply untrue" that the Chicago area is a violent place of rioters. A day earlier, attorneys for both sides repeatedly clashed in court over the accounts of several incidents during the immigration crackdown that began in September, including one where a Border Patrol commander threw a cannister of tear gas at a crowd. "I don’t find defendants’ version of events credible," Ellis said. Ellis said agents will be required to give two warnings before using riot control weapons and that agents are restricted from using force unless it is "objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat.” She described protesters and advocates facing tear gas, having guns pointed at them and being thrown to the ground, saying "that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental rights.” The preliminary injunction stems from a lawsuit filed by news outlets and protesters who say agents have used too much force during demonstrations. In court, an attorney representing the federal government said senior Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, has a body-worn camera after Ellis required him to get one and complete the training for using it at a previous hearing. A message left Thursday for the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t immediately returned. During Wednesday’s eight-hour hearing, witnesses gave emotional testimony when describing experiencing tear gas, being shot in the head with pepper balls while praying, and having guns pointed at them when recording agents in residential streets. Ellis questioned witnesses about how these experiences impacted them and if they prevented them from protesting again. One after another, witnesses described their anxiety about returning to protests or advocacy work. "I get really nervous because it just feels like I’m not safe," Leslie Cortez, a youth organizer in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, told Ellis. "And I question my safety when I go out.” Attorneys also played footage of a five-hour deposition, or private interview, of Bovino where he defended agents’ use of force and dodged questions about Border Patrol tactics in the nations’ third-largest city.

USA Today [11/6/2025 5:33 PM, Michael Loria, 67103K] reports that a group of journalists, clergy and protesters filed a lawsuit saying agents’ tactics scare people from exercising free speech rights. Speaking from the bench, Ellis disparaged numerous examples government lawyers had cited of violence agents face. Federal officials say tactics such as chemical weapons are needed to handle "rioters" in Chicago. Lawyers for defendants including Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino are expected to appeal Ellis’ order. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has previously moved against Ellis, barring her from calling Bovino into court for daily reports.

Washington Post [11/6/2025 12:42 PM, Kim Bellware, 24149K] reports a federal judge on Thursday delivered a damning condemnation of the use of force in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in this city, saying officers have unnecessarily terrorized local residents seeking to peacefully protest or document their actions. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis pointed to numerous examples of immigration officers using tear gas, pepper spray and other crowd control devices in ways that she said amounted to excessive force and contradicted statements from federal authorities. She singled out Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Border Patrol commander overseeing the operation, and said that he “admitted that he lied” about getting struck by a rock in the head before deploying tear gas. “I find the defendants’ evidence simply not credible,” Ellis said. “Overall, this calls into question everything the defendants are doing.” She added the government is using force “untethered” to any specific threat. “I see little reason for the use of force that the federal agents are currently using,” Ellis said. “I would find the use of force shocks the conscience.” Ellis made her remarks as she issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting immigration officers involved in “Operation Midway Blitz” — a large-scale enforcement operation the Trump administration launched in September — from using tear gas and pepper spray on those who do not pose a threat. The injunction, which also requires officers to wear body cameras, supplants a temporary restraining order that Ellis issued in early October prohibiting officers from using chemical munitions on nonviolent demonstrators and journalists. It will remain in place as a court challenge brought by a nonprofit journalism organization is litigated. The judge declined to stay the ruling pending a potential appeal from the government. The case has emerged as a testing ground over the question of whether the administration is violating the free speech rights of protesters against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign or using reasonable force against individuals who cross the line into threats and violence aimed at law enforcement.

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Chicago Tribune [11/6/2025 7:05 PM, Jason Meisner, 4829K] reports federal judge in Chicago on Thursday issued a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying top government officials lied in their testimony about threats that protesters posed and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.” “I find the government’s evidence to be simply not credible,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said in an oral ruling from the bench, describing a litany of incidents over the past month and a half where citizens were tear-gassed “indiscriminately,” beaten and tackled by agents and struck in the face with pepper spray balls. “The use of force shocks the conscience,” Ellis said. The judge noted in particular that Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino lied repeatedly in his deposition testimony about force that his agents and he himself personally inflicted in incidents across the Chicago area. “In one of the videos, Bovino obviously attacks and tackles the declarant, Mr. Blackburn, to the ground,” Ellis said. “But Mr. Bovino, despite watching this video (in his deposition) says that he never used force.” The preliminary injunction largely mirrors — and replaces — a temporary restraining order issued by Ellis in early October that was set to expire at 11:30 a.m. She instructed the government to notify each agency of its details and disseminate it to employees by no later than 10 p.m. Thursday. The judge said she’d put out a more fulsome written ruling at a later time, but for now, it enjoins immigration agents from deploying tear gas or other munitions before issuing two explicit warnings, requires agents in the field to have body-worn cameras and wear clear identification on their uniforms, and forbids law enforcement from targeting journalists or interrupting their news gathering in most circumstances. Unlike the temporary restraining order, the preliminary injunction remains in effect until a final decision is made on the merits of the case, either at trial or through a settlement. In their arguments, the plaintiffs said the abuses of immigration agents on the streets of Chicago comes from the very top, including President Donald Trump, who made it “abundantly clear that he elected Chicago for this operation he then ordered and directed DHS to commence this operation here.” They played video of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem giving a pep talk to Bovino and his agents at the Broadview facility in early October, saying they should “go hard” at people who voiced dissent against law enforcement tactics — language Bovino later incorporated into his own public statements. In his closing, Art said the Department of Homeland Security has “unleashed weapons of war” on Chicago.

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(B) CNN News Central [11/6/2025 3:16 PM, Staff] reports that a federal judge in Chicago has issued a sweeping injunction keeping limits on federal agents’ crowd control tactics during Operating Midway Blitz. During the ruling, the judge called the government’s claims of riots and violence against officers not credible. The judge also said that federal agents must give at least two separate warnings before issuing riot control weapons with reasonable opportunity for people to comply.

NewsNation [11/6/2025 2:34 PM, Juliette Johnson, 8017K] reports that a judge in Chicago granted "complete relief" in the form of a preliminary injunction against federal immigration authorities Thursday, adding Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol Commander overseeing the federal immigration and crime crackdown that has been dubbed "Operation Midway Blitz," lied under oath. Judge Sara Ellis ruled that federal authorities’ use of force against protesters, clergy and journalists during a Chicago-based immigration and crime crackdown "shocks the system" and "shows no signs of stopping.” Ellis took exception to Bovino’s videotaped deposition about tactics used by federal agents and officers during Operation Midway Blitz and about the use of force by law enforcement officers, including himself. "More telling," Ellis said in issuing her ruling over 90 minutes on Thursday, "Defendant Bovino admitted that he lied. He admitted that he lied that a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village.” Bovino was seen on video throwing a canister of pepper spray at protesters, which led to the Border Patrol commander being forced to appear in court last week. Department of Homeland Security officials said Bovino responded after protesters became angry and acted aggressively toward federal agents. However, footage of the incident never showed Bovino being struck in the head with a rock as DHS officials had claimed in their explanation of the incident. In his deposition, Bovino denied tackling the man and instead testified that he was "imploring" the man to comply with an order to leave the area. Bovino testified that he saw "no reportable use of force" in the video of the encounter, saying the use of force was used against him. Bovino repeatedly said during a deposition that all uses of force he has witnessed by federal officers and agents have "been more than exemplary" and claimed protesters have become more aggressive. He accused them of slashing tires, smashing car windows and bringing weapons while "becoming ever more angry and violent.” During Thursday’s hearing, Ellis said the federal government’s characterization of the tactics used by federal officers and agents over the past two months does not match up with the evidence provided. Ellis pointed to nearly a dozen instances in which she determined federal officers and agents wrongfully used force against protesters. "I find the government’s evidence to be simply not credible," Ellis said. "The government would have people believe instead that the Chicagoland area is in a vice hold of violence, ransacked by rioters and attacked by agitators. That simply is untrue, and the government’s own evidence in this case belies that assertion.”

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Chicago Tribune [11/6/2025 9:21 PM, Caroline Kubzansky, Armando L. Sanchez and Brian Cassella, 4829K] reports U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino said federal agents’ operations had been “going very violent” the same day that his agents fired pepper balls at a moving vehicle in Gage Park and pointed rifles in Little Village as residents blew whistles, screamed at passing federal cars and followed their large convoy around the city’s Southwest Side. “We can operate with great skill, legally, ethically and morally,” Bovino said during a brief stop in Gage Park. That statement came the same day a federal judge said that agents’ actions “shocked the conscience” and declared that Bovino, the top official on the ground in “Operation Midway Blitz,” had repeatedly lied in his deposition about whether he had used force against people protesting the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis made those statements while issuing a sweeping prohibition on agents’ use of chemical crowd controls against civilians. Bovino spoke to a Tribune photographer around 1 p.m. inside a Gage Park gas station convenience store, just after he asked a man purchasing some soda where he was from. He described Chicago as “a very tough place” and gestured to the people gathering outside the store. “Look at what’s happening here,” he said, gesturing outside the store. “Just to go use the bathroom and get something to eat, that’s even a safety concern.” He grinned and held up a Slim Jim. About 50 people of all ages stood outside the gas station. Men in Bears hats and women in pink stretch pants blew whistles and filmed on their phones, and a maroon SUV pulled up with young men wearing face masks and whistles hanging out the windows. Another man stood in the street swinging a massive Mexican flag. Others peered out from apartment windows and balconies overlooking the intersection of West 52nd Street and South Kedzie Avenue. The agents piled back into their convoy as neighbors screamed at them and spent much of the rest of the afternoon driving haphazardly around Chicago’s Southwest Side and south suburban Summit. Driving away from the gas station down Western Avenue, one group of agents fired a round of pepper balls at a black sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle. It wasn’t clear if agents issued a warning before they fired. Ellis’ order, which is not yet widely distributed, bars agents from deploying tear gas or other munitions before issuing two explicit warnings, requires agents in the field to have body-worn cameras and wear clear identification on their uniforms. Tribune journalists did not witness them make any arrests after the stop in Gage Park. Earlier on Thursday, agents casing Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood stopped near the intersection of 26th Street and Lawndale Avenue and at one point raised rifles pointed east down 26th from behind a parked van. It wasn’t clear what they were pointing at. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about what prompted their actions. Later, in the Brighton Park neighborhood, agents stopped and questioned at least two sets of people, but did not make arrests following either interaction. One of those groups was a set of three men working on a car. As soon as the agents began to back off, the men leaned down and went straight back to work.

Chicago Tribune [11/6/2025 12:32 PM, Jason Meisner, 4829K] Video: HERE reports a federal judge Wednesday ordered the release of video taken during an hours long deposition given last week by U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Public Media petitioned U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis to release the recordings, which were filed under seal as part of a lawsuit led by the Chicago Headline Club, a nonprofit journalism advocacy organization, and a consortium of other media groups. The journalism organizations allege federal immigration enforcement officials have systematically violated the constitutional rights of protesters and reporters during President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission, which began in early September and shows no sign of slowing down. Ellis, who issued a temporary restraining order last month, announced Thursday that she will put longer-term restrictions on federal agents’ use of chemical agents on crowds and provide enhanced protections for protesters and members of the media.

The Hill [11/6/2025 11:22 AM, Mike Lillis, 12595K] reports agroup of Virginia Democrats from both chambers is pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reinstall the federal workers who monitor the agency’s immigrant detention centers. The lawmakers say the employees of the Office of Detention Oversight (ODO), who have been furloughed during the weeks-long government shutdown, are critical to ensuring that detainees held by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are treated humanely. That’s especially true, they argue, because ICE law enforcement officers have continued to work over the same span, leading to a surge in detentions that’s strained the capacity of certain facilities. In a letter sent Thursday to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the Democrats called on the administration to return the ICE oversight staffers to the field immediately, or risk physical harm to the immigrants in their care. "Without ODO staff actively performing these duties, there is a heightened risk that detention facilities fail to meet required standards, compromising detainee safety, access to medical care, and legal protections," the lawmakers wrote to Noem. "This is not hypothetical — ICE has publicly reported that at least twenty people have died in its custody since January." The letter was spearheaded by Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.). Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) also signed on.

FOX News [11/6/2025 3:58 PM, Peter Pinedo, 40621K] reports the Trump Department of Homeland Security flipped the script on a liberal California media outlet that reported immigration agents "drove off" with a U.S. citizen detainee’s toddler in the backseat of a vehicle. The Los Angeles Times reported that while carrying out an immigration enforcement operation at a Home Depot in the Cypress Park neighborhood, Border Patrol officials detained a 32-year-old U.S. citizen named Dennis Quinonez, who had a 1-year-old child in the backseat of his car. The outlet reported that "after two agents climbed into his car — along with their weapons — they drove off with the child as onlookers protested." The article noted that a DHS spokesperson said Quinonez "allegedly ‘exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car.’" The outlet also noted that the spokesperson said Quinonez "was arrested for assault, and, during his arrest, a pistol was found in his car that is reported stolen out of the state of New York," adding he "has an active warrant for property damage." Quinonez was charged with unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition by a person previously convicted of domestic violence, the outlet reported. This post prompted a sharp reply from DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. "Oh ffs sake, Brittny. This U.S. citizen left his own child unattended in a car and proceeded to attack law enforcement as the[y] were conducting an operation—he exited his car wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement as he abandoned his child," she wrote. McLaughlin added that, given the facts that Quinonez was arrested for assault, a pistol was found in his car during the arrest, the car was reported stolen out of New York and he had an active warrant for property damage, "law enforcement rightly looked over the child until they were in the safe custody of a guardian."

AP [11/6/2025 2:47 PM, Margery A. Beck, 31753K] reports that a minimum-security state prison in the remote southwest corner of Nebraska reconfigured to serve as a federal immigration detention center began accepting detainees earlier this week, Gov. Jim Pillen said Thursday. The Republican governor said the facility at McCook — a remote city of about 7,000 people in the middle of wide-open prairies between Denver and Omaha — had between 50 and 60 immigrant detainees as of Thursday. The facility should be at capacity — currently 200 — by Thanksgiving, Pillen said. Work is already set to begin on the second phase of the conversion, which would expand the facility to accommodate another 100 beds for a total of 300, he said. "I would expect that the second phase will be ready in the first part of the new year," he said. The facility had served as the McCook Work Ethic Camp, which had housed around 180 low-level offenders who participated in education, treatment and work programs to help them transition to life outside prison. Prisoners there routinely worked on roads, in parks, county and city offices and even local schools, and the program was often praised by state leaders as a success story for reducing prisoner recidivism. Those low-level offenders have been moved out of the McCook prison. Several were paroled, placed on probation or simply released, but the majority were sent to other facilities, including more than 100 sent to community corrections in Omaha and Lincoln. Dozens of others were sent to other state prisons. McCook is about 210 miles (338 kilometers) west of Lincoln, the state capital. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. McCook officials and residents were taken by surprise when Pillen announced in August that he was handing the prison over for use by federal authorities as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigration. Nebraska and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials have dubbed the facility the " Cornhusker Clink," a play on Nebraska’s nickname of the Cornhusker State and an old slang term for jail. The alliterative name follows in the vein of the previously announced " Alligator Alcatraz " and "Deportation Depot" detention centers in Florida and the " Speedway Slammer " in Indiana. Some Nebraska lawmakers have complained that Pillen, a Republican, acted rashly, noting that the state’s prison system is already one of the nation’s most overcrowded and perpetually understaffed. To that end, former state Sen. DiAnna Schimek and thirteen other McCook residents have sued Pillen and the director of the state prison system, saying only the Legislature has the constitutional authority to control or manage state prisons or repurpose the use of public buildings.

Federal News Network [11/6/2025 6:01 PM, Justin Doubleday, 986K] reports Democrats in Congress are pressing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to restore oversight staff who were furloughed at the start of the government shutdown. In a Nov. 6 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the lawmakers said that staff at the Office of Detention Oversight are crucial to ensuring safety at ICE detention centers. Staff at ODO were furloughed at the outset of the shutdown. “Without ODO staff actively performing these duties, there is a heightened risk that detention facilities fail to meet required standards, compromising detainee safety, access to medical care, and legal protections,” the lawmakers wrote to Noem. The lawmakers also point out that the Department of Homeland Security’s shutdown contingency plan includes exceptions for the safety of human life and protection of property. “This is not hypothetical – ICE has publicly reported that at least twenty people have died in its custody since January,” they added. The letter points to reports of overcrowding and other unsafe conditions at ICE detention facilities, as immigration enforcement operations have continued through the shutdown. “Given these developments, we are deeply concerned about the health and safety of detainees and staff at ICE facilities during the ongoing lapse in appropriations,” the letter states. “The decision to furlough the entire ODO is a clear attempt to sabotage oversight into the conditions of ICE facilities and the wellbeing of detainees.” The letter was led by Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) and also signed by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.). In a separate Oct. 31 letter to Noem and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) pointed out that ICE furloughed ODO staff despite receiving an influx of funding under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “I recognize that certain nonessential functions must pause during a lapse in appropriations,” Dexter wrote. “However, a lack of funding cannot be used as justification to strip away any measure of accountability. To safeguard the health, safety, and dignity of my constituents, I urge you to reinstate necessary staff for the Office of Detention Oversight, immediately restore communication channels between ICE and congressional offices, and ensure Members of Congress have access to all ICE facilities.”

Breitbart [11/6/2025 12:56 PM, Sean Moran, 2416K] reports the Justice Department has reportedly axed dozens of immigration judges as the Trump administration moves to close President Joe Biden’s asylum loophole. NPR reported that 70 immigration judges have been fired by the Department of Justice; however, a Justice Department spokesperson disputed the figure, saying it terminated fewer than 55 judges. It also disputed the outlet’s reporting that the Justice Department targeted or prioritized the firing of immigration judges, including whether it targeted judges that defended immigrants. "DOJ doesn’t ‘target’ or ‘prioritize’ immigration judges for any personnel decision one way or the other based on prior experience," a DOJ spokesperson said. "DOJ continually evaluates all immigration judges, regardless of background, on factors such as conduct, impartiality/bias, adherence to the law, productivity/performance, and professionalism.” The Justice Department spokesperson said, "Pursuant to Article II of the Constitution, IJs (Immigration Judges) are inferior officers who are appointed and removed by the Attorney General.” Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, said, "But the way the Trump administration is approaching immigration courts reflects a really high prioritization of immigration enforcement and [the administration] has really made deportations this whole-of-government effort.”

The Hill [11/6/2025 12:29 PM, Rebecca Beitsch, 12595K] reports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "erroneously" told a watchdog group that it no longer retains text messages required by law, saying the "misunderstanding" stemmed from the department ending its use of a system that automatically preserved messages. American Oversight said the admission raises questions about whether officials are following their obligation to manually save their messages and that they have yet to receive the public records it requested. The disclosure came in a public records lawsuit brought by the group to obtain text messages sent by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during immigration raids in Los Angeles. The DHS initially told the group that "text message data generated after April 9, 2025, is no longer maintained" and that the agency "no longer has the capability to conduct a search of text messages." But a sworn declaration made by DHS’s chief data officer said the initial statement wasn’t true. DHS, the official said, has stopped using a program that automatically preserved text messages, and employees instead must now "manually archive their messages." "Although the TeleMessage software reduced the burden on these officials to manually archive messages, and made it easier for the Department to respond to FOIA and discovery requests for these messages, DHS disabled TeleMessage in April 2025 due to cybersecurity failures," the official wrote. Court documents also show the National Archives asked the DHS to investigate the potential destruction of records and report back by Nov. 3. However, by Oct. 30, a National Archives official said they had not yet received a response from the DHS.

New York Times [11/6/2025 11:44 PM, Minho Kim, 135475K] reports the Department of Homeland Security has stopped using software that automatically captured text messages and saved trails of communication between officials, according to sworn court statements filed this week. Instead, the agency began in April to require officials to manually take screenshots of their messages to comply with federal records laws, citing cybersecurity concerns with the autosave software. Public records experts say the new record-keeping policy opens ample room for both willful and unwitting noncompliance with federal open records laws in an administration that has already shown a lack of interest in, or willingness to skirt, records laws. That development could be particularly troubling as the department executes President Trump’s aggressive agenda of mass deportations, a campaign that has included numerous accusations of misconduct by law enforcement officials, the experts said. “If you are an immigration official or an agent and believe that the public might later criticize you, or that your records could help you be held accountable, would you go out of the way to preserve those records that might expose wrongdoing?” said Lauren Harper, who advocates government transparency at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The Department of Homeland Security includes key immigration agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. The department did not respond to a request for comment, but its officials said in the court filing that the new policy was in compliance with the statute. Still, experts expressed skepticism that the new policy of manual compliance by individual officials could be effective or was designed in good faith. The policy expects officials to first take screenshots of the text messages on their work phones, send it to their work email, download it on their work computers and then run a program that would recognize the text to store it in searchable formats, according to the department’s guidance submitted to the court. Under the Federal Records Act, government agencies are required to preserve all documentation that officials and federal workers produce while executing their duties. They have to make federal records available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act unless they fall under certain exemptions. The new policy was revealed as part of the lawsuit surrounding the department’s unusual response to public records requests filed by American Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog group.

New York Times [11/6/2025 1:07 PM, Ruth Graham and John Ismay, Ruth Graham is a national reporter, based in Dallas, covering religion, faith and values for The Times., 135475K] reports two Roman Catholic bishops with ties to President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission voiced criticism this week of the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials. Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, who heads the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in Indiana, and Bishop Robert Barron of the Winona-Rochester Diocese in Minnesota, specifically cited immigrant detainees’ lack of access to religious sacraments like communion, which are central to the Catholic faith. “It is important that our Catholic detainees are able to receive pastoral care and have access to the sacraments,” Bishop Rhoades said in a statement. “Their religious liberty, part of their human dignity, needs to be respected.” In a post on social media, Bishop Barron, a writer and commentator with an audience far beyond his diocese, said he had raised concerns about detainees’ access to sacraments with senior officials at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security. The officials “have assured me that these matters are under careful review,” he said. The comments come in the wake of a class-action lawsuit filed last week claiming that detainees in an immigration detention facility in Broadview, Ill., had been subject to “mass constitutional violations” including the denial of basic religious accommodations. A delegation of clergy members, including an auxiliary bishop and several religious sisters, have attempted several times in recent weeks to bring the eucharist to Catholics held in the detention center. They were denied access most recently on Saturday, the Feast of All Saints, a Christian holy day.

The AP [11/6/2025 10:41 PM, Staff, 31753K] reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced another deadly U.S. strike on a boat he said was trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea. The attack Thursday killed three people aboard the vessel, Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign in South American waters up to at least 69 people in at least 17 strikes. Hegseth posted a 20-second video of the strike on social media and wrote, "As we’ve said before, vessel strikes on narco-terrorists will continue until their ... poisoning of the American people stops." He claimed the vessel was "operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization.” President Donald Trump has justified the strikes by saying the United States is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels and claiming the boats are operated by foreign terror organizations. The administration has not provided evidence or more details. Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed a small group of congressional leaders Wednesday on the growing military campaign, providing one of the first high-level glimpses into the legal rationale and strategy behind the strikes. Republicans emerged either staying silent or expressing confidence in the campaign. Democrats said Congress needs more information on how the strikes are conducted and the legal justification for actions that critics say violate international and U.S. law by killing alleged drug smugglers on the high seas. On Thursday, Senate Republicans voted to reject legislation that would have put a check on Trump’s ability to launch an attack against Venezuela, as Democrats pressed Congress to take a stronger role in Trump’s high-stakes campaign against President Nicolás Maduro. CNN [11/7/2025 12:40 AM, Clay Voytek, 606K] reports “Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization,” Hegseth said in a post on X, adding, “The vessel was trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean and was struck in international waters.” Hegseth added that US forces were not harmed in the strike. The US military has killed 70 people in 17 strikes that have destroyed 18 boats as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States. There had been three survivors of those strikes, two of whom were briefly detained by the US Navy before being returned to their home countries. The other is presumed dead after a search by the Mexican Navy. The Trump administration has told Congress that the US is now in an “armed conflict” against drug cartels beginning with its first strike on September 2, labeling those killed “unlawful combatants” and claiming the ability to engage in lethal strikes without judicial review due to a classified Justice Department finding. Some members of Congress as well as human rights groups have questioned that finding and argued that potential drug traffickers should face prosecution, as had been the policy of interdiction carried out by the US before President Donald Trump took office. The Trump administration has also not provided public evidence of the presence of narcotics on the boats struck, nor their affiliation with drug cartels. The Trump administration has been aggressively trying to link Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to the drug trade while accumulating a huge military presence near Caracas, though Venezuela is not known to be a major source of cocaine for the US market. Administration officials told lawmakers on Wednesday the US is not currently planning to launch strikes inside Venezuela and doesn’t have a legal justification that would support attacks against any land targets right now, CNN previously reported, according to sources familiar with the briefing conducted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Hegseth and an official from the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel. Lawmakers were told during the classified session that the opinion produced by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to justify strikes against suspected drug boats does not permit strikes inside Venezuela itself or any other territories, four sources said. The “execute order” that launched the US military campaign against suspected drug boats that began in September also does not extend to land targets, the briefers said, according to the sources. The officials did not rule out any potential future actions, one of the sources said.

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New York Times [11/6/2025 8:38 PM, Riley Mellen, 135475K] reports at least three U.S. military aircraft, including a heavily armed attack plane, have begun flying missions out of El Salvador’s main international airport in an expansion of the extraordinary U.S. troop buildup in the Caribbean, according to an analysis of satellite images, air traffic control communications and flight tracking data. The attack plane, an AC-130J Ghostrider, is designed to destroy targets on the ground or at sea using missiles or barrages from its cannons and machine guns. It is operated by the Air Force Special Operations Command, a unit that carries out sensitive missions for the military. The New York Times also identified a Navy reconnaissance plane and a rarely seen, unmarked Air Force jet at the airport. The influx of forces into the region started in late August, just before the Trump administration began launching what it said were counternarcotics missions while also planning for possible military action in Venezuela. The buildup has included about 10,000 U.S. troops along with drones, bombers and nearly a dozen Navy warships, soon to be bolstered by the arrival of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. So far, the Department of Defense has reported 16 lethal strikes on boats it says were involved in drug smuggling. The deployment to El Salvador is likely to be the first time a foreign country has hosted U.S. planes that may be involved in military strikes in the region. And it further reflects the warm ties between the Trump administration and El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, who has aided President Trump’s immigration strategy by jailing deportees from the United States at a notorious maximum-security prison. Neither Mr. Bukele’s office nor El Salvador’s Embassy in the United States responded to a request for comment about the planes’ deployment. Two U.S. military officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, confirmed to The Times that the presence of these aircraft is related to the increase in counternarcotics missions in the region.

CNN [11/6/2025 2:21 PM, Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler, Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen, and Kylie Atwood, 18595K] reports Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Wednesday that the US is not currently planning to launch strikes inside Venezuela and doesn’t have a legal justification that would support attacks against any land targets right now, according to sources familiar with the briefing conducted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an official from the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel. Lawmakers were told during the classified session that the opinion produced by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to justify strikes against suspected drug boats, first reported by CNN last month, does not permit strikes inside Venezuela itself or any other territories, four sources said. The "execute order" that launched the US military campaign against suspected drug boats that began in September also does not extend to land targets, the briefers said, according to the sources. The existing OLC opinion includes a list of 24 different cartels and criminal organizations based around Latin America it says the administration is authorized to target, according to one of the sources familiar with the document. But the Trump administration is seeking a separate legal opinion from the Justice Department that would provide a justification for launching strikes against land targets without needing to ask Congress to authorize military force, though no decisions have been made yet to move forward with an attack inside the country, a US official said.

CBS News [11/6/2025 6:01 PM, Caitlin Yilek, 39474K] reports Senate Republicans blocked a war powers resolution on Thursday aimed at preventing President Trump from conducting strikes against Venezuela after a bipartisan group of senators warned that a continued campaign against alleged drug smugglers in the region could escalate. The vote to advance the resolution failed with 49 supporting it and 51 senators opposing. Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the only Republicans to support it. The resolution, led by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, would direct the president "to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities within or against Venezuela, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force." The resolution had 15 cosponsors, including Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California and Paul. "Congress should not cede its power to any president," Kaine told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday. "If colleagues believe that a war against the narco-traffickers in the ocean or a war against Venezuela is a good idea, then put an [authorization of military force] on the table and debate and vote it, but don’t just hand the power over to an executive. That runs against everything that this nation was founded on." The U.S. military is building up forces in waters off South America and has conducted 16 strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific since Sept. 2, killing at least 67 people. In the sixth strike, two people survived. The Trump administration recently began briefing lawmakers on the strikes ahead of Thursday’s vote, allowing them to read the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel opinion that the administration argues justifies the strikes. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with congressional leaders and national security committee heads on Wednesday as lawmakers in both parties demand more details on the intelligence and legal basis for the strikes. Democrats left the briefing saying that the administration’s answers on the legal rationale were insufficient, but expressed confidence in the U.S. intelligence community’s capabilities. "Nothing in the legal opinion even mentions Venezuela," said Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Warner added that intelligence assets on alleged drug trafficking operations in the region are "quite good," but argued that the U.S. should be intercepting the boats and bringing the alleged traffickers to justice. "I’m not too worried that they’re going to take out a fishing boat, because our intelligence community is very, very good. But I’m not confident that we know precisely who are in those boats and why they’re there," said Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

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NewsNation [11/6/2025 4:02 PM, Jordan White, 8017K] reports five South Carolina homes are in the process of being seized by the U.S. Government in connection with a money laundering, drug trafficking, and terrorism scheme between Chinese and Mexican companies, a federal document says. The document claims that the five properties have a total value of approximately $2,195,865. One of the known potential claimants in the case filed by the U.S. Government is Ruiqi Zeng, a 24-year-old Chinese woman who was enrolled in Johns Hopkins University and is the grantee of four of the five Carolina Forest-area homes. She came to the U.S. in July 2022 on an F-1 Visa and resided in Arlington, Virginia and Washington, D.C. She left the United States and returned to China in November of 2024, according to the suit. Another known potential claimant is Liu Chuan, Zeng’s mother. She is the grantee of the fifth Carolina Forest property and the general manager of Sundia Chemical, which is located in China. The document states that this company is used to supply chemical precursors of methamphetamine to the Sinaloa Cartel, a transnational organization that was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 2025. The company then launders the money from the sale of the chemical precursors back into the United States and conceals the proceeds in the form of assets, which are listed as the five homes in the Carolina Forest area. Two other companies are listed in the lawsuit, including Belkel, a Mexican company and importer of chemicals into Mexico. The other company is listed as Sundia HK, and according to the suit, is an exporter and professional supplier of chemical raw materials to the global market.

Washington Post [11/6/2025 5:11 PM, Janay Kingsberry, 24149K] reports descendants of Norman Rockwell this week accused the Department of Homeland Security of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs through unauthorized social media posts of his work — the latest rebuke of the agency’s campaign to frame its mass deportation agenda with classic American imagery. But after members of Rockwell’s family published an opinion piece Sunday in USA Today condemning the use of his art, DHS doubled down with another post of his work — this time paired with a quote attributed to the American painter. Responding to a list of questions from The Post about the agency’s use of Norman Rockwell and other artists’ work on its social media pages, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin sent a link to its latest post that featured Rockwell’s work and quote. Daisy Rockwell said the department has not contacted the family or addressed their accusations of copyright infringement, but she added that the family is not considering further action at this time and instead is focusing on educating the public about Norman Rockwell’s work.

Bloomberg Law [11/6/2025 12:56 PM, Drew Hutchinson, 803K] reports companies are warning of a handful of consequential immigration enforcement risks beyond workforce shortages, showing how the Trump administration’s policy changes are rattling business operations. A dwindling customer base, fewer real estate tenants, and greater lending caution were among concerns roughly a dozen S&P 500 companies—including T-Mobile US Inc., Equity Residential, and M&T Bank Corp. —flagged on recent earnings calls with analysts and in public filings. Businesses such as Robinhood Markets Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. have joined the ranks of companies warning about talent recruiting and retention issues amid the federal immigration crackdown. But the latest types of alerts illustrate how the US immigration landscape is stoking fears about demand and other basic economic principles. "There’s always a question about the magnitude of these effects, but the logic is kind of inescapable," said Ben Zipperer, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. "If you want a growing population of workers or a growing population of consumers, you have to have immigration. There’s no way around it.” More immigration enforcement or new immigration policies means fewer workers, which means fewer people spending paychecks, Zipperer said.

USA Today [11/6/2025 3:44 PM, Thao Nguyen and Jeanine Santucci, 67103K] reports as the community in Louisville, Kentucky, mourns the loss of at least a dozen people killed in a fiery United Parcel Service cargo plane crash, authorities warned that answers for family members may still be a way off. At least 12 people were killed and multiple others were injured in the Nov. 4 crash, officials said. Officials described an "apocalyptic" scene, recounting the falling debris and a blackened sky over Louisville in the moments after the crash. Nine people are still unaccounted for, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said on Nov. 6. The death toll could continue to grow as a slow search for a cause begins, officials said. “There’s so much debris there. There’s so much charred, mangled metal that not all the bodies may have been located until you look underneath certain things, so that is going through the various layers of debris on the field," Greenberg said. At least nine people are believed to have been killed on the ground, including a child, in addition to the plane’s three crew members who are presumed to be dead, according to authorities. Due to the extent of the damage, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said coroners may have difficulty identifying bodies. Also delaying the process is the sheer size of the wreckage that search crews need to comb through to look for potential victims, a process that could take several days, authorities said. Beshear has warned that the death toll could grow as authorities do not expect to find any survivors at the crash site. Earlier on Nov. 5, the governor said 16 families had reported loved ones who were unaccounted for.

Chicago Tribune [11/6/2025 4:10 PM, Staff, 4829K] reports immigration enforcement operations should not be taking place in and around a day care center serving little kids. That we need even to type that sentence in this 177-year-old newspaper boggles our collective mind. But such is life at present in Chicago, where a spluttering, increasingly dangerous series of battles is being waged on our streets and in our neighborhoods. Yes, we know that precisely what happened at the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion day care at 2550 W. Addison St. is disputed. That’s not our point. Parents and workers there, backed up by local Democratic politicians, said that the targeted woman told ICE agents (speaking Spanish) that she had papers, only then to have her face slammed by a masked agent into a glass wall. Ald. Matt Martin, 47th, described the situation thus: "They dragged an educator outside of her place of employment." Tara Goodarzi, a parent, reportedly said at a North Center rally Wednesday night that the woman had been "targeted — stolen — on her way to care for our children by armed intruders from a private business without a warrant." Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, 5th District, a potential mayoral candidate, described the woman as "a trusted, loved member of her community with a work permit who has dedicated her life to caring for children.” The U.S. Department of Homeland Security disputed the woman’s status as well as many of these and other statements, saying that the woman and a male companion had ignored a vehicular traffic stop attempt by identifiable ICE agents, then fled at high speed into the retail center parking lot, and subsequently the woman had "barricaded herself" in the center, "recklessly endangering the children inside," which meant that agents who had never intended to target the center then had to run in there to get her.

Bloomberg [11/6/2025 7:00 AM, Rachel Adams-Heard, Fola Akinnibi, and Sophie Alexander, 18207K] reports the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to establish a privately run call center that would help local law enforcement track down unaccompanied immigrant children, a move advocates worry will increase family separations and lead to the arrests of vulnerable kids. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement outlined its plans Tuesday in a request for information, saying the agency had "an immediate need" to establish a call center to coordinate with state and local authorities. Such requests are not a formal call for bids and don’t guarantee a future contract, though they offer a window into what federal agencies are hoping to source from private companies. ICE said initial operations would begin by the end of March, with full operations by the end of June. The request is the latest sign of a shift in how the administration treats children who migrated to the US without their parents or guardians. These minors mostly come from Central America and are often fleeing violence or abuse. They traditionally have been cared for by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, until they can be placed with a US-based sponsor. That process is run out of ORR, rather than the Department of Homeland Security, to focus on child welfare rather than immigration enforcement. Soon after Trump’s return to office, though, federal agents from ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI began showing up at the homes of unaccompanied children who had already been placed with US-based sponsors, including close relatives. Some of those interactions have resulted in immigration arrests. The call center would “likely exacerbate” a growing trend of state and local government involvement in immigration enforcement activity, said Neha Desai, an attorney and managing director at the National Center for Youth Law. Desai said she’s already seen kids arrested and detained after routine traffic stops by police.

Breitbart [11/6/2025 2:10 PM, John Binder, 2416K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien with 14 prior criminal convictions, including cruelty towards a child. "The Democrats’ longest government shutdown in American history has not stopped ICE from arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from American communities across the country," the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement: “Yesterday, ICE arrested child rapists, kidnappers, and child abusers. President Trump and Secretary Noem have unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens. 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.” Among the illegal aliens arrested is Ricardo Ventura-Garcia of Mexico, who has 14 prior criminal convictions, such as cruelty toward a child, assault, kidnapping, and drug possession and was arrested in Ogden, Utah. ICE also arrested Maximo De Jesus Peralta-Rodriguez of the Dominican Republic, who has been convicted of rape of a child and deviant sexual intercourse in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania — a sanctuary jurisdiction. Hugo Douglas Mendoza-Bamaca of Guatemala was similarly arrested after he had been convicted of fourth-degree rape involving sexual penetration of another person without consent in Georgetown, Delaware. ICE agents arrested Moses Antonio Menjivar-Tobar of El Salvador in Grayson County, Texas, as well as Diego Zashaury Melendez-Moreira of Honduras in the Bronx, New York City, a sanctuary jurisdiction. Menjivar-Tobar was previously convicted of intoxication manslaughter, while Melendez-Moreira was convicted of attempted robbery.

Washington Examiner [11/7/2025 5:00 AM, Anna Giaritelli, 1394K] reports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not only out searching for illegal immigrants in communities nationwide, its officers have recently taken to the highway to find illegal commercial truck drivers. Historically, ICE has primarily gone after illegal immigrants who are released from local jails or employed illegally. In recent months, as the Trump administration has continued to push the Department of Homeland Security agency to arrest a greater number of illegal immigrants, ICE has gone after commercial truck drivers. The growing focus on illegal immigrant truck drivers came in early fall, but the Trump administration’s crackdown has been months in the making. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said illegal immigrants in trucking jobs present a distinct safety concern to the public. "We recognized from the start that this must include protecting roadways carrying interstate traffic and cargo," Lyons said in a statement. "In recent weeks, we have seen illegal semi-truck drivers responsible for significant loss of life across the country. This was preventable, and that is precisely why we are working to ensure this doesn’t happen in Indiana or Illinois."

Blaze [11/6/2025 11:20 AM, Cooper Williamson, 1442K] reports federal officers have been met with a range of resistance from protesters, most notably in blue sanctuary cities like Portland and Chicago. Now, however, the Department of Homeland Security has announced the implementation of new rules that should give officers an advantage as they continue to do their already dangerous jobs. Early this week, the Department of Homeland Security updated its list of prohibited and restricted conduct on federal property, and those wearing face-coverings should take note. Those rules will be enforced ‘on federal property or in areas outside federal property, that affects, threatens, or endangers federal property or persons on the federal property.’. "Wearing a mask, hood, disguise, or device that conceals the identity of the wearer when attempting to avoid detection or identification while violating any federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation" is forbidden, the rules say. Those rules will be enforced "on federal property or in areas outside federal property, that affects, threatens, or endangers federal property or persons on the federal property," the rules state.

Los Angeles Times [11/6/2025 2:45 PM, Nathan Solis, 14862K] reports U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino leaves federal court at Dirksen Federal Building after his hearing in Chicago on Oct. 28. Ever since the Trump immigration raids began in Los Angeles in June, local leaders and community activists have criticized agents for sometimes making it difficult to identify them as federal law enforcement officials or refusing to identify themselves at all. Now, an unexpected new group has expressed its own concerns: the FBI. Citing a string of incidents in which masked criminals posing as immigration officers robbed and kidnapped victims, the FBI recently issued a memo suggesting agents clearly identify themselves while they’re in the field. The FBI explained its reasoning in a three-page document sent to police agencies across the country last month. In the memo, the FBI says criminals impersonating law enforcement "damages trust" between them and the community and that law enforcement has an "opportunity" to better coordinate with their local, state and federal partners, carry out informational campaigns to educate the public about impostors and for agents to show their identification when asked while out in the field.

Washington Examiner [11/6/2025 5:42 PM, Lauren Green, 1394K] reports Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) admitted on Thursday that he is "aware of the optics" regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s handling of immigrants in the streets, but said the Trump administration is simply "trying to do the right thing by the American people." Johnson’s comments came on the Stephen A. Smith Show, where he added that President Donald Trump ran on illegal immigration, arguing "chaos" created by the open border was the No. 1 issue last fall.

Univision [11/6/2025 3:37 PM, Staff, 5004K] reports a 35-year-old Hispanic man was injured during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation on Long Island after allegedly being run over by an official vehicle while trying to escape from agents. The incident occurred Wednesday morning, and witnesses stated that the victim remained trapped under the vehicle for several minutes without receiving immediate medical assistance, despite the number of officers present. He only received help when paramedics arrived. One of the witnesses recounted that the man began to run upon noticing the officers. “The car followed him, and one of them opened the door while the vehicle was moving.” The impact reportedly knocked him to the ground, leaving him trapped beneath the car.

Politico [11/6/2025 9:06 PM, Jonathan Martin, 13586K] reports New York is quietly preparing for a Donald Trump takeover of the country’s largest city. A wide range of New York’s most prominent civic leaders have for weeks been meeting behind the scenes to plan for the possibility of Trump sending in the National Guard or any other federal agents into New York City, according to multiple top elected officials. Alarmed at what Trump may do in response to Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City mayor, Gov. Kathy Hochul has devised a virtual war room and convened a series of conversations with law enforcement, business officials and activist groups to stop or at least mitigate any federal incursion. More meetings are being scheduled, including with New York’s leading clergy and veterans groups, some of whom will be gathering around Veterans Day next week. “The goal is to prevent, and if we can’t prevent, then hopefully we can delay,” said Jackie Bray, the state’s homeland security and emergency services director, who’s Hochul’s point person on the preparations. “And if something happens, we then have to manage. All three scenarios have real planning behind them.” The extent of the planning and coalition-building, which has not previously been reported, is meant to deny Trump any pretext to dispatch the National Guard or active-duty troops to the city. New York leaders have for months been watching Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, ICE agents and uniformed military into other cities and braced for similar efforts in the president’s hometown. Hochul has developed an on-and-off rapport with Trump, who takes an intense interest in New York, but has told people she is concerned about the president using Mamdani’s election as his opening to effectively federalize the city. Last month, the governor invited a broad range of activist and labor groups — including the ACLU, the powerhouse local SEIU and grassroots network Indivisible — to her Manhattan office. At the meeting, she pleaded with them to work constructively with one another and New York officials to avoid the sort of violence or vandalism that could spur Trump to send in federal troops, as he did in Los Angeles this summer, according to officials present. Hochul assured the groups that any protests they staged would be protected by state and city law enforcement, but she said they had to try to maintain control and keep people from provoking police and effectively clearing the way for Trump’s intervention. The groups acknowledged the importance of order and not handing Trump the sort of made-for-TV street chaos he craves, vowing to do their part to maintain what discipline they can with activists.

Washington Post [11/6/2025 6:00 AM, John Woodrow Cox, 24149K] reports an Afghan man who has been detained for nearly four months, despite being charged with no crime, will remain behind bars indefinitely after his asylum case was delayed once again last week. Though the man has lived in the United States for more than four years and been repeatedly vetted by federal authorities, a Department of Homeland Security attorney announced in court that the government has not finished his background check and could not estimate when it would. Investigators have now asserted he poses a “potential threat” to national security. At the Friday hearing in Virginia, a frustrated immigration judge acknowledged that, by law, she doesn’t have the option to grant the father of two asylum without a finalized check. “The department’s going on a fishing expedition trying to dig up whatever they can,” his lawyer, Amin Ganjalizadeh, argued in court. “I share counsel’s concern,” the judge told the government’s attorney, Joseph Dernbach. “You can’t give me a timeline.” Dernbach asked that the case be delayed another 30 days, and though the judge cannot force the government to complete the background check by a certain deadline, she instructed him to update the court on its status by Nov. 14. The man, whom The Washington Post is identifying as H due to concern for his safety, could petition a federal court to intervene, but that process can take months. “The judge is in a bind,” said Dana Leigh Marks, who presided over immigration courts for 35 years. Even if immigration judges believe the government has acted in bad faith or intentionally stalled, Marks said, they’re not empowered to hold prosecutors in contempt.

NewsMax [11/6/2025 11:54 AM, Theodore Bunker, 4109K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement is set to open a national call center with a dedicated unit to track unaccompanied migrant children, part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to crack down on migrants who entered the country illegally as minors. Last February, the Trump administration directed immigration agents to target migrant children who entered the United States illegally without a parent or legal guardian. According to government data, more than 600,000 children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone since 2019. The new national call center, which will be located in Nashville, Tennessee, will use data from local and state law enforcement to inform federal authorities about the whereabouts of unaccompanied children, according to a document posted on a government contracting website earlier this week. The document did not specify why Nashville was selected as the location of the call center, but NBC News notes that CoreCivic, one of ICE’s main contractors operating immigrant detention centers, is headquartered in the city. The Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and CoreCivic did not respond to requests for comment before publication.

Blaze [11/6/2025 5:29 PM, Joseph MacKinnon, 1442K] reports Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has filed a major lawsuit against Indianapolis Public Schools over their alleged effort to thwart the enforcement of federal immigration law and their corresponding violations of state immigration law, stating, "No public institution in Indiana has the right to pick and choose which laws to follow." Rokita told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Thursday that amid its apparent campaign to thwart federal law enforcement efforts, the school district had even frustrated the attempt by an illegal alien to self-deport. An illegal alien from Honduras decided earlier this year to voluntarily deport so that he could one day apply to return to the U.S. legally, Rokita claimed. On Jan. 8, the day of his family’s planned departure, one of his children went to school against his wishes. Rokita told Beck that when the father went to retrieve his son from school to ensure that his family could depart the U.S. together, "the school obstructed him and then obstructed ICE from assisting as well." The state AG indicated that in the time since, his office has uncovered a "whole string of policies" that the IPS has in place that serve to keep ICE agents from doing their jobs.

USA Today [11/7/2025 2:06 AM, John Diedrich, 67103K] reports an undocumented immigrant who was arrested after a Wisconsin judge allegedly helped him avoid arrest has been sentenced to time served in his federal case and will be sent back to Mexico soon, his attorney said. Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 31, was sentenced on Nov. 5 in Milwaukee after he agreed to be deported as part of his plea deal on the federal illegal re-entry charge in September. Both the prosecution and defense recommended a time-served sentence, and U.S. District Judge Pamela Pepper agreed. Sentencing guidelines called for Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican citizen, to serve one to seven months. Flores-Ruiz has been in custody for nearly seven months since his arrest in April. "You already paid a significant price," Pepper said. "I hope you will make a life back home and not try to come back here." Pepper said she has seen more aggravated cases and noted that Flores-Ruiz worked various jobs while in the United States without run-ins with the law until recently. She also warned he would face harsher penalties if he returned. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were at the federal courthouse when Flores-Ruiz was sentenced. At the federal sentencing hearing, Flores-Ruiz apologized for coming to the U.S. illegally. "I promise never to come back to this country," he said through a translator. "I am grateful and happy I was able to work here." Flores-Ruiz entered the United States in 2013 after being deported just weeks earlier. A sentencing memo filed by his attorney, Martin Pruhs, gave more details on Flores-Ruiz’s life. He grew up in a small town in the region of Michoacán, west of Mexico City, known for its lakes, forests, and avocado orchards, according to the memo. Flores-Ruiz’s father is a fisherman and frog-catcher. After Flores-Ruiz finished sixth grade, he left school to join his father in frog hunting. At 18, Flores-Ruiz left his parents and three siblings for what he hoped was a better life in the United States. He illegally crossed into the United States with 30 people. They were quickly detained and deported back, the memo said. Flores-Ruiz almost immediately tried to re-enter the United States, this time by himself. He got lost in the desert for a month, finally turning up in Tucson. He got a ride to Milwaukee, where a relative lived, the memo said. In Milwaukee, Flores-Ruiz worked at restaurants as a dishwasher and a cook, sending money back to his family. He recently cooked in food trucks and lived in an apartment on West Vliet Street. He is single with no children. Then, in March, Flores-Ruiz hit his roommate more than two dozen times in the head and choked him for several seconds, according to a state criminal complaint. Two women tried to intervene and were also hit by Flores-Ruiz. Flores-Ruiz pleaded "no contest" to one count of misdemeanor battery. He disputed some of the facts in the case, saying roommates were trying to evict him, according to the memo.

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FOX News [11/6/2025 10:53 AM, Anders Hagstrom, 40621K] reports a federal judge in Illinois ordered authorities at an ICE facility near Chicago to improve the living conditions for detainees following complaints this week. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman ordered the facility to ensure that detainees have access to a clean bedding mat and sufficient space to sleep, soap, towels, toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste, menstrual products and prescribed medications. "People shouldn’t be sleeping next to overflowing toilets," Gettlemen wrote. "They should not be sleeping on top of each other.” The ruling comes after detainees filed a lawsuit last week. They complained at a Tuesday hearing of crowded sleeping conditions, non-functioning toilets and water that tasted like "sewer.” Gettlemen’s order further requires that detainees’ living facilities must be cleaned twice per day and that detainees be given the chance to shower at least once every other day. They must also have access to three meals a day and bottled water upon request, according to NBC News. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. The Broadview facility has been the site of many anti-ICE protests in recent weeks. DOJ attorney Jana Brady, who represented the government at Tuesday’s hearing, argued that conditions at the facility had already been improving for several months. She said the lack of bed space is a result of the facility not being intended for long-term housing. Wednesday’s order comes as President Donald Trump continues to lean on ICE to ramp up deportations, saying in a "60 Minutes" interview that raids "haven’t gone far enough.” "You have to get the people out. You know, you have to look at the people. Many of them are murderers. Many of them are people that were thrown outta their countries because they were, you know, criminals. Many of them are people from jails and prisons. Many of them are people from, frankly, mental institutions," Trump said. "I feel badly about that, but they’re released from insane asylums. You know why? Because they’re killers.” The White House has repeatedly said federal agents are targeting criminal illegal migrants who are the "worst of the worst.”

Bloomberg Law [11/6/2025 10:43 AM, Megan Crepeau, 91K] reports an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Chicago suburbs must provide detainees adequate food, hygiene products, showers, and bedding, a federal judge ordered. Judge Robert Gettleman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order that also requires holding rooms at the Broadview facility to be cleaned at least twice a day. The facility was never intended for long-term stays, but the Trump administration’s "Operation Midway Blitz" immigration enforcement effort has aggressively ramped up the number of immigration arrests in recent months. [Editorial note: consult source link for extended commentary]

FOX News [11/6/2025 8:00 AM, Adam Sabes, 40621K] Video: HERE reports an Illinois state senator is fuming following the death of two constituents allegedly caused by an illegal immigrant driving his car under the influence, asking what more it will take for Democrats to take action. Edwin Pacheco-Meza, 34, was allegedly driving his car under the influence when he caused a crash on Oct. 24 that killed Coles County Board Member Michael Clayton and his wife, Gail Clayton, in Westfield, Illinois, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Ammunition, an extended magazine, drugs and an open alcohol container were found inside Pacheco-Meza’s car that he allegedly crashed. Juan Morales-Martinez, an 18-year-old passenger inside the car Pacheco-Meza was driving, was also arrested. Pacheco-Meza was charged with reckless homicide and driving under the influence, while Morales-Martinez was charged with drug possession and a weapons offense. Illinois State Sen. Chapin Rose, a Republican who represents the area where the fatal crash happened, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the Claytons were the fifth and sixth people to have been allegedly killed by illegal immigrants. "I don’t know how many more people have to die for, frankly, Democrats to pay attention and start enforcing the laws we have and start helping and cooperating with President Trump as they remove these illegals from our country," Rose said. "What are we doing here?" The DHS said Pacheco-Meza entered the U.S. at an unknown date. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the incident was preventable. "Two innocents were killed because this criminal illegal alien chose to drive under the influence," McLaughlin said. "President Trump and Secretary Noem have unleashed ICE and CBP in Illinois to restore law and order and remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities. Anyone who is in the U.S. illegally and thinks they can roam free while breaking our laws and harming Americans is in for a rude awakening. If you are in our country illegally and break our laws, we will find you, arrest you, remove you and you will never return."

Chicago Tribune [11/6/2025 7:30 AM, Staff, 4829K] reports an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing drunken driving charges after police said his car jumped a curb and crashed into a hedgerow in the west suburbs. Guillermo Diaz-Torres, 33, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will be arraigned next month in DuPage County following a one-car crash in Oak Brook on Oct. 26. Police allege he failed several field-sobriety tests, including balancing, walking in a straight line and reciting the alphabet. If convicted, Diaz-Torres could face penalties ranging from probation to up to a year in jail. Throughout its immigration crackdown, the Trump administration repeatedly has referred to drunken driving as a justifiable reason for non-citizens to be detained and deported. Operation Midway Blitz — the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation effort in the Chicago area — was launched in honor of a young suburban woman who was killed by a man accused of driving drunk while being in the country without the legal paperwork. According to police video obtained by the Tribune, Diaz-Torres told officers he had just finished working an 18-hour shift at the ICE holding facility in Broadview and was heading straight to his hotel in Lombard. Though it was nearly 2 a.m., and Broadview is less than 10 miles away, Diaz-Torres couldn’t account for his whereabouts during the roughly 90-minute period after his shift ended and said he didn’t know which direction he had traveled after work. "I have no idea, sir," he tells police on the video. "I’m not from here." An ICE spokeswoman did not specifically address the charges or the officer’s status in a statement to the Tribune.

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The Hill [11/6/2025 12:27 PM, Marisa Rodriguez, Brónagh Tumulty, and Tahman Bradley, 12595K] reports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents took a working day care teacher into custody on Wednesday morning in Chicago, Nexstar’s WGN confirmed. The incident happened around 7:05 a.m. at Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center in the North Center neighborhood. An SUV of federal agents followed the teacher’s vehicle to the day care, then proceeded to follow her into the building — where children were in attendance at the time. Video from the scene captured two agents dragging the teacher from the day care, taking her into custody. According to Congressman Mike Quigley, the agents did not have a warrant. "It’s just absolute terror. Why are you at a day care at 7 in the morning? This isn’t right. This isn’t American. This isn’t who we are. It’s an absolute travesty," said Adam Gonzalez, a lawyer and rapid response team member. In a statement, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed the teacher and a man were being pursued by federal agents and they did not target the day care: "ICE law enforcement did NOT target a Daycare. Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female illegal alien from Colombia. Officers attempted to pull over this vehicle, which was registered to a female illegal alien, with sirens and emergency lights, but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over. Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle. They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare—recklessly endangering the children inside. The illegal alien female was arrested inside a vestibule, not in the school. Upon arrest, she lied about her identity. The vehicle is registered to in her name, though she claims that she didn’t know the man who was driving her car and just picked him up from a bus stop. Facts including criminality and information on the male assailant are forthcoming and we will update the public with more information as soon as it becomes available." DHS added the woman arrested has been in the country illegally since 2023.’ ABC News [11/6/2025 5:26 PM, Armando Garcia, 30493K] reports DHS said in a press release that her work authorization "does NOT confer any type of legal status to be in the U.S." The DHS also accused Galeano of paying for smugglers to bring her 17-year-old and 16-year-old children into U.S. via the southern border, adding that "facilitating human smuggling is a crime." DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said ICE did not target the day care and were instead conducting a "targeted traffic stop" of an undocumented woman from Colombia. But Ramirez pushed back on McLaughlin’s claims. CNN [11/6/2025 6:18 AM, Whitney Wild, 18595K] reports "Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female illegal alien from Colombia," Tricia McLaughlin wrote in In a long post on X. Officers attempted to pull over a vehicle registered to Galeano with sirens and emergency lights, "but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over," the post continued.

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Washington Examiner [11/6/2025 10:50 AM, Jenny Goldsberry, 1394K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement accused Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) of "deliberately misrepresenting the facts" surrounding a recent arrest in Chicago, Illinois. Quigley shared a video on Wednesday of ICE arresting a woman at the entryway of Rayito del Sol Daycare. Two officers brought her outside the doors to handcuff her. "ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst," Quigley captioned the video on X. "This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district." The Department of Homeland Security responded to the X post on Wednesday to offer "the real story." "Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts. ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside," DHS wrote. According to DHS, ICE officers knew the unnamed illegal immigrant from Colombia had a car registered under her name and targeted the car for a traffic stop. "Officers attempted to pull over this vehicle, which was registered to a female illegal alien, with sirens and emergency lights, but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over," DHS wrote. "Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle. They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare—recklessly endangering the children inside." It’s unknown whether the man driving the vehicle was arrested, but DHS promised to provide an update.

CBS Chicago [11/6/2025 6:49 PM, Tara Molina, 39474K] reports the teacher detained by ICE agents at the Rayito del Sol daycare in North Center is believed to now be at the Broadview processing facility, and parents in the community now have serious safety concerns. Parents told CBS News Chicago they want to know why agents went into the daycare in the first place. Spokespeople from the Department of Homeland Security say they didn’t. Video captured the teacher’s arrest Wednesday morning, and other video shows pre-K teacher Diana Galeano in the back of the unmarked car federal agents sed to detain her. Parents, staff and officials said children were present when she was taken into custody. "We had agents with guns who were walking around the facility with teachers inside, with children inside," said Ald. Matt Martin, who represents the 47th Ward. Martin said Galeano is at the Broadview ICE detention center and that, in detaining her, federal agents were inside the daycare building with no warrant. Martin, U.S. Rep Mike Quigley and U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez all said they had seen video from inside the facility showing ICE agents indoors. But DHS officials said she was "arrested inside a vestibule, not in the school.” Rayito del Sol released a statement Thursday evening, saying in part, "Yesterday was a deeply difficult day for our Rayito de Sol teachers, families, and communities. We are profoundly disturbed by yesterday’s events. Since early yesterday morning, we have been steadfastly focused on the safety and well-being of our students, teachers, and families, and providing support to our wrongfully detained employee. We are humbled by the outpouring of support from our community , and we are extremely grateful for the manner in which our staff responded to a challenging situation." DHS would only say that no one arrests were made in front of children, and that the man who was with Galeano in the car barricaded himself in the school. None of the videos that have been shared publicly have shown anyone other than Galeano being detained, and parents who witnessed her arrest said the ICE agents left the daycare center after she was in custody. DHS officials say Galeano is in the country illegally from Colombia and paid to smuggle her teenage children across the border this year, which they said is the crime for which she was arrested. DS claims she ran into the daycare after fleeing a car chase with federal agents, who were trying to stop and detain her.

Chicago Tribune [11/6/2025 10:29 PM, Laura Turbay and Laura Rodríguez Presa, 4829K] reports that, following widespread backlash over the arrest of a Chicago day care teacher this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday released a statement alleging the teacher had illegally crossed the southern border in 2023 and last month, paid a smuggler to cross her teenage children over as well. In the statement, DHS said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, of Colombia, in a traffic stop as she and an unidentified male passenger were driving early Wednesday. It said she illegally entered the U.S. on June 26, 2023 and “was encountered by Border Patrol,” and that “the Biden administration released her into the U.S.” However, questions remain whether the woman had been targeted prior to the traffic stop. School officials said the Santillana had authorization to work in the day care and had undergone a background check. DHS did not respond to questions beyond its statement, which said Santillana and the male driver were in a vehicle registered to a “female illegal alien.” In the widely circulated video of Santillana’s arrest at Rayito de Sol, an early learning center and Spanish immersion school in North Center, agents can be seen pulling the screaming Santillana from the school vestibule. She is heard saying, “I have papers,” in Spanish as agents pin her against the officers’ car. The confrontation was reported in news outlets around the globe as agents in President Donald Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz — his immigration crackdown in Chicago — took the unprecedented step of entering the school. But DHS argued that, “Work authorization does NOT confer any type of legal status to be in the U.S. The illegal alien’s work authorization was approved by the Biden administration which exploited this loophole to help facilitate the invasion of our country.” Santillana’s attorney Naiara Testai, filed a habeas corpus case Wednesday and said Santillana is expected to have a court hearing next week. Testai declined to give more details on the case. The Colombian Consulate said they were aware of the situation and were working to provide assistance. The years surrounding 2023 — when DHS said that Santillana crossed over — saw record numbers of people trekking from South America to the United States, which prompted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to send migrants on bus and train to Chicago and other immigration-friendly U.S. interior cities as a political stunt to draw attention to strained resources in border cities. At a news conference Thursday, Maria Guzman, a parent of a child at Rayito, said: “It’s something that is out of a terror movie. I could not sleep last night thinking about the safety of my children. This is deeply, deeply personal.” Although parents said they did not have information on her immigration status, they continued their unwavering support of the teacher, who they called “Miss Diana.” “Our experience with her has been absolutely amazing,” said Sara Nepomuceno, 29, whose 5-month-old daughter has been attending Santillana’s class for around two months. “I’m a first-time mom,” she said and “going back to work can be a really hard experience but Diana made it so easy.” The arrest took place about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday, just after the school opened, officials, witnesses and school staff said. The agents had followed Santillana and the man into the school parking lot, 2550 W. Addison St., near Lane Tech College Prep High School. School staff told the Tribune that the agents went into the school without presenting a warrant before pulling her outside. Elected officials say video footage from inside the school shows the agents inside. “They went inside the day care center, questioned and took someone to her locker room to prove she had papers. We saw them run in and out,” U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Democrat, said Wednesday following the arrest. DHS accused Santillana of “barricading” herself at the day care with the unidentified male passenger, “recklessly endangering the children inside.” DHS further claimed Santillana crossed the border “illegally” and that she paid for “smugglers” to cross her two children, ages 16 and 17, last month through El Paso, Texas, to a Chicago-area shelter as unaccompanied children. “Facilitating human smuggling is a crime,” according to the DHS statement.

Chicago Tribune [11/6/2025 6:31 PM, Joseph States, 4829K] reports rumors that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been staying at a Deerfield-area hotel sparked two days of protests at a nearby intersection this week, as Lake County organizations warn of continuing arrests by federal immigration enforcement agents in the area. Thursday saw a small crowd of protestors at a Deerfield-area intersection. Protesters said they were responding to reports that federal agents were being housed at a local hotel. In response to questions about whether agents are being housed at hotels or similar facilities due to a shortage of official housing options for agents, and if the agency had any comments about previous or future protests occurring at such locations, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin declined to discuss where or how federal agents are being housed while working in the area.

FOX News [11/6/2025 6:00 AM, Peter D’Abrosca, 40621K] reports more than a month after one of its professors was arrested on charges of violent felonies at an anti-ICE rally, an elite private university has refused to say whether the academic has been punished. Eman Abdelhadi was arrested on Oct. 3 outside the Broadview, Illinois, ICE processing facility. She was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery to a government employee and two misdemeanor counts of resisting/obstructing peace. Since then, the University of Chicago has not returned multiple requests for comment seeking information on Abdelhadi’s employment status at the school, whether she has been disciplined or whether she is still actively teaching courses. The school did not return Fox News Digital’s latest request on Wednesday.

Chicago Tribune [11/6/2025 3:40 PM, Gloria Casas, 4829K] reports a resolution approved by the Elgin City Council Wednesday puts U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on notice that they cannot commandeer publicly owned property for civil immigration enforcement activities. Council members also asked the city attorney to return with a proposed ordinance that would give the city enforcement powers should ICE violate the resolution terms. Additionally, the city also plans to post 620 signs in public parks, parking lots, facilities and other sites that say in English and Spanish, "This property is owned and controlled by the City of Elgin. It may not be used for civil immigration enforcement, including use as a staging area, processing location or operations base.” Councilman John Steffen, who joined Councilwoman Tish Powell is seeking an ordinance recreating ICE-free zones, said he’d like to see the city do even more. "I am definitely going to support this (resolution) as another step; certainly not the last step" he said. "I’m going to keep pushing for more than this.” The resolution says that any time an ICE agent is on city property, an Elgin police supervisor will respond and conduct an initial assessment, document the incident using their body camera, and forward a report to the city manager, who will take appropriate action. Potential actions include reporting it to the Illinois Accountability Commission and/or seeking a court order requiring federal agents to leave the property or prohibiting further use of the site, the resolution said. Gov. JB Pritzker recently created the accountability commission through executive order. Additionally, state lawmakers have passed a law creating safe zones around schools, hospitals and courthouses. Safe zones don’t prevent ICE agents from stopping or detaining someone nor can police interfere or assist with ICE operations under the state’s TRUST Act unless agents have an arrest warrant. Chief Ana Lalley said officers respond to scenes involving ICE to make sure no one is impersonating an agent and to handle incidents like car crashes stemming from detentions. "We cannot interfere in lawful immigration practices," she said. "Elgin officers will not violate the law. We will protect our community lawfully and properly.”

Breitbart [11/6/2025 10:01 AM, Bob Price, 2416K] reports in a high-impact 10-day operation across Southeast Texas, ICE Houston arrested 1,505 illegal aliens—including gang members, child rapists, and foreign fugitives—amid growing public demand for immigration enforcement and national security. The arrests included a Mexican Mafia member wanted for murder and rape, a four-time deported Paisas gang member with a violent record, and five child predators—all previously roaming free in American communities. Breitbart Texas rode with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers during this immigration crackdown. ICE officials say the crackdown sends a clear message: criminal aliens will no longer exploit U.S. borders with impunity. Breitbart Texas accompanied Larry Adams, Acting Deputy Director of the Houston ICE Field Office, who provided details of a groundbreaking law enforcement operation targeting criminal hotspots across multiple Texas counties. The pilot operation on October 25night focused on finding criminal aliens on the streets. Adams told Breitbart Texas that they anticipated there would be more opportunities to find people committing crimes, including carrying drugs, firearms, and driving under the influence. ERO officers and other federal agents apprehended more than 1,500 criminal aliens during the ten-day operation in Houston and surrounding counties in Southeast Texas. These arrests nearly doubled the previous office record of 822 criminal aliens arrested in an August operation, officials reported. In March, ERO Houston conducted another operation that resulted in the arrest of 543 individuals. Those arrested during the October surprise operation included 17 documented gang members, 40 aggravated felons, one convicted murderer, 13 sexual predators, one foreign fugitive, 115 aggravated assault offenses, 142 DWIs, 55 drug offenses, 25 burglary/theft offenses, 31 weapons offenses, 255 illegal aliens who committed a felony by illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported at least once, and numerous other additional criminal offenses. Houston Field Office Director Bret Bradford expressed his pride in the officers and agents who carried out this operation, saying, "Despite the conditions becoming increasingly dangerous for our officers as a result of the spread of violent political rhetoric and intentionally false information, they continue to put their lives at risk every day to apprehend dangerous illegal aliens, gang members, child predators and other violent criminal aliens who threaten public safety here in Southeast Texas.”

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reports that, last month, Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux revealed his agency turned down $25 million in federal funds to assist ICE with immigration enforcement in the city, saying he worried about its impact on other police work. Mayor Eric Johnson said Comeaux’s decision should have been made transparently and with public input.

Houston Chronicle [11/6/2025 12:52 PM, John Wayne Ferguson, 2983K] reports Galveston County prosecutors on Wednesday dropped charges against an Uber driver accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting his female passenger in Friendswood earlier this year. The dismissal marks an abrupt end to a case that made national headlines and drew attention from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, who labeled the suspect, Sameh Chami, 49, a dangerous criminal in the country illegally. But video evidence contradicted statements from the 21-year-old ride-share customer, according to Chami’s defense lawyer, Brett Landriault. Faced with the video, Galveston County prosecutors decided not to seek an indictment from a grand jury, he said. "They just took her statement and fixated solely on Mr. Chami and did not do any more investigation other than that," Landriault said. The decision to drop the case, made public in court documents on Wednesday, surprised the victim’s attorney, Tony Buzbee. The famed Houston lawyer on Thursday called the dismissal "highly unusual" and said his office was reaching out to the district attorney’s office about why the case was dropped. Meanwhile, Chami on Thursday was no longer listed as a jail inmate. In a statement before the letter was submitted, the DA’s office said parts of the case were still under investigation. The office said it has no further comment. The Department of Homeland Security later said Chami was from Lebanon and had overstayed a tourist visa after arriving in the U.S. in 2021. In a news release, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin referred to Chami as a "depraved criminal.” Chami still was being held late Wednesday at the request of ICE, but was no longer listed as a jail inmate Thursday morning. It was unclear if Chami had been transferred to ICE custody or simply released from jail.

FOX News [11/6/2025 6:30 AM, Peter Pinedo Fox, 40621K] reports U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal and Texas officials carried out a massive 10-day operation in Houston that resulted in over 1,500 arrests, including of aggravated felons, gang members, sexual predators, a murderer and others. In a Wednesday statement, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Field Office Director Bret Bradford announced that "despite the conditions becoming increasingly dangerous for our officers as a result of the spread of violent political rhetoric and intentionally false information," agents arrested 1,505 illegal aliens in a southeast Texas operation that ran Oct. 22-31. Bradford said the arrests of gang members, child predators and other violent criminals "prevented countless Houstonians from having to suffer from the nightmares and PTSD that come with being a victim of violent crime." These arrests came after another ICE Houston operation in August resulted in 822 arrests and another in February and March that led to 543 arrests. In total, the October operation resulted in the arrests of 17 documented gang members, 40 aggravated felons, one convicted murderer and 13 sexual predators, according to the ICE statement. Offenses committed by those arrested included 115 aggravated assaults, 142 DWIs, 55 drug offenses and 31 weapons offenses. The agency also said that 255 of those arrested had been previously deported from the U.S. at least once. Nearly one-third of those arrested have been ordered removed from the U.S. by an immigration judge, according to ICE.

CBS News [11/6/2025 6:43 PM, J.D. Miles, 39474K] Video: HERE reports a controversial financial incentive offered to the Dallas Police Department by the federal government had those critical of recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions sounding off inside a joint city council committee meeting on Thursday morning. Dallas city leaders heard from over 70 people, supporters and opponents of using police officers to conduct immigration enforcement. Almost all were opposed to this reported $25 million offer by ICE to train DPD officers to arrest people for being here illegally. But the hearing, which included the Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux and ICE officials, had both of them giving conflicting information about the 287g program, which left many council members confused and frustrated. Since 1996, state and local law enforcement agencies like police departments and sheriff’s offices have been able to partner with the Department of Homeland Security to conduct some immigration enforcement duties through a voluntary program called 287(g). Earlier this year, the Texas Legislature passed a law requiring all county sheriff’s departments to participate in at least one of the 287(g) models. Dallas residents voice concern over immigration enforcement program. "It’s now blatantly obvious that the people being targeted are not criminals," one Dallas resident said. "This issue should not be used as a political weapon and we humans, immigrants, we shouldn’t be used as political pawns," another Dallas resident said.

FOX News [11/7/2025 1:12 AM, Landon Mion, Brooke Taylor, 40621K] reports ICE said federal agents captured members of a South American theft ring believed to be in the U.S. illegally who attacked families in a series of violent armed break-ins across Texas. According to the agency, the group targeted small business owners across the Lone Star State. In one incident, video obtained by FOX News shows two masked men holding handguns chasing a screaming resident around his house. The victim was seen being hit by the suspects. Four suspects have been federally indicted in connection with the break-ins, and two have been convicted. The group is believed to be members of the South American Theft Group (SATG), an organized network of foreign nationals, primarily from South America, who travel throughout the U.S. targeting wealthy homes and businesses by committing burglaries and thefts, according to ICE. The members, ICE stated, use encrypted messaging apps, burner phones and pre-surveillance of neighborhoods to identify and target victims. Items stolen include high-value jewelry, luxury watches and cash. ICE said most members of the group are in the U.S. illegally or remain in the country on expired visas. One man involved, 38-year-old Joel Hallynson Espinal-Cantareo, is an illegal migrant from Honduras who was convicted and sentenced in September to more than 11 years in federal prison for interference with interstate commerce by robbery, according to ICE. His federal sentence will run consecutively to pending state cases. Espinal-Cantareo was involved in at least three armed home invasions at residences in Irving, Cedar Hill and Frisco, investigators said. In those incidents, business owners were pistol-whipped, zip-tied and forced to hand over cash and valuable items. "This 11-year sentence sends a clear message that violent crime and threats to public safety will not be tolerated," Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Dallas Special Agent in Charge Travis Pickard said in a statement. "Espinal-Cantareo’s actions affected small businesses and endangered lives. This significant sentence reflects the seriousness of those crimes. ICE will continue to work closely with our federal, state and local partners to protect our communities and bring violent offenders to justice.” Three suspects were indicted after HSI presented the federal case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sherman. A fourth suspect, who was prosecuted separately by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, has since been convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Two other cases are still pending, according to ICE. ICE said it has issued an immigration detainer to ensure Espinal-Cantareo is transferred to federal immigration custody when he finishes his federal sentence. The agency said it will pursue his deportation following his release from federal custody.

Los Angeles Times [11/6/2025 8:56 PM, Terry Castleman, 14862K] reports the 21-year-old truck driver arrested after a fiery crash killed three people on the 10 Freeway in Ontario was not under the influence of drugs at the time, authorities say. Jashanpreet Singh of Yuba City was arrested on suspicion of DUI and originally faced a felony charge of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and a felony charge of driving under the influence of drugs causing injury. His case drew national headlines after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials claimed Singh was an undocumented immigrant who entered the country from the southern border. Weeks after Singh’s arrest, prosecutors amended their complaint to reflect that the suspected DUI allegation could not be proved. "Toxicology reports confirmed none of the substances tested were present in the defendant’s blood at the time the test was rendered," the San Bernardino County district attorney said in a recent statement. In the amended complaint, Singh is charged with three counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of reckless driving causing a specified injury. In the collision, which took place around 1:10 p.m. on Oct. 21, Singh allegedly failed to hit his brakes as traffic was slowing, resulting in an eight-vehicle pileup, according to a California Highway Patrol spokesperson. The massive crash involved four big rigs and four passenger cars. Video from a dashboard camera from ABC7 showed the semitruck slamming into the car in front of it and plowing ahead through passenger cars, then finally slamming into a truck. One car went up in flames. Three people were killed and four were injured. Among them was a former Pomona High assistant basketball coach and his wife. Singh was held without bail at High Desert Detention Center in Adelanto.

USA Today [11/6/2025 4:59 PM, Trevor Hughes, 67103K] reports video of ICE agents arresting a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles while his toddler sat inside the car and video of a female teacher being yanked out of a Chicago preschool have triggered new questions about aggressive federal immigration enforcement. In LA, videos recorded by civil-rights advocates on Nov. 4 show ICE agents wrestling the man into custody and then driving away in his small Chevrolet sedan, the child in the back seat, as bystanders screamed angrily. In the Nov. 5 Chicago incident, ICE agents detained a woman in front of stunned parents and children. "People are seeing exactly what our federal government is doing," said Chicago Alderman Matt Martin, who represents the neighborhood with the preschool. "When you’re watching these videos [people should be asking] ‘how is this making my community safer?’"But what’s visible on social media misses key parts of the story, say federal officials charged with enacting President Donald Trump’s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration and urban crime. According to federal officials, the Chicago woman was an immigrant here illegally who fled into the day care when threatened with arrest, and the LA man was wanted on a warrant. He got out of the car, they said, carrying a hammer after throwing rocks at officers, leaving a stolen gun in the back seat. USA TODAY could not independently verify the details because federal officials did not identify the detainees. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that ICE agents were targeting the woman, who McLaughlin said is a Colombian immigrant, but the man driving the car refused to yield for a traffic stop. "They ran into a day care and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare ‒ recklessly endangering the children inside," McLaughlin said. "The illegal alien female was arrested inside a vestibule, not in the school. Upon arrest, she lied about her identity."

NewsMax [11/6/2025 10:49 PM, Michael Katz, 4109K] reports tens of thousands of Americans have applied for jobs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than five weeks after the agency launched its "Homeland Defender" recruiting campaign. USCIS, which manages lawful immigration to the U.S. and focuses on processing applications and petitions for people seeking immigration benefits, said Thursday in a news release that it has received more than 35,000 applications since the campaign began Sept. 30. "The Homeland Defender campaign has already been a tremendous success and has resonated with the American people," USCIS Director Joseph Edlow said in the release. "I’m pleased to announce that in addition to seeing a historic number of applications, we are starting to bring on applicants at a rapid pace. "USCIS is not wasting time. We are committed to implementing President [Donald] Trump’s priorities. These candidates are not just applying for a job — they are applying to guard our values and defend our homeland. I look forward to onboarding many more Homeland Defenders in the coming weeks.” The agency said it has cut bureaucratic red tape to hire "fiercely dedicated, America-first patriots to serve on the frontlines and hold the line against terrorists, criminal aliens, and bad actors intent on infiltrating our nation.” The positions include interviewing applicants, reviewing immigration petitions, and identifying criminal or ineligible noncitizens. Although not a law enforcement agency like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, USCIS — which oversees the nation’s legal immigration system — is part of the Department of Homeland Security. USCIS said it has made "hundreds of job offers" to applicants such as former law enforcement personnel and veterans "who have experience serving and protecting their communities and our homeland.” Those hired through the campaign could be eligible for signing bonuses of up to $50,000, student loan repayment, flexible duty locations and remote work options. The agency also said there is an expedited hiring process for entry-level positions that do not require a college degree. "These opportunities aim to attract talented individuals quickly while providing competitive benefits," USCIS said. In July, DHS launched a separate nationwide recruiting campaign aimed at hiring individuals to join Immigration and Customs Enforcement as federal law enforcement agents. The initiative, called "Defend the Homeland," sought to bring in applicants to "remove the worst-of-the-worst criminal illegal aliens from America’s streets.” Like the USCIS initiative, DHS was offering a maximum $50,000 signing bonus, student loan repayment and forgiveness options, 25% Law Enforcement Availability Pay to compensate for unscheduled overtime duty, Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime for Enforcement and Removal Operations deportation officers, and enhanced retirement benefits. "Your country is calling you to serve at ICE," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a news release. "In the wake of the Biden administration’s failed immigration policies, your country needs dedicated men and women of ICE to get the worst-of-the-worst criminals out of our country. "This is a defining moment in our nation’s history. Your skills, your experience, and your courage have never been more essential. Together, we must defend the homeland.” Michael Katz is a Newsmax reporter with more than 30 years of experience reporting and editing on news, culture, and politics.

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FOX News [11/6/2025 12:25 PM, Morgan Phillips Fox, 40621K] reports a State Department cable obtained by Fox News Digital directs U.S. embassies worldwide to enforce sweeping new visa screening rules under the so-called "public charge" provision of immigration law — a move that revives and expands a Trump-era standard officials say was relaxed under President Joe Biden. The guidance instructs consular officers to deny visas to applicants deemed likely to rely on public benefits, weighing a wide range of factors including health, age, English proficiency, finances and even potential need for long-term medical care. "Self-sufficiency has been a longstanding principle of U.S. immigration policy," the cable that went out to U.S. posts across the globe on Wednesday states, "and the public charge ground of inadmissibility has been a part of our immigration law for more than 100 years.” Any past use of government cash assistance or institutionalization could also be grounds for denial. "You must examine all aspects of the case," the guidance reads, "including the petition, visa application, medical report, affidavit of support, and any information uncovered in the course of screening and vetting.” Older visa applicants nearing retirement age are to face particular scrutiny, both for their job prospects and whether they can support themselves once they stop working. "Long-term institutionalization (e.g., at a nursing facility) can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and should be considered," the memo notes. The new guidance follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump titled "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders." The cable says the order seeks to ensure "that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens.” "The public charge determination is ‘in the opinion of the consular officer,’" the cable reminds, placing the burden of proof entirely on the applicant. Officers are instructed to conduct a "comprehensive and thorough vetting" of each case and to assess "the totality of the applicant’s circumstances" before issuing any visa. "There is no ‘bright-line’ test," the cable adds. "You must consider all aspects of the case and determine whether the applicant’s circumstances… suggest that he is more likely than not to become a public charge at any time.” The State Department is responsible for deciding who receives visas abroad, while the Department of Homeland Security determines who is ultimately admitted to the United States and who may adjust status once inside the country. Although both agencies apply the same immigration law, the State Department’s guidance governs consular officers overseas, giving them broad discretion to deny visas on public charge grounds.

FOX News [11/6/2025 9:26 PM, Landon Mion Fox, 40621K] reports the Trump administration said it has rescinded tens of thousands of nonimmigrant visas since January, pointing to criminal activity as the primary reason. The State Department announced Thursday that 80,000 visas have been revoked this year, noting this is more than twice the number revoked last year. More than 8,000 student visas were among those affected. The top reasons for these revocations were assault, theft and driving under the influence, according to the State Department. These three crimes accounted for nearly half of the revoked visas this year. The agency said it pulled more than 16,000 visas for DUIs, more than 12,000 for assault and more than 8,000 for theft. "Promises made, promises kept," the State Department wrote on X, adding that President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio "will always put the safety and interests of the American people first.” The State Department may revoke a visa for reasons such as indicators of an overstay, criminal activity, a threat to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity or providing support to a terrorist organization. The administration has broadly defined support for terrorism to include criticism of U.S. support for Israel and the Jewish State’s military action and support for Palestinians. The federal government has previously used this as a justification to cancel visas. Since Trump returned to the White House in January, his administration has searched for online posts to target foreigners for the potential rescinding of their visas. On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order to ensure visa holders "do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.” Over the summer, the State Department said it would start asking applicants to make their social media accounts public for government monitoring and that interviews with applicants would determine who may pose a threat to national security.

Bloomberg [11/6/2025 6:00 AM, Francesca Maglione and Georgia Hall, 18207K] reports no international candidates. It’s a line many foreign graduates keep running into during their job search. For Ishaan Chauhan, who came from India almost four years ago, it feels like a slap in the face. He thought his computer and data-science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison would open doors. But as he looks for jobs ahead of his graduation in May, he said most companies won’t even give him a chance to interview once they find out he’ll need a work visa. Chauhan is among thousands of foreign students trying to navigate the US job market that’s gotten even trickier since President Donald Trump overhauled the H-1B visa program, including adding a $100,000 application fee. For the world’s high academic achievers, the path used to be clear: Graduate from a US university and land a position with an employer who could sponsor a visa. Now, many are left in limbo, struggling to secure roles once employers realize they aren’t American citizens. Last month, Walmart Inc., the largest US private employer, announced it was pausing job offers for candidates requiring H-1B visas. “It doesn’t matter if you went to the best university or you have the best GPA or you did the best internships, you can still fail,” Chauhan said. “The question that always pops ups is: Could you now or in the future need sponsorship? And that sort of just ends the conversation itself.”

Federalist [11/6/2025 7:28 AM, M.D. Kittle, 785K] reports Democrats in Congress have fought against every bill that would ensure only U.S. citizens vote in U.S. elections. They voted against the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act in the House, and they’ve chloroformed it in the Senate. They’ve sued to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Why would Democrats and left-wing activists fight so hard and spend so much money trying to kill a basic election safeguard that the vast majority of Americans support? They want noncitizens to vote in U.S. elections. And, as always, they’re willing to game the system to get what they want. "President Trump has exercised his lawful authority to ensure only American citizens are casting ballots in American elections. This is so commonsense that only the Democrat Party would file a lawsuit against it. We expect to be vindicated by a higher court," Deputy White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Newsweek following the ruling. In the meantime, the EAC is considering an America First Legal Foundation petition calling for the commission to adopt a proof of citizenship rule by amending EAC regulations and the National Mail Voter Registration Form.

Wall Street Journal [11/6/2025 4:52 PM, Lydia Wheeler, 646K]reports the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move ahead for now with a policy requiring that Americans’ passports reflect the holders’ sex at birth. In an emergency order, the court said the requirement is akin to displaying a person’s country at birth. “The government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” it said in a short unsigned order. The justices’ action pauses a lower-court order that blocked the policy, which prevents transgender and nonbinary people from selecting their preferred sex on their passports, while litigation against it is ongoing. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent, joined by two other members of the court’s liberal wing, that the court had “once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification.”

Daily Caller [11/6/2025 10:00 AM, Jason Hopkins, 835K] reports local prosecutors charged a Mexican man currently serving as mayor of a small American city with unlawfully voting multiple times in U.S. elections. Republican Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach on Wednesday charged Jose Ceballos, a Mexican national and mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, with three counts of voting without being qualified and three counts of election perjury, according to a press release from his office. The announcement marks the latest instance in which state officials allegedly caught a foreign national of voting, thanks in part to a database system bolstered by the Trump administration. "In Kansas, it is against the law to vote if you are not a U.S. citizen," Kobach said. "We allege that Mr. Ceballos did it multiple times.” "Voting by noncitizens, including both legal and illegal aliens, is a very real problem," the Kansas Attorney General continued. "It happens. Every time a noncitizen votes, it effectively cancels out a U.S. citizen’s vote.” The charges were announced just one day after Ceballos was re-elected as mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, a city of a few hundred people in Comanche County. While Ceballos is a legal permanent resident, he had not obtained American citizenship before allegedly registering to vote, according to prosecutors. The charges are nonperson felonies, and the Mexican national could face over five years in prison if convicted. Kansas officials credited the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, an online service program administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), for helping to prevent foreign nationals from participating in elections. "We now have tools, thanks to the current White House, that we haven’t had in over 10 years," Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab stated, according to 12News, "that we can check through the SAVE program, to find out if folks end up on our voter rolls.” "And they could be a legal resident, but they’re not a citizen. We want to make sure that gets clarified," Schwab continued.

FOX News [11/6/2025 9:26 AM, Emma Colton Fox, 40621K] reports more than 500,000 California voters have signed a petition to amend the state’s constitution to enforce voter ID laws for all elections, leaders of a coalition called Californians for Voter ID told Fox News Digital. "We had a dog that voted in the last couple elections in Costa Mesa," Republican California state Sen. Tony Strickland told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday phone interview about California’s persistent voter integrity concerns. "We don’t clean up our voter rolls. There are so many times where people move, college kids go out of state, or people move and they don’t clean up the voter rolls. And we mail out to everybody, and so you have a lot of live ballots with ballot harvesting.” "Our initiative will now clean up the voter rolls throughout the state," he added. Strickland, who represents a district that includes portions of Orange and Los Angeles counties along the Southern California coast, is helping lead the charge to collect more than one million petition signatures from California voters in order to force the issue on the ballot for the 2026 election. The signature collection kicked off Oct. 1, meaning the group collected support from more than half-a-million voters in a one-month span. The Californians for Voter ID initiative specifically would amend California’s constitution and require voters to present government-issued IDs before casting a ballot in all future elections in the state. California voters would be required to present a government-issued ID before voting in-person, or provide the last four-digits of a government ID if voting by mail. Election officials, under the initiative, would be required to verify a voter’s citizenship to ensure only legal residents register to vote or receive ballots.

AP [11/6/2025 7:29 AM, Joseph Falzetta, 31753K] reports the United States is terminating South Sudan’s designation for temporary protected status, which for years allowed people from the East African country to remain in the U.S. legally and escape armed conflict back home. The termination will be effective Jan. 5, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. "After conferring with interagency partners, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem determined that conditions in South Sudan no longer meet the TPS statutory requirements," the statement said. It added that South Sudanese nationals who use the Customs and Border Protection mobile app to report their departure could receive "a complimentary plane ticket, a $1,000 exit bonus, and potential future opportunities for legal immigration.” The new policy is a blow to people from South Sudan, a nation that remains politically unstable and the source of many refugees seeking shelter abroad.

NewsMax [11/6/2025 4:03 PM, Staff, 4109K] reports the Department of Homeland Security announced this week that illegal border crossings dropped to the lowest level ever recorded in October, describing it as a landmark achievement under President Donald Trump. Preliminary figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show 30,561 total encounters last month, marking the smallest number for any October since the agency began keeping records. The figure represents a 29% drop from the previous low in 2012 and a 79% decrease compared with October 2024. For six consecutive months, Border Patrol agents have reported zero migrant releases. Officials said every person detained was processed according to the law, with no one released into the interior of the U.S. "History made: the lowest border crossings in October history and the sixth straight month of ZERO releases. This is the most secure border ever," said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in a statement. CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott credited frontline personnel for maintaining what he called "unmatched consistency." He said agents are focused on results rather than rhetoric and vowed continued vigilance along the southwest border. The new administration’s stricter enforcement measures, along with changes to asylum and parole policies, have been credited for the sharp turnaround. DHS said final October statistics will be released soon. Officials maintain the downward trend demonstrates the administration’s commitment to strict enforcement and border control.

Breitbart [11/6/2025 11:25 AM, Bob Price, 2416K] reports the Trump administration’s border crackdown is delivering results: October 2025 marked the lowest number of illegal border crossings in CBP history, and it was the sixth straight month of zero releases by U.S. Border Patrol. With just 30,561 encounters nationwide—down 79% from October 2024—DHS officials credit President Trump’s leadership and a no-excuses enforcement strategy for restoring control and deterring illegal entry at a scale unseen in modern times. "Our mission is simple: secure the border and safeguard this nation," CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said in a written statement on Wednesday. "And that’s exactly what we are doing. No excuses. No politics. Just results delivered by the most dedicated law-enforcement professionals in the country. We’re not easing up — we’re pushing even harder.” During the month of October, Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 8,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. Officials say this represents an arrest rate of 258 illegal aliens per day — less than 11 per hour. During the Biden administration, agents were overwhelmed with an average apprehension rate of more than 5,100 per day. One year ago, agents apprehended more than 300 illegal aliens every four hours. "History made: the lowest border crossings in October history and the sixth straight month of ZERO releases. This is (the) most secure border ever," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated. "Thank you, President Trump, and our brave DHS law enforcement. You make America proud!". For the sixth consecutive month, Border Patrol agents did not release any illegal aliens into the U.S. interior. "For the sixth consecutive month, U.S. Border Patrol released zero illegal aliens into the United States. Every individual apprehended was processed according to law — a milestone unmatched in modern border history," DHS officials reported.

Breitbart [11/6/2025 12:06 PM, Bob Price, 2416K] reports several high-ranking members of the Trump administration are striking back at liberal media outlets for anti-ICE and anti-Border Patrol headlines and news articles the officials believe fail to tell the whole story behind recent use-of-force incidents and illegal alien arrests. In one recent post, the Department of Homeland Security calls an NBC article "DISGUSTING, even for fake news.” DHS blasted NBC’s tear gas coverage as "disgusting," accusing the outlet of omitting key facts—like the arrest of a violent illegal alien and assaults on federal officers. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli also rebuked LA Times reporters for downplaying the criminal threat posed by a man armed with a stolen handgun and a toddler in tow, saying, "Anyone who assaults or interferes with federal agents will be arrested and charged.” The latest news article to draw the ire of the Trump administration was published by NBC News on Wednesday under a headline that read, "Chicago residents say immigration enforcement is leading to children getting tear-gassed." The accompanying article describes the experience of a "ginger-haired 2-year-old, Leia," who, along with her mother, was allegedly exposed to tear gas deployed by Border Patrol Agents in Chicago during a Saturday morning walk. In the article, Leia’s mother, Sarah Parise, hears her child’s screams of "Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" The article’s author, Natasha Korecki, a Senior National Politics Reporter for NBC News and former reporter for Politico, details the child’s mother’s experience writing, "As Parise raced home, she heard whistles and cars honking, she said. She saw a blur of armed men dressed in fatigues. Multiple reports from that day, Oct.25, detailed how Border Patrol agents conducting immigration enforcement in the neighborhood confronted residents, leading a federal judge to question an official in court over the use of tear gas there "without any warning.”

Blaze [11/6/2025 1:00 PM, Candace Hathaway, 1442K] reports more Chinese scholars from the University of Michigan have allegedly been tied to a smuggling conspiracy. The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party announced Wednesday charges against three UM scholars, bringing the total to seven Chinese nationals connected to the alleged smuggling plot. ‘It is part of a broader, coordinated campaign targeting universities across the country, driven by China’s efforts to acquire American technology.’. In June, the Department of Justice charged Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Zunyong Liu, with smuggling a fungus into the United States. Officials claimed that the Fusarium graminearum could potentially be used as an agricultural terrorism weapon. Liu allegedly claimed the reason for smuggling the pathogen was to conduct research at UM’s laboratory, where Jian worked. Chengxuan Han, another UM scholar, was also arrested in June after she allegedly mailed several packages containing "biological material related to roundworms" to UM’s laboratory. Han, 28, was sentenced in September to time served and was expected to return to China. Three additional Chinese nationals who were working at UM were terminated after the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan filed new charges, claiming the individuals were involved with a biological material smuggling plot, according to the Select Committee’s Wednesday press release. The Detroit News reported that Xu Bai, 28, Fengfan Zhang, 27, and Zhiyong Zhang, 30, faced charges including smuggling biological material into the country and lying to federal agents. Han allegedly sent one of the packages to Bai’s apartment in Ann Arbor. A complaint reviewed by the Detroit News stated that Bai became uncooperative, refusing to speak with investigators. Han also allegedly sent several packages to Fengfan Zhang and Zhiyong Zhang. "When asked if he had ever received any packages from Han, Zhiyong Zhang showed multiple signs of nervous behavior, including his right eye twitching only when discussing Han, and he was unable to fully explain whether he did or did not receive any packages," a federal agent wrote. UM reportedly fired the three scholars after they refused to cooperate with an internal investigation of the lab, operated by life sciences professor Shawn Xu. "Professor Xu has been cooperative with the University of Michigan’s investigation into the laboratory," Xu’s lawyer, David Nacht, told the Detroit News. "He has not been informed by any federal official that he is a target of any investigation.”

AP [11/6/2025 1:56 PM, Staff, 4829K] reports text messages sent by a Border Patrol agent appear to show he bragged to colleagues about his shooting skills after wounding a woman charged with assaulting a federal officer in Chicago. Agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times on Oct. 4 after authorities say she and another driver rammed vehicles into an SUV Exum was driving on the city’s Southwest Side. The messages were presented as evidence in federal court Wednesday. Martinez, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are charged with assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon. In the text, agent Exum wrote that he had “an amendment to add to” his story. “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys,” the text read. The shooting occurred as President Donald Trump’s escalation of federal law enforcement continued in cities across the U.S. On Oct. 5, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the shooting, saying in a statement that agents “were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.” When agents exited their vehicle, “a suspect tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively,” the statement continued. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the woman shot was armed with a semiautomatic weapon. Martinez was treated at a hospital and released before being taken into FBI custody. When questioned Wednesday by Chris Parente, an attorney for Martinez, Exum testified that he’s a firearms instructor “and I take pride in my shooting skills,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

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CBS 4 El Paso [11/6/2025 3:13 PM, Staff, 39474K] reports U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working in the El Paso field office ports of entry seized 263.1 kilos of narcotics during the week of Oct. 26 to Nov. 1. The narcotics were discovered primarily in spaces and compartments in seven different passenger vehicles coming into the Santa Teresa, Paso del Norte, Bridge of the Americas and Ysleta Ports of Entry. The narcotics seized included 81.44 kilos of cocaine, 10.68 kilos of fentanyl, 129.32 kilos of methamphetamine and 41.7 kilos of marijuana. Using a combination of canine detection, Z-Portal technology, and seven-point physical inspections, CBP officers discovered the narcotics hidden in these privately owned vehicles.

ABC News [11/6/2025 4:19 PM, Tesfaye Negussie, Sabina Ghebremedhin, and Nathan Smith, 30493K] reports the ongoing government shutdown has impacted approximately 1.5 million federal workers, who have gone a month and counting without a paycheck. Maggie Sabatino has worked as a Transportation Security Administration agent at Philadelphia International Airport for the last 13 years and is the executive vice president of the union chapter Local 333, which represents TSA airport employees in Philadelphia. Just like the other federal workers affected by the government shutdown and working without pay, Sabatino -- who has an 8-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son with autism -- said she is struggling to meet her basic needs. Sabatino, along with millions of other federal workers, has been experiencing uncertainty since the government shutdown began on Oct. 1.

FOX News [11/6/2025 4:52 PM, Ashley J. DiMella, 40621K] reports as the U.S. government shutdown persists, airlines are continuing to warn customers of potential schedule changes. As of Thursday at 3:30 p.m. ET, 4,146 flights within, into or out of the U.S. had been delayed, while 420 had been canceled, according to FlightAware. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented a flight reduction plan limiting air travel capacity at 40 airports. Acting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Adam Stahl told Fox News Digital Thursday that as the shutdown persists, there will continue to be a significant impact on wait times amid officer callouts. The TSA generally advises travelers to arrive at the airport two hours before a domestic flight and three hours before an international flight. He added that some places may have even longer wait times. Stahl said that as the shutdown continues, he is concerned about the approaching holidays and the impact on travel. Stahl reiterated that there has been "no degradation to security" and that the TSA is taking a variety of actions to mitigate concerns. Stahl said the shutdown is impacting the financial livelihood of TSA employees.

Reuters [11/6/2025 4:24 PM, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Shivansh Tiwary, and Doyinsola Oladipo, 36480K] reports U.S. airlines scrambled on Thursday to rejig schedules and field calls from anxious customers after the Trump administration ordered flight reductions at major airports due to a shortage of air traffic controllers during the longest U.S. government shutdown in history. The cuts, set to begin on Friday, were expected to hit hundreds of thousands of travelers with little notice. Aviation analytics firm Cirium estimated the reductions would cancel up to 1,800 flights and 268,000 airline seats a day in the U.S. The timing, during a period of low travel demand, was making it easier for airlines to rebook passengers, and analysts said the impact on airline earnings was likely to be modest if the shutdown ends before the Thanksgiving travel period.

FOX Business [11/6/2025 2:01 PM, Pilar Arias, 10085K] reports that forty of the busiest airports in the U.S. will see a 10% flight reduction starting Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced this week that it is forcing airlines to cut back due to the pressure on air traffic controllers during the ongoing government shutdown. The shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, has forced 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration agents to work without pay. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday the cuts could be reversed if Democrats agreed to reopen the government. While the FAA has yet to make an official public announcement, The Associated Press on Thursday reported a list of airports that are expected to be affected. [Editorial note: consult list at source link]

Axios [11/6/2025 4:08 PM, Tasha Tsiaperas, 12972K] reports DFW Airport and Dallas Love Field are reportedly among the airports affected by the Federal Aviation Administration decision to reduce flights and restrict airspace starting Friday. The cuts may start at 4% Friday before ramping up to 10% over the following few days if the federal government shutdown continues, per CNN. Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers are working without pay, and staffing shortages have already been causing flight delays and cancellations.

Houston Chronicle [11/6/2025 10:03 AM, Jarrod Wardwell, 2983K] reports forty of the busiest airports in the United States will together lose thousands flights starting Friday as part of a major reduction to air traffic, according to federal officials. The Federal Aviation Administration will cut air traffic by 10% across 40 "high volume" markets Friday morning to alleviate mounting fatigue on air traffic controllers during the record-long government shutdown. Officials had yet to release a list of affected airports Thursday morning, but ABC News reported the cuts will include George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P. Hobby Airport. Federal officials were set to announce the official list of impacted markets Thursday. The move comes as airports across the country grapple with TSA lines and flight delays caused by staffing shortages during the 37-day-long government shutdown. Federal employees like TSA agents and air traffic controllers have worked without pay, and staffing has shrunk as a result.

Washington Post [11/6/2025 10:36 AM, Natalie B. Compton, Hannah Sampson, and Gabe Hiatt, 24149K] reports as the longest U.S. government shutdown in history continues, transportation officials have been warning travelers to expect delays at airports while essential workers go without pay. Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers have been working under duress, but staffing shortages have caused only sporadic spikes in flight disruptions. In an unprecedented move, Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said that starting Friday, the Trump administration will reduce flight traffic by 10 percent in 40 “high traffic” markets. Travelers may be concerned about canceled flights and delays as officials focus on safety, but airlines are working to minimize the fallout. “My hunch is that fewer than 10 percent of travelers are going to get impacted,” said Scott Keyes, founder of the cheap-flight service Going.

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Houston Chronicle [11/6/2025 7:01 AM, Caroline Wilburn and Michael Garcia, 2983K] reports Houston travelers on Thursday saw somewhat lengthy TSA wait times at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, where security agents continue to work without pay as the government shutdown persists. Wait times at Bush Airport’s Terminal A and E were expected to exceed 60 to 75 minutes on Thursday, according to Houston Airport System officials. Wait times at William P. Hobby Airport were expected to exceed 30 to 45 minutes. Officials urged passengers to arrive at the airport several hours before their flight and remain flexible, as TSA wait times can vary depending on the time or day. Traffic at Terminal E seemed to be flowing at a steady pace Thursday morning with wait times still expected to be 45 minutes. Security checkpoint wait times on at 6:30 a.m. averaged 10-45 minutes at IAH terminals and about 7 minutes at Hobby, representing a significant reduction compared to wait times over the weekend, which exceeded 3 hours. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration would reduce air traffic by 10% at 40 "high-volume" markets starting Friday if the government shutdown continues. It wasn’t immediately clear if Houston air traffic would be reduced. Both Hobby and IAH have seen several ground delays and stops since the government shutdown began last month. The FAA is facing safety concerns due to a lack of air traffic controllers, who are not being paid during the shutdown, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said. "We can’t ignore it," he said.

SFGate [11/6/2025 4:29 PM, Olivia Harden, 13945K] reports as the government shutdown continues, causing flight delays and prompting an unprecedented move by the Federal Aviation Administration to reduce flights by up to 10% at 40 major airports nationwide, the security gates at San Francisco International Airport remain intact. Essential air travel workers, such as air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers, are working without a paycheck, and security lines have lengthened accordingly. Passengers at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport have reported wait times of up to three hours at security checkpoints, according to SimpleFlying. However, at SFO, security checkpoint officers are privately contracted through the Screening Partnership Program with Covenant Aviation Security, a partnership that has been in place since 2002. "For a little historical context, all US airport security checkpoints were federalized in the wake of 9/11, but back then there was a thought that they might eventually revert to a private contractor model. We joined the SPP to be ready for this possibility," SFO spokesperson Doug Yakel told SFGATE in an email. SFO is the largest airport that participates in the Screening Partnership Program. Only 20 airports across the country are enrolled, and most are regional airports, including the Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa.

National Review [11/6/2025 3:29 PM, Brittany Bernstein, 109K] reports the Trump administration on Wednesday announced new regulations that give the federal government advanced charging authority to arrest masked rioters. The new regulations apply to individuals both on and off federal property, in what the Department of Homeland Security says will be “an essential tool in addressing the recent surge in violence at DHS facilities.” Under the new regulations, suspects can be apprehended for wearing a mask or hood that conceals their identity while committing a crime, even crimes that would previously fall under local or state jurisdiction. Critics argue the new regulation could be used as a pretext to arrest any protesters who are hiding their identity for any reason. The regulations, which were set to take effect on January 1 but will instead be implemented beginning November 5, “address a recent surge in security and public safety threats.” They allow the Federal Protective Services to make arrests for violations on and off federal property to the “extent those violations affect federal property and the persons thereon.” FPS is the agency tasked with protecting federal buildings and their grounds. Those violations may include disorderly conduct, obstructing access to federal property, impeding the performance of official duties of federal employees, threatening to commit any crime of violence, tampering with government IT systems, creating any hazard or threat of hazard on federal property to persons or things, and causing an unmanned aircraft or system to take off, land, or damage federal property. “DHS is using every tool possible to protect the lives of our law enforcement as they face a surge in violence and lawlessness at many of our federal facilities,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “We’ve seen rampant violence against law enforcement including our officers shot at, rammed by vehicles, assaulted and threatened.” “Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, we will not tolerate violence perpetuated by Antifa and other domestic extremists who are targeting federal property and law enforcement,” she added. “Law and order will prevail.” DHS has previously said law enforcement officers are facing a more than 1,000 percent increase in assaults.

FOX News [11/6/2025 10:45 AM, Diana Stancy Fox, 40621K] reports the Coast Guard seized almost 510,000 pounds of cocaine in fiscal year 2025 — marking the largest amount of the drug snatched in the service’s entire history. The increase in cocaine confiscation comes as the Coast Guard has launched several key initiatives in recent months as part of President Donald Trump’s larger effort to crack down on drug cartels. The amount the service seized translates to 193 million potentially lethal doses — enough to jeopardize more than half of the U.S. population, according to the Coast Guard. Additionally, it amounts to more than three times the service’s annual average, which comes out to roughly 167,000 pounds of cocaine each year. "The Coast Guard’s top priority is to achieve complete operational control of the U.S. border and maritime approaches," Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the Coast Guard, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "We own the sea, and this historic amount of cocaine seized shows we are defeating narco-terrorist and cartel operations to protect our communities and keep dangerous drugs off our streets.” The Coast Guard has launched multiple high-profile operations to advance Trump’s crusade against drugs. In August, the Coast Guard launched Operation Pacific Viper, a joint effort between the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy aimed at countering the influx of illegal drugs to the U.S. As of October, the Coast Guard reported it had confiscated 100,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean since August under Operation Pacific Viper, averaging 1,600 pounds of cocaine daily, according to the service.

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San Francisco Chronicle [11/6/2025 8:43 PM, Kate Talerico, 4722K] reports that, two weeks after a protest against federal immigration actions shut down the bridge to the U.S. Coast Guard base near Oakland — where a chaotic shooting left two people injured — the Coast Guard is moving to ensure that such demonstrations can’t happen there again. In an email sent Monday to Oakland’s director of real estate, a Coast Guard official said the military branch was seeking "permanent control" of the bridge entrance, a small section extending from the intersection of Embarcadero and Dennison streets west toward the island. In the email, Jordan Converse, the Coast Guard’s chief of planning and real property for Oakland, said the Coast Guard was interested in extending its "security footprint" around the base, but did not reference the recent protests that drew hundreds of demonstrators. If the city agrees to vacate the property, it would effectively give the federal agency jurisdiction over that part of the bridge, which is currently managed by Oakland’s Department of Transportation and provides the only public vehicle access to the island. Oakland spokesperson Sean Maher said that the request will be handled through the city’s standard process for vacating property, which includes research and analysis, followed by City Council consideration. The protests came after President Donald Trump dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, on Oct. 22 to the island ahead of a major immigration crackdown in the region. Trump backed off a day later after speaking with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie. Though largely peaceful, the Coast Guard Island protests were marked with moments of conflict between law enforcement and civilians. On the morning of Oct. 23, a crowd of protesters blocked federal vehicles from crossing the bridge. After calling on them to move, officers deployed flash-bang grenades and fired a pepper round that struck a clergyman near his chin. Protesters remained blocking the bridge during most of the day Thursday, with law enforcement pushing them back from the entrance at least once so that vehicles could pass through. Around 10 p.m. that night, a U-Haul truck drove backwards on the bridge toward Coast Guard security personnel. After issuing commands to stop, they shot at the driver, who was charged on Tuesday with assaulting federal officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Protesters said that the Coast Guard’s move amounts to a federal land grab aimed at suppressing future protests. "This is yet another way for the federal government and military agents to encroach on public space, our local communities, and our constitutional rights," said Reverend Deborah Lee, co-executive director of the interfaith group that helped organize the protests. "The City of Oakland’s streets, parks and right-of-ways need to be for all our residents to live and thrive.” Matthew Leber, a protester who had his foot run over by a vehicle trying to get onto Coast Guard Island, echoed Lee’s concerns. "It’s important to have access to public property where we have a right to protest," Leber said. "When it’s purposefully taken away in one of the most drastic actions of the federal government, it’s clear it’s an effort to make our protests more difficult.”

CNN [11/6/2025 10:09 PM, Sean Lyngaas, 606K] reports the Congressional Budget Office has been hacked, potentially exposing its communications with the offices of lawmakers, according to an email sent to congressional staff this week and obtained by CNN. The email from the Senate sergeant at arms did not name a culprit, but a US official briefed on the hack told CNN on Thursday that Chinese state-backed hackers are suspected of being behind the breach. The email said the hacking incident was "ongoing" and that staffers should avoid clicking on links sent from CBO accounts because the accounts may still be compromised. CBO’s economists and analysts provide lawmakers with cost estimates and analysis of legislation in Congress. The office also does long-term projections for the US budget and analyzes the president’s budget — the type of information that could be of interest to foreign intelligence services keeping close tabs on US economic policy. It’s one of multiple hacks in recent months linked to China that have targeted non-public information about US policies amid fierce US-China trade tensions. In July, CNN reported that suspected Chinese hackers had breached Wiley Rein, a powerful law firm and key player in helping US companies and the government navigate the trade war with China. "The Congressional Budget Office has identified the security incident, has taken immediate action to contain it, and has implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency’s systems going forward," CBO spokesperson Caitlin Emma said in a statement on Thursday evening. "The incident is being investigated and work for the Congress continues. Like other government agencies and private sector entities, CBO occasionally faces threats to its network and continually monitors to address those threats.” Emma declined to comment further, including on who was behind the hack. Beijing routinely denies allegations that it conducts cyberattacks. China "consistently opposes and strictly combats all forms of cyberattacks in accordance with the law," Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, said in an email. Washington Post first reported on the hack, but did not identify a suspect other than describing it as a "foreign actor.” The federal government has been shut down for a record 37 days, leaving resources for cyber defense stretched thin. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a main agency for defending against cyberattacks, planned to furlough roughly two-thirds of its 2,540-person workforce at the start of the shutdown. As the shutdown drags on, the threat from state-backed and criminal hackers to federal networks has not subsided. CISA issued an "emergency order" in September requiring federal agencies to defend a hacking campaign that had compromised at least one agency.

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CyberScoop [11/6/2025 11:15 AM, Matt Kapko, 122K] reports SonicWall said a state-sponsored threat actor was behind the brute-force attack that exposed firewall configuration files of every customer that used the company’s cloud backup service. The vendor pinned the responsibility for the attack on an undisclosed nation state Tuesday, after Mandiant concluded its investigation into the incident. SonicWall did not attribute the attack to a specific country or threat group and Mandiant declined to provide additional information. The vendor’s update, which lacked a root-cause analysis, was mostly an effort to put the attack behind it as leadership made pledges to improve SonicWall’s security practices. “The malicious activity has been contained and was isolated to our firewall cloud backup service, which stores firewall configuration files in a specific cloud bucket,” SonicWall CEO Bob VanKirk said in a pre-recorded video published alongside the update. “There was no impact to any SonicWall product, firmware, source code, production network, or to any customer data or any other SonicWall system.”

Homeland Preparedness News [11/6/2025 8:50 AM, Liz Carey] reports the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and other international cybersecurity partners released the “Microsoft Exchange Server Security Best Practices” guidance this week. The blueprint for hardening Microsoft Exchange servers builds on CISA’s Emergency Directive 25-20, to mitigate Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, and recommends proactive prevention techniques to address cyber threats and protect sensitive information and communications. “Even amid a prolonged government shutdown riddled with partisan rhetoric, CISA remains dedicated to safeguarding critical infrastructure by providing timely guidance to minimize disruptions and to thwart nation-state threats,” CISA Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala said. “Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, CISA continues to demonstrate the power of operational collaboration by working shoulder to shoulder with our trusted intelligence and law enforcement partners across the globe” The document will provide organizations that rely on Microsoft Exchange to equip on-premises administrators with essential security measures to prevent cyber-attacks while fortifying their defenses. By restricting administrative access, implementing multifactor authentication, enforcing strict transport security configurations and adopting zero trust security model principles, organizations can boost their defenses again cyber threats, officials said. The authoring agencies have also taken steps to encourage organizations to take steps to mitigate risks and prevent malicious activity as some server versions reach their end-of-life cycle.

StateScoop [11/6/2025 4:20 PM, Colin Wood, 37K] reports the Nevada state government’s major ransomware attack last August was precipitated by a state employee who unknowingly downloaded malware from a spoofed website, according to a report published Wednesday by the Nevada Governor’s Technology Office. The report, which details the state’s four-week response and recovery following the discovery on Aug. 24 that a threat actor had breached its network defenses, provides a handful of new details, such as how the incident began and what the state has done in response and plans to do in the months ahead. Though the state discovered the attack in August, after the actor had deleted the state’s backup volumes, encrypted its virtual machines and deployed the ransomware, investigators discovered the incident began as early as May 14. An employee had downloaded a “malware-laced system administration tool” twice from a fraudulent website that had made itself visible through a search engine optimization poisoning campaign, in which the website enjoyed a higher-than-usual ranking in search results. The fake website’s seeming authenticity was also boosted, the state found, by the threat actor’s use of legitimate Google ads. Running the malware on state systems bypassed Nevada’s endpoint defenses and allowed it to “immediately” configure a backdoor that the threat actor was able to use to access state systems each time the associated user logged on. The state’s Symantec Endpoint Protection tool on June 26 quarantined the malware the user had downloaded, yet the backdoor continued to allow the outside actor access.

FOX News [11/6/2025 2:53 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Subcommittee on the Constitution Chairman Chip Roy, R-Texas, are demanding nonprofit liberal advocacy groups turn over documents related to alleged support of Antifa as the Trump administration continues to crack down on left-wing militants. In the letters, obtained by Fox News Digital, the Republican lawmakers called on Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) and Open Society Foundations to provide communications, financial records, and internal policies related to the nonprofits tied to Refuse Fascism, and other groups purportedly tied to Antifa, which President Donald Trump deemed a domestic terrorist organization this year. The letter cites public reporting that AFGJ "acts as fiscal sponsor for Antifa groups" and cites donations to Refuse Fascism, a group that was recently present in Washington, D.C., protesting the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election, Associated Press reported. Refuse Fascism has been present at numerous Antifa-tied demonstrations in recent years, according to Influence Watch. "Antifa’s left-wing extremist violence cannot be justified," the letter states. "AFGJ is directly responsible for the activities conducted by its projects as well as the use of funds raised on behalf of those projects.” The Refuse Facism Leadership Board pointed Fox News Digital to its stated mission online, along with a web page outlining their principles. "Sunsara Taylor, along with all the other leaders of Refuse Fascism, has only ever advocated for nonviolent means to advance RefuseFascism.org’s mission," the board said. In addition to Refuse Fascism, the lawmakers expressed concern over AFGJ’s sponsorship of Samidoun, which the Treasury Department has described as "a sham charity" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. The Alliance for Global Justice, a liberal advocacy group that has received scrutiny for allegedly aiding Palestinian terrorism and supporting the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, received $250,000 in 2020 from the Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS), a grantmaking arm of George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF), according to the group’s 990 tax forms, Fox News Digital reported in 2022. The $250,000 contribution was designated to "catalyze Black communities into the global movement for climate justice.” In the letter to Open Society Foundations, the committee wrote, "According to a recent report from the Capital Research Center, since 2016, OSF has donated more than $80 million to extremist organizations that support or engage in terrorism or other extremist violence.”

New York Post [11/6/2025 6:56 PM, Bethany Mandel, 42219K] reports two teenagers from one of New Jersey’s wealthiest suburbs were arrested this week for allegedly plotting to join ISIS and carry out mass killings of Jews. According to federal prosecutors, Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel and Milo Sedarat, both 19, both from Montclair, had stockpiled weapons, posed with an ISIS flag, and fantasized online about attacks on Jewish communities. Sedarat, the son of a well-known poet, reportedly said he wanted to "execute 500 Jews" and "mow down" pro-Israel marchers in his hometown. Jimenez-Guzel — whose mother, Meral Guzel, works at the United Nations Women’s Entrepreneurship Program — posted photos of himself with knives and said he wanted to behead people. Both were student athletes at Montclair High School, one of the most elite public schools in the area. The FBI says the pair were part of a wider network of young men across several countries — at least 13 in total — connected through online radicalization pipelines stretching from the United States to the UK, Sweden and Finland. It’s a story that seems straight out of a movie: two affluent American teenagers from a picture-perfect town embracing one of the most violent ideologies on earth. These boys didn’t grow up amid war or deprivation. They grew up amid nothingness. They had comfort, but not conviction; connection, but not community; access to everything, but belief in nothing. Nick Fuentes tells young men that Jews are the problem; Hasan Piker tells them Jews are the oppressors; ISIS tells them Jews are the enemy of God. These boys didn’t find ISIS in a mosque. A generation raised without faith or moral grounding is now desperately searching for something to fill the void. The Montclair jihadis aren’t just a security threat. They’re a warning: When a society stops offering its young men meaning, something else will.

FOX News [11/7/2025 1:25 AM, Christina Shaw, 40621K] reports a Joint Base Andrews spokesperson says several people are ill after a suspicious package was opened at Joint Base Andrews at approximately 1 p.m. Thursday. Base medical personnel responded immediately and treated multiple individuals who reported feeling sick, officials said. All patients were listed in stable condition and later released. "As a precaution, the building and connecting building were evacuated, and a cordon was established around the area," the spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News. "Joint Base Andrews first responders were dispatched to the scene, determined there were no immediate threats, and normal operations have resumed. An investigation is currently ongoing.” Authorities have not disclosed what the package contained or what may have caused the symptoms. The base was temporarily locked down while emergency crews assessed the situation. The base was temporarily locked down so that the installation and emergency personnel could assess the situation. Several of the individuals were taken to Malcolm Grow Medical Center on the base for evaluation. Joint Base Andrews is home to Air Force One and other aircraft that support the president, vice president and senior U.S. leaders. Officials said the investigation remains active as they work to determine the source and nature of the package. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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FOX News [11/6/2025 12:11 PM, Staff, 40621K] reports Jonathan Serrie reports on the public outrage after a mass shooting suspect in Alabama was released on bond the day after his arrest. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

NewsNation [11/6/2025 4:37 PM, Rex Smith, Justin Dennis, 8017K] reports federal investigators believe suspects charged in a Michigan federal court with plotting a Halloween terror attack on U.S. soil on behalf of the Islamic State had scouted out Cedar Point in Sandusky as a potential target, and had stockpiled numerous firearms and accessories, along with more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition. Ayob Nasser, his live-in brother Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud are charged with conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a designated terrorist organization and receiving and transferring guns and ammunition for terrorism, according to court documents. Ali and Mahmoud were arrested Friday, Oct. 31. Investigators said two minors, identified only as Person 1 and Person 2 in court documents, were also involved in the discussions. The Associated Press reported that Nasser, 19, was arrested Wednesday, Nov. 5. He is accused of participating in the planning of a possible attack on LGBTQ+ bars in suburban Detroit that was inspired by the Islamic State, federal authorities have said.

The AP [11/5/2025 8:52 PM, Isabella Volmert, 31753K] reports investigators say a third Michigan man is now facing charges in a plot to stage a terror attack on Halloween. He traveled to Cedar Point, an amusement park in Ohio, to scout the location, they said. Ayob Nasser, 19, was arrested Wednesday. He is accused of participating in the planning of a possible attack on LGBTQ+ bars in suburban Detroit that was inspired by the Islamic State, federal authorities have said. Also on Wednesday evening, acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba in New Jersey said in a video posted to social media that her office had charged two more people "connected" to the alleged plot. Court documents detailing the charges were not immediately available. Nasser, his brother Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud are charged with conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a designated terrorist organization and receiving and transferring guns and ammunition for terrorism, according to court documents. Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud were arrested Friday. Investigators say two minors, identified only as Person 1 and Person 2 in court documents, were also involved in the discussions. "We will not stop. We will follow the tentacles where they lead. We will continue to stand guard with the FBI against terrorism," said U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said in a statement. The Washington Examiner [11/6/2025 10:01 AM, David Zimmermann, 1394K] reports that all three suspects, including Nasser, were charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and having firearms that would be used to commit an act of terrorism on behalf of ISIS. The amended criminal complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Michigan, alleges the Islamic terrorist sympathizers would have carried out an attack in the United States using AR-style rifles and other weapons. "We will not stop. We will follow the tentacles where they lead. We will continue to stand guard with the FBI against terrorism," U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said in a statement on Wednesday. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino confirmed the arrest of the third suspect on social media.

NBC News [11/6/2025 5:31 PM, Tom Winter, Jonathan Dienst, Andrew Blankstein and Marlene Lenthang, 34509K] reports a 19-year-old man from the Seattle area has been arrested in what authorities say was a foiled Michigan terror plot, the eighth such arrest in connection with a terrorist attack allegedly planned for Halloween weekend. Saed Ali Mirreh, 19, of Kent, Washington, was arrested Wednesday by the FBI. Officials say he was in communication with seven other alleged ISIS supporters who have been arrested in the case. He, along with alleged co-conspirator Tomas-Kaan Jimenez-Guzel, were each charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization — in this case ISIS — and one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to a complaint out of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. So far, five individuals have been arrested in connection with the alleged plot and effort to join ISIS in the Detroit area — Mohmed Ali, 20; Majed Mahmoud, 20; Ayob Nasser, 19; and two juveniles. They are charged with buying weapons and ammunition and scouting gay bars and an amusement park for a possible terrorist attack. Two others, Jimenez-Guzel, 19; and Milo Sedarat, have been arrested in New Jersey. The web of alleged conspirators stretched beyond the continent, according to the complaint, with at least six co-conspirators located primarily in the U.K. and Sweden.

FOX News [11/6/2025 3:03 PM, Michael Ruiz, 40621K] reports a hulking New Jersey 19-year-old accused of plotting to join the remnants of the Islamic State group in the wake of a thwarted terror attack on gay bars in Michigan posed in front of an ISIS flag and another alleged conspirator posed in jihadi fatigues in photos intercepted by federal agents from a group chat where the alleged plotters joked about being monitored by the FBI. Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of Montclair, allegedly volunteered to conduct ISIS-style on-camera beheadings in a video call with suspected co-conspirators and hoped to have a Wikipedia page and documentary dedicated to his misdeeds. He had been interviewed by the FBI in 2024 after allegedly predicting a "newsworthy" terror attack would take place in Boston. Separately, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba identified the sixth suspect as Saed Ali Mirreh, a 19-year-old from Kent, Washington, who is accused of conspiracy to support a designated foreign terrorist organization. Mirreh was already on the FBI’s radar after investigations in 2023 and 2024 for alleged ties to a juvenile terror suspect in Canada and discussing other ISIS attacks, a federal criminal complaint revealed. Jimenez-Guzel is charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison as well as another $250,000 fine if convicted. Sedarat is charged with two counts of transmitting a threat in interstate or foreign commerce, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted. Three additional suspects, including two brothers, were arrested in Dearborn, another Detroit-area community, and court documents have also pointed to two more juvenile suspects. They have been identified as Dearborn residents Majed Mahmoud, 20, Mohmed Ali, 20, and Ali’s 19-year-old brother, Ayob Nasser. The plot remains under investigation, and more arrests are possible.

Bloomberg [11/6/2025 2:44 PM, Natalia Drozdiak, 18207K] reports that a top CIA official warned that an extended government shutdown could pose serious national security risks to the US, and that the foreign intelligence agency was already struggling to fund some critical operations. The longer the shutdown continues, “the more strains we’ll see on national security,” Michael Ellis, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said Thursday during a panel discussion at the National Lawyers Convention in Washington. Most employees at the CIA are deemed essential workers and therefore currently working without pay, said Ellis, who was appointed by President Donald Trump earlier this year. “While our officers have been committed to mission, they’ve been getting the job done, collecting intelligence needed to keep Americans safe,” Ellis said in the agency’s first public comments about the shutdown. “The longer they go without pay, the longer we aren’t able to expend funds for critical mission needs, the greater the danger becomes.” On Thursday, prospects faded on Capitol Hill that Democrats and Republicans could reach a deal this week to end the shutdown — now the longest in US history at 37 days — despite warnings of worsening flight disruptions and mounting concerns about food aid for low-income Americans.

Reuters [11/6/2025 5:25 PM, Sarah N. Lynch, 19051K] reports federal prosecutors are preparing grand jury subpoenas to investigate Obama-era intelligence officials who produced an assessment finding Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a bid to help Donald Trump, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The grand jury subpoenas will request a broad swath of records, including paper or digital documents, text messages and emails associated with the preparation of the Intelligence Community’s January 2017 assessment, said the two sources, who were granted anonymity to speak because grand jury matters are secret. Reuters could not determine whether the subpoenas have been issued or to whom they will be directed. The investigation is being led by Jason Reding Quinones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who was sworn into the job in August and vowed to "restore impartial justice" - an apparent nod to President Trump’s repeated complaint that the Justice Department under prior administrations was weaponized against him. Quinones’ office is also in the early stages of reviewing documents from the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith, who prosecuted Trump for retaining classified records in his Florida estate and trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, the sources added. Both cases against Trump were dismissed after he won reelection in November 2024. Trump has long complained about the Justice Department’s investigations into his 2016 campaign, which he often refers to as the "Russia hoax," and Smith’s two subsequent investigations into him after he departed the White House in January 2021. He has called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate and prosecute his enemies. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, over the summer, made a criminal referral related to the January 2017 intelligence assessment after she declassified documents that she said, without evidence, showed a "treasonous conspiracy" in 2016 by top Obama administration officials to undermine Trump. In response to the referral, the Justice Department said it was forming a strike force to review her evidence.

Washington Times [11/6/2025 3:52 PM, Staff, 852K] reports President Trump celebrated the anniversary of his election to a second, nonconsecutive term on Wednesday. He marked the occasion at the America Business Forum in Miami by recounting signs that the economy is perking up, with higher wages and softening prices. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court weighed the prospect of taking away the president’s prized tool for leveling the international economic playing field: tariffs. Justices must answer a pair of not-so-straightforward questions. Does the president have the legal right to impose tariffs on his own initiative, and are tariffs a tax that can be authorized only by Congress? The libertarian group suing on behalf of a few affected businesses is perhaps its own worst enemy. In seeking to recover the costs these firms incurred, a loss for the administration would create a multibillion-dollar rush for refunds involving money spent long ago. “If you win, tell me how the reimbursement process would work,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked. “It seems to me like this could be a mess.” Rather than solve that problem, counsel punted, saying this lawsuit isn’t a class action, so only the handful of businesses that sued are entitled to recompense. That may be true, but the moment one company gets its share, the rest will flood the courts demanding theirs. It’s not even clear which court, if any, would have jurisdiction. One lower-court ruling held that the Court of International Trade is the proper venue. Another insisted that the federal district courts must hear these complaints. Solicitor General D. John Sauer suggests it’s none of the above. The president’s inherent authority over foreign affairs, combined with a delegated power to address international emergencies, allows him to regulate commerce with other countries, he argued. “I want to make a very important distinction here. We don’t contend that what’s being exercised here is the power to tax. … These are regulatory tariffs. They are not revenue-raising tariffs,” Mr. Sauer explained. Mr. Trump has leveraged this mechanism to deliver impressive peace agreements and improved treatment for U.S. exporters, confirming his focus is on foreign affairs. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wondered why the opposition concedes that the president has the legitimate power to stop trade with a nation entirely but simultaneously argues that he wouldn’t be able to pare it back slightly with a 1% tariff. “That leaves, in the government’s words, in its brief, an odd doughnut hole in the statute,” Mr. Kavanaugh observed.

Breitbart [11/6/2025 10:45 PM, Staff, 2416K] reports the United States on Thursday lifted a Biden-era arms embargo on Cambodia following several high-profile meetings between officials of both countries. The notice filed by the State Department with the Federal Register that explains the Trump administration was removing Cambodia from the International Traffic in Arms Regulations list due to Phnom Penh’s "diligent pursuit of peace and security, including through renewed engagement with the United States on defense cooperation and combating transnational crime.” The embargo was placed on Cambodia in late 2021 by the Biden administration to address human rights abuses, corruption by Cambodian government actors, including in the military, and the growing influence of China in the country. It was unclear if any of those issues had been addressed. "The Trump administration has completely upended U.S. policy toward Cambodia with no regard for U.S. national security or our values," Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said in a statement criticizing the move to lift the embargo. "There has been broad bipartisan concern about the Cambodian government’s human rights abuses and its deepening ties to Beijing.” The embargo was lifted on the heels of Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn meeting with Michael George DeSombre, U.S. assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, in Cambodia on Tuesday. On Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth met with Tea Seiha, another Cambodian deputy prime minister, in Malaysia, where the two agreed to restart "our premier bilateral military exercise," the Pentagon chief said in a statement. Great meeting with Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Tea Seiha, in Kuala Lumpur. We agreed to restart our premier bilateral military exercise with Cambodia. The KL Accords demonstrate President Trump’s commitment to peace through strength. pic.twitter.com/bqpQRhhC03— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 31, 2025. President Donald Trump has received much praise from Cambodia for his involvement in securing late July’s cease-fire and then last month’s peace declaration between Thailand and Cambodia, which had been involved in renewed armed conflict in their long-running border dispute. During Tuesday’s meeting between Prak and DeSombre, the Cambodian official reiterated Phnom Penh’s "deep gratitude" to Trump "for his crucial role in facilitating" the agreements, according to a Cambodian Foreign Ministry statement on the talks. Meeks framed the lifting of the embargo on Thursday as the Trump administration turning a blind eye to Cambodia’s "rampant corruption and repression … because the Cambodian government placated Trump in his campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize.” "That’s not how American foreign policy or our arms sales process is meant to work," Meeks said. Cambodia in August nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize "in recognition of his historic contributions in advancing world peace," the letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee stated.

FOX News [11/6/2025 11:00 AM, Morgan Phillips Fox, 40621K] reports Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday his country will draw up plans to conduct nuclear tests after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would do the same last week. The Kremlin leader said he has asked relevant departments to "submit coordinated proposals regarding the possible commencement of work to prepare for nuclear weapons testing.” "Russia has always strictly adhered and continues to adhere to its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), and we have no plans to deviate from these commitments," Putin said at a meeting of the Russian national security council. The treaty was signed but never ratified by the U.S. If the U.S. or other signatories of the treaty begin nuclear testing, "Russia would also have to take appropriate and proportionate responsive measures," Putin added. In the past week, Trump has both announced the U.S. will reignite nuclear testing and suggested he is working on a deal to denuclearize with Russia and China. "We redid our nuclear — we’re the number one nuclear power, which I hate to admit, because it’s so horrible," Trump said during a speech at the American Business Forum in Miami. "Russia’s second. China’s a distant third, but they’ll catch us within four or five years," he added. "We’re maybe working on a plan to denuclearize, the three of us. We’ll see if that works.”

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