• Top News
  • ABC News/Breitbart: Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem visits ICE facility at center of Portland protests
  • Reuters: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits Portland ICE facility
  • Washington Examiner: Noem warns Portland mayor she’ll flood city with feds if security demands go unmet
  • FOX News: Noem prays with ICE officers during Portland visit as Oregon governor orders troops home
  • Daily Caller/Blaze: Illegal Gangbanger Placed Bounty On Top Border Official, Feds Say
  • AP: National Guard members from Texas are in Illinois in Trump’s latest move to send troops to cities
  • Daily Wire: Judge Allows Trump To Deploy Troops To Chicago — For Now
  • Wall Street Journal: Local Politicians Are Defiant as National Guard Gathers Outside Chicago
  • Washington Examiner: DHS rejects Pritzker’s ‘harmful lies’ about ICE operations in Chicago
  • Blaze: 8 things Chicago has done to put illegal immigrants first
  • Breitbart: Pritzker: Trump’s Goal Is Use Military to Confiscate Ballot Boxes to Steal 2026 Elections
  • FOX News: DHS takes on Pritzker’s ‘Smorgasbord of Lies,’ releases list debunking his claims
  • Breitbart: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Calls for Arrests of ICE Officers
  • Chicago Tribune: Waukegan mayor intercedes in Border Patrol arrest: ‘I want to … make sure our residents are safe’
  • FOX News: Trump says he’d consider invoking Insurrection Act as courts, governors seek to block his crime crackdown
  • Reuters: Trump again threatens Insurrection Act as troops arrive to Chicago
  • CNN: ‘There is no sanctuary here’: Meet the Border Patrol chief in charge of Trump’s Chicago crackdown
  • Federalist: Chicago Bans ICE From Public Areas After Withholding Police Backup From Battered ICE Agents
  • Chicago Tribune: Oak Park elected officials stand against ICE after township trustee Juan Munoz detained in Broadview
  • The Hill: Chicago news organizations sue ICE over alleged excessive force at protests
  • The Hill: Chicago suburb sues over fence around ICE facility
  • Chicago Tribune: Judge to rule this week whether ICE security fence in Broadview must come down
  • Politico: Chicago journalists, protesters sue Trump administration, alleging ‘extreme brutality’
  • Blaze: Pam Bondi tears into Democratic senator: ‘I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump’
  • The Hill: Bondi declines to comment on conversations with Trump about National Guard deployments
  • CNN: Bondi gets upset about senator’s merger question
  • The Hill: Bondi, Democratic senator get into heated shouting match, forcing chairman to intervene
  • Politico: Troop deployments deepen chasm between Trump and Dem governors
  • AP: Bipartisan US governors’ group faces division over Trump’s deployment of troops to states
  • FOX News: Feds charge ‘keyboard warriors’ who threatened ICE deportation officer and wife on Instagram
  • Washington Examiner: White House opposes joint resolution to block attacks on drug cartels without congressional approval
  • New York Post: Kristi Noem goes scorched earth on country music star Zach Bryan over anti-ICE song — as singer responds to backlash
  • Axios: Why MAGA is outraged at Zach Bryan over ICE lyric
  • Bloomberg: Trump Halts Venezuela Talks as US Considers Cartel Targets on Land
  • Reuters: How many alleged drug boats has the US attacked? It depends on who you ask
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] We need our leaders to stay cool as ICE-related chaos gets hot
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Federal officials are using the Broadview ICE facility as a photo-op — with the help of state police
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • New York Post: Democrats have only themselves to blame for Trump’s National Guard patrols
  • Blaze: [Mexico] Cartels are now ‘unlawful combatants.’ About time.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Washington Post: ICE closes detention oversight group in shutdown despite surge in detainees
  • New York Post: ICE on track to deport 600K migrants in 2025, 2 million have left: ‘Just the beginning’
  • Federalist: Exclusive: Pedophiles, Abusers Among Aliens Arrested By ICE While Dems Withhold Agents’ Paychecks
  • Axios: [PA] Moshannon Valley ICE center holds hundreds in solitary confinement
  • Breitbart: Jon Stewart: ICE Is a ‘Well-Funded Paramilitary Group’ Attacking Grandmothers and ‘Zip-Tying Children’
  • Axios: [GA] Lawyers say ICE detainees held for days in poor conditions at Atlanta office
  • Univision: [FL] Two immigrants arrested in Florida under a law that was suspended by federal court
  • Breitbart: [IL] Democrats Want ICE Investigated After Agents Arrest Illegal Aliens in Chicago
  • Univision: [TX] Trash and dirty bathrooms: poor conditions reported at immigration detention center in Texas
  • Breitbart: [OK] ICE Arrests 91 Illegal Migrant Semi-Truck Drivers in Licensing Crackdown
  • Blaze: [OR] Inside the Portland ICE facility under siege by Antifa extremists
  • New York Post: [CA] Undocumented migrant deported multiple times charged with six murders after drunken crash
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Federal agents held, shackled a seriously injured man to hospital bed for 37 days without charging him
  • Telemundo20: [CA] Chinese immigrant dies in ICE custody in Calexico
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Immigration sought to deport 88-year-old. But he already died
  • Daily Caller: [CA] Whoopi Goldberg Suggests Disgusting Way To React To ICE At Super Bowl
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Roll Call: Lawsuit challenging Trump H-1B visa fee details potential harms
  • Blaze: The visa that ate America’s tech jobs
  • Reuters: Nvidia CEO Huang says chipmaker will continue to sponsor H-1B visas, Business Insider reports
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Breitbart: Trump’s DHS Releases Zero Migrants into U.S. for Fifth Consecutive Month
  • New York Post: Illegal border crossings drop to lowest level since 1970: ‘Most secure border in American history’
  • FOX News: Chief patrol agent with bounty on his head explains why gang members feel ‘comfortable’ to place them
  • Arab Times: [DC] Kuwait, US sign border security and customs cooperation agreement
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Border Patrol arrestee gets hero’s welcome at Waukegan meeting: ‘Stand up for what you believe in’
  • ABC News: [TX] Trial date set for former Uvalde officer
• Transportation Security Administration
  • Reuters/Washington Post: US air traffic control staffing hit for second day, delaying flights
  • NewsMax: Staffing Woes Delay More Flights as Shutdown Hits Day 7
  • Washington Examiner: Airline industry showing signs of distress as government shutdown grinds on
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • CBS Miami: Tropical Storm Jerry forms over the central Atlantic, becoming the 10th named storm this hurricane season
  • CBS San Francisco: Hurricane Priscilla strengthens into Category 2 storm off Mexico’s west coast. Maps show forecast path.
  • Axios: [UT] Salt Lake City declares emergency after record rain floods homes
  • Reuters: [CA] US sues Southern California Edison over Saddleridge wildfire
• Coast Guard
  • AP: Students for Fair Admissions Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Coast Guard’s Race-Based Commissioning Program
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • New York Times: Chinese Hackers Said to Target U.S. Law Firms
  • CyberScoop: Microsoft pins GoAnywhere zero-day attacks to ransomware affiliate Storm-1175
  • CNN: [DC] US law firm with major political clients hacked in spying spree linked to China
  • Washington Examiner: [China] Chinese corporations fight efforts to protect American GPS infrastructure from cyberattacks
• Terrorism Investigations
  • NPR: When cartels start to diversify
  • The Hill: [DC] Man arrested at outside Mass marking start of Supreme Court term had 200 explosive devices: Police
  • Daily Caller: [TX] Texas AG Declares Top-Secret War On ‘Leftist Terror Cells’… By Announcing It To Everyone
• National Security News
  • AP: [Argentina] Argentina to extradite to US a suspected drug trafficker with ties to President Milei’s ally
  • Washington Post: [Israel] Trump administration intervenes to secure woman’s rescue from Gaza
  • The Hill: [Syria] US military kills senior al Qaeda-affiliated attack planner
  • AP: [Russia] Russia hosts Taliban delegation and warns against foreign military presence in Afghanistan
  • Reuters: [China] OpenAI bans suspected China-linked accounts for seeking surveillance proposals

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