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The New York Times [9/25/2025 3:20 AM, J. David Goodman, Hamed Aleaziz and Michael Levenson, 330K] reports a sniper perched on a nearby rooftop fired at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas on Wednesday morning, killing one detainee and critically injuring two others, the Department of Homeland Security said. It was the latest act of violence to raise fears that politically motivated attacks are increasing in the United States. The authorities said that the gunman killed himself, and that no law enforcement officers were injured in the attack. R. Joseph Rothrock, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s Dallas field office, said that rounds found near the shooter were marked with messages that were “anti-ICE in nature.” Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, posted a photo on social media showing a rifle ammunition clip, with one bullet inscribed with the words “ANTI-ICE.” New York Times has not independently verified details about the writing on the ammunition. Mr. Rothrock said that F.B.I. was investigating the shooting as “an act of targeted violence.” Three people familiar with the investigation identified the shooter as Joshua Jahn. Mr. Jahn was 29, one of the people said. The Department of Homeland Security did not identify any of the victims as of Wednesday afternoon. It initially said two people had been killed before revising that figure to one. One of the detainees in critical condition was a Mexican national, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said. Homeland Security, which ICE is a part of, said in a statement that the gunman fired “indiscriminately” at the ICE office, including at a van in a sally port where the detainees were shot. Officials noted that it was the third shooting at a federal immigration facility in Texas in recent months.” The Washington Post [9/24/2025 8:45 PM, Arelis R. Hernández, et al., 29079K] reports FBI Director Kash Patel, who shared an image of the shell casing on social media, described it as evidence the shooter had acted with an “ideological motive.” Trump and others appeared to cast law enforcement as the victims of the Dallas attack, even though no officers were injured. He blamed Democratic rhetoric and vowed to crack down on “deranged radical leftists.” “This violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to ‘Nazis,’” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Jahn opened fire on the facility just north of downtown Dallas around 6:40 a.m. from the rooftop of an adjacent building, according to Dallas Police. The gunman fired “indiscriminately” at the building, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said, including at a van carrying an unknown number of detainees that was parked in the building’s sally port, an entrance where detainees were unloaded and processed. The victims were hit while inside the van, a DHS spokesperson said. Officials have not yet identified those wounded and killed in the incident. But one of the wounded detainees was a Mexican national, according to the Mexican consulate in Dallas, which said in a statement that it was offering support and legal advice to the victim’s family. In a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said the attack “was motivated by hatred for ICE. … For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed.” In a statement late Wednesday, DHS said Noem had ordered increased security at ICE facilities around the country. NewsMax [9/24/2025 4:10 PM, Eric Mack, 4779K] reports that the attack is the latest public, targeted killing in the U.S. and comes two weeks after conservative leader Charlie Kirk was killed by a shooter on a roof. Officers responded to a call to assist an officer on North Stemmons Freeway around 6:40 a.m. Wednesday and determined that someone opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building, Dallas police spokesperson Officer Jonathen E. Maner said in an email. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a broadcast interview that Wednesday’s shooting happened "just a month ago to the day that there was a viable bomb threat" in Dallas. "So this location, it looks like it’s been targeted, and we don’t know how long this individual has been planning this act," she said. "It looks like he could have been watching to look at the processing and see what happens on a day-to-day basis at this Dallas field office. But [these are] all answers that Homeland Security investigation is going to get down to the bottom of.” The New York Times [9/24/2025 7:43 PM, Madeleine Ngo and Luis Ferré-Sadurní, 143795K] reports Wednesday’s shooting was the second this year at an ICE facility in Texas. In July, a police officer was shot outside an ICE detention center less than 40 miles from the Dallas facility. Last month, federal officials said a suspect had been arrested after making a bomb threat against the same facility in Dallas. In recent months, demonstrations outside ICE facilities in Los Angeles, Illinois and New York led to confrontations with law enforcement officers and arrests. This month, an ICE officer fatally shot a man in the Chicago area whom immigration agents had tried to pull over. The Department of Homeland Security said that the man was resisting arrest during the stop and that he dragged the officer as he fled in his vehicle. Department officials have blamed such episodes on “hateful rhetoric,” calling in a statement last week for the “media, leftist groups and sanctuary politicians” to end the “demonization” of immigration enforcement officers. “We have to turn down the temperature before someone else is killed,” Tricia McLaughlin, the department’s assistant secretary for public affairs, said in the statement. “This violence must end.” The AP [9/25/2025 2:14 AM, Jamie Stengle and Jack Brook, 27036K] reports The American that tImmigration Lawyers Association called the shootings "a stark reminder that behind every immigration case number is a human being deserving of dignity, safety, and respect.” "Whether they are individuals navigating the immigration process, public servants carrying out their duties, or professionals working within the system, all deserve to be free from violence and fear," the group said in a statement. Authorities have given few details about the shooting and did not publicly release the names of the victims or the gunman. The FBI said it was investigating the shooting as "an act of targeted violence.” The gunman used a bolt-action rifle, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Edwin Cardona, an immigrant from Venezuela, said he was entering the ICE building with his son for an appointment around 6:20 a.m. when he heard gunshots. An agent took people who were inside to a more secure area and said there was an active shooter. "I was afraid for my family, because my family was outside. I felt terrible, because I thought something could happen to them," Cardona said, adding that they were later reunited.

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Blaze [9/24/2025 3:45 PM, Carlos Garcia, 1559K] reports the alleged gunman who killed himself after a lethal attack at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Texas has been identified by sources close to the investigation. The suspect was identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, according to a Fox News report. The shooting targeted an unmarked transport van at the facility in Dallas and killed two immigration detainees while injuring one other. Police said a man was found dead on the rooftop of a nearby business with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel posted on social media a photograph of rifle-caliber ammunition on a clip with the message "anti-ICE" etched on it. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also condemned the attack and placed the blame on anti-ICE rhetoric from the left, including some politicians.CNN [9/25/2025 12:30 AM, Amanda Musa, Priscilla Alvarez, Leigh Waldman, 662K] reports that, on any given day, people detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement are processed at the agency’s field office in Dallas – a rectangular, brick building tucked between a busy highway, several law offices and a luxury apartment complex. On Wednesday morning, the unassuming building became the center of national attention when a "sniper" fired "indiscriminately" at the ICE facility from the roof of another building, leaving one detainee dead and two others seriously injured, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Gunshots slicing through the air from above sent visitors running for cover or peering out of their cars to investigate – some of them worried for family members inside the facility. Investigators are now examining writings left on a bullet casing and working to determine a motive behind the shooting, which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told CNN appears to have been carried out by "someone who is very much against our ICE officers and the work that they were doing." It was at least the fourth instance of violence or a threat at an ICE or Customs and Border Protection facility in Texas this year. Here’s what we know about the suspect, the victims and the investigation: The shooter believed to be responsible for the incident was identified as Joshua Jahn, according to three sources familiar with the case. He was 29, one source briefed on the investigation told CNN. Neither local nor federal officials have formally identified the gunman. Authorities have said the shooter was found dead at the scene, and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Noem. Jahn had lived in a Dallas suburb and was charged a decade ago with delivering marijuana, according to court records. In 2016, when he was 19, Jahn was charged with delivering more than one-fourth of an ounce of marijuana, according to Collin County court records. He pleaded guilty and the case against him was deferred, with Jahn being placed on probation. The charge is classified in Texas law as a "state jail felony," the least severe type of felony in the state. Jahn voted in the Democratic primary in March 2020 and hasn’t voted since then, according to records provided to CNN by the Collin County Elections Department. Voters in Texas don’t declare a political party when registering to vote, but choose a party’s ballot when voting in primaries. The three people shot while detained at the Dallas field office were in the country illegally, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan told Fox News. They had been arrested and were awaiting transfer to a longer-term facility, Sheahan added. DHS says the three detainees were shot while in a van in the sally port, a fortified exit commonly found in prisons and on military bases. Authorities have not named the victims. One of the injured detainees is a Mexican national, according to a statement from Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ministry said the head of its North American Unit expressed concern for the wounded Mexican national and requested clarification of the shooting’s events and unrestricted access to the person, the statement reads. While DHS called the shooting "an attack on ICE law enforcement," none of the people shot were members of law enforcement, FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Joe Rothrock noted during a news conference Wednesday.

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Breitbart [9/24/2025 10:00 AM, AWR Hawkins, 2608K] reports all agents are accounted for and none of them injured following an apparent sniper attack on a Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday morning, CNN reported. Breitbart News reported the alleged shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Dallas PD posted to X: CNN quoted ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan telling FOX News, "We’ve seen a lot of violence at ICE facilities, and this is not the first time that we’ve seen an attack, even this year at an ICE facility." The Dallas ICE facility was targeted in another incident one month ago. On August 25, 2025, Bratton Dean Wilkinson arrived at the Dallas ICE facility and "claimed to have a bomb in his backpack," according to the Department of Homeland Security. Another Texas ICE facility, the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, was attacked by multiple assailants on July 4, 2025. There were 11 suspects in the attack and the Department of Homeland Security noted that FBI had arrested ten of them by July 8, 2025.

CBS News [9/24/2025 9:20 PM, Camilo Montoya-Galvez, 45245K] reports the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the shooting at a Dallas processing facility that left one detainee dead on Wednesday "could have been worse," telling CBS News the sniper’s shots were "indiscriminate" and other people could have been hit during the attack. Todd Lyons, ICE’s acting director, said the shooter, who officials say died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, "fired indiscriminately" into the ICE field office in Dallas and vehicles stationed there. He said a group of detainees was inside one vehicle at the time of the shooting, after being recently arrested by ICE. Lyons said three detainees in ICE custody were shot, one fatally. He noted two detainees remained in critical condition as of Wednesday afternoon. ICE has said no agency employees were harmed during the attack. But Lyons said the shooting could have been deadlier, citing the shooter’s "high-powered rifle" and the area he targeted. Officials say the shooter fired from a nearby rooftop. "What’s even scarier is the location where the field office is. There’s businesses around there, busy I-35," Lyons told CBS News during an interview in New York, noting the shooting occurred when people were going to work and school in the early morning. "He could have, in his indiscriminate fire, hit people traveling to work, civilians on the ground," he said, calling it "a very scary situation." "But unfortunately, someone did lose their life, and it was a definite attack on an ICE facility," he added. Lyons said he believes the shooter deliberately targeted federal law enforcement officials, citing bullet casings that officials said were found with anti-ICE messaging on them. "When you have anti-ICE rhetoric written on the bullets, you know who they’re targeting," he said. Lyons identified the deceased shooter as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, saying preliminary information indicates he acted alone. Asked if ICE plans to implement new security measures in light of Wednesday’s shooting, Lyons said the agency had already been operating under a "higher threat posture" but would "reevaluate how we’re doing operations." He said operations by ICE, which President Trump has charged with overseeing the largest deportation operation in American history, would not be slowed by the shooting. "We won’t be stopped by it," Lyons said. "We’re gonna ensure that we’re out there taking these public safety threats off the street, but we will have to go ahead and ensure that the men and women of ICE have all the equipment they need, all the protection they need and all the support they need." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CNN [9/24/2025 8:41 AM, Chris Boyette, 662K] reports Wednesday’s fatal shooting at a Dallas ICE field office was at least the fourth instance of violence or a threat at an ICE or Customs and Border Protection facility in Texas this year. One of those instances involved an August bomb threat at the same Dallas facility where Wednesday’s shooting happened, authorities have said. One ICE detainee was killed in Wednesday’s shooting and two others were hospitalized in critical condition, the Department of Homeland Security said in an afternoon news release. Earlier, DHS said two ICE detainees were dead while another was seriously injured; the revision by the department was provided without additional explanation. The shooter believed to be responsible was identified as Joshua Jahn, according to three sources familiar with the case. Jahn was 29, one source briefed on the investigation told CNN. Authorities have said the shooter was found dead at the scene. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on X. No motive was immediately announced in Wednesday’s attack. The FBI is investigating it "as an act of targeted violence," and rounds found near the suspect contained messages that "are anti-ICE in nature," according to Joe Rothrock, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas field office. None of the people shot were members of law enforcement, he said. No links between any of this year’s attacks or threats on Texas ICE or CBP facilities are known. The administration of President Donald Trump pointed to the July 4 and July 7 attacks as being part of a broader trend of immigration enforcement personnel under siege and growing anger that officials say has been stoked by critics of Trump’s efforts to deport migrants who authorities allege are in the country illegally. The DHS in July warned of dramatic spikes in assaults on its officers, saying incidents had risen more than 800% when compared to the previous year. That figure is now more than 1,000%, ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons told CNN Wednesday.

Mediate [9/24/2025 11:00 AM, Zachary Leeman] reports the ICE facility in Dallas, Texas that was the site of a deadly shooting on Wednesday morning faced a bomb threat just last month. Dallas police responded at around 6:40 a.m. on Wednesday to reports of a shooting at an ICE facility located off of I-35E near Empire Central. Reports suggest that three detainees were shot by a shooter with a rifle posted on a nearby building. The shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and one of three detainees shot was reportedly killed. No officers were injured in the shooting. Law enforcement has only confirmed that those who were shot were not officers. A man was arrested just last month over a bomb threat against the same ICE facility. According to the Department of Homeland Security, a man identified as Bratton Dean Wilkinson claimed to have a bomb in a backpack and a detonator on his wrist. “On Monday evening, law enforcement arrested a suspect who made bomb threats to a Dallas ICE facility. This incident comes just two weeks after a threatening letter with a white powdery substance was sent to an ICE office in New York City. Less than a week ago, a violent rioter was charged with assault in San Francisco after he threatened to stab an ICE officer and harm his family,” a DHS senior official said in a statement about the incident at the time. The suspect was charged with making terrorist threats. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin highlighted the recent “viable” bomb threat on Fox News. “We know there has been really out of control rhetoric and threats against them and please join us in praying,” she said. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX Business [9/24/2025 3:50 PM, Staff, 10702K] reports DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin critiques Democratic messaging for the increase in violent attacks against law enforcement on ‘The Bottom Line.’ [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CBS News [9/24/2025 6:17 PM, Staff, 45245K] Video: HERE reports a gunman opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, killing at least one and critically injuring two others. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez spoke with acting ICE Director Todd Lyons about the attack.

NewsMax [9/24/2025 3:33 PM, Solange Reyner, 4779K] reports Todd Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said on Wednesday that assaults on agents are up over 1,000%. His comments follow an incident earlier in the day in which a man with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof into an ICE location in Dallas, killing two detainees and wounding a third before taking his own life. In a news conference on Newsmax, the FBI said ammunition found at the scene contained "messages that are anti-ICE" near the suspected attacker. FBI Director Kash Patel released a photo on social media that shows a bullet containing the words "ANTI-ICE" written in what appears to be marker.

NBC News [9/24/2025 8:47 PM, Tom Llamas, Marlene Lenthang and Ignacio Torres, 43603K] reports Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons called the shooting Wednesday morning at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, which killed one detainee and critically wounded two, his "worst nightmare.” For Lyons, who previously worked in a Dallas ICE office, the shooting "really hit home.” "Seeing the photos today, some of the bullets were in an office that I used to have there," he said on "Top Story with Tom Llamas." "It’s just a horrible feeling. People always ask me what’s the thing that keeps me up at night. It’s the safety of the men and women of ICE.” Three detainees were shot when gunfire rang out around 6:40 a.m. Wednesday. One victim died at the scene, and the two others were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds, Dallas police said. No ICE officers were hurt. "My heart goes out that detainee’s family. We’re charged with their protection, their custody. Nothing like that should happen," Lyons said. The shooter, who multiple senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation identified as Joshua Jahn, had fired from a nearby roof or an elevated position down into the field office’s sally port, ICE said. The shooter was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, ICE said. A bullet found near the shooter bore messages that were "anti-ICE" in nature, the Dallas office of the FBI said, calling the attack an act of "targeted violence.” Lyons said he learned the shooter fired bullets "indiscriminately," striking windows and lobby doors, and that the shooter fired upon the sally port, where detainees are brought in. The victims were shot while they were in vehicles, he said. "The detainees weren’t outside a vehicle. The shooter was just shooting at random vehicles inside. They were still hit inside the vehicle," Lyons said. "There were some brave men and women on the ground that went into those vans, were pulling those detainees out while they’re under fire.” He said the shooting was particularly alarming because it happened in the morning commute hours, near an interstate, apartments and businesses, meaning more people could have been hurt. "This was a targeted attack on ICE, but this really could’ve hurt anyone," Lyons said. Lyons said there has been an increase in attacks "on ICE officers and agents nationwide.” "It’s bad enough the men and women of ICE have to go out there and put themselves in harm’s way, doing their law enforcement mission, but never thinking that in our own facility, our own location, we take sniper fire in a major city," he said. His message to ICE agents is: "I totally have their back.” "My No. 1 mission is making sure they go home to their families every night," he said.

News Max [9/24/2025 1:49 PM, Jim Mishler, 4779K] reports that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted about the Wednesday Dallas shooting incident at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) site where a shooter opened fire with a rifle, killing at least two people before reportedly killing himself. Noem posted, "We’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE," adding it was only a matter of time "before someone was killed." In a news conference, the FBI said ammunition found at the scene contained "messages that are anti-ICE in nature" near the suspected gunman. Noem’s full post reads as follows: "For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed. These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences." "Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters," she added. "They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night." "The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop. We are praying for the victims and their families," Noem concluded.

Washington Examiner [9/24/2025 2:13 PM, David Zimmermann, 1563K] reports that Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Wednesday’s shooting that targeted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas, is a "wake-up call" on anti-ICE rhetoric. "For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed," she posted on X hours after the incident. The Department of Homeland Security says the now-identified gunman shot three detainees, two of whom were killed, from a rooftop near the ICE field office in Dallas. The third victim is in critical condition. The shooter, identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Jahn had anti-ICE messages engraved on the bullet casings he used in the shooting, according to officials. "What I can also share with you is that early evidence that we’ve seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter indicate messages that are anti-ICE in nature," FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Joseph Rothrock said during a press conference Wednesday morning. "I can confirm at this time that the FBI is investigating this incident as an act of targeted violence." Noem blamed the shooting on left-wing rhetoric. "These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences," she said. "Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night."

CNN [9/25/2025 1:59 AM, Austin Mabeus, 662K] reports CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about what intel President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance received to blame the Dallas ICE facility shooting on the "radical left Democrats." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

New York Times [9/24/2025 8:35 PM, Jazmine Ulloa, 143795K] reports that, after an immigrant detainee was killed on Wednesday by a sniper at a federal facility in Dallas, the Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, blamed the shooting on rhetoric against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers carrying out the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. “For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed,” she said in a social media post. “These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences.” On the other side of a tense national immigration debate, some Democratic members of Congress in Texas and leaders with several of the top national immigrant and civil rights organizations did not disagree: the harmful rhetoric needs to stop — against law enforcement officers, and against immigrants. The F.B.I. said the gunman in Dallas died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and left behind ammunition that bore the phrase “ANTI-ICE” in blue writing. But New York Times has not independently verified federal officials’ assertion that the shooter was targeting ICE. In some social media feeds and activist circles, agents have been called “Nazis” and “fascists” while elsewhere, prominent critics have used pointed, if less inflammatory language. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California this week said that masked agents grabbing immigrants off the streets were “authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.” Opponents of the administration’s crackdown have said that the belligerent, incendiary tone had been set at the top by President Trump, who has referred to undocumented immigrants as “monsters” and pledged to wage war on American cities that did not bend to his administration’s hard-line immigration agenda. “My concern is that this anti-immigrant rhetoric has led us to this point,” said Rochelle Garza, president of the Texas Civil Rights Project, an advocacy organization. Along with the man killed, two other immigrant detainees were wounded in the shooting. No law enforcement officers were hit by the gunfire. Battles over immigrant rights have been escalating on the streets and in the courts for months. Trump administration officials have sought to characterize many actions of immigrant rights lawyers and activists — including protests and know-your-rights presentations — as enabling illegal immigration and threatening to national security.

Axios [9/24/2025 1:57 PM, Avery Lotz and Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, 14595K] report that the FBI is investigating Wednesday morning’s shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as "targeted violence" potentially driven by ideology based on early evidence. The big picture: The shooting killed one immigration detainee and critically injured two others, according to the Department of Homeland Security. However, federal officials suggested the sniper’s fire was meant to target ICE. Officials said no members of law enforcement were hurt. Driving the news: FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that while the investigation is ongoing, the shooting appeared to be ideologically motivated. He shared a photo of what he said were "unspent shell casings," one of which had "ANTI ICE" scrawled on it. He said, the "FBI and our partners will lead the these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice." Homeland Security said a sniper opened fire from a nearby rooftop and "fired indiscriminately" at the building, including at an ICE van where the victims were shot. The suspected shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed in a statement. Between the lines: In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, top Trump administration officials and MAGA-world personalities pinned the shooting on anti-law enforcement rhetoric, with some more directly blaming Democrats, despite a motive having not yet been named. NewsNation [9/24/2025 2:23 PM, Anna Kutz and Jeff Arnold, 6811K] Video: HERE reports Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the shooting came as ICE personnel face a “1000% increase” in assaults. The department has not provided hard data to back that number. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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CBS News [9/24/2025 8:23 PM, Nathalie Marie Palacios and Jack Fink, 45245K] Video: HERE reports Texas Gov. Greg Abbott reacted to the fatal shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas on Wednesday morning, "it’s horrific." One detainee was killed and two others are in critical condition following the shooting, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Acting ICE director Todd Lyons identified the shooter as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. CBS News Texas spoke to Abbott following a previously scheduled event for the Second Annual TxEDC Investor Summit Fireside Chat in Westlake. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also denounced the shooting during a news conference in Dallas on Wednesday, hours after the shooting. "This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP," he said. "This must stop. Violence is wrong; politically-motivated violence is wrong. Violence has no place. It is wrong and we should come together. If we want to have a debate on immigration policies, we can do so in the halls of Congress without demonizing each other." In a statement, U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Farmers Branch, said, "Elected leaders and government officials must rely on verified facts from law enforcement, not speculation that fuels fear or division. My thoughts are with the victims and their families."

Washington Post [9/24/2025 7:07 PM, Amy B Wang and Jonathan Edwards, 29079K] reports President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in public remarks on Wednesday attempted to tie a fatal shooting at a Dallas ICE office to Democrats, casting the violence as a consequence of what they termed leftist rhetoric against law enforcement. Vance, in a pointed critique, also named a political rival, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), as a driver of a culture underpinning recent political violence, which he claimed without evidence is “not a both sides problem.” “It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law enforcement,” Vance said at an event in North Carolina, adding that Newsom and others did not have to agree with the Trump administration’s immigration policies — “but if your political rhetoric, encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.” Newsom, who like Vance is a likely 2028 presidential candidate, quickly fired back. “No thanks, JD. I will not be going ‘straight to hell’ today,” Newsom wrote on X. “Though when I watch you speak I certainly feel like I’m already there.” The governor’s office also stated that Newsom has “consistently condemned violence against law enforcement,” while noting that President Donald Trump granted clemency to those charged or convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, in which a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol seeking to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Authorities said Wednesday that the shooting, which killed a detainee and critically injured two others, appeared to target the ICE facility. In a post to Truth Social, Trump said the shooting “is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to ‘Nazis.’” The remarks from Trump and Vance added to the growing drumbeat of prominent Republicans casting broad blame on the left after recent violent incidents — sometimes before the facts were fully known. GOP leaders accelerated a push against rhetoric they deem harmful this month after the fatal shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, drawing a connection between his killing and a culture on the left that they allege foments violence. “Obviously, in a country of 330 million people, of course both sides have crazy people. But if you look at the political violence in our country over the last couple of months, the last couple of years, it is not a both sides problem. It is primarily on one side of the political line,” Vance said Wednesday.

Breitbart [9/24/2025 6:17 PM, Nick Gilbertson, 2608K] reports Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday the alleged sniper who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas, reportedly killing one and injuring two before he killed himself, was "a violent left-wing extremist.” He also rebuked Democrat leaders for their demonizing rhetoric toward ICE employees, as well as those who simply disagree with Democrats. A passionate Vance spoke about the shooting during a speech near Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday, just hours after the sniper opened fire on the facility, killing one detainees and injuring two others, according to CNN. The FBI recovered shell casings from the scene, one of which had the phrase "ANTI ICE" marked on it, according to a photo released by FBI Director Kash Patel. No law enforcement officers were harmed in the attack, Patel said. "In Dallas, Texas, an ICE facility… was opened fire upon by a violent left-wing extremist, a person who wrote ‘ANTI ICE’ messaging on their bullets," Vance said. "And there’s some evidence that we have that’s not yet public, but we know this person was politically motivated.” "They were politically motivated to go after law enforcement. They were politically motivated to go after people who are enforcing our border. And I think that is the most disgusting thing. The very people who keep us safe ought to be honored, and protected, and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike," he added. Vance said that when leftist politicians levy rhetorical attacks on law enforcement and the "left-wing media lies" about law enforcement operations, it encourages deranged individuals to "commit violence": Vance pointed to an article that NBC News shared on X on Tuesday in a post that was subsequently deleted and corrected. According to a screenshot from Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, accompanying NBC News’s now-deleted post was the caption, "ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl’s family.” However, NBC deleted the post and reshared an updated version of the article in a new tweet. "Video shows ICE with 5-year-old girl while agents attempt to arrest her father.” "Correction: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents in the video. The article has been updated," NBC News added. McLaughlin stated that NBC News neglected to reach out to DHS "before propagating these smears.”

Breitbart [9/24/2025 6:39 PM, Elizabeth Weibel, 2608K] reports President Donald Trump revealed that he will sign an executive order to “dismantle” left-wing domestic terrorism networks after a man shot at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas with “anti-ICE” writings on his shell casings. In a post on Truth Social, Trump explained that he had been “briefed on the deadly shooting at the ICE Field Office” located in Dallas, Texas. Trump highlighted how the men and women working at ICE were “just trying to do their jobs,” and noted that they are “facing an unprecedent increase in threats, violence, and attacks by Deranged Radical Leftists.” “We have already declared ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization, and I will be signing an Executive Order this week to dismantle these Domestic Terrorism Networks,” Trump said. “I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’s LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!” “The Trump Administration is fully committed to backing Law Enforcement, Strong Borders, securing our Homeland, deporting Violent Illegal Criminals, and fully rooting out the Left Wing Domestic Terrorism that is terrorizing our Country,” Trump added. In his post, Trump also cast blame on the Democratic Party for this type of violence and noted that it was the result of “Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished,” and labeling ICE officials as Nazis. “The continuing violence from Radical Left Terrorists, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, must be stopped,” Trump added. Breitbart News’s Bob Price reported that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel had given an update on the shooting at the ICE facility in Dallas and noted that “evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack.” “This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life,” Patel wrote in a social media post. “FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.”

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CBS News [9/24/2025 6:34 PM, Sergio Candido, 45245K] Video: HERE reports national, state and local leaders are condemning the violence and offering prayers after a deadly shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas on Wednesday where at least two people were killed, one critically wounded and the shooter dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, according to authorities. Dallas police said officers responded to an assist officer call at the facility around 6:40 a.m. The suspect fired at the federal government building from an adjacent building, police said. No law enforcement officers or ICE agents were injured. All three victims shot were detainees of the facility, CBS News confirmed. The facility is located along I-35E, just southwest of Dallas Love Field Airport. Vice President JD Vance posted on X: "The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop. I’m praying for everyone hurt in this attack and for their families.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote: "There was a shooting this morning at the Dallas @ICEgov Detention Facility. Details are still emerging but we can confirm there were multiple injuries and fatalities. The shooter is deceased by a self-inflicted gun shot wound. While we don’t know motive yet, we know that our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them. It must stop.” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott posted: "Texas fully supports ICE 100%. Both the Texas Dept. of Public Safety & Texas National Guard work closely with ICE. This assassination will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants. We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Dept. to get to the bottom of the assassin’s motive. We will offer ICE additional support to assist their operations.”

The Hill [9/24/2025 6:37 PM, Emily Brooks, 12414K] reports politicians and commentators rushed to assign a motive in a Wednesday morning shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, inflaming debates about whether left-wing or right-wing ideology is more to blame for political violence. One person was killed and two others were in critical condition after a lone gunman, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot, opened fire on the facility. The gunman was later identified by authorities as Joshua Jahn, 29, of Collin County, Texas. No ICE agents were killed or wounded in the attack, officials said, but one detainee was killed and two others were hurt. The detainee killed was reportedly a citizen of Mexico. Earlier in the day, with scant details known about the shooting, figures in both parties quickly stepped in to comment, underscoring deep political tensions that have only been exacerbated by the assassination earlier this month of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a college campus in Utah. "The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop," Vice President Vance posted on the social platform X soon after news of the shooting broke. "I’m praying for everyone hurt in this attack and for their families.” Democrats tore into Vance, suggesting he was misrepresenting the dynamics at play for the sake of boosting arguments favorable to his political aims. "Leave it to this administration to use a shooting against immigrant detainees to score political points and further provoke violence. We have to get guns off our streets and reject xenophobic and anti-immigrant sentiment that makes all of us less safe," Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) posted in response. The New York Post [9/24/2025 5:25 PM, Nicholas McEntyre, 43962K] reports Trump said the increase in violence stems from the "Radical Left Democrat’s" constrant demonization of law enforcement and calling ICE agents "Nazis." Axios [9/24/2025 6:09 PM, Josephine Walker, 14595K] reports FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X Wednesday that unspent bullet casings found at the scene included one etched with the word ‘anti-ICE.’ "These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off," he wrote. "We are only miles from Prarieland, Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers. It has to end." Neither local nor federal authorities have indicated what the etched message could mean, or how it connects to what motivated the shooter. "While we don’t know motive yet, we know that our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them. It must stop," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a psaidost on X. Vice President JD Vance reposted Noem’s message, adding, "the obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop." The White House singled out Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for recently comparing ICE to "slave patrols" in a post on X Wednesday afternoon. "It’s rhetoric like this that leads to violence — and it MUST STOP," the White House wrote. Crockett’s office did not immediately respond to Axios’ request for comment.

Daily Caller [9/24/2025 12:34 PM, Nicole Silverio, 985K] reports Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called on politicians on Wednesday to immediately stop using rhetoric that demonizes federal immigration authorities following the shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas. A shooter caused "multiple injuries and fatalities" after he opened fire on the facility and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced. Cruz stated during a press conference that the demonization of ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents has "real consequences.” "To every politician demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP, stop. To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxxed and calling on people to go after their families, stop. This has very real consequences," Cruz said. "Look, in America, we disagree, that’s fine. That’s part of the democratic process. But your political opponents are not Nazis. We need to learn to work together without demonizing each other, without attacking each other and I want to say thank you to the brave men and women of law enforcement … of ICE and CBP and everyone who puts their lives on the line to keep us safe. The divisive rhetoric tragically has real consequences." FBI Director Kash Patel released a photograph of the alleged shooter’s bullet casings, which had been engraved with the phrase, "ANTI-ICE.” This incident follows other violent attacks on ICE facilities since President Donald Trump took office. Authorities have charged at least 11 individuals in connection to an ambush on an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, in July, which led to the injury of a police officer who was shot in the neck. An active shooter also shot at Border Patrol agents at a facility in McAllen, Texas, in July.

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Daily Caller [9/24/2025 11:35 PM, Hailey Gomez, 985K] reports Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem called out NBC on Wednesday during Fox News’ "The Ingraham Angle" after NBC falsely claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained a 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure her illegal immigrant father to turn himself in. "What they [NBC] did was absolutely lie to the American public. What happened in that situation with that autistic little girl is that her father was a criminal. He was a criminal who had endangered children in the past, and then he abandoned her in the vehicle and ran off to protect his own freedom and abandoned his daughter behind. So those officers protected that little girl," Noem said. According to NBC, the outlet obtained video from Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra showing ICE agents near a 5-year-old girl. The child’s mother told Telemundo that her husband Edward Hip Mejia called her while driving with the girl, saying he believed he was being followed. When he arrived home, Mejia’s wife said he "managed to run back into the parking lot of my house," leaving the child behind. After initially publishing the headline, NBC updated it to: "Video shows ICE with 5-year-old girl while agents attempt to arrest her father," adding a correction at the bottom stating, "An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents in the video. The article has been updated.” Noem added that the DHS has repeatedly issued press statements responding to false reports from legacy media, criticizing the networks for being "sold out for a lawless country.” "Then we have MSNBC lying about the story, using it to try to demonize these officers who were the ones who stood beside that little girl when her father ran away to protect himself," Noem said. "So those stories — I think the Department of Homeland Security has to put out five or six press releases a day just saying, ‘This report, this article that you read is absolutely false. This did not happen. We did not deport U.S. citizens. We did not separate children from their families. No, this individual was arrested because they murdered somebody.’". "Over and over and over again, we have to keep putting out press releases just to make sure that people know the truth. The problem is that these networks are so sold out for a lawless country and a borderless country, and they’re so opposed to President Trump and what he’s trying to do to help America be successful and free and safe again, that they will do anything," Noem added. "So, what we’re going to do is continue to be strong. We’re going to continue to enforce the law. We’re going to hire more law enforcement officers, and we’re going to bring peace to our streets.” Trump administration officials, including border czar Tom Homan and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, have criticized Democrats for their rhetoric against ICE agents. Some, like Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have labeled ICE a "modern-day Gestapo," while Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared ICE agents to "slave patrols.” Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has also pushed back against the administration’s efforts, creating a video in January advising illegal migrants how to handle encounters with ICE officers at home or work. All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.

Daily Caller [9/24/2025 6:43 PM, Hailey Gomez, 985K] reports MSNBC law enforcement analyst Tom Manger said Wednesday on "Chris Jansing Reports" that "you can’t just assume" the motive of a shooter who attacked a Texas U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office, despite bullet casings marked with the phrase "Anti-ICE.” Officials on Wednesday identified 29-year-old Joshua Jahn as the suspect accused of killing at least two people at the Dallas ICE facility. Discussing the ongoing case, Manger was asked what he believes investigators’ priority will be to "begin to answer the questions that are still out there." "Reviewing this individual’s phone, reviewing this individual’s computer, talking to family, friends of the assailant to try and get an idea of what kind of preparation was done, was anyone else involved? Is this another example of someone who was dealing with mental health issues? By going and analyzing this individual’s computer, you’re going to get an idea of how he was radicalized," Manger said. "And he was radicalized to the point where he was prepared to go to a location, he had identified a target, identified a building, identified a cause, and was ready to not only take other people’s lives but to take his own life.” "So we want to get to the bottom of all of those questions about how he got to that point, whether anyone was aware of what he was doing. I tell you, and I think Rob touched on it, you can’t just assume by that, what was written on that shell casing, that that’s necessarily his motivation," Manger added. "He could have been doing that to, you know, thinking it was funny trying to put law enforcement on the wrong track. This is where when you analyze the person’s phone, computer, talk to his family and friends, that you get an idea of what his motivation perhaps really was.”

FOX News [9/24/2025 8:00 PM, Lindsay Kornick, 40019K] reports MSNBC panelists on "Chris Jansing Reports" suggested efforts to "dehumanize" illegal immigrants contributed to a deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas Wednesday. At least three people were shot, two of them killed, after a gunman opened fire at the site. The FBI said it is investigating the incident as a "targeted attack" against ICE after uncovering anti-ICE messages written on bullet rounds found near the shooter. Jansing asked one of her guests, former ICE assistant chief counsel Veronica Cardenas, about the difficulties ICE agents face today, but Cardenas instead blamed rhetoric used to "dehumanize noncitizens" rather than the dangers ICE agents face. "It is very difficult," Cardenas said. "It has been a very divisive environment. And the rhetoric does have to stop. Just yesterday, Homeland Security released a propaganda video on their social website stating or using Nintendo’s Pokémon to ‘catch them all’ and continuing to dehumanize noncitizens. "So, how do we fix this?" Jansing asked. "Or at least start to fix this? Because at least both sides say they want to bring down the temperature. "The way you fix this is by really ensuring that due process is played out in these arrests, in targeting noncitizens," Cardenas said. "When you read about people being arrested, noncitizens being arrested, it’s already stated illegal. "Like, that is something to assume. It’s not allegedly. And, so, creating that where people, noncitizens, are already guilty until proven innocent, gives others this right, this hatred to attack and to justify what they’re doing to noncitizens. And, so, there has to be accountability and responsibility on both sides.” Jansing turned to MSNBC national security analyst Christopher O’Leary about reports that bullet rounds recovered from the shooter contained anti-ICE messaging. O’Leary similarly argued that the attack stemmed from a "real or perceived grievance" from ICE tactics. "We have a decade of intentionally attacking institutions, disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, which led to polarization in society. All of those things have set the conditions for where we are now. And then you throw in the aggressive tactics that ICE has employed and the wearing of masks. That’s where you get political violence coming from," O’Leary said. "Political violence doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s in response to a real or perceived grievance that somebody has. And they think that this is the best outlet, and that is not justifying it. It’s just where you see these pockets of violence emerge. It’s in response to something.”

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New York Post [9/24/2025 6:59 PM, Caitlin McCormack, 43962K] reports a deadly shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas that left one migrant dead and two in critical condition Wednesday morning comes after months of increasingly volatile rhetoric against the government agency — largely perpetrated by vitriol-spewing lefties, including many in high positions of power. The gunman, 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on a rooftop near the immigration processing facility. "This violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to "Nazis," President Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!". In July, the White House urged Dems to "tone down" their critiques of ICE, but many didn’t listen. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has shamelessly condemned ICE — and even encouraged protests against agents, including the disastrous riots that wreaked havoc in Los Angeles in early June. Under his leadership, left-leaning non-profits provided riot gear packages to protesters, complete with facemasks, goggles, and an open line for "jail support.” On Tuesday night, mere hours before the shooting in Dallas, Newsom appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and slammed ICE as a "private domestic army" being used to bolster the Trump admin’s "authoritarian tendencies.” "People ask, ‘Well, is authoritarianism you being hyperbolic?’ Bulls–t we’re being hyperbolic. If you’re a black or brown community, it’s here in this country… These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government," he said. "That’s happening in the United States of America: Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability. This can’t be normalized. None of this can be normalized.” Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who was arrested in May during a protest at an ICE facility in the New Jersey city, compared the agency to slave catchers. "People are talking about how difficult it is to live in New Jersey. Well, it’s been difficult for us for a long time," the Democrat said the month before his arrest in a video exclusive obtained by The Post, adding that "black folks" have "come from a whole lot of undocumented people.” On Monday, California became the first state to sign one of the bills into law. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blasted the move and said that agents would not be complying with the law.

Federalist [9/24/2025 3:29 PM, Brianna Lyman, 982K] reports just 24 hours before a shooter opened fire on an ICE vehicle in Dallas, killing two and wounding a third, NBC News ran a hoax accusing ICE agents of holding hostage a 5-year-old girl in order to "pressure" her criminal suspect father to surrender. NBC News’ Matt Lavietes wrote that "Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl’s family.” The story quoted the 5-year-old’s mother as saying: "They took my daughter, she’s 5-years-old. She has autism spectrum. … Give me my daughter back.” The woman, who asked not to be identified, told an NBC affiliate that her husband "managed to run back into the parking lot of my house, but they grabbed" the 5-year-old. The story quickly fueled outrage, with figures like Rep. Ilhan Omar smearing ICE as "vile and beyond cruel.” But the narrative peddled by NBC News collapsed under scrutiny. Lavietes was forced to update his piece and issue a correction for blatantly lying. "Video shows ICE with 5-year-old girl while agents attempt to arrest her father," an updated post on X reads. "Correction: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents in the video. The article has been updated.” The updated version explains that the illegal alien refused to comply with law enforcement officials and, in fleeing, abandoned his own daughter in the presence of law enforcement officials. In other words, the original hostage story was false — but wasn’t corrected before it helped amplify anti-ICE sentiment. As The Federalist previously reported, two individuals were killed on Wednesday with a third injured after a gunman opened fire on an ICE transportation vehicle in Dallas. Investigators announced that rounds found near the shooter — who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound — were inscribed with anti-ICE messaging. Notably, there was a bomb threat at the same facility last month, according to DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin.

Breitbart [9/24/2025 7:06 PM, AWR Hawkins, 2608K] reports the mother of the 29-year-old alleged sniper who opened fire on Dallas ICE Wednesday morning "posted a series of anti-gun rants against Republicans" years ago, according to the New York Post. Breitbart News noted that the shooting occurred Wednesday morning, around 6:40 a.m., leaving one victim dead and two injured. The alleged shooter, the aforementioned 29-year-old, took his own life. On Wednesday afternoon, the New York Post reported that the 29-year-old’s mother allegedly "posted a series of anti-gun rants on Facebook aimed at Republican lawmakers just a few years ago.” The Post pointed to a Facebook post the 29-year-old’s mother allegedly posted days after the May 24, 2022 Uvalde school shooting, blasting the lack of gun control support from Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Sens. Ted Cruz (R) and John Cornyn (R). She allegedly wrote: "May be you be reminded of the deaths every time you spend that precious blood money you have received from the gun lobby. Hope you think of it 100% when you attend the NRA meeting in a few days.” She concluded the post by writing, "Why have our government officials failed us? Their lust for money and power. It is time we vote our spineless tools and bring in people who actually care about others.”

FOX News [9/24/2025 11:14 AM, Greg Norman, 40019K] reports two million illegal immigrants "have been removed or have self-deported" from the United States since Jan. 20, putting the Trump administration on pace to break records, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced. In less than 250 days, an estimated 1.6 million illegal immigrants have voluntarily self-deported, while 400,000 were removed by federal law enforcement, the DHS said this week, describing the situation as a "new milestone." "The Trump administration is on pace to shatter historic records and deport nearly 600,000 illegal aliens by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year since returning to office," the department said. "DHS has made it clear: the era of open borders is over. For four straight months, United States Customs and Border Protection has released zero illegal aliens into the country." DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the numbers prove "President Trump’s policies and Secretary [Kristi] Noem’s leadership are working and making American communities safe." "Ramped-up immigration enforcement targeting the worst of the worst is removing more and more criminal illegal aliens off our streets every day and is sending a clear message to anyone else in this country illegally: Self-deport or we will arrest and deport you," she added.

NBC News [9/24/2025 1:22 PM, Matt Lavietes, 43603K] reports Podcaster and comedian Theo Von urged the Department of Homeland Security to take down a viral video clip of him saying, "Heard you got deported, dude, bye!". Von, 45, whose "This Past Weekend" podcast is influential within the "manosphere" and popular with young men, shared the DHS video to his more than 1.6 million X on Tuesday. The video includes what appears to be footage of immigration authorities making an arrest and portions of President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations this week. Von slammed DHS’s use of his snippet on X, writing: “Yooo DHS i didnt approve to be used in this.” "I know you know my address so send a check,” Von added. “And please take this down and please keep me out of your ‘banger’ deportation videos," he said. "When it comes to immigration my thoughts and heart are a lot more nuanced than this video allows. Bye!" Shortly after an original form of this story was published, DHS took down the video.

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FOX News [9/24/2025 3:51 PM, Peter Pinedo, 40019K] reports Trump administration officials are criticizing Democrats and "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for "habitual lies and demonization" of federal law enforcement officials and for pushing a story about ICE agents using a 5-year-old child as bait. The dispute comes as ICE faces a surge of violent attacks, including a shooting on Wednesday at an ICE field office in Dallas. On Tuesday, Omar shared a since-deleted news post on social media about the family of Guatemalan illegal immigrant, Edwards Hip Mejia, accusing ICE agents of using his autistic child as bait to arrest him in Massachusetts. A video obtained by Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra shows the girl sitting beside a law enforcement SUV, holding a bottle, while surrounded by several male officers outside her home in Leominster last Tuesday. NBC reported that the father, Edwards Hip Mejia, told his wife he believed he was being followed and drove home. Once there, he allegedly ran toward the parking lot, but agents "grabbed" their daughter, the wife told Telemundo. Omar reposted the article on X, commenting, "This is vile and beyond cruel. Abolish ICE." Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called Omar’s statement "a vile lie" and the story a "disgusting smear." According to McLaughlin, "ICE agents NEVER used a 5-year-old girl as ‘bait.’" She said Mejia "abandoned his 5-year-old daughter in the car" and that "officers helped rescue the child and called local police to report the abandonment." In response to Omar’s call to abolish ICE, McLaughlin said the Democrat’s "habitual lies and demonization of our law enforcement is what’s cruel." "The criminal illegal alien target - with previous arrests for domestic abuse and strangulation, among other charges - ABANDONED his own child in a car," said McLaughlin. "The target, Edwards Hip Mejia, ignored law enforcement emergency lights to pull over and drove back to his house. He fled from the car, gave officers the double middle finger, and darted inside his house." "Disgusting smears like these peddled by the media are leading to a 1000% increase in assaults against our brave law enforcement," she added in another post.

NewsMax [9/24/2025 11:39 AM, Staff, 4779K] reports the U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned two Indian nationals and an online pharmacy for flooding America with counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl and other deadly drugs. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Sadiq Abbas Habib Sayyed, 39, and Khizar Mohammad Iqbal Shaikh, 34, for their roles in trafficking hundreds of thousands of fake prescription pills to unsuspecting Americans. Authorities say the duo worked with U.S.- and Dominican-based drug traffickers to market what looked like legitimate medication but were in fact poison-packed pills. Shaikh, based in Mumbai, also ran KS International Traders, a sham "online pharmacy" that continued operating even after federal indictments were unsealed last year. "Too many families have been torn apart by fentanyl," said John K. Hurley, Treasury’s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. "Today, we are acting to hold accountable those who profit from this poison," he added. "Treasury will continue to advance President Trump’s commitment to Make America Fentanyl Free by targeting drug traffickers." The sanctions were issued under Executive Order 14059 and coordinated with the Department of Justice, DEA, Homeland Security Investigations, IRS Criminal Investigations, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

New York Times [9/24/2025 5:00 AM, Miriam Jordan, 153395K] reports for decades, U.S. immigration judges have granted bond to immigrants in detention who the court determined would show up for future hearings and were not public safety threats. That allowed many immigrants facing deportation to live in the community until their cases were decided, which often took years. But those long backlogs grew even longer during the record surge in migrants entering the United States during the Biden administration. And in July, the Trump administration moved to make people who had crossed the border unlawfully ineligible for bond. It was a major break with longstanding practice and emblematic of President Trump’s efforts to remake America’s immigration policy and make good on his pledge to deport millions of people. This month, the Board of Immigration Appeals, a Justice Department body that reviews immigration court decisions, affirmed the shift, making the new policy binding on all immigration judges. Now, detained immigrants facing deportation are generally expected to be held without bond for the duration of the legal proceedings.

The Hill [9/24/2025 6:00 AM, Mike Lillis and Rebecca Beitsch, 12414K] Video: HERE reports House Democrats have launched a series of investigations into Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, amid allegations that he accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents as part of an influence-peddling probe. Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Justice Department to turn over a reported tape showing Homan accepting the money last year as part of an FBI sting. Meanwhile, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, wants the panel’s Republicans to demand Homan’s testimony — by subpoena if necessary. Republicans have shown little appetite for scrutinizing Trump, however, and Democrats aren’t holding their breath for Trump’s allies to help with any formal probe into the allegations against Homan. Instead, they’re initiating their own investigations into reports that Trump’s border czar accepted a bag of cash from federal agents probing pay-to-play schemes for government contracts. “Republicans haven’t been functioning as a separate and co-equal branch of government,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said this week in announcing the Democrats’ investigations. “They are simply a reckless and extreme rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s out of control agenda, and we are not going to wait until we take the majority back in November of next year.” As the minority party, Democrats face an uphill climb in their effort to investigate Homan’s alleged misconduct. Without gavels, they can’t stage formal committee hearings, for instance, and they don’t have the authority to issue subpoenas to compel witness testimony — a power reserved for the majority. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Examiner [9/24/2025 6:00 AM, Kaelan Deese, 1563K] reports Tom Homan was sitting across from what he believed were immigration contractors at a Cava restaurant in September 2024, before he became the Trump administration’s border czar, when one of them handed him a bag stuffed with $50,000 in cash. The men turned out to be undercover FBI agents. Now, legal experts from across the political spectrum, as well as current Justice Department officials, are questioning why the Biden DOJ pursued the case in the first place. The exchange between Homan and the FBI agents was recorded, according to multiple news reports. For months, Homan was under investigation for possible bribery. However, after President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, the case quietly evaporated. FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed this week that the DOJ closed its criminal investigation into Homan earlier this summer, calling it a politically motivated effort launched by then-President Joe Biden’s DOJ, which also led two criminal cases against the current president in the run-up to the 2024 election.

The Hill [9/24/2025 2:50 PM, Ashleigh Fields, 12414K] reports that Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called for a criminal investigation into the three strikes ordered by President Trump on ships allegedly transporting narcotics in the Caribbean. “Criminal proceedings must be opened against those officials, who are from the U.S., even if it includes the highest-ranking official who gave the order: President Trump,” Petro said during his speech before the U.N. General Assembly. The Colombian leader said travelers were not members of the Tren De Aragua street gang but “were simply poor young people from Latin America who had no other option,” he added, The Associated Press reported. Venezuelan authorities also confirmed individuals on board the vessel struck on Sept. 2 were not drug traffickers after an independent investigation. Additional strikes were carried out on Sept. 15 and Sept. 19, resulting in a total of 22 deaths from the three separate missions. “On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post last Friday.

Washington Post [9/24/2025 3:01 PM, Olivia George, 29079K] reports that a 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty Wednesday to the attempted carjacking and beating of a former U.S. DOGE Service staffer last month — an attack that captured the attention of President Donald Trump and in part ignited his sweeping crime crackdown on the nation’s capital, deploying the National Guard and surging federal law enforcement on D.C. streets. The teen also pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a nearby robbery that took place the same night. He is yet to be sentenced in the case. Another teen, a 15-year-old girl, also faces charges. In the early hours of Aug. 3, prosecutors said, the boy was among a group that approached Edward Coristine — a software engineer who began work in the federal government as a protégé of Elon Musk — and another person on Swann Street in Northwest Washington. "Let me get your car! Let me get your car," the group said, according to prosecutors. While the other person was able to get into the vehicle and lock the doors, Coristine remained outside and was pummeled by attackers. Trump later posted a bloodied picture of Coristine to social media, vowing a swift federal intervention if D.C. didn’t "get its act together, and quickly." Less than a week later, Trump announced he was putting D.C. police under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to fight crime on the streets of Washington, an extraordinary exertion of federal power that rattled many local leaders and residents alike.

Washington Post [9/24/2025 7:03 PM, Staff, 29079K] reports a shooter at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Wednesday was apparently targeting law enforcement but shot three detainees instead. The horrific episode serves as an allegory for how politically motivated violence almost never achieves its intended goal. Authorities say the 29-year-old suspect “fired indiscriminately” toward the ICE facility, hitting the victims, who were inside a van. FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted a photo of “ANTI-ICE” written in blue ink on an unspent shell casing at the crime scene. The shooter, identified as Joshua Jahn, killed himself. Something similar happened in Atlanta last month when an anti-vaccine shooter fired hundreds of bullets at six buildings at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His rampage killed a responding police officer — a father of two children, with a third on the way — who had nothing to do with vaccines. And on Friday, a gunman shot up an ABC affiliate in Sacramento, in what authorities believe was a politically motivated response to the network’s temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s comedy show a day earlier. None of the journalists working at the ABC station had anything to do with that decision, nor did the drive-by shooting have any impact on whether Kimmel would return. In fact, violence typically bolsters the causes of victims. Charlie Kirk’s movement is already bigger, and the group he founded more popular, in death than in life. His wife, Erika, will carry his torch. Their cause will endure. Political violence, like school shootings, risks inspiring copycats unless forceful steps are taken. The ICE facility where Wednesday’s shooting happened faced a bomb threat last month. Just two months ago, Patel said an individual ambushed officers at a nearby ICE facility. There were two similar incidents this summer: A police officer was wounded in the neck on July 4, when at least two people opened fire on an ICE detention facility in Alvarado. Three days later, a man wearing body armor shot at a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen before being killed by police.

New York Post [9/24/2025 6:29 PM, Staff, 43962K] reports Gavin Newsom, AOC, LaMonica McIver, Brad Lander and all the other politicians (and talking heads) who relentlessly villainize ICE didn’t tell Joshua Jahn to go up on that roof and start firing away — but the nonstop bigoted, hateful and false rhetoric surely played a role in what looks to be the horrific decisions of a troubled young man. Just the night before, Newsom vented to Steven Colbert’s viewers about "authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government," thundering that the "ICE issue is alarming beyond words.” "Anti-ICE" was scrawled on an ammo clip found by Jahn’s body; he killed himself after firing dozens of rounds wildly into an ICE facility in a residential Dallas neighborhood. His only victims turned out to be three detainees hit (at least one fatally) when he shot up a blacked-out van, but several agents were in the same vehicle: Despite what lefty doubters may want to believe, he was plainly trying to slaughter ICE personnel — why else spray the building’s lobby and windows? Public figures who keep chorusing "Nazis!" about some identifiable group are in fact encouraging targeted violence: All of us want to believe we’d have fought to prevent Hitler’s rise. But the demonization is wildly off-base: Unlike some Border Patrol operations, ICE agents right now are exclusively engaged in intelligence-based, data-driven enforcement targeting known, identifiable "bad guys.” That means going after the 1.5 million individuals who haven’t left the country months after receiving a final order of deportation (meaning they’ve exhausted all appeals) as well as the roughly 700,000 illegal migrants who’ve committed or at least been charged with a felony in this country or (in many cases) back home — plus working with other agencies hitting Tren de Aragua hideouts, businesses with records not just of illegal hiring but also other crimes, including child labor, and so on.

New York Times [9/24/2025 5:44 AM, Staff, 153395K] reports somewhere mingled in the foam and debris of the Caribbean Sea are the remains of at least 17 people who were killed this month by U.S. military forces on the orders of President Trump. They were aboard three speedboats that the Trump administration said were carrying drugs and smugglers from Venezuela. Perhaps they were. Yet the administration has produced no evidence for its claims. And even if the allegations are correct, blowing up the boats is a lawless exercise in the use of deadly force. On social media, Mr. Trump assured the public that the passengers were not only drug traffickers but also “narcoterrorists” and members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang, which he said was under the control of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. Military force was justified as a form of self-defense, he said, because the cartels are “threatening our national security,” and his top aides have vowed to continue the strikes. The self-defense justification looks especially weak after The Times reported that the first of the three boats turned away from the United States before being destroyed. With these attacks, Mr. Trump has ordered the summary execution of people who are not at war with the United States in any traditional sense of the term and who may not even have been committing the crime of which he accused them. It is a violation of legal due process that should alarm all Americans. It is even more extreme than his policy of sending migrants to a brutal prison in El Salvador, based on questionable claims that they belonged to Tren de Aragua and without any chance to contest the government’s claims. The United States, created in opposition to monarchy, should never become a country where the president can order the indefinite imprisonment or the unilateral killing of people merely because he has deemed them to be criminals.

The Hill [9/24/2025 7:30 AM, John Shkor, Steven Lepper, and William Baumgartner, 12414K] reports President Trump has taken the counter-drug fight out of the realm of law enforcement and into the world of armed combat. In so doing, he may have fired the opening shot in an undeclared war on Venezuela. The administration argues that 100,000 American deaths per year from cocaine and fentanyl overdose constitutes an existential terrorist threat, and this makes a boat allegedly smuggling illicit drugs a legitimate target for deadly military force. In fact, he is changing domestic practice and acting in contravention of international law. We write as the Former JAGS Working Group — military lawyers who, during our time in service, promoted, protected and enabled the world’s finest military. We have no problem with lethality, but only when used lawfully and for the right missions. Since its inception and up to the present, the drug war at sea has been conducted with scrupulous attention to domestic and international law. Sovereignty of the vessel flag state has been respected. Action has been permitted only by flag-state permission or against stateless vessels. Use of force has been governed by Tennessee v. Garner and the Attorney General’s use-of-force policy. Under this framework, there is no shooting a fleeing felon unless he poses an immediate threat. Deadly force is authorized only when needed in self-defense or to protect others. And in accordance with the Posse Comitatus Act, the role of military forces has been limited to detection and monitoring, with enforcement left to others. Finally, although not as a signatory, the U.S. has closely observed the Law of the Sea Treaty.

Wall Street Journal [9/24/2025 5:01 PM, Barton Swaim, 646K] reports last month a few hundred residents of Washington, D.C., marched to the White House to protest President Trump’s use of federal agents and National Guardsmen to control the city’s crime. For about two weeks the press, rather too obviously hoping the situation would degenerate into mayhem, ran panicked stories about the president’s “crackdown.” One man, wearing a pink shirt and white shorts, screamed “F— you, fascists!” at federal agents and threw a sub sandwich at one of them. He thus got himself arrested, charged with assault and turned into a perfect metaphor for progressive impotence. From the moment Mr. Trump announced his plan, top-drawer journalists and Democratic politicians denied that Washington had a crime problem. That crime in the District of Columbia “is at a 30-year low” was the phrase du jour. Anyone who has visited the capital in recent years and wandered beyond the city center and the wealthier neighborhoods of the Northwest might have surmised that that statistic hid more than it revealed. Did the “low” arise from the alleged practice of pressuring officers to downgrade offenses or not record them at all? This was the subject of a 2020 lawsuit, settled by the city in 2022. Anyway the mainstream press displayed no curiosity about the gulf between official statistics and ordinary experience. It took the scrappy, indispensable Washington Free Beacon to bring the lawsuit settlement to light. The president’s 30-day emergency order ended on Sept. 10, although troops remain in the city. The result so far has been to bring that “30-year low” dramatically lower. Most categories of reported crime have dropped. During the same period in 2024 (Aug. 13 through Sept. 23), there were 23 homicides. Since the troops showed up in August, there have been eight. Robberies are down 54% and burglaries 48%. Mr. Trump’s detractors in the media have denounced the policy as “authoritarian” and ridiculed it as pointless. A risible 2,000-word essay in the Atlantic portrayed the guardsmen’s presence as “absurdist” and “sitcom-esque” but neglected to note the precipitous drop in crime. The same reporters who dismissed the idea that Washington has a crime problem then mocked the president for deploying troops to areas where crime is low, acknowledging that in other areas it’s high. Mockery aside, an important fact stands out: Some number of Washingtonians, most of them young residents of its poorer precincts, aren’t dead today because Mr. Trump sent in the troops.

ABC News [9/25/2025 4:50 AM, Luke Barr, Aaron Katersky, and Emily Shapiro, 31733K] reports Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said he would put all ICE facilities on a higher alert following a shooting at a Dallas field office on Wednesday which killed one detainee and critically wounded two others. While no officers were injured, the Department of Homeland Security said the shooting was "an attack on ICE law enforcement." The suspected shooter has been identified by law enforcement officials as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News. The shooter, who was on a nearby rooftop, "fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, including at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot," DHS said in a statement. Law enforcement and Republican politicians suggested a political motive for the shooting, which comes amid ramped up ICE deportation efforts throughout the country. The DHS said in a statement that ICE officers have faced a more than 1,000% increase in assaults against them. The FBI said Wednesday’s shooting is being investigated "as an act of targeted violence." FBI Director Kash Patel released an image of recovered bullets, including one engraved with the phrase "ANTI-ICE," and DHS released a photo that appears to show a gunshot in an American flag display. Vice President JD Vance said during remarks in North Carolina on Wednesday that evidence that has not yet been released shows the shooter was a "left-wing extremist" who was "politically motivated to go after people who are enforcing our border." Officials said that attacks on ICE and law enforcement must end. "Our prayers are with the families of those killed and our ICE law enforcement. This vile attack was motivated by hatred for ICE," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. "For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed. This shooting must serve as a wake-up call."

The Hill [9/24/2025 9:13 PM, Filip Timotija, 12414K] reports Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it will "immediately increase security" at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across the country after the Wednesday deadly shooting at ICE’s field office in Dallas, where one detainee was killed. "In light of today’s horrific shooting that was motivated by hatred for ICE and the other unprecedented acts of violence against ICE law enforcement, including bomb threats, cars being used a weapons, rocks and Molotov cocktails thrown at officers, and doxing online of officers families, DHS will immediately begin increasing security at ICE facilities across the country," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Wednesday statement to The Hill’s sister network NewsNation, adding that ICE officers are facing a more than 1000 percent increase in assaults against them.” A lone gunman opened fire Wednesday at a Dallas ICE field office, killing one person, while two others were in critical condition. The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot. No ICE agents were harmed in the shooting. Officials identified the suspected gunman as Joshua Jahn, 29, of Collin County, Texas, NewsNation’s Ali Bradley reported. Law enforcement said anti-ICE messages were found on bullet casings. The shooting is being investigated as "an act of targeted violence.” "For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed. This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences. Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences," McLaughlin said in the statement. The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use, have reviewed the Privacy Policy, and to receive personalized offers and communications via email, on-site notifications, and targeted advertising using my email address from The Hill, Nexstar Media Inc., and its affiliates. "The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night," McLaughlin added. "The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”

Daily Caller [9/24/2025 11:19 AM, Jason Hopkins, 985K] reports an illegal migrant who was given a pass to roam the U.S. under two Democrat administrations will be charged with murder after allegedly strangling an infant. The Leesburg Police Department arrested Alvaro Mejia Ayala on Sept. 17 for allegedly choking his eight-month old baby sister, leaving her in critical condition and fighting for her life. Leesburg Police Chief Thea Pirnat confirmed Tuesday that the infant girl has passed away from her injuries. Mejia Ayala is a foreign national who entered the U.S. unlawfully, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed. Following his arrest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a detainer, requesting to assume custody of him following the conclusion of his criminal proceedings. The alleged baby killer first entered the U.S. as a minor in 2016 and was released into the country by the Obama administration, according to DHS. It’s not immediately clear if he was paroled into the U.S. at the time of his release. The Biden administration — which oversaw unprecedented levels of illegal immigration — dismissed his immigration case in October 2024, effectively allowing him to remain unlawfully in the country indefinitely, DHS stated. "Despite immediate and extensive life saving efforts by first responders and expert medical personnel, the child succumbed to injuries just after midnight this morning," Leesburg Police Chief Thea Pirnat said during a press conference. "Additional charges, including murder, will be filed following the return of forensic results in a case review.” "Let me be clear, this was not an accident. A child was murdered in a deliberate act," Pirnat continued. "Leesburg Police Department and our criminal justice partners are fully committed to ensuring that the person responsible is held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” Mejia-Ayala was previously arrested for reckless driving in 2024, but was released by local law enforcement before federal immigration officials could lodge a detainer, according to DHS. Mejia-Ayala is being held without bond and was originally charged with a felony count of strangulation, but local law enforcement confirmed he will be hit with murder charges following the return of forensic evidence. "What kind of sick monster strangles a defenseless, innocent baby girl with a charging cord? This barbarism has no place in the U.S.," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a previous public statement. "President Trump and Secretary Noem have been clear: criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States.”

Breitbart [9/24/2025 3:28 PM, John Binder, 2608K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested some illegal aliens this week, including those convicted of child sex crimes, manslaughter, and robbery. "Despite vile rhetoric and continued assaults on our ICE law enforcement officers, they continue to risk their lives every single day to arrest criminal illegal aliens convicted of child sex crimes, homicide, aggravated robbery, and other violent crimes. Our brave law enforcement are heroes Americans can be proud of," the Department of Homeland Security’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

Free Beacon [9/24/2025 1:31 PM, Jessica Costescu, 500K] reports that NBC News published an article on Tuesday accusing ICE agents of holding a five-year-old autistic girl "to pressure her father to surrender to authorities." Turns out the father actually abandoned his daughter while fleeing authorities and giving agents the middle finger. "ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says," the article’s headline read. Less than nine hours later, NBC News deleted its tweet promoting the story and updated the article to state that ICE agents were simply "with" the girl as they attempted to arrest her father. It also issued a correction that said the original story "mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents." A Facebook post with the original headline was still live as of Wednesday morning. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) promoted the false claim on X—and left it up even after NBC News deleted its own post. "This is vile and beyond cruel. Abolish ICE," Omar wrote. NBC News initially reported that Edward Hip Mejia, a Guatemalan national who has lived in the United States illegally for 20 years, told his wife that he was being followed and drove home. Once there, his wife said Mejia ran to the parking lot and claimed agents "grabbed" their daughter. Now the article states that when Mejia ran, his daughter was "left with the agents" as a result. It’s unclear what prompted the changes or the correction given that NBC News updated its story hours earlier to include a denial and explanation from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin—a denial that was moved higher after the correction was issued.

NewsNation [9/24/2025 2:53 PM, Staff, 6811K] reports that three juvenile girls were reunited with their families, and seven men are facing charges following a human trafficking investigation in Hartford, according to police. In May, authorities began investigating a possible human trafficking case. As a result, three girls were rescued and safely returned to their families, according to police. Police said seven suspects in the investigation were arrested on Tuesday. Ahmad Compton, 36, and James Williams, 35, both of Hartford, were charged with three counts of trafficking in persons, sexual assault in the first degree, three counts of kidnapping in the first degree, three counts of risk of injury to a minor and three counts of illegal sexual contact with a minor. Bernard Mickens, 38, of Hartford, was charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor, sexual assault in the first degree, three counts of kidnapping in the first degree, unlawful restraint, illegal sexual contact with a minor and three counts of risk of injury to a minor. Raheem Jones, 51, was charged with three counts of trafficking in persons, three counts of kidnapping in the first degree, hindering prosecution in the first degree and three counts of risk of injury to a minor. Donovan Dun, of Hartford, was charged with trafficking in persons, sexual assault in the first degree, two counts of sexual assault in the third degree, two counts of employing a minor in obscene performance, two counts of prompting a minor in obscene performance, enticing a minor, two counts of possession of child sexual abuse material in the first degree, sstangulation in the second degree, unlawful restraint in the first degree, three risk of injury to a minor and illegal sexual contact with a minor.

New York Post [9/24/2025 2:51 PM, Brandon Cruz, 43962K] reports that Federal immigration officials confirmed the identity of a migrant who died in custody inside a Nassau County jail last week and revealed a preliminary cause of death as official probes continue. Honduras citizen Santos Banegas Reyes, 42, — who had been previously deported three times– appeared to have died from "liver failure complicated by alcoholism," Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday. The official cause of death is still under investigation. The Honduran father and construction worker was arrested Sept. 18 by federal immigration agents just hours before he was found "not breathing" in his cell, according to ICE and Oscar Michelen, the attorney representing Reyes’ family with the Long Island Hispanic Bar Association. Reyes had previously entered the US illegally at least four times from 2004 to 2019, and ICE claimed the detainee previously admitted to a history of alcohol abuse. But the detainee’s family pushed back on ICE’s findings of the cause of death and claimed relatives were only notified that he died by a "source" and not by federal authorities. Michelen also claimed that Reyes had no-known health issues leading up to his death, and said his family denies that he was a heavy drinker or an alcoholic — which Reyes’ sister called "absurd." "It’s a remarkable coincidence, isn’t it," Michelen told The Post. "The very same day that he gets snatched away by ICE, a seemingly healthy man just so happens to succumb to chronic liver failure."

NewsMax.com [9/24/2025 5:23 PM, David Caplan, 4779K] reports a horrifying crime in Northern Virginia has uncovered yet another illegal alien who should have been deported years ago, according to the Department of Homeland Security. A detainer has been lodged by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement against Alvaro Mejia-Ayala, a 21-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador who has been charged in the strangulation of his infant sister. The baby remains in critical condition. Officials said the child was discovered unresponsive with a white charging cable wrapped around her neck. "What kind of sick monster strangles a defenseless, innocent baby girl with a charging cord?" asked DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. "This barbarism has no place in the U.S. ICE lodged an immigration detainer to ensure this heinous criminal is not released on U.S. streets. President [Donald] Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem have been clear: criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the United States. We pray for this precious baby." Records show Mejia-Ayala entered the U.S. as part of a family unit in 2016 and was released into the country by the Obama administration. In October 2024, the Biden administration dismissed his immigration case, allowing him to remain indefinitely in the U.S. — despite his being previously arrested for reckless driving. He has been charged with felony strangulation and is being held without bond. More charges are expected, and his next court date is scheduled for Nov. 13. If the baby survives, the charge could be reduced to a Class Six felony, carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

New York Times [9/24/2025 9:10 PM, Neil Vigdor and Hannah Ziegler, 143795K] reports lawyers for a journalist who has been in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since June asked a federal judge on Tuesday for a temporary restraining order to block his deportation, which they said was “imminent.” The journalist, Mario Guevara, was arrested on June 14 while he was livestreaming from a “No Kings” protest against the Trump administration’s policies that was taking place outside Atlanta. Charges filed in connection to his arrest were dropped, his lawyers said. Press freedom groups and civil liberties activists said that the detention of Mr. Guevara, who is originally from El Salvador, was another example of the federal government’s trampling on independent journalism and coverage that the administration viewed as unflattering. In an emergency request made on Tuesday, Mr. Guevara’s lawyers asked Judge Benjamin W. Cheesbro of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia to release Mr. Guevara, while the immigration case is decided. They also sought a court order barring federal authorities from removing him from the country until his status is settled. “His detention is intended to gag and punish his speech and therefore continues to violate the First Amendment,” Mr. Guevara’s lawyers wrote, including those with the American Civil Liberties Union. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday about Mr. Guevara’s situation. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review said that it did not comment on pending cases. Mr. Guevara’s lawyers said in their letter to Judge Cheesbro that they received a notice on Tuesday from the Board of Immigration Appeals, also part of the Justice Department, finding that Mr. Guevara was subject to final removal from the United States. But Mr. Guevara’s legal team argued that the board’s decision was based on erroneous information — that he had failed to post what is known as a voluntary departure bond of $500 when immigration enforcement actions against him began in 2012. Such bonds are often required of people who voluntarily leave the United States during immigration proceedings. Mr. Guevara’s lawyers provided Judge Cheesbro a receipt from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, dated on June 26, 2012, for a voluntary departure bond that he obtained for $500. In April 2015, D.H.S. canceled the bond, stating that its conditions appeared to have been “satisfied,” according to the department’s notice, which Mr. Guevara’s lawyers also submitted to the court on Tuesday. They argued that, in canceling the bond, the agency had administratively closed removal proceedings against Mr. Guevara. Mr. Guevara was not a legal permanent resident or citizen of the United States, but he had a work permit and a Social Security number, according to one of his lawyers. Mr. Guevara worked at the Spanish-language news organization Mundo Hispánico for several years before starting his own news organization, MGNews, a digital outlet that covers immigration and other topics for Georgia’s Latino community.

Chicago Tribune [9/24/2025 6:03 PM, Angie Leventis Lourgos, 5352K] reports Broadview officials are demanding the Department of Homeland Security take down an "illegally built" fence erected outside an immigration processing and detention facility that’s been the site of volatile protests amid a recent blitz of Chicago-area immigration enforcement by the administration of President Donald Trump. But federal officials say the fence is needed for public safety, blaming the immigration sanctuary policies of Illinois politicians. In a letter to DHS Tuesday, Broadview acting Fire Chief Matthew Martin said the fence was built without a permit along the public street outside of the facility at 1930 Beach St., blocking Fire Department access to the road. But Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the fence was needed to keep the area safe, citing the actions of protesters as well as the policies of Illinois politicians.

Blaze [9/24/2025 3:30 PM, Julio Rosas, 1559K] reports Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) shamed Democrats for their unhinged rhetoric toward U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the aftermath of a deadly shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday. A gunman indiscriminately fired at the ICE building and a van inside the sally port, leaving two detainees killed and another wounded. No federal agents or employees were killed during the attack. The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooter had unfired bullets with anti-ICE messaging on them, according to the FBI. The Department of Homeland Security noted there was a bomb threat against the same facility last month. In July, a gunman targeted the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector Annex early in the morning. Also in July, an alleged Antifa cell executed a complex ambush attack on the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility. The assailants reportedly lured law enforcement by shooting fireworks at the building, with local police responding. Ten suspects were eventually arrested and charged, according to ICE.

Univision [9/24/2025 3:53 PM, Staff, 4932K] reports a federal jury has convicted a young man from Guatemala who attempted to pose as a minor to illegally enter the United States and access benefits intended for unaccompanied migrant children. The defendant, identified as Tadeo Pedro-Torres, 21, was found guilty of making false statements after a three-day trial in federal court in Houston. The jury’s deliberation took less than an hour before reaching its verdict. According to prosecutors, Pedro-Torres showed up on October 26, 2024, at a border crossing near El Paso, Texas, claiming to be 16 years old and giving his date of birth as November 2007. During the trial, the defense tried to argue that the defendant had not deliberately lied, but the jury rejected that version. The trial was presided over by Federal Judge Sim Lake, who scheduled the sentencing hearing for December 19. Pedro-Torres could face up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. The defendant is currently in federal custody. The investigation was led by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security (HSI).

AP [9/24/2025 2:46 PM, Staff, 27036K] reports officials are investigating the death this week of a 39-year-old Mexican man who was in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Southern California. Ismael Ayala-Uribe was transferred Sunday from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center to a regional hospital for surgery on an abscess on his buttock, according to an ICE statement. Hospital staff found him unresponsive and "initiated lifesaving measures" but he was declared dead around 2:30 a.m. Monday, the statement said. The cause of death is under investigation. In addition to the abscess, Ayala-Uribe suffered from hypertension and tachycardia, an abnormally fast heart rate, according to ICE. Federal records show that Ayala-Uribe is the 14th detainee to die in immigration detention since January, when immigration officials began to implement President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. There were 11 detention deaths in 2024. His family said Ayala-Uribe had high blood pressure but was otherwise healthy. His brother told the Los Angeles Times that Ayala-Uribe got sick with a cough and a fever shortly after he arrived at the Adelanto facility on Aug. 22. Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department offered its condolences to the man’s family and said the Mexican Consulate in San Bernardino would follow up with authorities at the immigration detention center to ensure a thorough investigation to "fully clarify" the cause of the death. Mexican officials are in contact with the family to offer legal assistance and other help. Mexico also reiterated its commitment to protect and defend the human rights of Mexicans abroad. According to ICE, Ayala-Uribe entered the United States at an unknown date and location. He applied for, and received, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protection in 2012. In 2016, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denied his application to renew his DACA status. He had been convicted of two DUIs.

San Diego Union Tribune [9/24/2025 6:18 PM, Paul Sisson, 1648K] reports after midnight, following nearly five hours of public commentary and heated deliberation, a narrow majority of the Vista City Council approved a resolution placing restrictions on immigration enforcement in the city. On a 3-2 vote, with Mayor John Franklin and councilman Jeff Fox in opposition, the council approved four of five items proposed by councilwoman Corinna Contreras. They directed the city to "prohibit law enforcement personnel from immigration enforcement in non-public areas of City-owned or City-controlled properties without a judicial warrant;" prohibited Vista employees from sharing "sensitive or personal data" with such agencies unless required to do so by law; and required that similar language be written into all contracts with outside organizations going forward. Vista will also take a more active stance in public education, posting a "know your rights" statement to its website. A fifth suggested resolution, which would have created a plan for the city to file public records requests under the Freedom of Information Act to help the immediate family of anyone detained or deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, did not move forward. Reaction to the actions was polarized, with supporters describing them as protecting due-process rights and detractors, who seemed to make up the majority of commenters, predicting they would only increase federal scrutiny

NewsNation [9/24/2025 9:38 AM, Salvador Rivera, 6811K] reports before signing the "No Secret Police" bill over the weekend, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the legislation would reduce the number of ICE raids in the state. During a news conference before he officially signed the bill into law, Newsom rhetorically asked "ICE, unmask, what are you afraid of?" The bill prohibits Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing most masks during raids and other operations throughout California. The mandate applies to most law enforcement in the state. "This is about the secret police," Newsom said. "We’re not North Korea Mr. President, we’re not the Soviet Union, we’re the United States of America, and we’re pushing back against these authoritarian tendencies and actions of this administration." ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are pushing back calling the bill a "disgusting, diabolical fundraising PR stunt."

FOX News [9/24/2025 1:49 PM, Charles Creitz, 40019K] reports that Federal officials are making an example of a Santa Monica man arrested this week for allegedly doxxing and harassing an ICE attorney, with the architect of Los Angeles’ and Chicago’s raids warning any copycats. Gregory Curcio faces up to five years in prison if convicted, after the Justice Department said he allegedly published private or identifying information about an ICE attorney "with malicious intent." ICE Operation "At Large" Commander Gregory Bovino tweeted overnight that anyone who targets immigration officers like Curcio should take notice. "Dox our agents? You’ll end up being charged just like this man found out," said Bovino, whose noted social media presence and prominent public persona have been both a cause célèbre for supporters of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and a source of outrage for liberal opponents. Bill Essayli, the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Central California, took the message one step further. Essayli said Curcio’s arrest proves why ICE agents must be allowed to shield their identity, which now conflicts with a recently-passed California law banning law enforcement from doing so. Essayli, a Republican and the first Muslim elected to the California State Assembly, lambasted critics of federal agents who mask-up during public operations.

New York Post [9/24/2025 1:55 PM, Emily Crane, 43962K] reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been ripped for stoking anti-immigration flames after he decried federal agents as President Trump’s "private domestic army" — just hours before a sniper shot dead multiple people at a Texas ICE field office. The Democrat spewed the rhetoric during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night as he blasted the Trump admin’s "authoritarian tendencies" and said the "ICE issue is alarming beyond words." "People ask, ‘Well, is authoritarianism you being hyperbolic?’ Bulls–t we’re being hyperbolic. If you’re a black or brown community, it’s here in this country… These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government," he said during a lengthy rant. Newsom, who just last week signed a bill banning ICE agents from masking up to conceal their identities during raids, suggested the federal agency was having a "chilling impact" on other law enforcement agencies across the country. "We’re losing confidence and trust in law enforcement," he claimed. Here’s what we know about the Dallas ICE facility shooting. A gunman identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn opened fire on an ICE van at a detention center in Dallas, Texas, in the early hours of Sept. 24. Jahn began shooting while detainees were being transferred and the portcullis to the facility was open, reports claim. Two people died and one was wounded, according to reports. Jahn was found dead on a nearby rooftop from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There was writing on the bullets, with one reading "ANTI-ICE," according to the FBI.

San Francisco Chronicle [9/24/2025 7:00 AM, Sara DiNatale, 3790K] reports the small voice came from behind a black screen. Desperate for information about a loved one amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation crackdown, a young girl called into an obscure Mojave Desert town’s planning commission meeting. She listed her name as Monica and kept her camera off. "I don’t really know anything about California City," she told the city’s five-member board. "But my father recently got transferred to the detention center over there." She paused and stumbled over words. "Why was he moved from McFarland to California City?" she got out. "So, yes, my question and if you could answer it?" In the same meeting, a mother called in and spoke Spanish through an interpreter. Her son was snatched by ICE on his way home from work. It’s been six months. He’s now in California City, she said. The planning commission for the town of 15,000 people was out of its depth. Made up of volunteer residents tasked with advising the City Council on zoning permits and land use, it has no jurisdiction over what happens inside the newly reopened detention facility or access to information about who is housed inside the center, which sits seven miles from City Hall on the edge of what locals call "second city" — or the town’s acres of undeveloped desert. The detention center is already dealing with the kind of concerns that have been rampant in other facilities. Immigration attorneys with clients inside said detainees’ recent sit-ins and hunger strikes have resulted in officers entering cells in riot gear and putting at least four inmates in solitary confinement. On the outside, California City has also been thrust into chaos. The center is operating without the locally issued permits city leaders say state law requires. "It all happened in the cover of darkness," said California City Mayor Marquette Hawkins. The facility has already come to define his first nine months in office over just a few weeks. The city said it got no notice the center would begin housing detainees. When rumblings of the center opening began, anti-ICE protestors started showing up. They gained numbers throughout the summer. Now, once sparsely attended City Council meetings have become packed five-hour marathons brimming with public commenters – many of them come from Bakersfield, other corners of Kern County and L.A.

Telemundo [9/24/2025 12:16 PM, Staff, 93K] reports a Santa Monica man has been arrested for allegedly disclosing personal information and harassing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Gregory John Curcio, 68, is accused of violating a federal law designed to protect people performing certain official duties. Curcio, who was arrested on Monday, will remain in jail without bail. A hearing has been set for October 14. Prosecutors allege that in February, Curcio created a Facebook post in which he identified the attorney as an ICE agent, published her home address, and incited others to "swatt" that address. According to the department, he also posted the attorney’s private information on a second social media account he controlled. Court documents allege that Curcio was a resident of the victim’s mother’s apartment building in Santa Monica. The attorney said she never met Curcio, but that he had harassed and threatened her mother for years, according to authorities. The criminal complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles alleges that Curcio made false accusations and conducted a campaign of harassment against the victim and her family since at least January 2024.

Telemundo52 [9/25/2025 1:32 AM, Raymond Mesa amd Missael Soto, 93K] reports a group of day laborers traveling in a van were detained Wednesday during an alleged immigration raid in Pomona. The operation took place around 6 a.m. as the day laborers were on their way to work. According to a pro-immigrant organization, at least seven people were detained by federal agents. "They looked like they were going to work. It was 5:46 in the morning, and at that time of day, everyone is going to work," said a neighbor who preferred not to be identified. Video shared with Telemundo 52 shows several day laborers sitting against a gate while masked agents detained them. "One had a gun blocking traffic coming from the other side, and they were all masked," said another neighbor who preferred to identify herself only as María. A security camera captured at least four trucks that witnesses believe were used by agents during the arrest. "I never heard anything from the police or anything like that. They just arrived very quietly. I just heard them telling the boys to ‘open the door,’" said Maria. Only the van in which the day laborers were traveling remained parked next to the apartment complex where the incident occurred. Inside, some personal belongings and what appeared to be lunch boxes could be seen. Shortly thereafter, a tow truck took the vehicle away. Telemundo 52 has contacted the Department of Homeland Security for more information about the arrests but has not received a response. The recent immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California are part of President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to carry out a mass deportation plan. As of September 11, more than 58,000 migrants had been detained by ICE since the start of President Trump’s second term, according to NBC News, which used public and internal ICE data, as well as data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). About 29.4% of those detained had criminal convictions; 25.5% had pending criminal charges; 45.8% were listed as "other immigration law violators"; and 11.1% were subject to expedited deportation proceedings. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Telemundo [9/24/2025 4:31 PM, Shelby Bremer, 51K] reports a massive spike in recalendared immigration cases in San Diego and across the U.S. has brought many people who thought their cases were over years ago back into deportation proceedings, including one man who’s been in the U.S. for nearly 40 years. Jose Juan Cazares-Moreno, of Imperial, has been in the U.S. since 1988 as a green card holder. For the first time in nearly a decade, he was scared to return to immigration court Tuesday. "I have everything here. I’ve been here all my life," Cazares-Moreno said. "I wouldn’t know what to do if I move to – if they take me out to Mexico.” He has a misdemeanor conviction from 2001 that was later expunged. A deportation case against him was administratively closed – essentially, put on pause – in 2016 when the government decided he wasn’t a priority for removal. Since then, he’s been authorized to work, paid taxes and remained with his family: multiple children and grandchildren, all U.S. citizens. "He’s not only a good father, but he’s also a good role model," said his daughter Francisca Cazares, who recalled going with her dad to immigration court when she was a child. "It was horrible not knowing. But then when the case got closed, it was like, OK, we’re finally set free. Like the weight was lifted off our shoulders.” But that weight returned earlier this year when the Trump Administration recalendared his case – basically, moving forward with deporting him all these years later – and bringing him back into court. "When a case is closed, that’s a definite victory, but part of the stipulation when the case is closed is that it can be brought back on the calendar by a motion from any party," said Cazares-Moreno’s attorney Jordan Schweller, noting that the Department of Homeland Security has been introducing more motions in recent months to recalendar years-old cases like this. Data obtained and analyzed by NBC 7 Investigates shows that in San Diego, 2,958 cases were recalendared this year through July. In all of 2024, that number was 348 – meaning this year has seen a 750% increase. Nationwide that spike was about 540%. "This Administration is once again implementing the rule of law. Obama and Biden chose to release millions of illegal aliens, including criminals, into the country and used prosecutorial discretion to indefinitely delay their cases and allow them to illegally remain in the United States," Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement, when asked about this case. "Now, President Trump and Secretary Noem are following the law, resuming these illegal aliens’ removal proceedings, and ensuring their cases are heard by a judge," the statement continued. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, if you break the law—including drug possession—you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.” Cazares-Moreno returned to immigration court for a hearing Tuesday morning for the first time since 2016. "I feel sad because, you know, we’re here thinking everything’s good. And then now they want to bring you back," he said. "I was nervous, especially seeing the ICE officers out there. Made me like, kind of got me freaked out.” "It’s scary," his wife Brenda Cazares said, both of appearing in court and the thought of her husband being deported. "I’ll be lost without him because he’s my other half. He’s my partner, you know? He’s my love, like he’s everything that I have," she continued. "I want to grow old with him.”

Telemundo 48 El Paso [9/24/2025 3:42 PM, Staff, 6K] reports the Mexican government sent a diplomatic note to the United States on Wednesday requesting an investigation into the death of Ismael Ayala-Uribe, a 39-year-old Mexican who died in a California hospital while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The governor was referring to the case of the Mexican migrant who died on September 22 at Victor Valley Global Medical Center in Victorville, located northeast of Los Angeles. According to the report, Ayala-Uribe was being held at the ICE processing center in Adelanto, California, and was transferred to a medical facility on September 21 for "further evaluation" of a gluteal abscess, after which surgery was scheduled. In the early hours of September 22, Ayala-Uribe was found unconscious and pronounced dead. The cause of death has not yet been revealed but is under investigation; ICE said Ayala also had high blood pressure and abnormal tachycardia. ICE is facing several lawsuits for failing to provide necessary medical care to detainees.

Reuters [9/24/2025 11:40 AM, Sarah Morland and Ana Isabel Martinez, 45746K] reports Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday she had sent diplomatic notes to Washington over the deaths of two migrants in the U.S., a man shot by a federal immigration agent and a second one who died in hospital after being detained. Speaking in a morning press conference, Sheinbaum said a Mexican man had died in a U.S. hospital on Tuesday, adding this was "presumably the product of a detention." She did not share the man’s name. "We sent a diplomatic note on this case asking all the investigations be carried out, and that if there is a responsibility of violation of human rights, that it be sanctioned," Sheinbaum said. She said had also sent another diplomatic note over the death of Silverio Villegas, a man from Michoacan state, who was fatally shot by an immigration enforcement agent in a Chicago suburb earlier this month. Villegas was pulled over and eventually shot by an unidentified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on September 12, just after dropping off his two children at a nearby elementary school and daycare center.

AP [9/24/2025 5:57 PM, Dánica Coto, 37974K] reports immigration agents in the United States arrested Haitian businessman Dimitri Vorbe because of his alleged ties to violent gangs in his troubled Caribbean country, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday. Vorbe was arrested Tuesday and placed in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Miami area. Officials determined that Vorbe "engaged in a campaign of violence and gang support that contributed to Haiti’s destabilization," the U.S. Embassy in Haiti said in a social media post, adding that his activities in the U.S. could harm Washington’s foreign policy.

Reuters [9/24/2025 8:49 AM, Mrinalika Roy, 45746K] reports the Trump administration’s plan to dramatically raise fees for H-1B visas is drawing concern from U.S. healthcare groups who say the move could worsen staffing shortages as more than half of healthcare workers consider changing jobs within the next year. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reviewing policy changes that would increase the cost of applying for H-1B visas to as much as $100,000 from the current top of $4,500. The H-1B program allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty fields like technology, engineering, medicine, and academia. The visas are widely used by the U.S. healthcare sector to recruit international medical graduates or foreign-trained doctors and other professionals trained abroad. The American Academy of Family Physicians emphasized that international medical graduates account for more than one-fifth of practicing family doctors and are disproportionately likely to serve in rural areas. The influential American Medical Association warned that fees as high as $100,000 could choke off the international physician pipeline. "With the U.S. already facing a shortage of doctors, making it harder for international medical graduates to train and practice here means patients will wait longer and drive farther to get care," said AMA President Bobby Mukkamala.

CBS News [9/24/2025 3:23 PM, Megan Cerullo, 45245K] reports the Trump administration says the new $100,000 fee for foreign employees to obtain an H-1B visa will spur companies to hire Americans instead of bringing in labor from overseas. Yet many economists predict the results will be more mixed, potentially fostering increased domestic hiring in some industries but slowing long-term economic growth with a knock-on effect on overall employment. "I could envision a scenario in which otherwise available [American] employees see a large increase for their labor demand," Kirk Doran, associate professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, said of the new visa policy. "There is some evidence that for the kind of work H-1B employees do, there are available workers looking for jobs right now.” In the near term, some technology industry workers in particular could see job gains as more companies seek to avoid the sharply higher costs of bringing in employees from overseas, Rutgers University labor economist Jennifer Hunt told CBS News. "The winners would be U.S. native-born computer programmers," she said. "If you’re a native worker who is really similar to an immigrant, immigrants are usually bad for you. So we would expect current American, U.S. programmers to be helped.” Yet the bigger picture is more complex. Other economic research shows that hiring immigrant workers often benefits companies, providing a ready source of skilled labor with the education and training that may not be widely available in the U.S. One 2024 study from the nonprofit IZA Institute of Labor Economics on the impact of U.S. immigration on employment said H-1B workers can "help firms increase their employment, revenues and survival probabilities," while finding no evidence that hiring of foreign labor through the program displaced native-born American workers. The research — from economists at IZA, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, University of Delaware, University of Michigan and Queens College, CUNY — also found that every H-1B worker a company hired helped produce additional job gains. "High-wage, high-productivity firms expand more and even crowd-in natives with college degrees" when able to add H-1B workers, they wrote.

FOX News [9/24/2025 10:26 AM, Amanda Macias, 40019K] reports the Trump administration unveiled a proposal on Wednesday to change how H-1B visas are awarded, a program that has become a cornerstone of the tech industry by allowing U.S. companies to hire highly skilled workers from abroad, including software engineers and data scientists. Issued by the Department of Homeland Security, H-1B visas are temporary work permits that have become a vital pathway for U.S. tech companies to recruit global talent. The proposal is designed to nudge employers toward offering higher salaries or reserving H-1B petitions for jobs that require advanced skills. The rule change, formally published in the Federal Register, comes just days after President Donald Trump signed a proclamation introducing a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data from 2024 through mid-2025, Amazon obtained 19,301 H-1B visas, more than any other major tech company. Microsoft secured 9,914 workers through the H-1B program, while Apple brought in 8,075 employees.

Politico [9/24/2025 10:00 AM, Nick Niedzwiadek and Brendan Bordelon, 14810K] reports President Donald Trump’s sudden decision to slap a price tag on a visa program for high-skill workers could upend the tech industry, which is scrambling to figure out just how forcefully to respond. Trump’s announcement of a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applicants blindsided Big Tech’s powerful trade associations — groups that exist in large part to keep their Silicon Valley clients from being surprised by Washington. The move leaves hundreds of thousands of jobs in the balance, from cutting-edge AI researchers to workaday coders and other specialty occupations. “All the trades are like, ‘What just happened?’” said a representative from a top tech association who was granted anonymity to discuss private talks. “[The White House] didn’t reach out to people.” Tech industry representatives are weighing whether to sue over the new fee and warning that it could force top firms to forgo innovation driven by foreign-born workers or potentially shift more jobs abroad. Several are opting to lay low publicly and holding out hope of winning exemptions from the costly requirement, as the proclamation Trump signed allows Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to grant carveouts to individuals, companies or even entire sectors. The White House has said the fee is an attempt to curb employers’ misuse of the H-1B visa to pass over domestic workers in favor of foreign talent, particularly for lower-paid jobs that stretch the original intent of the program to bolster the labor supply for specialized occupations. “President Trump promised to put American workers first, and this commonsense action does just that by discouraging companies from spamming the system and driving down American wages,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement. “It also gives certainty to American businesses who actually want to bring high-skilled workers to our great country but have been trampled on by abuses of the system.” The demand for H-1B visas far surpasses the number available, which Congress has capped at 65,000 annually plus an additional 20,000 for people with advanced degrees. In the 2024 fiscal year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved nearly 400,000 employment petitions, with more than 70 percent coming from India and 12 percent from China. H-1B visas are awarded via lottery. The fee would pose problems for employers in other industries beyond tech. Hospitals, for instance, may need to find alternative pathways for medical graduates trained abroad. But visa alternatives to H-1B have their own limitations, such as allowing workers to stay for shorter durations or only being available to workers from certain countries that have agreements with the U.S.

Washington Post [9/24/2025 6:00 AM, Maham Javaid and Adrián Blanco Ramos, 29079K] reports President Donald Trump’s newly announced policy of charging $100,000 for H-1B visas, which allow companies to temporarily hire nonimmigrant foreign workers for certain roles, in cases where employers cannot find those skills in the domestic workforce, came as an abrupt shift for U.S. employers and workers around the world — especially in a few key countries and sectors. While the new fees and entry restrictions do not apply to current visa holders or those renewing them, and are not set to kick in until the next visa lottery cycle, the policy left companies and workers scrambling. Here is where the most recent slate of H-1B visa holders originate, along with who employs them across which sectors and how much they earn. About half-a-million people in the U.S. hold H-1B visas. India accounted for 71 percent of H-1B visa holders in the 2024 fiscal year, which began in October 2023 and ended in September 2024, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a DHS agency that administers immigration and naturalization processes. Other countries are set to see a major impact, especially China, which accounted for 11.7 percent of total H-1B visas. “Computer-related” occupations made up the bulk of H-1B employment in the 2024 fiscal year. Many of these jobs include systems analysis programming, according to a report released in August by DHS and USCIS. The fields with the highest median salaries for H-1B visa holders include law and jurisprudence — but data shows that fewer than 2,000 visas were given out for these jobs in 2024. The median salary for computer-related occupations, which accounted for the bulk of H-1B visas in 2024, was $101,000 for those who had their visas approved for these jobs for the first time and $135,000 for those who have been working in their fields in the U.S. for longer.

Washington Examiner [9/25/2025 5:00 AM, Staff, 1563K] reports President Donald Trump may be the toughest president the nation has ever had on the matter of illegal immigration. He has certainly been more effective than any other leader in a generation. But, at the same time, he has always valued limited, skilled immigration. “I’ve always liked the visas,” Trump said of H1B visas last December. “I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them.” But he has also criticized the way the visas are issued and to whom. At the first Republican primary debate, he said the visas were used “for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay.” He has promised to eliminate or reform the program, and he delivered on that promise with a major improvement this Monday. “This program has been abused for too long,” the president said at the White House, “displacing American workers and suppressing wages. It’s time to fix it for our people.” The executive order signed by Trump instructs the Department of Homeland Security to create a new $100,000 “restriction on entry” fee for each H1B visa, a 10,000% increase from the current $10 registration fee.

Bloomberg [9/25/2025 3:30 AM, Staff, 19085K] reports immigration lawyer, Charles Kuck, says President Trump’s $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas is “illegal” and may put many firms out of business. Speaking to Bloomberg’s Insight with Haslinda Amin, Kuck also spoke about the status of some of his South Korean clients, who he says are no longer keen to return to the US after being swept up in an ICE raid in Georgia. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Breitbart [9/24/2025 3:04 PM, Neil Munro, 2608K] reports homeland security chief Kristi Noem should stop granting hundreds of thousands of work permits to foreigners for white-collar jobs needed by U.S. graduates, says Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate’s judiciary committee. The Senator’s declaration comes amid growing recognition that U.S. graduates are losing jobs to outsourcing and the Supreme Court decides whether to consider a lawsuit that argues against work-permit giveaways. In his letter to DHS, Grassley noted the damage to American graduates, including many in Midwest states which are now starved for investment and opportunities because of the accelerating relocation of U.S. white-collar jobs and wealth.

Daily Caller [9/24/2025 11:29 AM, Christine Sellers, 985K] reports a 24-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant who allegedly posed as a homeless teen and enrolled in an Ohio high school pleaded guilty Monday to lying in immigration documents and firearm applications. Anthony Emmanuel Labrador-Sierra pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by an alien unlawfully in the U.S., making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm and two counts of making or using false writings or documents, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio press release. Labrador-Sierra "submitted a false date of birth to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on federal applications for Temporary Protective Status and Employment Authorization Documents in 2024 and 2025," the indictment said. Labrador-Sierra was arrested in May 2025 for identity fraud, according to a police report obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Authorities said Labrador-Sierra was an overstay on an expired work visa and falsely posed as a minor, enrolling himself in school for over a year before his actual identity was discovered.

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The Hill [9/24/2025 6:00 AM, Julia Shapero, 12414K] reports President Trump’s decision to raise the fee for H-1B visa applications to $100,000 is sending shock waves through Silicon Valley, as the changes enact new hurdles to hiring foreign talent in the U.S. tech industry. The administration has argued the hefty new fee on visas for highly skilled foreign workers will encourage companies to instead hire American workers amid an ongoing push to steeply curb immigration. However, experts warn the move may have unintended consequences for the American tech sector. "It’s going to be a big blow to the industry and will result in less innovation, less output, less economic growth in the United States," said David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. Trump signed a proclamation Friday increasing the H-1B visa fee to $100,000. It previously cost between $2,000 and $5,000, according to NBC News. "No more will these Big Tech companies or other big companies train foreign workers," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said alongside the president in the Oval Office. "They have to pay the government $100,000. Then they have to pay the employee. So, it’s just not economic.” "If you’re going to train somebody, you’re going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land. Train Americans. Stop bringing in people to take our jobs, that’s our policy here," he added. Tech companies are particularly dependent on the H-1B program. Amazon was the top recipient of new H-1B approvals in fiscal 2024, according to data from the National Foundation for American Policy.

Washington Post [9/24/2025 10:00 AM, Karishma Mehrotra and Supriya Kumar, 29079K] reports President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications has not only dealt another blow to a U.S.-India relationship in decline, it has also reenergized an old debate here about the effects of brain drain and the country’s economic future. Indian leaders and entrepreneurs have been quick to argue that the policy change — seen as effectively closing the visa pathway for the vast majority of applicants — could represent an opportunity to retain more highly skilled workers. But analysts argue that the country lacks the infrastructure to absorb them, meaning professionals may still see migration as the most viable path. Canada, Britain and China, among others, have already highlighted their openness to skilled workers from India, which could lead to a realignment of global talent flows. “These people who want to leave India might stay only because there is no option,” said Ashwini Deshpande, the head of the economics department at Ashoka University. “But if India wants to benefit from their expertise, then India needs to develop that ecosystem.”

Reuters [9/24/2025 11:54 AM, Chandini Monnappa, Rishika Sadam, and Manoj Kumar, 45746K] reports Paridhi Upadhaya was packing her bags after securing a computer science scholarship in the U.S. until headlines of President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown last week prompted her family in Lucknow, India to scrap the plan. "Trump’s unending onslaught against immigrants is forcing us to consider other destinations for her," the 18-year-old’s father Rudar Pratap said. Upadhaya is among thousands of Indians for whom the American dream of world-class education, lucrative careers, better quality of life and social mobility, is turning sour due to rising U.S. visa restrictions and policy unpredictability. For decades, the H-1B visa has been the gateway to a new life: a chance for young engineers and scientists from India, China and other countries to turn years of study into high-paying jobs and the possibility of permanent residency. But last week, Trump said new H-1B visa applications would cost $100,000, up from the roughly $2,000 to $5,000 employers were paying to sponsor workers. Over 13,000 kilometres (8,000 miles) from Lucknow in Dallas, Texas, an Indian student pursuing a master’s degree in computer science is staring at $80,000 in debt and an uncertain future. "Right now, the only aim is to finish my degree, find an internship, and try to recover my debt," said the student, who asked not to be named for fear of being targeted by immigration officials. "I’ll move to Canada or Europe -- anywhere that actually wants us."

NewsMax [9/24/2025 10:14 PM, Michael Katz, 4779K] reports President Donald Trump’s border crackdown posted another milestone in August: Zero illegal immigrants were released into the U.S. via parole for the fourth straight month, as total encounters fell to historic lows, according to Customs and Border Protection. CBP reported 26,197 total encounters nationwide in August, 93% below the Biden administration-era monthly peak of 370,883 in August 2023. At the southwest border, Border Patrol recorded 6,319 apprehensions, averaging 204 a day. CBP contrasted those figures with August 2024, when Border Patrol paroled 10,186 migrants along the southwest border under Biden-era policies. Since Trump returned to office, the administration has effectively shut off humanitarian/public-benefit parole pipelines. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services paused new I-134A sponsor filings on Jan. 28, pending a review of categorical parole programs. And the Department of Homeland Security began terminating the CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela) parole processes in June. "We are proving every day that tough, consistent enforcement works," CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said Friday in a statement in a news release. "Border crossings are at record lows, mass catch-and-release is over, and our agents are delivering results for the American people."

CBS News [9/24/2025 3:07 PM, Nicole Sganga, 45245K] reports in a joint U.S.-Mexican operation last month, authorities tracked down a cartel leader accused of running a gruesome infant trafficking ring in northern Mexico, according to senior intelligence officials. Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, known as "La Diabla," was captured on Sept. 2 after officials say the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, referred to by the U.S. as CJNG, lured a handful of pregnant women — often in vulnerable or impoverished circumstances — to remote areas. Once there, CJNG traffickers allegedly performed illegal cesarean operations on the women, killing the mothers and allegedly harvesting their organs postmortem, and placing newborns into illicit markets, according to senior intelligence officials. The infants were then sold to couples in the United States for as much as 250,000 pesos or roughly $14,000 each, according to the senior intelligence officials. Mexican authorities were tipped off by intelligence provided by the National Counterterrorism Center, under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Senior intelligence officials say the arrest involved support from the U.S. Marshals Service, FBI El Paso, Diplomatic Security Service and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, with Mexican law enforcement executing the operation alongside "Fiscalia Especializada en la Mujer" or the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Women. Aguilar remains in Mexican custody, according to senior intelligence officials. The investigation into the alleged trafficking ring remains ongoing.

DailySignal [9/24/2025 5:05 PM, Virginia Allen, 668K] reports the Trump administration removed as many of 1,500 illegal aliens from the U.S. every day during the month of August, according to the House Committee on Homeland Security’s latest fact sheet. The 85% decrease in encounters with illegal aliens at U.S. borders, when compared to August 2024, is a testament to the Trump administration’s "whole of government" approach to address the border crisis, according to Andrew Garbarino, the committee chairman. At the southern border, encounters with illegal immigrants are down nearly 91% since last August, and daily apprehensions between ports of entry averaged 204 last month, a 96% decline from the average during the Biden administration, according to the fact sheet. For four months straight, Customs and Border Protection has not paroled a single inadmissible alien into the interior of the U.S., "compared to the 10,186 inadmissible aliens that were released under [President] Joe Biden last August," according to the committee. Since returning to the White House on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has signed a number of executive orders aimed at securing the U.S. border with Mexico and discouraging illegal immigration. The next priority for Congress, according to Guest, R-Miss., is "codifying President Trump’s border security success into law to ensure we never face another historic border crisis again." The increased security and enforcement measure at the southern border has led to an increase in attempted maritime drug smuggling. Just since August, the U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than 75,000 pounds of cocaine, and apprehended about 60 suspected cartel members, according to the committee. Since Trump took office, the FBI has made over 25,000 immigration-related arrests, including 350 members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and 195 MS-13 gang members. Further border security measures are expected in the coming months following Trump signing the "Big, Beautiful Bill" in July. House Committee on Homeland Security will hold its annual Worldwide Threats hearing next month and will "continuing our work to codify these successful border security policies for future generations of Americans," Garbarino said.

New York Times [9/24/2025 6:33 PM, Ana Swanson, 143795K] reports American customs officials said on Wednesday that the United States would begin barring imports of bicycles manufactured in Taiwan by Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., saying that they had uncovered information indicating that the company was using forced labor. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that it would begin detaining bicycles, bicycle parts and accessories manufactured in Taiwan by Giant effective immediately under what is known as a “withhold release order.” Giant is the world’s largest bike manufacturer, and its products can be found in large stores like Wal-Mart, along with smaller, independent bike shops. Customs said it was taking action in the wake of an investigation into Giant, which found abusive working and living conditions, debt bondage, withholding of wages, excessive overtime and other indicators of forced labor. The government said that those factors had allowed the company to price its products for less than what American bicycle producers charge, resulting in “millions of dollars in unjustly earned profits.” “CBP has a proven track record of cracking down on companies that use forced labor to the detriment of law-abiding U.S. businesses,” the bureau’s commissioner, Rodney S. Scott, said in a statement. Giant Bicycles could not immediately be reached for comment. Customs and Border Protection currently has 53 withhold release orders in effect against various products, including certain cotton, apparel, machinery and electronics, the vast majority of which were imposed before President Trump returned to the White House.

Axios [9/24/2025 6:12 PM, Herb Scribner, 14595K] reports Check your freezer — there are concerns over potentially radioactive shrimp again. Federal health officials first warned in August that certain shrimp might be contaminated with radioactive isotopes, prompting recalls in 12 states. Eating the shrimp won’t give you crustacean-based superpowers. But prolonged exposure can cause sickness and death. The Food and Drug Administration announced a recall Tuesday of multiple frozen shrimp bags possibly contaminated with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope. Both Aquastar and Lawrence Wholesale LLC issued recalls for items sold at Kroger, Ralphs, Smith’s and over a dozen other stores, per the FDA. The Kroger Company, Aquastar and Lawrence Wholesale did not respond to Axios’ request for comment Wednesday evening. No illnesses have been reported, and no shrimp that tested positive for the radioactive isotope has entered the U.S. commerce supply. The FDA is investigating the matter with BMS Foods, which manufactured the products. The food "appears to have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with Cs-137 and may pose a safety concern," the FDA said.

Blaze [9/24/2025 11:15 AM, Paul Sacca, 1559K] reports a Tennessee man who has fostered approximately 20 children was arrested in Florida after authorities discovered child pornography on his phone while he was returning from a cruise with his family, according to court documents. Jason Alan Miller, 48, was arrested and charged with transportation of child pornography and possession of child pornography, according to an arrest affidavit. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office told Blaze News that the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Miller on Sept. 13 and booked him into the Broward County Main Jail. Following an eight-day cruise in the Caribbean, the Carnival Horizon ship returned Saturday to the Port of Miami, according to Cruisemapper, a cruise information app and website. According to the affidavit obtained by WJHL-TV, Miller disembarked from the ship along with his pregnant wife and eight children, all ages 5 through 12 — seven of whom he adopted after fostering them. After arriving at the port, officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection selected Miller for secondary inspection, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. The affidavit said CBP officers inspected Miller’s personal property, including a Samsung Galaxy cell phone. Miller provided the passcode to unlock the cell phone, according to the affidavit. WJHL reported, "While searching the device ‘pursuant to border search authority,’ officers found several photos of suspected child sexual abuse material in the device’s saved Google Photos application in a folder named ‘telegram,’ according to the affidavit.”

USA Today [9/24/2025 3:34 PM, Natalie Neysa Alund, 64151K] reports federal officials have declared Travis Decker dead, months after he was charged with murder in the deaths of his three daughters in Washington state. While authorities await the results of DNA testing to confirm the identity of human remains found last week, the U.S. Marshals Service declared Decker dead in court papers written to a federal judge, according to court documents obtained by USA TODAY. Prosecutors asked the judge to drop the arrest warrant. The fugitive was sought in the killings of his three daughters, who were found dead near a Washington state campground in June. According to court documents filed on Wednesday, Sept. 24, U.S. Attorney S. Peter Serrano with the Eastern District of Washington said the U.S. Marshals advised prosecutors that Decker is dead. Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison said Sept. 24 he had read the court affidavit filed to the prosecutor’s office, but said his office officials was still awaiting DNA results to confirm the man’s identity. In addition to the sheriff’s office and state troopers, law enforcement agencies including the U.S. Marshals Service, FBI, Border Patrol, and Forest Service aided in the search. A motive in the killings remained under investigation, but police said the girls’ father exhibited mental health issues prior to the girls’ deaths, court filings obtained by USA TODAY showed.

ABC News [9/25/2025 2:31 AM, Jon Haworth, 27036K] reports Border Patrol agents in San Diego rescued an injured cyclist who fell more than 50 feet from a cliff and into a remote canyon, authorities said. On Saturday, San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents working in the vicinity of Otay Lakes County Park in California "heard cries for help originating from a canyon adjacent to the Sweetwater Dam," according to a statement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday. After hearing the calls for help, agents began investigating and hiked into the canyon where they encountered a man suffering from multiple serious injuries, officials said. "The cyclist told agents he lost his footing while walking his bike along a trail on the canyon wall, falling more than 50 feet into the bottom of the canyon," CBP said in their statement regarding the incident. "Unable to move for hours, he called for help until he was finally found by the Border Patrol agents.” Additional agents, including a Border Patrol emergency medical technician, arrived on scene to assist with the rescue operation and stabilize the injured man, authorities said. "There is no doubt in my mind that these agents saved this man’s life," said San Diego Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Jeffrey D. Stalnaker. "I am truly thankful the agents were in the right place at the right time to make a difference.” The injured cyclist was airlifted by a San Diego Fire-Rescue helicopter and taken to a local hospital to receive treatment for his injuries. Officials did not give any details on the man’s medical condition. Agents returned to the scene the next day to recover the bike and other personal belongings, ultimately delivering the items to the cyclist’s wife, authorities said.

The Hill [9/24/2025 2:17 PM, Max Rego, 12414K] reports that United Airlines and American Airlines were plagued by flight delays Wednesday due to a brief ground stoppage and technical issue, respectively. A United spokesperson told The Hill on Wednesday that the airline "experienced a brief connectivity issue just before midnight Central time on Tuesday, but has since resumed normal operations." The stoppage impacted all United flights in the U.S. and Canada. The spokesperson added that the stoppage stemmed from an inability to connect to the airline’s technology network during maintenance, but departures resumed after 36 minutes and the outage is not connected to a cybersecurity threat. According to Flightaware.com, more than 170 United flights were delayed as of midday Wednesday, while 14 were canceled. The United spokesperson said no cancellations were because of the outage and that "only a small handful" of the delays were. Last month, more than 1,000 United flights were delayed due to what the airline called a "technology disruption." The stoppage Wednesday is unrelated to the August disruption, the United spokesperson added. Hours after the United stoppage, American began experiencing what a spokesperson called "a technical issue impacting some of our maintenance applications," in a statement obtained by NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company. The airline also claimed that no flights have been canceled. But according to Flightaware.com, at least 995 American flights were delayed and 63 were canceled as of midday Wednesday.

The AP [9/24/2025 5:45 PM, Michael Casey, 37974K] reports a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled on Wednesday that it’s unconstitutional to require states to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get funding for disasters, which is overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A coalition of 20 state Democratic attorneys general in May filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the Trump administration is threatening to withhold billions of dollars of disaster-relief funds unless states agree to certain immigration enforcement actions. In a ruling granting a summary judgment to the plaintiffs and denying one for the federal government, U.S. District Judge William Smith found that the “contested conditions are arbitrary and capricious” and that the actions are unconstitutional because they are “coercive, ambiguous, unrelated to the purpose of the federal grants.” In their complaint, states argued that for decades they counted on federal funding to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. But they argued conditions put forward by the Trump administration requiring them to commit state resources to immigration enforcement put at risk funding for everything from mitigating earthquake and flood risks to managing active wildfires. They argued successfully that this not only was unconstitutional but that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act, a law that governs the process by which federal agencies develop and issue regulations. Bloomberg Law News [9/24/2025 4:28 PM, Megan Crepeau, 75K] reports that the administration wanted grant recipients to certify they don’t "operate any program that benefits illegal immigrants or incentivizes illegal immigration" and promise to "honor requests for cooperation" in immigration enforcement. The conditions were imposed to comply with an executive order calling for cutting funds to so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions. But in court, the administration "made no attempt to claim that it examined the relevant data or articulated a fact-based reason for its actions," and gave no "actual explanation of why it is necessary to attach sweeping immigration conditions to all the grants at issue here," Smith wrote, finding the conditions "arbitrary and capricious" in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act and unconstitutional under the spending clause.

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USA Today [9/24/2025 8:32 AM, Julia Gomez and Gabe Hauari, 64151K] reports Hurricane Gabrielle continues to pick up strength in the Atlantic and move away from the U.S. towards Portugal and Spain. The hurricane, now a Category 3, is expected to reach the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal in the mid-Atlantic, late on Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Meteorological Service of Portugal issued a hurricane warning for the islands. Forecasters said in an early morning advisory on Sept. 24 that Gabrielle was located about 1,360 miles west of the Azores, with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. The storm is forecasted to dissipate early Saturday morning, before it reaches Portugal early Monday morning. The storm’s path has shifted away from the U.S., so there are currently no coastal watches or warnings in effect; however, swells generated by the hurricane will still impact Bermuda. The swells are also expected to reach the east coast of the U.S. from North Carolina northward, as well as Atlantic Canada, and are expected to continue through the early part of this week, forecasters said. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Meanwhile in the Pacific, Hurricane Narda has strengthened, but remains south of Baja, California. According to an early morning advisory on Sept. 24, the storm continues to move toward the west at 13 mph. There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect. The storm is expected to continue moving west over the next couple of days.

AP [9/24/2025 12:11 PM, Staff, 37974K] reports that Tropical Storm Humberto formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday at the same time Hurricane Gabrielle was racing across the ocean toward the Azores islands, forecasters said. A hurricane warning was in effect for the volcanic archipelago which could experience dangerous conditions from Gabrielle as early as Thursday, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. The Category 2 storm is forecast to weaken but could cause significant coastal flooding in the island chain as well as large, destructive waves, forecasters said. From Thursday into Friday, Gabrielle may bring up to 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain across the central and western Azores. In the Northern Atlantic, Gabrielle was centered about 1,010 miles (1,625 kilometers) west of the Azores on Wednesday afternoon. It had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (160 kph) and was traveling to the east at 28 mph (45 kph). Waves generated by Gabrielle will continue to affect Bermuda, the U.S. East Coast from North Carolina northward and the Atlantic coast of Canada, forecasters said. Life-threatening surf and rip currents are possible. Tropical Storm Humberto was located 550 miles (885 kilometers) east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), the weather center said. Humberto is expected to affect the eastern coast of the U.S. with 39 mph winds within the next five days.

NPR [9/24/2025 5:18 PM, Gerard Albert III, 34837K] Audio: HERE reports a year after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of Western North Carolina, communities are eager for FEMA funds to reimburse recovery expenses, but it’s not clear when and if that money will come.

Washington Post [9/24/2025 2:50 PM, Brianna Sacks, 29079K] reports that on a Friday morning in July, shortly after deadly Independence Day floods swept through parts of Texas Hill Country packed with camps full of young children, the Federal Emergency Management Agency scrambled to coordinate a response. The next afternoon, teams readied search-and-rescue crews, imagery and other emergency equipment. Then their hustling hit a roadblock. They couldn’t reach a key U.S. official needed to deploy the resources, one required by law to be accessible during emergencies: FEMA’s acting administrator, David Richardson. Just a few weeks earlier, his boss, homeland security chief Kristi L. Noem, instituted a policy requiring her approval for any expenditure over $100,000. That meant, in order to deploy resources to Texas, FEMA officials needed Richardson to get those requests in front of Noem — fast. But for about 24 hours in the early aftermath of one of the nation’s deadliest flash flooding events in decades, key staff members could not reach FEMA’s top official, according to eight current and former officials with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they said they feared retaliation. The agency’s typical posture is to get resources to a disaster zone before state and local governments even have to ask for them, current and former officials have said, because minutes can cost lives. "Nobody could get ahold of him for hours and hours," said one D.C.-based senior official who coordinated search-and-rescue resources.

FOX News [9/24/2025 1:53 PM, Michael Dorgan, 40019K] reports that Camp Mystic, a long-running private Christian girls’ summer camp where 27 girls and counselors died in Texas flooding on the Fourth of July, will reopen next year, according to the camp’s operators. The camp will reopen in conjunction with its 100th anniversary and one year after the deadly flash floods that swept through the site along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County this summer. The summer camp made the announcement on Monday in an email to families enrolled in the 2025 camp. Some families have criticized the camp over its safety measures and preparedness in the wake of the tragedy. Leaders said they will reopen Camp Mystic Cypress Lake, a sister site opened in 2020 that was not destroyed by the flood. The original campus, which is located along the Guadalupe River and suffered "devastating damage," will remain closed, and is not expected to reopen next year, officials added. "As we work to finalize plans, we will do so in a way that is mindful of those we have lost," the letter said, according to The Associated Press. The owners said they will be designing and building a memorial "dedicated to the lives of the campers and counselors lost on July 4th," according to ABC News. "We hope this space will serve as a place of reflection and remembrance of these beautiful girls," the camp’s statement read. "We continue to pray for the grieving families and all those who lost loved ones."

Bloomberg [9/24/2025 3:28 PM, Myles Miller, 19085K] reports the US Secret Service investigation into a suspicious network of communication devices in the New York City area came after threatening phone calls were made to two White House aides and a top law enforcement official, according to people familiar with the matter. The calls, which originated with a network of phone technology through the New York area, spurred the Secret Service to mount the investigation that uncovered the clandestine telecom ring that was revealed on Tuesday. The nature of the targets and their proximity to President Donald Trump convinced investigators they were facing a coordinated campaign rather than ordinary harassment by someone attempting a phishing scam or other low-level fraud, according to the people familiar with the probe. A Secret Service intelligence team known as the Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit found a network of more than 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards scattered across the New York region, concealed in unmarked buildings and apartments. Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field office, said “the timing, the location, the proximity of this network had the potential to impact the UN.” No arrests have been made. Officials said the network’s operators are still being sought, and the inquiry is expected to broaden as investigators run down leads that stretch from foreign governments to domestic criminal groups.

Reuters [9/24/2025 7:10 PM, Jarrett Renshaw, 45746K] reports President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the Secret Service was investigating what he described as "sabotage" at the United Nations, alleging that an escalator malfunction, a teleprompter failure and sound problems disrupted his appearance at the world body a day earlier. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, said an escalator carrying him and his wife Melania "came to a screeching halt" on the way to the main floor, nearly causing them to fall. He called for the arrest of whoever was responsible. He also said his teleprompter went dark at the start of his speech and that world leaders in the hall could not hear him because the sound system had failed. "Not one, not two, but three very sinister events!" Trump wrote. U.N. officials have said the escalator’s built-in safety mechanism had been triggered and that the teleprompter was operated by the White House, not the organization. Calling the series of events "triple sabotage," Trump said he had asked the U.N. to preserve security camera footage and demanded an investigation. He said the Secret Service was looking into the matter. U.N. officials did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on Trump’s call for an investigation. U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday that a readout of the escalator’s central processing unit indicated it "had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator.” Dujarric said Trump’s videographer had been traveling backward up the escalator to capture his arrival with the first lady. "The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function," he said. The Hill [9/24/2025 6:11 PM, Brett Samuels, 12414K] reports “This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN. They ought to be ashamed of themselves,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I’m sending a copy of this letter to the Secretary General, and I demand an immediate investigation. “No wonder the United Nations hasn’t been able to do the job that they were put in existence to do,” he added. “All security tapes at the escalator should be saved, especially the emergency stop button. The Secret Service is involved.” Trump mentioned both the escalator malfunction and the teleprompter issues right at the start of his speech as he criticized the United Nations for failing to live up to its potential. Blaze [9/24/2025 10:45 AM, Staff, 1559K] reports that a report from the Sunday Times said that "UN staff members have joked that they may turn off the escalators and elevators" in anticipation of Trump’s appearance and "tell him they ran out of money." This excerpt has led many to speculate that U.N. staff may have intentionally sabotaged the escalator, causing a serious security risk for the president. "If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately," press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X. Leavitt later announced that the United States Secret Service launched an investigation to determine whether the malfunction was intentional. "If we find that these were U.N. staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up — literally trip up — the president and the first lady of the United States, there better be accountability for those people, and I will personally see to it," Leavitt said.

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Breitbart [9/24/2025 2:10 PM, Nick Gilbertson, 2608K] reports that the United Nations claims that a videographer may have accidentally been responsible for the abrupt escalator shutdown on Wednesday when President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived for the General Assembly in New York City. Meanwhile, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News she believes the president was sabotaged, and emphasized the Secret Service is "looking into" the matter. The U.N. has claimed the escalator stoppage was not a deliberate act. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric claimed a videographer with the U.S. delegation could have accidentally triggered a safety feature at the top of the escalator, causing it to stop running, as London’s Times reported: A subsequent investigation, including a readout of the machine’s central processing unit, indicated that the escalator had stopped after a built-in safety mechanism on the comb step was triggered at the top of the escalator. The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing. The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function described above. On Tuesday afternoon, Leavitt notably shared a screenshot from a Sunday Times article published last weekend about how U.N. staffers reportedly mused about sabotaging the escalator for the president’s arrival. Leavitt noted during an appearance on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime that the U.S. Secret Service was "looking into" the matter and said the escalator issue and subsequent teleprompter problems that occurred during Trump’s address do not appear coincidental.

Washington Post [9/24/2025 3:58 PM, Leo Sands and Naomi Schanen, 29079K] reports an escalator that refused to escalate. A teleprompter that failed to prompt. President Donald Trump encountered a pair of mishaps as he addressed the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, prompting him to chastise his host for its apparent failings in his address. “These are the two things I got from the United Nations,” Trump jibed on Tuesday, including the escalator and teleprompter glitches among his list of grievances with the U.N. on its biggest stage. In a fiery speech, the president also upbraided the organization for focusing too much on climate change and positioned his domestic agenda as a global playbook for others to follow. But according to the U.N., both mishaps may have been inadvertently caused by members of the White House’s own team. Though Trump tried to make light of the incidents, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was more serious, repeatedly suggesting the possibility of foul play. “If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately,” Leavitt said in a social media post that afternoon, pointing to a report over the weekend in Britain’s Times newspaper that U.N. staff members had joked about turning off the escalators due to a lack of funding. (The body is in the midst of a funding crisis, largely because the United States has refused to contribute to its regular budget since Trump took office.) In response to a question on Fox News that evening, Leavitt went further. The Secret Service was investigating both the malfunctioning escalator and broken teleprompter, she said, suggesting they could have been acts of sabotage.

FOX News [9/24/2025 10:30 AM, Diana Stancy Fox, 40019K] reports Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem are both on board with establishing a secretary of the Coast Guard, Fox News Digital has learned. The Coast Guard is the only military service that falls under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security and does not have a top civilian secretary leading the service — unlike the Navy, Army and Air Force. However, momentum is building — both within the administration and on Capitol Hill — to reform the Coast Guard and revamp its standards so that it better aligns with the armed services that fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of War. As a result, Hegseth said that establishing a service secretary would facilitate the Coast Guard’s ability to "support the full spectrum of national security operations," according to a Thursday letter Fox News Digital obtained from Hegseth to Noem. "I view the creation of a Secretary of the Coast Guard as a vital step toward strengthening strategic integration and alignment between the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of War," Hegseth said in the letter. "Furthermore, a Secretary of the Coast Guard would reinforce civilian oversight of the military, a foundational principle of our Constitution," Hegseth said. "A dedicated Service Secretary would promote appropriate executive accountability and policy guidance for the Coast Guard’s critical mission set, provide clear leadership and advocacy, and ensure that the Service is effectively advancing the priorities of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the President of the United States."

ABC News [9/25/2025 3:27 AM, Jon Haworth, 27036K] reports the U.S. Coast Guard seized over five tons of narcotics, including 8,700 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $64.5 million, in the Caribbean Sea, officials said. The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Diligence, a 210-foot vessel whose primary missions are counter-drug and alien interdiction operations, enforcement of federal fishery laws and search and rescue operations, seized the contraband over two major interdictions in August and September in international waters of the Caribbean Sea, according to a statement from the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday. On Aug. 7, Diligence’s crew detected and boarded a suspicious vessel moving very quickly approximately 136 miles southwest of Negril, Jamaica. "Diligence’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing 1,500 pounds of marijuana. The contraband was transferred to and offloaded by Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton (WMSL 753), as part of the largest quantity of drugs offloaded in Coast Guard history, in Port Everglades, on Aug. 25," the USCG said. Almost one month later, on Sep. 6, a maritime patrol craft spotted another suspicious fast-moving vessel approximately 240 miles north of Panama. "Diligence’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing more than 8,700 pounds of cocaine," the USCG said. "The cocaine was offloaded by Diligence’s crew and transferred to case agents in St. Petersburg, Monday.” "I am remarkably proud of the crew and appreciative of the efforts of JIATF-S and Coast Guard District Southeast," said Cmdr. Colin McKee, commanding officer Diligence. "This joint effort helped us prevent more than four tons of illegal drugs from entering the United States. While this offload marks another milestone in our efforts to counter narco-terrorism, the Coast Guard remains relentless in our operations to control, secure, and defend U.S. borders and maritime approaches.” Coast Guard officials said that they continue increased operations "to interdict, seize and disrupt transshipments of cocaine and other bulk illicit drugs by sea.” "These drugs fuel and enable foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations to produce and traffic illegal fentanyl, threatening the United States," USCG said. "Detecting and interdicting narco-terrorism on the high seas involves significant interagency and international coordination because 80% of U.S.-bound drugs are interdicted on the high seas.” Interdictions in the Caribbean Sea are performed by members of the U.S. Coast Guard under the authority and control of Coast Guard District Southeast, headquartered in Miami, officials said.

MeriTalk [9/24/2025 11:50 AM, Weslan Hansen] reports Steve Casapulla has been tapped to serve as the assistant director for infrastructure security at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the agency announced on Tuesday. Casapulla had previously worked with CISA as its associate chief of strategy for almost 14 years, followed by a nearly two-year stint as the director of critical infrastructure cybersecurity at the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD). “I am pleased to have Steve expand his role on CISA’s leadership team,” said Madhu Gottumukkala, acting director of CISA, in a statement. “With his extensive experience in critical infrastructure security and working with stakeholders, he is perfectly poised to lead our efforts in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure. I look forward to working with him on this important mission.” The new assistant director left his role at the ONCD in May and has continuously served as a commander within the U.S. Navy Reserve for over 22 years. His other federal work includes roles at the Small Business Administration and at the Department of State in Iraq. “I’m honored to take on this critical role at CISA and deeply appreciate the trust placed in me by President Trump and Secretary Noem,” said Casapulla in a statement. “I am committed to advancing CISA’s mission and ensuring the security and resilience of our nation’s critical infrastructure and the American people.” CISA said that Casapulla will also continue to serve as the interim assistant director for the agency’s National Risk Management Center, and as its acting chief strategy officer.

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CNN [9/24/2025 10:03 AM, Sean Lyngaas, 23245K] reports a team of suspected Chinese hackers has infiltrated US software developers and law firms in a sophisticated campaign to collect intelligence that could help Beijing in its ongoing trade fight with Washington, Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Wednesday. The hackers have been rampant in recent weeks, hitting the cloud-computing firms that numerous American companies rely on to store key data, Mandiant said. In a sign of how important China’s hacking army is in the race for tech supremacy, the hackers have also stolen US tech firms’ proprietary software and used it to find new vulnerabilities to burrow deeper into networks, according to Mandiant. The FBI is investigating the intrusions and US officials are still trying to understand the full scope of the hacks, sources told CNN. It’s a fresh five-alarm fire for the FBI’s cyber experts, who at any given time are investigating multiple sophisticated Chinese cyber-espionage campaigns aimed at US government and corporate secrets. In some cases, the hackers have lurked undetected in the US corporate networks for over a year, quietly collecting intelligence, Mandiant said. The disclosure comes after the Trump administration escalated America’s trade war with China this spring by slapping unprecedented tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States. The tit-for-tat tariffs set off a scramble in both governments to understand each other’s positions. "The FBI is aware of this matter and we continue to work with our law enforcement and private sector partners," a bureau spokesperson told CNN. "We encourage the public to contact their local field office or tips.fbi.gov, if they believe to be a victim.” The suspected Chinese hackers are "very active right now," said Charles Carmakal, Mandiant’s chief technology officer. "We believe that there are many organizations that are actively compromised that don’t know about it.” This is "the most prevalent [cyber] adversary in the United States over the past several years," Carmakal said.

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CyberScoop [9/24/2025 10:19 AM, Tim Starks] reports ambitious, suspected Chinese hackers with a slew of goals — stealing intellectual property, mining intelligence on national security and trade, developing avenues for future advanced cyberattacks — have been setting up shop inside U.S. target networks for exceptionally long stretches of time, in a breach that the researchers who uncovered it said could present problems for years to come. Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) researchers described the campaign as exceptionally sophisticated, stealthy and complex, calling those behind it a “next-level threat.” But they don’t yet have a full handle on who the hackers are behind the malware they’ve dubbed Brickstorm, or how far it stretches. A blog post the company posted Wednesday sheds light on the group. The primary targets are legal services organizations and tech companies that provide security services, the researchers said. But the hackers aren’t limiting their interest to the primary targets, since they’ve used that access to infiltrate “downstream” customers. The researchers declined to describe those downstream customers, or say whether U.S. federal agencies are among those targeted. A great many of them don’t know yet that they’re victims, they said. By stealing intellectual property from security-as-a-service (SaaS) firms, the hackers aim to find future zero-day vulnerabilities, a kind of vulnerability that is previously unknown and unpatched and thus highly prized, in order to enable more attacks down the line, the researchers from Mandiant and its parent company Google said. The researchers declined to comment on possible Chinese government agency connections. But they see overlap with Chinese hacking groups like the one they’ve labeled UNC5221 — perhaps best known for exploiting Ivanti flaws, and a group that Mandiant and GTIIG described as the “most prevalent” Chinese-centered threat group right now — and the one Microsoft calls Silk Typhoon, which researchers warned recently has been ramping up its attacks this year, with targets including IT supply chains and the cloud. Silk Typhoon is believed to be Chinese government-sponsored.

Daily Wire [9/24/2025 10:00 AM, Leif Le Mahieu, 3184K] reports a pro-Palestinian agitation group that celebrated the murder of two Israeli Embassy staff members in May should be classified as a foreign terrorist organization, a watchdog organization told Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Zachor Legal Institute said Tuesday that the radical group Unity of Fields should be considered a terrorist organization, according to a copy of a complaint sent to Rubio obtained by The Daily Wire. Unity of Fields, previously known as Palestine Action US, is an organization that has called for police officers to be set on fire and encouraged anti-Israel protesters to commit crimes. Unity of Fields "is a foreign entity that engages in terrorism and threatens the security of the United States, its institutions, and its people. By promoting terrorism, vandalism, engaging in various acts of violence, and by inciting violence against various targets including law enforcement, police, universities, individuals, and others, UoF has met the criteria to be designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization," a draft of the complaint said. "Treating UoF as the terrorist group will enable the full force and assets of the United States government to dismantle the organization and its leaders and prevent them from wreaking havoc against their many targets throughout our country in the future," the complaint added.

Washington Examiner [9/24/2025 3:32 PM, Molly Parks, 1563K] reports the Department of Homeland Security had warned about radicalization threats posed to youth audiences within certain online platforms, such as Discord, over seven months before the murder of Charlie Kirk. The warning came in a January intelligence assessment, according to documents shared with the Washington Examiner. Discord, an online social media messaging platform, made headlines this month over reports that Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, used the platform. The FBI is investigating a Discord chat in which Robinson allegedly confessed to the murder. Property of The People, an accountability nonprofit organization that disseminates government documents it obtains through records requests, shared three government documents related to the online radicalization of U.S. youth with the Washington Examiner. Two are DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis documents, and one is an Ohio Statewide Terrorism Analysis & Crime Center document that provides a regional perspective on each federal report.

Los Angeles Times [9/24/2025 6:00 AM, Kate Linthicum, 12715K] reports that to help justify a sweeping deportation campaign, an extraordinary U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean and unprecedented strikes on boats allegedly trafficking drugs, President Trump has repeated a mantra: Tren de Aragua. He insists that the street gang, which was founded about a decade ago in Venezuela, is attempting an “invasion” of the United States and threatens “the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.” Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump described the group as “an enemy of all humanity” and an arm of Venezuela’s authoritarian government. According to experts who study the gang and Trump’s own intelligence officials, none of that is true. While Tren de Aragua has been linked to cases of human trafficking, extortion and kidnapping and has expanded its footprint as Venezuela’s diaspora has spread throughout the Americas, there is little evidence that it poses a threat to the U.S. “Tren de Aragua does not have the capacity to invade any country, especially the most powerful nation on Earth,” said Ronna Rísquez, a Venezuelan journalist who wrote a book about the gang. The group’s prowess, she said, had been vastly exaggerated by the Trump administration in order to rationalize the deportation of migrants, the militarization of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, and perhaps even an effort to drive Venezuela’s president from power.

“It is being instrumentalized to justify political actions,” she said of the gang. “In no way does it endanger the national security of the United States.”

Bloomberg [9/24/2025 2:19 PM, Patricia Hurtado, 790K] reports that the federal judge presiding over Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case warned Justice Department officials to stop making statements that link him to "left-wing" extremism, saying there could be punishments for future comments. US District Judge Margaret Garnett issued the directive Wednesday after Mangione’s lawyers complained that top government officials, including President Donald Trump, made comments that violate rules that bar out of court statements that interfere with a fair trial. Mangione, 27, is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson in December outside a midtown Manhattan hotel. The ruling comes as Mangione’s lawyers try to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the federal case, arguing that comments by administration officials have improperly linked him to other recent acts of political violence, such as the murder of Charlie Kirk in Utah. Luigi Mangione arrives for a pretrial hearing at New York State Supreme Court on Sept. 16. "The attempts to connect Mr. Mangione with these incidents and paint him as a ‘left wing’ violent extremist are false, prejudicial, and part of a greater political narrative that has no place in any criminal case, especially one where the death penalty is at stake," Mangione’s lawyers said in a court filing. Garnett directed prosecutors in the case to advise Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and other top Justice Department officials that "future violations may result in sanctions, which could include personal financial penalties, contempt of court findings, or relief specific to the prosecution of this matter." The Justice Department and Nick Biase, a spokesman for Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton, declined to comment. Mangione, who has pleaded not guilty, also faces New York state murder charges.

The Hill [9/24/2025 7:06 PM, Filip Timotija, 12414K] reports Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth is seeking the death penalty for former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people and injured dozens of others at Texas’s Fort Hood nearly 16 years ago. Hegseth is asking President Trump for final approval for the military execution of Hasan, an ex-Army psychiatrist who gunned down 13 people and wounded 32 others at the Army base near Killeen, Texas, in November 2009. "I am 100 percent committed to ensuring the death penalty is carried out for Nidal Hasan. This savage terrorist deserves the harshest lawful punishment for his 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays," Hegseth said in a statement to The Hill on Wednesday. The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment. If approved by the White House, it would be the first military execution in more than six decades. The last military execution took place in 1961, when former soldier John Bennett was hanged. FOX News [9/24/2025 6:43 PM, Emma Bussey and Jasmine Baehr, 40019K] reports Hasan admitted to the shooting and claimed it was necessary to protect the "Islamic Empire" from American forces. The Pentagon had categorized the massacre as an act of "workplace violence," a decision that drew sharp criticism from lawmakers, victims’ families and national security experts. They argued it obscured the ideological and terrorist motivations behind the attack. In 2013, a military jury convicted Hasan and sentenced him to death. He has been held on death row at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, ever since. After years of appeals, Hasan’s final legal challenge was rejected in April 2025, clearing the way for execution. The Army secretary has already recommended execution, and the Department of War is advancing the request.

FOX News [9/24/2025 6:41 PM, Alexandra Koch Fox, 40019K] reports two weeks after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated, spokesman Andrew Kolvet revealed who had jurisdiction to monitor the rooftop where the alleged killer fired the fatal shot. Tyler Robinson, 22, is accused of shooting Kirk from the roof of the Losee Center at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, killing the 31-year-old father of two. Many questioned why Robinson was not spotted by Kirk’s security team, who were feet away from him when he was assassinated. On an episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" Wednesday afternoon, Kolvet said the Turning Point USA security team does not have the authority to police rooftops or surrounding areas during campus speaking events. "In defense of our security team, people need to understand that they do not have jurisdiction on the rooftops or the surrounding area," Kolvet said. "Their only jurisdiction on a campus is Charlie’s physical proximity, and they were coordinating with local PD and campus PD to make sure all of those venues [were secure].” Blake Neff, producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," added Turning Point USA did not have counter snipers or Secret Service to monitor the area outside of Kirk’s immediate vicinity. "Many campus PDs do not have drone programs, which is a big problem," Kolvet said. "I’m actually working on that because it’s something they should all have. It should be mandated by some sort of law. … So anyway, just in quick defense of the security, they’re only allowed to protect his immediate vicinity. They have to rely on PD to secure the larger perimeter.” Drones have become an increasingly popular resource for police to monitor crowd movements, traffic flow, and potential security threats.

Daily Caller [9/24/2025 4:28 PM, Hudson Crozier, 985K] reports a Bush-appointed federal judge sentenced a firebomber inspired by Hamas terrorists to nearly 20 years in prison in California, plus restitution and supervised release. Casey Robert Goonan received a terrorism enhancement to his sentence from Senior U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White for committing "a series of arsons and firebombings" at the University of California, Berkeley and an Oakland federal courthouse in June 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday. Goonan, a PhD graduate, has admitted that the attacks were inspired by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, pleading guilty in January to maliciously damaging or destroying property used in or affecting interstate commerce by means of fire or an explosive.

CNN [9/24/2025 11:59 AM, Katelyn Polantz, 662K] reports federal investigators seized multiple documents labeled "secret," "confidential," and "classified," including some about weapons of mass destruction, during the late August search of the office of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, according to newly released court records that are part of an investigation into whether Bolton mishandled defense records. The new details provide additional insight into what evidence federal investigators have collected as they look at possible criminal charges for Bolton, who became a political antagonist of Trump’s after he published a book in summer 2020 about how the president bungled several interactions with and about foreign governments. A manuscript Bolton wrote for the book, titled "The Room Where It Happened," initially contained classified details, federal officials told Bolton at the time, but he hasn’t been charged with any crime. During the recent search of Bolton’s office, agents found a binder about a State Department security briefing for the 2000-2001 administration transition, plus documents about a communications plan, the US Mission to the United Nations, travel and weapons of mass destruction, according to an inventory list that was filed in court and obtained by media outlets this week. CNN and other news organizations had sued for access to the records about the search. The inventory list written by FBI agents specifically said the property removed from Bolton’s Washington, DC, office on August 22 included: "Travel memo documents with pages labeled secret"; "US Mission to the United Nations - Confidential Documents"; "U.S. Government Strategic Communications Plan - Confidential Documents"; and "Confidential Documents with (redacted) heading Weapons of Mass Destruction Classified Documents.” Confidential and Secret are both levels of classification for national security information. The federal agents also took four computers and a USB flash drive from Bolton’s office, according to the records. According to a person familiar with Bolton’s office, the paper documents Bolton had there were not from the Trump administration. Instead, they may have been 20 years old or older – from his earlier tenures in the federal government when he was an under secretary at the State Department and the United Nations ambassador during the second Bush administration. The age of the documents may be important, given that it’s possible they had been declassified by the federal government over the years, the person said, speaking anonymously because the investigation is ongoing. Bolton, 76, has maintained a private office since 2014 for political and policy work, according to public filings.

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Washington Examiner [9/24/2025 12:30 PM, Annabella Rosciglione, 1563K] reports a Florida retiree was barred from leaving Saudi Arabia until next year after being convicted of cyber crimes for social media posts criticizing the crown prince, the man’s son said Wednesday. Saad Almadi, 75, was found guilty of distributing online content that undermines public order. He is one of at least four dual Saudi American nationals who have accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s government of pressuring them to give up their U.S. citizenship. The conviction blocks Almadi from leaving the country until March. He carries a three-year sentence, but his conviction spared him from spending more time in prison after he already spent three years behind bars following his 2021 arrest. His son, Ibrahim Almadi, believes the sentence is aimed at prompting his family and other Americans facing exit bans to silence themselves so as not to interfere with the crown prince’s diplomatic efforts, according to the Associated Press. Diplomacy between Mohammed and the United States has been strained since a report from U.S. intelligence found that he likely ordered the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Reuters [9/25/2025 2:29 AM, Yuka Obayashi, 45746K] reports there is a small gap between Nippon Steel (5401.T) and the U.S. government over the authority of a golden share tied to its acquisition of U.S. Steel, the Japanese steelmaker’s president said on Thursday. Last week, the Wall Steet Journal reported that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had blocked U.S. Steel’s plan to shut down production at one of its plants in Illinois, flexing its so-called golden share authority, citing a person familiar with the matter. "There is minor difference in views regarding the national security agreements and the authority of the golden share," Nippon Steel President Tadashi Imai told reporters when asked about the report. He did not elaborate, but said the recent U.S. move reflected the Trump administration’s policy of protecting domestic production bases and jobs across various sectors. "Through the execution of concrete investment projects, we aim to steadily enhance US Steel’s competitiveness and advance our partnership," Imai said. Japan’s top steelmaker closed its $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel in June, agreeing to give Washington unusual power to help end its 18-month battle to reach a deal. The national security agreement with the Trump administration granted Washington a non-economic golden share. U.S. Steel said on Wednesday its board approved the next phase of capital investments worth $300 million, part of Nippon Steel’s $11 billion commitment. About $100 million will go toward a slag recycler at the Edgar Thomson Plant in Pennsylvania, and about $200 million toward upgrades to the hot strip mill at Gary Works in Indiana, the company said, adding the projects aim to modernize operations and strengthen capabilities. Nippon Steel plans to announce a new mid- and long-term business strategy for U.S. Steel as well as for Nippon Steel by the end of this year, Imai said.

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