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CBS News [9/26/2025 11:05 PM, Joe Walsh, 45245K] reports Attorney General Pam Bondi said late Friday she has ordered Justice Department agents to guard Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities — and directed counterterrorism task forces to look into attacks against federal authorities. The move by Bondi came after one detainee was killed and two others were injured in a shooting at an ICE field office in Dallas on Wednesday, the latest shooting or threat targeting an ICE facility or immigration agent in recent months. "At my direction, I am deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities—and wherever ICE comes under siege—to safeguard federal agents, protect federal property, and immediately arrest all individuals engaged in any federal crime," Bondi wrote on X. It’s not clear which federal law enforcement agencies will be deployed to ICE facilities. The Justice Department oversees the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ICE has said attacks on its agents have spiked this year, as the Trump administration uses the agency to dramatically increase arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants. In recent months, ICE operations in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and elsewhere have drawn tense protests and clashes between agents and demonstrators. Bondi also floated a broader crackdown on "repeated acts of violence and obstruction against federal agents." She directed the Joint Terrorism Task Forces — which are regional entities scattered throughout the country that work with the FBI and with state and local police — to look into what she described as "domestic terrorism.” "The Department of Justice will seek the most serious available charges against all participants in these criminal mobs, including conspiracy offenses, assault offenses, civil disorder offenses, and terrorism offenses," the attorney general wrote Friday. A day earlier, President Trump signed a memo calling for investigations into "political violence and intimidation," led by the Joint Terrorism Task Forces. The White House pointed to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month, last year’s assassination attempts against Mr. Trump, and an increase in attacks on ICE officers. The president also penned an executive order labeling antifa a domestic terrorist organization. The move’s legal implications aren’t clear. Antifa, short for "anti-fascist," generally refers to a loose collection of largely left-wing activists, not a cohesive organization with a leadership structure. Also, domestic terrorism isn’t a chargeable offense under federal law, and the government doesn’t have a formal list of domestic terrorist groups, unlike with foreign groups. The Washington Examiner [9/26/2025 11:19 PM, Brady Knox, 1563K] reports "I have witnessed the continued onslaught of violence perpetrated against ICE officers across our country. The Department of Justice will not stand idly by in the face of such lawlessness. At my direction, I am deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities—and wherever ICE comes under siege—to safeguard federal agents, protect federal property, and immediately arrest all individuals engaged in any federal crime," Bondi said in a post on X. She also announced efforts connected to President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle left-wing terrorist networks, instructing the DOJ to investigate individuals and entities connected to violence and obstruction against federal agents. "The Department of Justice will seek the most serious available charges against all participants in these criminal mobs, including conspiracy offenses, assault offenses, civil disorder offenses, and terrorism offenses. While these never-ending attacks are designed to break our will, they only strengthen our resolve to complete the work begun," Bondi continued. She also said she instructed the FBI, DEA, ATF, and USMS to increase cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security to detain and deport "all illegal aliens present in our country.” CNN [9/26/2025 11:29 PM, Kaanita Iyer, 662K] reports federal agents with the DOJ have been deployed to assist ICE since the Trump administration began ramping up immigration enforcement operations earlier this year, but this latest move comes just days after a shooting at a Dallas ICE field office, which killed one detainee and left two others in critical condition. The incident was among at least four attacks or threats on ICE or Border Patrol locations in Texas this year. There have been several protests at ICE facilities as the Trump administration moved to aggressively crack down on immigration. In May, Democratic lawmakers faced off with Department of Homeland Security officers at an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, pushing and shouting at one another. Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested during the incident and detained for several hours. Two months later, Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted on federal charges alleging that she impeded and interfered with immigration officers. McIver has pleaded not guilty to the charges. In July, federal agents deployed tear gas into a crowd of protesters outside a California farm after an intense standoff. Last week, a Democratic mayor running for Congress in Illinois was teargassed during a small protest outside an ICE facility in the suburbs of Chicago. Friday’s move is not the first time the Trump administration has diverted personnel to assist ICE efforts. This summer, the administration mobilized National Guard troops to assist at ICE facilities.

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Reuters [9/26/2025 8:54 PM, Andrew Chung, 45746K] reports President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the legality of his bid to limit birthright citizenship in the United States, teeing up a major test of one of his most contentious policies that could alter how the U.S. Constitution has long been understood on the subject. The Justice Department filed two appeals of lower court rulings that blocked Trump’s executive order, which the Republican president signed on his first day back in office in January as a key part of his hardline approach toward immigration. "The lower court’s decisions invalidated a policy of prime importance to the President and his Administration in a manner that undermines our border security. Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people," the Justice Department wrote in the appeals. The department asked the Supreme Court to take up and resolve the case in its new term, which begins on October 6. Trump’s executive order directed federal agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States who do not have at least one parent who is an American citizen or lawful permanent resident, also called a "green card" holder. His action drew a series of lawsuits arguing among other things that the order violates a right enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment that provides that anyone born in the United States is a citizen. After multiple lower courts halted the order as unconstitutional, the administration took the disputes to the Supreme Court in an effort to challenge the power of federal judges to issue so-called "universal" injunctions preventing presidential policies from applying against anyone, anywhere. FOX News [9/26/2025 11:15 PM, Jasmine Baehr , Shannon Bream , Bill Mears, 40019K] reports that at stake is whether the U.S. will continue to recognize nearly all children born on its soil as citizens, a principle the Supreme Court decided in "United States v. Wong Kim Ark" (1898). The outcome could reshape the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, which has long been understood to guarantee citizenship to virtually every child born on U.S. soil regardless of parents’ status. John Eastman, who advised on drafting the order, praised the administration’s appeal. "Hurrah for Solicitor General Sauer for expeditiously seeking Supreme Court review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision blocking President Trump’s executive order restoring the original meaning of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause," Eastman told Fox News Digital. "The people who drafted and ratified that clause never intended to confer automatic citizenship on the children of temporary visitors, and certainly not to the children of illegal aliens. The historical record is clear, and I look forward to the Supreme Court restoring the original meaning of the clause.” Trump’s order seeks to narrow that interpretation to children of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. If upheld, it could deny automatic citizenship to many children born in the U.S. each year. In "Wong Kim Ark," the Court ruled that a San Francisco-born man whose Chinese parents were barred from naturalization was nonetheless an American citizen under the 14th Amendment. That decision cemented "jus soli," or citizenship by birth on American soil, with narrow exceptions for children of diplomats, foreign occupiers and sovereign tribal nations. Critics of the executive order argue that the text and history are clear. UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo has written that the Framers borrowed British "jus soli" traditions and that Reconstruction lawmakers expanded citizenship to ensure formerly enslaved people and their descendants were fully included. "It is simply beyond doubt that the Framers operated by borrowing and adopting common law principles … to adopt an interpretation that rejects that meaning, we would want to see historical evidence that the Framers had adopted a radically new interpretation," Yoo wrote. Supporters of the order counter that the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" requires full and lawful political allegiance, not simply being born on U.S. soil. John Eastman, who advised on drafting the policy, has argued that the Constitution requires both birth on U.S. soil and "complete" jurisdiction. "Complete" means allegiance to the U.S., not to another sovereign. [Editorial note: consult video at source link] CNN [9/26/2025 6:11 PM, Devan Cole, John Fritze, 23245K] reports that despite more than a century of understanding that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on people born in the United States, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court that notion was "mistaken" and that the view became "pervasive, with destructive consequences." While the Supreme Court handed down an important decision in June that dealt with birthright citizenship, that case was technically focused on a more procedural question of how much power lower courts had to stop a policy implemented by a president. A 6-3 majority of the court essentially limited – but did not completely rule out – the power of courts to block those policies. That decision sent states and individuals who were challenging Trump’s birthright order scrambling to file new cases to shut down the birthright policy through other means, including class-action lawsuits. The Supreme Court implicitly allowed those other types of nationwide blocks to continue. A series of new rulings have continued to keep Trump’s policy on hold, and the administration is now asking the justices to take up those cases to settle the issue once and for all.

NBC News [9/26/2025 5:37 PM, Courtney Kube, Gabe Gutierrez and Katherine Doyle, 43603K] reports U.S. military officials are drawing up options to target drug traffickers inside Venezuela, and strikes within that country’s borders could potentially begin in a matter of weeks, four sources told NBC News. Striking inside Venezuela would be another escalation in the Trump administration’s military campaign against alleged drug targets and its stance toward Venezuela’s government. In recent weeks, the U.S. military struck at least three boats from Venezuela allegedly carrying narco-traffickers and drugs that could threaten Americans, President Donald Trump said on Truth Social. The administration has not provided evidence that drugs were on all of those boats. But an official in the Dominican Republic, alongside one from the U.S. Embassy there, did say at a press conference Sunday that drugs were found in the water after one strike. Strikes inside Venezuela could happen in the next several weeks, but the president has not approved anything yet, the four people said. Two of them and an additional official familiar with the discussions said that the United States’ recent military escalation is in part a result of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro not doing enough, in the administration’s view, to stop the flow of illegal drugs out of his country. The plans being discussed primarily focus on drone strikes against drug trafficking groups’ members and leadership, as well as targeting drug labs, the four sources said.

The New York Times [9/27/2025 3:36 AM, Ernesto Londoño, Ann Hinga Klein and Mitch Smith, 330K] reports the superintendent of the public school system in Des Moines was detained on Friday by federal immigration authorities, who said he had been living and working in the United States illegally. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said that the superintendent, Ian Roberts, who was born in Guyana, entered the United States in 1999 on a student visa and had received a deportation order from an immigration judge in May 2024. He had no work authorization, and had faced weapon possession charges several years ago, ICE officials said. The arrest of the superintendent, who had become a well-known figure in Iowa’s capital city since he was hired two years ago, led to an impromptu protest on Friday in downtown Des Moines. And with school leaders and reporters unable to reach Dr. Roberts in jail, the events left residents and local officials struggling with unanswered questions about ICE’s claims and about the school district’s vetting process. “This is challenging on many levels, and the reality is that we may not have additional answers right away,” said Matt Smith, an associate superintendent who was tapped to lead the school system temporarily after the superintendent’s detention on Friday morning. It was uncertain whether Dr. Roberts, who was being held at the Pottawattamie County Jail, had retained a lawyer. His wife declined to comment. ICE agents approached Dr. Roberts while he was in his vehicle on Friday, and he sped off, according to a statement issued by the agency. He was later taken into custody after his vehicle was found abandoned near a wooded area, the statement said. The agency said that he had a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash and a hunting knife when he was detained. Dr. Roberts has led the school district since July 2023. He previously worked as a teacher and had been a track and field athlete for Guyana’s national team, representing that country in the 2000 Olympics. He finished seventh out of eight runners in his qualifying heat in the men’s 800-meter race in the Olympics, and also competed for Guyana in a track world championships and a Pan American Games. He is a member of the sports hall of fame at Coppin State University in Maryland, which describes him as the college’s first men’s N.C.A.A. all-American in any sport. A statement announcing his appointment as Des Moines’s superintendent in 2023 said Dr. Roberts was “born to immigrant parents from Guyana and spent most of his formative years in Brooklyn.” Reuters [9/26/2025 6:55 PM, Ted Hesson, 45746K] reports U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has advanced a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, seeking to drive up arrests of immigration offenders and strip work permits from hundreds of thousands with legal status. Schools have been a flashpoint over enforcement after the Republican president’s administration rolled back guidance from his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, that limited ICE actions near educational facilities. While ICE generally has not targeted schools, they have arrested parents nearby. The immigrant population in Des Moines, a city of 214,000 people, has grown in recent years but remains slightly below the national percentage, according to U.S. Census data. Jackie Norris, chair of the Des Moines School Board, confirmed Roberts’ arrest in a statement but said the board had no further information about the arrest or what would happen next. "Our priority is to provide a safe, secure and outstanding education for all students and to support our students, families and employees," she said. Breitbart [9/26/2025 5:19 PM, John Binder, 2608K] reports Roberts had already been charged with weapons possession in February 2020. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is investigating how Roberts secured a handgun, a violation of federal law, since he is an illegal alien. FOX News [9/26/2025 4:35 PM, Louis Casiano, Bill Melugin, 40019K] reports that [Roberts] last entered the country through New York on Aug. 30, 1999, on an F-1 student visa to attend St. John’s University in Queens. Roberts was not legally authorized to work in the U.S. after his employment authorization card expired in 2020, authorities said. On May 22, 2024, a judge ordered that he be deported. The proceedings were held in absentia. On April 24, 2025, an immigration judge in Dallas denied a motion to reopen the case. Roberts was hired to serve as superintendent for Des Moines Public Schools on July 1, 2023, following a nationwide search for qualified candidates. The Daily Caller [9/26/2025 4:53 PM, Jason Hopkins, 985K] reports that it’s not clear how Roberts, an illegal migrant with a criminal history, was able to find employment at a school district. ICE, which noted that it is a violation of federal law for an illegal migrant to possess a firearm and ammunition, said an investigation into how he obtained the handgun was turned over to ATF.

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CNN [9/26/2025 6:44 PM, Diego Mendoza, Taylor Galgano, Alex Stambaugh, Gloria Pazmino, Holly Yan, Maria Santana, 23245K] reports an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shoved a woman into a wall and then pushed her to the ground has been "relieved of his current duties," an ICE official said Friday. The incident was caught on camera Thursday at an immigration court in New York City – sparking outrage amid growing concern across the country about ICE’s increasingly aggressive tactics in arrests of immigrants. "The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE. Our ICE law enforcement are held to the highest professional standards and this officer is being relieved of current duties as we conduct a full investigation," ICE Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Friday. CNN has asked ICE to clarify what "relieved of his current duties" means – and whether the officer is still employed elsewhere within ICE. Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat whose district includes the courthouse, said in a statement on X that the woman – whom he identified as Monica – and her two young children "fled to my office for safety after she was assaulted." He called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to "take appropriate disciplinary action and implement measures to prevent this from happening again." ICE falls under DHS. The Hill [9/26/2025 11:57 AM, Filip Timotija, 12414K] reports that video shared on social media showed the confrontation at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan on Thursday, with a woman directly addressing an ICE officer after a man was separated and hauled away by masked officers. The woman and a girl can be seen clinging to the man before he was detained by federal officer. Afterward, the woman confronted the ICE officer, telling him in Spanish, “You guys don’t care about anything.” “Adios, adios,” the officer says in response as the woman appeared to put a hand on his chest. The ICE officer is then seen shoving the woman, pushing her down a hallway and onto the ground. The officer then stands up and tells the woman to leave as the girl is crying. Others proceeded to ask officers to remove the woman from the building. It is not clear from the video if there was other physical contact between the officer and the woman prior to her being shoved. The New York Times [9/27/2025 3:35 AM, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, 330K] reports that the footage set off an outcry from New York City officials who denounced the behavior of the officer, who has not been identified, and demanded that he be disciplined. The videos show an officer pushing the woman, who was crying in a crowded hallway, shortly after federal agents arrested her husband, who had shown up at the courthouse for an asylum hearing. The officer then wrangled the woman to the ground after shoving her down a hallway filled with reporters, volunteers and other agents. The woman, whom ProPublica identified as Monica Moreta-Galarza, was taken to a hospital after hitting her head and discharged shortly after, according to the news outlet. The details of her husband’s legal status and the circumstances that led to his arrest remained unclear on Friday. On Friday, Representative Dan Goldman and Brad Lander, the city comptroller, both Democrats, referred the ICE officer to Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan for felony prosecution. The referral is a recommendation for prosecution, but the Department of Justice has the discretion to decide whether to pursue a case. The two-page referral accused the officer of using “excessive physical force by throwing a young mother to the ground,” depriving her “of her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.”

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ABC News [9/26/2025 1:38 PM, Staff, 27036K] reports that an ICE agent seen on video pushing a woman to the ground on Thursday has been relieved of duties as DHS investigates the incident, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told ABC News. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

AP [9/26/2025 4:11 PM, Christine Fernando, 11503K] reports federal agents fired pepper balls and tear gas at protesters near an immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago on Friday. The conflict over several hours is the latest pushback by federal authorities against protesters focused on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Broadview, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) west of Chicago, amid a surge of immigration enforcement that began early this month. Agents repeatedly fired chemical agents toward a crowd of over 100 protesters after some of the group attempted to block a car from driving down a street toward the ICE building. The pepper bullets and tear gas canisters went into the entire crowd, most of them standing far back from the fence and not blocking any traffic. Protesters fell to the ground and ran as agents repeatedly fired, dispersing most of the crowd. Some protesters pulled one another off the ground and poured water in each other’s eyes when out of the parking lot by the facility. Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson slammed ICE for "the relentless deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, mace, and rubber bullets," which she said has endangered local police, firefighters, residents near the facility and protesters. Thompson in a letter sent Friday to the Department of Homeland Security said Broadview residents are texting and calling her "looking for help" as chemical agents spread through their neighborhood. ICE officials on Friday accused protesters of blocking access to the gate and attempting to trespass on federal property. They said agents confiscated a gun from one of the protesters. The presence of a gun could not be immediately independently confirmed. Tricia McLaughlin, ICE assistant secretary, called on state and local officials to "to condemn these riots and tone down their rhetoric about ICE" in a statement to The Associated Press. She did not confirm any arrests of protesters Friday afternoon.

Daily Wire [9/26/2025 6:59 AM, Jennie Taer, 3184K] reports a rioter armed with a gun was arrested as protesters tried to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from driving in and out of an agency processing center in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday morning. Authorities arrested 17 rioters and more arrests are expected, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said on Fox News Friday. In one dramatic scene captured on a video posted to X, the demonstrators could be seen surrounding the front of one agency vehicle as they shouted expletives at the agents and called them “fascist pigs.” They also hurled teddy bears at the car as they banged on its hood. The vehicle slowly continued as federal agents in tactical gear deployed pepper balls to force the group to disperse. Some rioters attempted to hurl tear gas at the agents, according to video posted on X. “They’re obstructing law enforcement vehicles from being able to enter that facility,” said McLaughlin, who called the situation “very alarming.” Breitbart [9/26/2025 4:04 PM, John Binder, 2608K] reports just days after a gunman opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas, rioters are chanting "Kill ICE!" and "Shoot ICE!" outside of a migrant detention center in the sanctuary state of Illinois. On Friday, more than 200 rioters formed outside of the Broadview Processing Center, where ICE holds criminal illegal aliens. The rioters, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, blocked access to one of the facility’s front gates and swarmed another gate to obstruct operations. "Just days after the vile terrorist attack on an ICE Dallas Facility, over 200 rioters gathered outside the Broadview Processing Center in Illinois, and some began chanting ‘shoot ICE,’" DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

Blaze [9/26/2025 5:35 PM, Cooper Williamson, 1559K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations at the Broadview, Illinois, detention facility were interrupted by protests outside the fencing. Blaze News correspondent Julio Rosas captured video footage of the scene, which escalated to a fever pitch when protesters could be heard shouting, "Arrest ICE!" "Shoot ICE!" and "Shoot the f**kers!" Shortly thereafter, some arrests were made. According to a Department of Homeland Security press release, one of the protesters who was apprehended was carrying a firearm, which was quickly confiscated by law enforcement. "Just days after the vile terrorist attack on an ICE Dallas Facility, over 200 rioters gathered outside the Broadview Processing Center in Illinois, and some began chanting ‘shoot ICE.’ These violent threats and smears about ICE must stop. There is no place in American politics for violence," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in the press release.

USA Today [9/26/2025 9:42 PM, Michael Loria, 64151K] reports around 200 Chicago-area protesters rallying against immigration enforcement endured a barrage of chemical agents and projectiles fired by federal agents on Sept. 26 outside the site at the heart of President Donald Trump’s crackdown. The tense protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility located in the Chicago suburb of Broadview comes over two weeks into Operation Midway Blitz, the White House’s effort to ramp up deportations in the longtime sanctuary city. Trump has repeatedly said the crackdown is aimed at "the worst of the worst" criminals who are immigrants. But the president’s crackdown, which has seen one immigrant fatally shot by a federal agent, has sparked nearly around-the-clock protest at the facility located about 12 miles west of the Willis Tower. "It feels like chemical warfare," Rickey Hendon Jr. told USA TODAY through a gas mask after a barrage of pepper balls fired by immigration agents. The Chicago-area tech worker said he was protesting against inhumane conditions reported at the deportation processing center. "This needs to be shut down.” Assistant Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin called the protesters "rioters" and tied them to a Sept. 24 attack on an immigration facility in Dallas. "Rioters are what they are," said McLaughlin, adding that a firearm was found on one protester outside Chicago. "This is just two days after we saw that vicious, disgusting attack on our facility in Dallas… and the fact that there’s now a firearm or there was a firearm there in Chicago is very alarming.” Protest organizers denied that anyone connected to the group brought a firearm. Among officials and leaders protesting on Sept. 26 were Alderman Andre Vasquez, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss and congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh. The Chicago Tribune [9/26/2025 7:32 PM, Caroline Kubzansky and Madaline Buckley, 5352K] reports that the standoff marked the third consecutive Friday in which agents and protesters have faced off outside the west suburban facility, where the agency holds recently detained undocumented immigrants. The building has become a flash point for opponents of Operation Midway Blitz, which Department of Homeland Security officials say has resulted in more than 550 arrests in the Chicago-area, and a place for political opponents of the Trump administration to see and be seen protesting. The federal government erected a large metal fence around the low-slung brick building earlier this week after protests on Sept. 19 resulted in agents hurling copious amounts of tear gas, pepper balls and flash-bangs at a protesters who were trying to block vehicles’ progress in and out of the drive. Despite the Broadview fire department’s demand to take the fence down, it was still up Friday morning. Protesters responded by blocking the intersection of Harvard Avenue and 25th Street beginning around 6 a.m., and slowly pushed down Harvard toward the fenced-off building over the course of about three hours.

Reuters [9/26/2025 5:56 PM, Ted Hesson, Brian Snyder and Heather Schlitz, 45746K] reports a U.S. immigration officer shoving a woman in a New York City courthouse to the floor. Protesters dispersed with tear gas outside a Chicago detention center. A woman injured during an arrest in the Boston area. The incidents on Thursday and Friday highlight the growing tensions in major U.S. cities over President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown days after a shooting targeting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas left one detainee dead and two others seriously wounded. Trump, a Republican, aims to deport record numbers of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, framing the push around criminals but arresting many without criminal records. Residents in New York, Chicago, Washington, and other Democrat-leaning metro areas have pushed back in recent months as ICE has ramped up enforcement.

CBS News [9/26/2025 4:29 PM, Patrick Maguire, 45245K] reports Senate Democrats are escalating their demands for information about White House border czar Tom Homan and any involvement he has had in federal contracts, following allegations that he accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen last year. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that was first obtained by CBS News, seven Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee called for the release of Department of Homeland Security contracts, communications and other materials tied to the allegations. The group of lawmakers, which includes ranking member Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, set an Oct. 10 deadline for the department to respond. The Senate Democrats are asking DHS to hand over all contracts and grants Homan has been involved in since Jan. 20, 2025; his communications on contract awards; full GEO Group contract files; contacts between GEO Group and federal officials; and records of meetings with former clients while serving as border czar.

AP [9/26/2025 4:39 PM, Kate Payne, 37974K] reports over the last five months, Florida law enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a U.S. Border Patrol official announced Friday, as the state continues its aggressive approach to help carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. The announcement comes as Department of Homeland Security officials declared they are reimbursing the state for nearly $30 million for immigration-related expenses, underlining Florida’s growing importance to the Trump administration’s mass immigration crackdown. At an event Friday in Tallahassee, Madison Sheahan, the deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, applauded Florida’s efforts and said the agency is doling out $1.7 billion to state and local law enforcement across the country. “Our federal partners are sitting there with a checkbook, ready to write,” said Rob Hardwick, sheriff of St. Johns County, south of Jacksonville. Hardwick’s officers alone have carried out more than 700 immigration-related arrests, according to a state official. “I recommend you get on board,” Hardwick said at Friday’s news conference, in a message directed at other local law enforcement officials.

FOX News [9/26/2025 4:24 PM, Sophia Compton, 40019K] reports Florida is receiving a major boost in federal funding as state and federal leaders announced Friday a "historic agreement" with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through the 287(g) program. Governor Ron DeSantis joined ICE Deputy Director Madison D. Sheahan and other officials in Tallahassee, Florida, to announce that the state will receive more than $28 million, with an additional $10 million directed to local law enforcement. The funding is part of $1.7 billion being distributed nationwide under President Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill," Sheahan said. Florida has also created a full-time immigration enforcement unit within the Highway Patrol — believed to be the first of its kind at the state level, officials said. Governor DeSantis also warned that any attempts to threaten or attack ICE agents in Florida would not be tolerated.

FOX News [9/26/2025 5:32 PM, Madison Colombo, 40019K] reports a California father says Gov. Gavin Newsom has ignored his pleas for answers after an illegal immigrant truck driver caused what he says was a devastating crash that left his young daughter with life-altering injuries. His daughter, Dalilah Coleman, was 5 years old at the time of the crash in Southern California last year. Coleman said a semi-truck failed to stop and caused a multi-vehicle pileup. Dalilah was airlifted to a children’s hospital, where she stayed more than a month, much of it in a coma. An illegal immigrant from India, identified by the Department of Homeland Security as Partap Singh, has since been arrested in connection with the crash. Authorities accused him of driving at an unsafe speed and failing to stop for traffic at a construction zone. DHS said the suspect was issued a commercial driver’s license in California. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has called on Newsom to act to prevent future tragedies.

CBS News [9/26/2025 6:29 PM, Briseida Holguin, 45245K] Video: HERE reports that the family of 32-year-old Miguel Angel Garcia has identified him as one of the victims in Wednesday’s shooting at the Dallas ICE facility that left one detainee dead and two others injured. According to a GoFundMe page created by his family, Garcia is in grave condition. He is described as a husband, father, and the sole provider for his family. The page also notes that Garcia’s wife is pregnant and due any day now. On Facebook, Garcia’s wife shared that he underwent neurosurgery earlier this week. Surveillance footage captured the tense moments when bullets flew into the facility, striking three detainees. One person was killed, and two others were injured. The Mexican Consulate confirmed that one of the victims is a Mexican national. In a statement, officials said, "Consular officials have contacted the victim’s family to provide support and legal assistance. The consulate is in ongoing communication with the authorities in charge of the investigation and is waiting for authorization to visit the hospitalized Mexican citizen.”

CNN [9/26/2025 2:42 PM, Alaa Elassar and Norma Galeana, 23245K] reports the detainees who were shot in the attack on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas this week have been identified as Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez of Mexico, Jose Andres Bordones-Molina of Venezuela and Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, according to a source familiar with the matter. The victims were shot while they were in a van at the facility’s fortified sally port, a controlled entry point commonly found in prisons and on military bases, the Department of Homeland Security said. The shooter has been identified by investigators as Joshua Jahn, 29. ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan told Fox News the three victims were awaiting transfer to a longer-term facility, she said. Investigators believe the gunman – who died from a self-inflicted gunshot at the scene – harbored "hatred for the federal government" and intended to target ICE personnel and property – even though all three victims were detainees, officials said. "The tragic irony for his evil plot here is that it was a detainee who was killed and two other detainees that were injured," Nancy Larson, acting US attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said at a news conference on Thursday. Here’s what we know about the victims. Garcia-Hernandez is on life support after he was shot three to four times – including in the neck – his brother, Fernando Gutiérrez, said in an interview with KUVN. Garcia-Hernandez was in the US illegally and previously convicted of "giving fictitious information, evading arrest, driving while intoxicated, and fleeing police," the source said. Doctors are not giving the family hope of recovery, according to his brother. Garcia-Hernandez, who is originally from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, has lived in the United States for two decades, where he worked as a painter, Gutiérrez said. He added he does not know the circumstances of his brother’s detention by ICE, but said he was there to be deported. The third shooting victim, Guzman-Fuentes, was previously arrested "for battery, improper exhibit of a firearm or dangerous weapon, criminal mischief, driving while intoxicated, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon," the source told CNN. Authorities have said one detainee was killed and two were injured during Wednesday’s attack, in which a gunman fired at the ICE facility from a nearby roof. The source did not identify the deceased victim.

NBC News [9/26/2025 7:38 PM, Daniella Silva, Suzanne Gamboa and Laura Strickler, 43603K] reports a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security identified the three immigrant detainees who were victims in the shooting Wednesday at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas. The senior DHS official familiar with the case told NBC News the three were Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez of Mexico, Jose Andres Bordones-Molina of Venezuela, and Norlan Guzman-Fuentes. DHS did not say what country Guzman-Fuentes was from. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on which of the men was killed, the extent of the injuries of the other two, and details about criminal allegations made against the men by the agency. The men were wounded on Wednesday when a gunman who targeted ICE agents and employees opened fire on the agency’s field office in Dallas, federal officials said. No ICE agents were injured in the attack, but one detainee was fatally shot and two others were injured. NBC News has not yet been able to independently verify the criminal allegations against the men, and the official at the agency did not immediately respond to request for comment for additional details. NBC News has not yet been able to reach the families of the men and it was not clear if any of them had immigration attorneys. Garcia-Hernandez was described by the senior official as an immigrant from Mexico living in the country illegally, whose criminal history included "convictions for giving fictitious information, evading arrest, driving while intoxicated, and fleeing police.” A man who identified himself as Garcia-Hernandez’s sibling told a local Dallas Univision station that his 32-year-old brother was shot in the side, back, stomach and neck and remained in critical condition in a local hospital. He said his brother had undergone two surgeries and that doctors "want to disconnect him because the machine is the only thing that keeps him alive.” The brother, who was identified as Fernando, said Garcia had been living in the U.S. for 20 years and was a painter. NBC News had reached out to Garcia’s relatives through a family associate but they have not responded to a request for an interview. Bordones-Molina was described as an immigrant man from Venezuela living in the country illegally. The DHS official said his "criminal history includes theft of property and a traffic offense.” Guzman-Fuentes’ nationality was not disclosed by the authorities. The DHS official said Guzman-Fuentes’ "criminal history includes previous arrests for battery, improper exhibit of a firearm or dangerous weapon, criminal mischief, driving while intoxicated, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.” All of the detainees at the targeted site were temporarily moved from the Dallas Processing Facility to the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, according to Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. It was not immediately clear whether the detainees were then sent to other locations or transferred back to the Dallas processing facility.

NewsNation [9/26/2025 6:22 PM, Ali Bradley, 6811K] reports new surveillance video obtained by NewsNation shows chaos and panic at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Dallas as a gunman shot three detainees on Sept. 24. One detainee was killed and two others were critically injured after the shooter, identified by officials as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, opened fire on detainees and agents outside the building. Part of the surveillance video shows two vans parked outside the facility. People are seen ducking for cover as they run between the vans toward the building. Footage from a second camera captured detainees’ panicked looks in the building as they ran inside for cover. A man is seen directing them toward the back of the building before officers clad in protective gear and carrying guns head back outside. Jahn was found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. In the days since the shooting, officials have said he was targeting ICE personnel and hit the detainees by mistake. He has a criminal history and was previously arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and dealing marijuana.

(B) KTVU Mornings on 2 [9/26/2025 8:08 AM, Staff] reports federal investigators say 29-year-old Joshua Jahn carefully plotted the deadly shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas. They said he was specifically targeting law enforcement even though three ICE detainees were shot. A search of his home revealed a collection of notes, including a gameplan of the attack and target areas of the facility. Police say the shooter indiscriminately fired at the building, hitting three ICE detainees who were inside of a transport van and killed one of them. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the agency is increasing security at ICE facilities all over the country.

LiveNOW [9/26/2025 11:46 AM, Staff] reports Joshua Jahn, the suspect in the sniper attack on a Dallas ICE facility appears to have been inspired by the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security joined LiveNOW’s Josh Breslow to discuss the investigation. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

AP [9/26/2025 8:42 PM, Josh Funk, 12414K] reports that the Transportation Department will immediately tighten up the requirements for noncitizens to get commercial drivers’ licenses after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers who never should have received licenses. The new rules will make it extremely hard for immigrants to get commercial drivers’ licenses because only three specific classes of visa holders will be eligible. States will also have to verify an applicant’s immigration status in a federal database. These licenses will only be valid for up to one year unless the applicant’s visa expires sooner than that. The nationwide audit of these licenses began after a fatal U-turn crash in Florida that killed two people caused by a truck driver who officials said was in the country illegally. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said fatal crashes caused by truck drivers who shouldn’t have had licenses were also found in Texas and Alabama earlier this year. Duffy also threatened to revoke $160 million in federal funding for California because investigators found that one in four of the 145 commercial drivers licenses for noncitizens issued since June that they reviewed should have never been issued under the current rules. He cited four examples where California issued licenses that remain valid after the driver’s work permit expires — sometimes years after. That state has 30 days to audit its program and come up with a plan to comply or it will lose funding. Duffy said the current rules aren’t strict enough and a number of states aren’t following them. The audit found licenses that were issued improperly in California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington.

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Bloomberg Law [9/26/2025 2:24 PM, Ben Penn and Ellen M. Gilmer, 790K] reports the Justice Department is directing all 93 US attorney’s offices to prosecute adult sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children for fraud and other crimes, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in an internal memo. Blanche tasked federal prosecutors with focusing on criminal cases that accuse sponsors of labor or sex trafficking of immigrant children, making false statements, identity theft, and harboring aliens, according to a copy of his Sept. 24 memo that was obtained by Bloomberg Law. The initiative builds on President Donald Trump’s broader effort to scrutinize the placement of unaccompanied migrant children in the US following investigations of widespread labor trafficking and exploitation during President Joe Biden’s term. Immigrants’ rights advocates and former officials have criticized many recent policy changes for deterring qualified sponsors from stepping forward to care for youth who’ve entered the US without their parents. "For years, sponsors were not vetted adequately, nor was the welfare of UACs ensured," Blanche wrote to DOJ employees, using the shorthand for unaccompanied children. "Consequently, UACs have been more vulnerable to and, in some instances, have fallen prey to smuggling, trafficking, sexual assault, and forced labor.” Blanche called on each US attorney’s office to appoint a UAC coordinator to communicate with law enforcement agencies and facilitate prosecutions in their district. Prosecutors must alert leadership at DOJ headquarters before they determine any UAC-related case doesn’t merit prosecution, and each district will need to report statistics on a quarterly basis on their volume of UAC cases and convictions.

The Hill [9/26/2025 4:09 PM, Surina Venkat, 12414K] reports a federal judge in Arizona temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to deport close to 70 unaccompanied minors from Honduras and Guatemala on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Márquez granted a preliminary injunction preventing "the repatriation or removal of any Plaintiff Child without a valid voluntary departure order or removal order issued by an immigration judge." She criticized the government’s argument that it was sending the children back to reunite them with their parents, writing it was "dangerously unclear" whether the plan would realize this outcome. She wrote that while the government insisted that Guatemalan officials had requested the return of the children in the case, a report from Guatemala’s attorney general found many of the families of 115 adolescents in the U.S. did not do so.

New York Times [9/26/2025 5:26 PM, Heather Knight and Hamed Aleaziz, 143795K] reports for 15 years, Michele Beckwith oversaw some of the toughest federal prosecutions in California. She went after transnational terrorists, sex traffickers and the Aryan brotherhood. She became the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento this year when her boss, a Biden appointee, stepped down in January. But her career crumbled in July, she said, after she issued a warning to Gregory Bovino, the California face of President Trump’s immigration crackdown. The dismissal of Ms. Beckwith appears to be another example of how Mr. Trump has fired top federal prosecutors who did not help carry out his political agenda. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show that the July 15 firing of Ms. Beckwith occurred less than six hours after she told Mr. Bovino, the Border Patrol chief in charge of the Southern California raids, that a court order prevented him from arresting people without probable cause in a vast expanse that stretches from the Oregon border to Bakersfield. A Department of Homeland Security official, who was part of the Sacramento operation and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said that federal officials were offended by Ms. Beckwith’s suggestion that immigration agents were going to violate the rights of migrants. What’s more, the official said, Mr. Bovino felt Ms. Beckwith was refusing to provide his team the legal support it needed to safely conduct the operations.

New York Times [9/26/2025 5:35 AM, Michelle Goldberg, 153395K] reports murder is mimetic. The Zodiac Killer — who murdered at least five people in Northern California in the 1960s and sent cryptic messages to the news media — inspired copycats and established a dark cultural archetype: the serial killer who leaves taunting clues for his pursuers to try to decipher. School shooters, often emerging from irony-poisoned, meme-addled online subcultures, tend to perform for one another. The same day Charlie Kirk was assassinated, a 16-year-old apparent white supremacist opened fire at his Colorado high school; one of his TikToks included a picture of Natalie Rupnow, who killed two people at her Christian school in December. Over the last 10 months or so, a frightening new pattern has emerged. First, in December, Luigi Mangione became an internet icon after allegedly assassinating the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare in New York City. Messages left on the bullet casings seemingly alluded to the way insurance companies refuse coverage. The sniper who murdered Kirk left messages on his bullet casings as well, though in his case they appear to have been a macabre sort of trolling. Joshua Jahn, the 29-year-old who staged a sniper attack on an ICE field office in Dallas this week — killing a migrant detainee and injuring two others — reportedly wrote “Anti ICE” on his bullet casing. The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, claims that Jahn repeatedly searched online for information about Kirk’s killing. It is not surprising that the Trump administration would use these hideous acts as a pretext to crack down on its political enemies. Particularly since Kirk’s killing, the mood in this country has sometimes reminded me of what it felt like after Sept. 11, a combination of genuine fear and mourning, hysterical sanctimony and vicious opportunism. The Justice Department, The Times reported, has now instructed more than a half-dozen attorneys to draft plans to investigate George Soros’s Open Society Foundations for possible crimes including material support of terrorism. A frighteningly expansive new White House memorandum describes left-wing political violence as “a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns” and directs federal agencies to target progressive political networks. Donald Trump was going to use the power of the presidency for vengeance no matter what, but left-wing violence has given him momentum.

Washington Post [9/26/2025 3:22 PM, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, 29079K] reports President Donald Trump’s decision to charge a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications provoked instant outrage, not just from the predictable corners but also from friends of the administration in Silicon Valley who say it will hurt innovation. Actually the opposite is true: It is a smart move for fostering a culture of creativity and development. Two points are critical to consider. First, early-stage start-ups don’t rely on H-1B visas in large numbers. The program’s complexity, lottery uncertainty and legal expense make it a tough fit for a small team racing to bring a product to market. According to an analysis last year, government and attorney fees routinely cost about $9,000 and could exceed $33,000 — and this was just to enter the lottery with no guarantee of a result. The federal government randomly selects applications to process when the visa cap is exceeded. Start-ups already have too much risk to manage. Second, countless H-1B visas have flowed to outsourcing and staffing firms that underpay relative to direct-hire tech roles. According to a Bloomberg investigation, some firms flood the lottery with multiple applications for the same workers, dramatically increasing their odds while crowding out legitimate applicants. These companies are unlikely to be bringing in the next generation of innovators; the main attraction appears to be simply that the visa-holders are less expensive than their American counterparts as lower-level workers.

FOX News [9/26/2025 12:06 PM, Cameron Arcand, 40019K] reports following an anti-ICE shooting in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that there will be an increase in security at its field offices. Joshua Jahn, who meticulously planned the ambush, killed himself after killing one detainee and injuring two others while firing "indiscriminately" at the ICE facility from a rooftop, as well as at a van where the victims were harmed, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Jahn then killed himself after the shooting and the FBI later said that a bullet with "ANTI-ICE" written on it was located at the scene of the crime. "FBI Dallas and FBI HQ have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject’s person/residence/bedroom," FBI director Kash Patel posted to X on Thursday regarding the Dallas incident. "One of the handwritten notes recovered read, ‘Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP [armor-piercing] rounds on that roof?’ "In light of the 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 [as] 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. Our ICE officers are facing a more than 1,000% increase in assaults against them," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin 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 to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences," she continued, saying the comparisons to the Nazi Gestapo and "slave patrols" can have real-world impacts for the worse. Conservative immigration experts said the increase in security is ultimately the right call.

NewsNation [9/26/2025 5:03 PM, Rich McHugh, 6811K] reports mobile applications that track Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have come under federal scrutiny after a deadly shooting at a Dallas ICE facility, with law enforcement officials linking the attacker’s use of such apps to the violence. Joshua Jahn, who killed one detainee and wounded two others before taking his own life at the Dallas facility, had searched for ICE tracking apps in the days leading up to the shooting and downloaded documents listing Department of Homeland Security facilities, according to federal investigators. In writings, Jahn stated he wanted to "cause real terror among agents," officials said. "The shooter used the ICE tracking apps," said Marcos Charles, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office director. "Anyone who creates or distributes these apps that is designed to spot, track and locate ICE officers are well aware of the dangers that they are exposing to law enforcement."

FOX News [9/26/2025 6:31 PM, Staff, 40019K] Video: HERE reports acting US Attorney for Northern Texas Nancy Larson says new video showing I.C.E agents protecting detainees proves ‘lie’ about agency wrong on ‘America Reports.’

NBC 4 Los Angeles [9/26/2025 7:46 PM, Mekahlo Medina and Helen Jeong] reports a Long Beach man who developed an app that tracks immigration agents’ activity said Friday that his information has been subpoenaed by federal officials. The subpoena centers around a social media post that Sherman Austin shared on Sept. 2. As Austin’s post showed a Border Patrol agent apparently conducting an immigration enforcement operation in Long Beach., it also shared by five others as collaborators. Austin maintained he did nothing wrong as he claimed he only shared public information, but federal authorities said in the subpoena directed at META, the parent company of Instagram, that a post he and others shared “doxed” an agent. The post also showed photos and videos of the unmasked uniformed agent as well as information about the agent’s previous employment at a police department, his home town, his city of residence and his name — along with the headline “warning: suspected kidnapper/terrorist.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrote the subpoena was in reference to “Officer Safety/Doxing” as doxing, which is illegal in California, can cause victims reasonable fear for their safety. But Austin said none of the information was private. “It’s basically information that was copied from other public resources like the Border Patrol website,” he said. Austin’s attorneys have filed a motion to quash the subpoena, seeking to have it aside because, they said, it violates the first amendment. They also said the motions of two other social media users named in the DHS subpoena were recently granted. Tricia McLaughlin, the DHS assistant secretary for public affairs, told NBC Los Angeles, “(We’re) not sure if you saw the recent attacks on our Dallas facility.” She referred to the incident from Wednesday when a gunman opened fire at an ICE facility, killing a detainee. Investigators said he was targeting federal employees. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

DailySignal [9/26/2025 4:26 PM, Virginia Allen, 668K] reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement continued arrests of criminal illegal aliens across the U.S. in the days following a shooting at an ICE detention facility in Dallas on Wednesday. "Our ICE agents are heroes for risking their lives to get these dangerous criminals off American streets," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. A shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas on Wednesday morning further highlighted the increased violence against immigration enforcement officials. Authorities have identified Joshua Jahn as the suspected shooter who fired on the immigrant detention facility, killing one detainee and injuring two others. No ICE agents were harmed in the incident. The shooter took his own life after opening fire. Bullet casings found near the deceased shooter read "ANTI ICE," and a note uncovered in the investigation into Jahn read: "Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’" The shooting is being investigated as an "act of targeted violence," Joseph Rothrock, Dallas FBI special agent in charge, said during a press conference Wednesday morning. Following the shooting, ICE continued making arrests of the "worst of the worst" criminal illegal aliens on Thursday, including illegal aliens who have been convicted of aggregated sexual assault of a child and lewd acts with a minor.

Reuters [9/26/2025 8:44 PM, Ted Hesson, Brian Snyder, and Heather Schlitz, 45746K] reports a U.S. immigration officer shoving a woman in a New York City courthouse to the floor. Protesters dispersed with tear gas outside a Chicago detention center. A woman injured during an arrest in the Boston area. The incidents on Thursday and Friday highlight the growing tensions in major U.S. cities over President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown days after a shooting targeting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas left one detainee dead and two others seriously wounded. California Governor Gavin Newsom, one of the leading Democratic critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown, signed legislation last week that would prevent ICE officers from wearing masks to hide their identities. Critics of mask-wearing says it stifles accountability. However, Trump officials say officers need to wear them to avoid being targeted. U.S. authorities said on Thursday that the deceased suspect in the Dallas shooting intended to kill and "terrorize" ICE agents. In a New York City courthouse hallway on Thursday, an ICE officer charged at a woman who begged for officers not to take away her husband, according to ProPublica, which shared video of the incident online. The woman, Monica Moreta-Galarza from Ecuador, is seeking asylum in the U.S., ProPublica said. In a rare Trump-era rebuke of ICE, U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on Friday that the officer had been "relieved of current duties" pending an investigation. "The officer’s conduct in this video is unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE," she said.

National Review [9/26/2025 11:55 AM, Brittany Bernstein, 109K] reports NBC News was forced to issue a correction to its reporting that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents held a young autistic girl captive in order to pressure her illegal immigrant father to surrender to authorities, after the Department of Homeland Security clarified that the man actually abandoned his daughter while fleeing agents. “ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says,” read a headline from the outlet earlier this week. “The girl’s father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife,” a subheading added. “The girl’s father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife,” a subheading added. The story accused agents of holding the girl outside her Massachusetts home “to pressure her father to surrender to authorities.” But now NBC has been left to issue a correction after Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin clarified that Mejia had actually “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. He abandoned his 5-year-old daughter in the car. Officers helped rescue the child and called local police to report the abandonment.” McLaughlin also said the man has previous arrests for domestic abuse and strangulation, details that are not included in NBC’s reporting. The correction comes as McLaughlin has warned that inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation has led to increased danger for ICE agents as they carry out their duties. Earlier this week, a man carried out a “targeted attack” on a Dallas, Texas, ICE facility seeking to cause “real terror” among agents. The gunman shot at an unmarked transport van driven by an ATF agent on Wednesday, killing one detainee and injuring two others. Authorities found shell casings with anti-ICE messages engraved on them at the scene. “Disgusting smears like these peddled by the media are leading to a 1000% increase in assaults against our brave law enforcement,” McLaughlin said of the NBC report.

CBS Boston [9/26/2025 5:45 PM, Cheryl Fiandaca, 45245K] Video: HERE reports the manager of a restaurant in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood is now free after spending almost three months in ICE custody. Paul Dama came to the United States in 2019 from Nigeria. He said he was escaping the terror group Boko Haram, who had kidnapped him. He went on to help manage his sister’s restaurant, Suya Joint, in Nubian Square. Back in June, Dama said he was driving to church on Father’s Day when ICE agents surrounded his car and took him into custody. Dama said he saw several SUVs "come out of nowhere" and follow him before he was pulled over. He said the officer told him he had overstayed his visa, despite him telling the officer he had applied for asylum. Dama said he was handcuffed and brought to the ICE facility in Burlington, where he was allowed to call his sister and lawyer. Dama was held at a detention center in Concord, New Hampshire until this week, when a judge granted him asylum. "It’s like a dream, I never imagined that I was going to step my foot on American soil again. It’s really exciting to be back here, to my family, my Suya Joint family," said Dama. "They’ve been very supportive, they’ve shown me love, the kind of love I’ve never seen before. I really thank them so much for everything they did. Without their support, I don’t think I would have made it this far.”

New York Times [9/27/2025 3:36 AM, Luis Ferré-Sadurní, 330K] reports a New York City investigator violated sanctuary laws that limit information sharing between local officials and the federal government by providing details about two immigrants held in city jails, according to a report released by a city watchdog agency on Thursday. The report found that a Department of Correction investigator provided information about two detainees to Department of Homeland Security agents on two occasions, in late 2024 and in February 2025, helping federal officials arrest one of the detainees after his release from jail. In February, the investigator provided federal agents with real-time information about the release of the detainee, Cristian Concepcion, a Venezuelan man who had been convicted of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, and was being held at the Rikers Island jail complex. The information helped federal agents detain Mr. Concepcion shortly after he got off a bus exiting Rikers Island on Feb. 3. He was charged with entering the country illegally and was sent to a federal immigration detention center, the report said. Federal agents did not present a formal request for his transfer or a judicial warrant, which are typically required under sanctuary laws for city officials to assist federal authorities, the report said. Though the 68-page report, issued by the Department of Investigation, was narrowly focused on the actions of one investigator, whose mistakes were cast as unintentional, it blamed the administration of Mayor Eric Adams for not properly training jail officials on how and when they can share information about noncitizens with immigration authorities. The report found that the investigator, who worked closely with federal agents on a task force focused on violent gangs, was unaware that the assistance he was providing was largely prohibited under the sanctuary laws. His assistance would have been allowed in a criminal investigation. Jocelyn E. Strauber, the commissioner of the Department of Investigation, said that the investigator had “unwittingly” violated the law, and that the Department of Correction had “failed to provide proper guidance and training to D.O.C. staff about how to comply with city law and D.O.C.’s own policy while maintaining critical law enforcement partnerships with federal agencies.” The report recommended seven steps the Adams administration could take to address any systemic failures and prevent future breaches of the laws, including more robust guidance and training. Kayla Mamelak Altus, a spokeswoman for Mr. Adams, said the city had already carried out most of the recommendations “to ensure incidents like this do not happen again.”

(B) NBC News Daily [9/26/2025 1:23 PM, Staff] reports that state and local authorities announced more than 300 people were taken into custody after a four-day operation. The raid happened at a new construction site off I-95. Men were processed on the sidewalk before they were loaded into vans and driven away. One worker said men were jumping off rooftops to avoid the agents. Federal officers were targeting known criminal alien locations and conducting worksite enforcement from Palm Bay to Titusville. A Border Patrol official says those detained are being held at the county jail. They will be processed and bused to a federal facility.

Reuters [9/27/2025 2:08 AM, Ivan Arias and Lizbeth Diaz, 45746K] reports family and friends gathered in a small Mexican town on Friday to mourn and demand justice for a 38-year-old father of two who was killed by an immigration agent during an arrest attempt in a Chicago suburb earlier this month. Silverio Villegas Gonzalez left Irimbo, in Mexico’s Michoacan state, for the United States 18 years ago. He returned on Thursday in a coffin after he was shot dead by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on September 12. On Friday afternoon, a somber procession followed his coffin to a funeral mass. "We are in a lot of pain," Villegas’ older brother Jorge Villegas told Reuters through tears. "At least my brother is here now. We can finally give him a Christian burial." Villegas’ killing, just after dropping off his two children at a nearby elementary school and daycare, has inflamed tensions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown and highlighted the increasingly violent tactics of immigration agents. "He was a good father. He didn’t deserve what happened to him," brother Jorge said. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said an agent fired his weapon at Villegas in self-defense after the man drove his vehicle toward agents. Bodycam footage and documents reviewed by Reuters showed a more complex version of events. Both Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum have called for further investigations into the ICE agents’ tactics. "I truly hope that justice will be served. The way he was killed, the way things happened, cannot go unpunished," Jorge said. Blanca Avila, who went to school with Villegas, said she remembers him as a humble man and a good classmate, and that his death has stirred fears for her siblings living in the U.S. "They go out to work with the fear that immigration will arrive and do something to them, just like what happened to our classmate," Avila said. "We are humble and very hardworking people, just like Silverio was."

Daily Wire [9/26/2025 5:49 AM, Jennie Taer, 3184K] reports two Middle Eastern men accused of shooting a Texas youth baseball coach during a pregame prayer were handed immigration status by the Biden administration, The Daily Wire has learned. Three men opened fire on the Ameripark youth baseball field in Katy, Texas, on Sunday from a nearby pasture, shooting the coach in the shoulder, according to the Waller County Sheriff’s office. The three suspects — Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, 23, Ahmad Mawed, 21, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah, 27 — have been charged with deadly conduct and are each being held on $100,000 bond. Mohammad Matalgah of Jordan was given American citizenship on Aug. 1, 2023, despite having prior arrests for drug possession, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. Mawed, a Lebanese immigrant, entered the United States on an IR-2 visa — which is given to children of American citizens — on June 3, 2021, automatically granting him a green card. "This horrific act of terror firing on children praying before the start of a baseball game is pure evil," Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. "These individuals from high threat countries were let in by Biden. They clearly were not vetting the aliens they were letting legally enter our country and even become U.S. citizens.” "Not only did Biden fail the American people by leaving our borders wide open to criminals, but he also legally allowed them to gain status and citizenship to terrorize our communities," she said. The motive for the attack is unclear.

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Washington Times [9/26/2025 11:51 AM, Stephen Dinan, 964K] reports the Department of Homeland Security heaped blame on the Biden administration Friday after revealing that two of the suspects charged with firing guns near a children’s baseball game in Texas this week were immigrants approved for status in 2021 and 2023. Authorities said a coach was leading his team in prayer when shots rang out, striking the coach. Three men have been charged with deadly conduct with a firearm. Homeland Security said two of them, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the shooting “pure evil.” “These individuals from high-threat counties were let in by the Biden administration. They clearly were not vetting the aliens they were letting legally enter our country and even become U.S. citizens,” Ms. McLaughlin said.

New York Times [9/26/2025 5:09 PM, Jazmine Ulloa and Edgar Sandoval, 143795K] reports Miguel Ángel García, a house painter and father of four from Mexico, was picked up a few weeks ago by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on a routine traffic stop, family members say, after living without documentation in the Dallas area for about 20 years. Then on Wednesday, he was shot four times, including in the neck, while shackled in the back of a government transit van. Mr. García has yet to be publicly named by the federal government as one of the two detainees in critical condition after a gunman opened fire at a Dallas ICE facility. Three people familiar with the investigation confirmed Friday afternoon that Mr. García was one of the injured, along with Jose Andres Bordones-Molina of Venezuela. Norlan Guzman-Fuentes of El Salvador was killed, they said.

Houston Chronicle [9/26/2025 5:20 PM, Julián Aguilar, Matt deGrood, 2356K] reports an immigrant woman with mental health issues is in ICE custody after Houston police took her to the Harris County Jail, despite her family initially pleading with officers to instead transport her to a local hospital for treatment. Advocates said Friday that Reyna González Ortega’s incarceration – and possible deportation – stem from a change in the Houston Police Department’s protocols in how officers respond to migrants suffering from mental-health episodes. Her family said she suffers from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and anxiety. She was taken into custody July 1 after her husband called Houston police seeking help taking her to a medical facility for treatment, her husband, Luis Medrano, told reporters Friday morning. When Medrano called police for help in July, he said González Ortega was arrested and charged with assault for allegedly hitting him, which Medrano said wasn’t intentional. He was trying to calm his wife down during an episode where she had become aggressive. The family is from Mexico and have four U.S. citizen children. González Ortega has been in the country for more than three decades, though she lacks legal status. A spokesperson with the ICE field office in Houston said González Ortega has a "violent criminal history" and said the agency is working on her removal from the U.S.

Los Angeles Times [9/26/2025 8:51 PM, James Queally, 12715K] reports three women opposed to President Trump’s intense immigration raids in Los Angeles were indicted Friday on charges of illegally "doxing" a U.S. Customs and Immigration agent, authorities said. Ashleigh Brown, Cynthia Raygoza and Sandra Carmona Samane face charges of disclosing the personal information of a federal agent and conspiracy, according to an indictment unsealed late Friday. Brown, who is from Colorado and goes by the nickname "AK," has been described as one of the founders of "ice_out_ofla" an Instagram page with more than 28,000 followers that plays a role in organizing demonstrations against immigration enforcement, according to the social media page and an email reviewed by The Times. According to the indictment, the three women followed an ICE agent from the federal building on 300 North Los Angeles Street in downtown L.A. to the agent’s residence in Baldwin Park. They live-streamed the entire event, according to the indictment. Once they arrived at the agent’s home, prosecutors allege the women got out and shouted "la migra lives here," and "ICE lives on your street and you should know," according to the indictment. "Our brave federal agents put their lives on the line every day to keep our nation safe," Acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli said in a statement. "The conduct of these defendants are deeply offensive to law enforcement officers and their families. If you threaten, dox, or harm in any manner one of our agents or employees, you will face prosecution and prison time.” An attorney for Samane, 25, of Los Angeles, said she intends to plead not guilty at an arraignment next month and declined further comment. The Federal Public Defender’s Office, which is representing Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colo., did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Court records did not list an attorney for Raygoza, 37, of Riverside. Footage published to the ice_out_ofla Instagram page seemed to capture Brown’s arrest earlier this week. The video shows a man in green fatigues and body armor saying he has a warrant for her arrest, while reaching through what appears to be the shattered driver’s side window of her car. Brown asks what the warrant is for while the man can be seen holding a collapsible baton. Then the video cuts out. Posts on the Instagram page describe Brown as a "political prisoner.” A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles did not immediately respond to questions about whether the women specifically shouted out the agent’s address online or what the defendants specifically did to "incite the commission of a crime of violence against a federal agent," as the indictment alleges. Federal law enforcement leaders have repeatedly expressed concern about the "doxing" of agents with ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol as residents of Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities continue to protest the Trump administration’s sprawling deportation efforts. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem threatened to prosecute people for publishing agents’ personal information last month in response to fliers in Portland that called for people to collect intel on ICE.

FOX News [9/26/2025 9:27 PM, Sophia Compton, 40019K] reports a federal grand jury has indicted three women for allegedly following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent from his workplace, livestreaming the pursuit on social media and then posting his home address online. The indictment charges the trio — Cynthia Raygoza, 37, of Riverside, California; Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado; and Sandra Carmona Samane, 25, of Panorama City, California — with one count of conspiracy and one count of publicly disclosing the personal information of a federal agent, according to an announcement Friday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. "Our brave federal agents put their lives on the line every day to keep our nation safe," Acting U.S. Attorney in California Bill Essayli said in a statement. "The conduct of these defendants is deeply offensive to law enforcement officers and their families. If you threaten, dox or harm in any manner one of our agents or employees, you will face prosecution and prison time.” On August 28, the women allegedly followed the ICE agent from the Civic Center in downtown Los Angeles to his house, livestreaming the chase live on Instagram accounts identified as "ice_out_of_la," "defendmesoamericanculture," and "corn_maiden_design," according to the indictment. Prosecutors allege the defendants gave directions as they followed the agent and urged viewers to share the feed. Once outside his home, they shouted to neighbors that their "neighbor is ICE," "la migra lives here" and "ICE lives on your street, and you should know," as noted in the indictment. The three women then allegedly posted the agent’s address online with the message, "Come on down.” Brown and Samane were arrested. Brown, who also faces separate charges of assaulting a federal officer, remains in custody without bond, while Samane was released on $5,000 bond. Their arraignments are slated for Sept. 30 and Oct. 9, respectively. Raygoza remains at large, according to the indictment. If convicted, each woman faces up to five years in federal prison per count. The announcement comes as one ICE detainee was killed and two others were injured Wednesday when a gunman opened fire on an agency facility in Dallas. In July, the Department of Homeland Security said attacks on ICE agents had skyrocketed by 830% since January.

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AP [9/26/2025 8:44 PM, Jaimie Ding, 20690K] reports a 79-year-old man in Southern California filed a claim against the federal government Thursday for $50 million in damages, saying federal agents violated his civil rights when they tackled him during a Sept. 9 immigration raid at a car wash business. Rafie Ollah Shouhed, the owner of a car wash in Los Angeles, suffered several broken ribs and chest trauma, elbow injuries, and has symptoms of a traumatic brain injury, according to the claim. Shouhed is a naturalized U.S citizen from Iran. Video surveillance footage from inside the car wash shows a federal officer running in through a hallway. The agent encounters Shouhed and knocks him to the ground before running past him. In footage from outside the car wash, Shouhed walks toward a federal officer who appears to be detaining one of his employees. Shouhed briefly grapples with a second officer, before a third officer runs in and tackles him to the ground. The claim was filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection. In a statement, a DHS spokesperson said authorities arrested five people from Guatemala and Mexico “who broke our nation’s immigration laws” from the car wash and that Shouhed “impeded the operation and was arrested for assaulting and impeding a federal officer.” Shouhed and his attorney V. James DeSimone denied the accusation at a press conference Thursday. “What can I do for you? Can I help you?” Shouhed recalled saying to the officers. He said he wanted to tell agents he had documents to show his employees were eligible to work. There is no audio on the surveillance footage. “This is the way ICE is operating in our community,” DeSimone said. “They use physical force, they don’t speak to the people in order to ascertain who is there legally in order to do their job. Instead, they immediately resort to force.” After Shouhed was detained, he said he showed an officer at the detention center his ID. He was held for 12 hours and released without charges, the claim says. The agency has six months to settle or deny the claim, after which Shouhed can file a lawsuit in federal court. Several other U.S. citizens have also filed civil rights claims against the government for being wrongly detained during federal immigrant enforcement operations in Southern California. They include Andrea Velez, who was detained June 24 on her way to work in downtown Los Angeles. She was held for two days and faced a charge for obstructing a federal officer that was eventually dropped. Federal immigration officers have also come under scrutiny for their aggressive tactics in raids. While DHS has usually defended its tactics, the agency issued a rare rebuke of one of its officers Friday after he shoved an Ecuadorian woman to the floor at a courthouse in New York.

Washington Examiner [9/26/2025 6:26 PM, Brady Knox, 1563K] reports the Trump administration directed federal agents on Friday to disregard a new California law requiring them to remove face masks, particularly while conducting immigration enforcement operations. The wearing of masks by federal agents, often Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, has been a constant source of complaints from left-wing figures during President Donald Trump’s second term. Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed into law a bill dubbed the "No Secret Police Act," prohibiting most law enforcement from wearing masks while carrying out their duties. In a memorandum, acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli told federal law enforcement heads to disregard the law. "The law is well-settled that, under the Supremacy Clause, state officials cannot control the actions of federal law enforcement officers and an attempt to do so is unconstitutional," Essayli wrote. "Because California cannot direct and impede the actions of federal law enforcement, and federal law enforcement has determined that protecting the identity of federal law enforcement officers is necessary in some circumstances for their safety while enforcing federal law, I direct federal law enforcement to continue to comply with federal law and follow their agency policies on the appropriateness of wearing masks when conducting law enforcement operations," Essayli wrote. "Any state official or private individual that unlawfully interferes or impedes federal law enforcement operations should be referred to my office for prosecution," he concluded. The move, largely expected, renders the California law toothless.

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News Max [9/26/2025 1:13 PM, Staff, 4779K] reports that California’s new law aimed at unmasking federal immigration agents has no effect on federal operations, acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli told Newsmax Friday, stressing that the state has no jurisdiction over federal authority. "We have the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution," Essayli said on Newsmax’s "National Report." He continued, "The system of government was set up so the federal government could operate unhampered or unaffected by all 50 states passing their own regulations. If every state started passing its own framework of rules for the federal government, it would be a total mess and unworkable." The push from California Democrats follows calls nationwide to strip ICE agents of anonymity. But Essayli said federal officers conceal their identities for safety reasons, pointing to a recent attack on an ICE facility in Dallas. Gov. Gavin Newsom, in an appearance with late-night TV host Stephen Colbert, claimed masked officers were "disappearing" people without oversight, but Essayli rejected that characterization. "I think he’s completely out of line," he said. "The rhetoric is reckless. People are not being disappeared or kidnapped. They are being arrested by federal agents in compliance with the federal law and the Constitution.” He added that courts, including the Supreme Court, have already upheld the federal government’s operations. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Univision [9/27/2025 4:55 AM, Staff, 4932K] reports that, at around 9:30 a.m., a raid was reported in a Home Depot parking lot in North Hollywood, leaving at least three day laborers detained. Passersby recorded the officers, and the images show how they rolled up the legs and arms of one of the detainees before taking him away. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Bloomberg [9/26/2025 4:31 PM, Hadriana Lowenkron, 19085K] reports it’s only been a week since President Donald Trump announced his biggest moves yet to reshape the nation’s system for legal immigration, and its effects already are being felt. While Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has hit industries from farming to construction, his trifecta of a $1 million “gold card” path to US residency, a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications and an overhaul of the H-1B lottery system aims at higher rungs on the economic ladder from universities to tech firms to hospitals. It also sends a clear message: This administration wants to restrict legal immigration by favoring the wealthiest and best-educated immigrants. The policy threatens to be costly for universities, tech companies and other industry stakeholders, my colleagues report. Universities like Stanford, which employs more than 500 staff and faculty on H-1B visas and averages roughly 270 new hires a year, would have to pay upwards of $27 million extra annually to maintain that same level of hiring. The changes have raised worries for companies like Amazon and Microsoft that employ thousands of people holding H-1B visas that the new price tag could be unsustainable. It’s also sown confusion among workers as well. Shortly after Trump’s announcement some passengers on a flight headed to Dubai from San Francisco asked to get off the plane before takeoff out of concern they wouldn’t be able to return. And from a geopolitical standpoint, the move will disproportionately affect workers from India, who hold two-thirds of the H-1B visas, at a time when the US and the Indian government are in the midst of trade negotiations.

New York Times [9/26/2025 4:06 PM, Roni Caryn Rabin, 143795K] reports the American Medical Association and scores of specialty groups are urging the Trump administration to exempt foreign doctors from steep new fees for H-1B visas, saying the charges will exacerbate physician shortages, worsen patient care and drive up health care costs. Many of the doctors are in the United States on H-1B visas, which permit educated foreign citizens to work in “specialty occupations.” President Trump this week announced plans to charge $100,000 for each new H-1B visa. The cost, borne by employers, will be burdensome to hospitals and health care systems, he added. Most operate as nonprofits, and in rural areas many are reducing services or closing. The United States is already facing a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036, according to the A.M.A. The aging population will require more care over time, as the burden of chronic disease and behavioral health conditions rises. The new visa fees may also exacerbate the nursing shortage. The health care system depends heavily on registered nurses from other countries. As of 2022, a half million immigrant nurses worked in the United States, accounting for one in six of the nation’s more than three million registered nurses. The visa expenses add to hospitals’ financial stress as they anticipate a heavier load of uninsured patients after cuts in health insurance subsidies and reduced Medicaid payments. In a letter to Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, the A.M.A. and other medical organizations asked that the new H-1B visa fees be waived for physicians.

New York Post [9/27/2025 2:45 AM, Victor Nava, 43962K] reports the State Department announced Friday that it will revoke the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he called on US troops to "disobey" President Trump during a New York City protest with controversial Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters. "Earlier today, Colombian president [Gustavo Petro] stood on a NYC street and urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence," the State Department posted on X. "We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions.” Petro, who was in town for the United Nations General Assembly, got on a bullhorn outside the UN’s headquarters and called for "soldiers of the army of the United States not to point their guns at people.” "Disobey the orders of Trump," he told a crowd of anti-Israel activists. "Obey the orders of humanity!". Waters, the British co-founder of Pink Floyd, was standing by Petro’s side as the Colombian leader called for the uprising. The pair later posed for photos next to a large Palestinian flag. "With Roger Waters. Free Palestine," Petro posted on X, sharing a video of himself and Waters. Trump clashed with Petro earlier this year over migrant deportations, threatening visa sanctions, enhanced inspections for travelers and emergency tariffs of up to 50% on Colombia over Petro’s initial refusal to accept deported Colombian nationals. Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, quickly reversed course after Trump’s threat and even offered the US use of his presidential plane to transfer the migrants back to Colombia. Waters is a staunch critic of Israel and an outspoken supporter of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. He has become notorious for making anti-Israel remarks, including comparing the Jewish State to Nazi Germany. Waters sparked outrage in 2023 when he dressed up like a Nazi officer for a performance in Berlin, while a screen shaped like a crucifix displayed the names of deceased figures, including Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager killed during the Holocaust, and Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was fatally shot in 2022 while covering a raid by the Israel Defense Forces on a Palestinian refugee camp. "Good morning to every one but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust," the Israeli Foreign Ministry tweeted after the concert. In a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, Waters was asked if he is a US citizen. "No," the rock star responded, adding, "I have a visa. I pay tax — a lot of tax.”

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AP [9/26/2025 3:24 PM, Jonel Aleccia] reports federal regulators have detected possible radioactive contamination in a second food product sent to the U.S. from Indonesia, even as recalls of potentially tainted shrimp continue to grow. The discovery adds to questions about the source of the unusual problem. U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials last week blocked import of all spices from PT Natural Java Spice of Indonesia after federal inspectors detected cesium 137 in a shipment of cloves sent to California. That follows the import alert imposed in August on the company PT Bahari Makmuri Sejati, or BMS foods, which sends millions of pounds of shrimp to the U.S. each year. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials detected cesium 137 in shipping containers of shrimp sent by PT Bahari Makmur Sejati to several U.S. ports. CBP officials flagged the potential contamination to the FDA, which tested samples of the shrimp and detected cesium 137 in one sample of breaded shrimp. It’s not clear whether there’s a common source of contamination for the shrimp and the spices. FDA and CBP officials said their investigations are continuing.

USA Today [9/26/2025 2:00 PM, Stuart Dyos, 64151K] reports that did you know that some airbags could be more deadly than others? Fake airbags, that is. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) told USA TODAY it’s investigating five deaths over seven incidents involving DTN airbag inflators, a secondary market airbag, that is prohibited from sale in the U.S. "My message to the auto repair industry is clear: whoever is bringing this faulty Chinese equipment into the country and installing them is putting American families in danger and committing a serious crime," U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. "The auto repair industry should be on the lookout for these counterfeit inflators and should alert NHTSA immediately with any additional information." Fake airbags aren’t new. In fiscal year 2024, the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized more than 211,000 counterfeit automotive parts, nearly double the parts confiscated in 2023, according to a September 2024 press release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “The rise in counterfeit automotive parts and equipment continue to be an alarming upward trend,” said Ivan Arvelo, then-Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, in the press release. During typically survivable crashes, airbags replaced with “substandard inflators” send “metal fragments into the drivers’ chests, necks, eyes and faces, killing or severely injuring” them, according to a July 2024 NHTSA press release. “As consumers, we trust that our vehicles are equipped with safety features that will protect us in critical moments,” Automotive Anti-Counterfeiting Council President Robert Stewart said. “Counterfeit airbags and other replacement parts undermine this trust, posing severe risks to lives by failing in critical situations.” Historically, these replacement parts come from foreign manufacturers and are sold “far below” the price of traditional equipment, according to the NHTSA.

FOX News [9/26/2025 4:55 PM, Cameron Arcand, 40019K] reports United States Customs and Border Protection now has boats along the Chicago River amid Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s "Operation Midway Blitz" in the region. "Operation Midway Blitz" started last month in the Chicago area despite opposition from local Democratic leaders. The operation has yielded over 500 arrests, including those with serious past convictions and criminal charges. "Lakes and rivers are borders too. … Wherever the border’s at, that’s where Border Patrol is gonna be," CBP Commander Gregory Bovino told Fox News Channel. "Where streets end, our Marine Unit begins. On the Chicago River, CBP leadership stays vigilant. Our ability to patrol on the water extends the reach of enforcement," USBP Chief Michael Banks posted to X on Thursday. CBP Air and Marine Operations Executive Assistant Commissioner Jonathan Miller posted to X on Thursday a video from one of the boats, writing that "Operation Midway Blitz here in Chicago is as vital as anywhere else in the country! We will not back down."

Los Angeles Times [9/26/2025 10:29 PM, Jessica Garrison, 12715K] reports the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento has said she was fired after telling the Border Patrol chief in charge of immigration raids in California that his agents were not allowed to arrest people without probable cause in the Central Valley. Michele Beckwith, a career prosecutor who was made the acting U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of California earlier this year, told New York Times that she was let go after she warned Gregory Bovino, chief of the Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector, that a court injunction blocked him from carrying out indiscriminate immigration raids in Sacramento. Beckwith did not respond to a request for comment from the L.A. Times, but told New York Times that "we have to stand up and insist the laws be followed.” The U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento declined to comment. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment Friday evening. Bovino presided over a series of raids in Los Angeles starting in June in which agents spent weeks pursuing Latino-looking workers outside of Home Depots, car washes, bus stops and other areas. The agents often wore masks and used unmarked vehicles. But such indiscriminate tactics were not allowed in California’s Eastern District after the American Civil Liberties Union and United Farm Workers filed suit against the Border Patrol earlier in the year and won an injunction. The suit followed a January operation in Kern County called "Operation Return to Sender," in which agents swarmed a Home Depot and Latino market, among other areas frequented by laborers. In April, a federal district court judge ruled that the Border Patrol likely violated the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure. As Beckwith described it to New York Times reporters, she received a phone call from Bovino on July 14 in which he said he was bringing agents to Sacramento. She said she told him that the injunction filed after the Kern County raid meant he could not stop people indiscriminately in the Eastern District. The next day, she wrote him an email in which, as quoted in New York Times, she stressed the need for "compliance with court orders and the Constitution.” Shortly thereafter her work cell phone and her work computer stopped working. A bit before 5 p.m. she received an email informing her that her employment was being terminated effective immediately. It was the end of a 15-year career in in the Department of Justice in which she had served as the office’s Criminal Division Chief and First Assistant and prosecuted members of the Aryan Brotherhood, suspected terrorists, and fentanyl traffickers. Two days later on July 17, Bovino and his agents moved into Sacramento, conducting a raid at a Home Depot south of downtown.

New York Times [9/26/2025 1:55 PM, Claire Fahy, 153395K] reports René Rodriguez accompanied his daughter to Ireland last month as she prepared for a fall semester abroad. As he boarded the flight from Boston Logan International Airport to Shannon Airport, he found two federal officers in the Jetway taking photos of passengers with their cellphones. “It was an ambush,” Mr. Rodriguez said. “It really caught me by surprise, and really I felt violated in a lot of ways, because I didn’t give permission.” Those officers were part of an expanding federal program called biometric exit, which involves taking photos of passengers leaving the country and applying facial recognition technology to ensure that travelers match their identification documents. This process is known as facial comparison. For foreign nationals, the photos can remain in a database for up to 75 years. For U.S. citizens, the photos are matched to their passports and deleted within 12 hours, according to the Department of Homeland Security. On Sept. 15, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs approved a proposed rule, clearing the way for the program to expand to all airports, seaports and land crossings across the country. While the approval formalized the expansion, in reality the program has been growing for years and is now in use at dozens of airports and at seaports. It has not yet been put in place at most points of entry on land, but the rule will permit that as well, said Daniel P. Tanciar, a deputy director at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The Hill [9/26/2025 4:51 PM, Rachel Frazin, 12414K] reports a federal judge this week blocked the Trump administration from conditioning disaster and security funds for states on their immigration policies. Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued terms and conditions for federal grants, which state that grant recipients must coordinate and cooperate with immigration officials. Twenty Democrat-led states sued over the use of this policy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is part of the DHS. They argued that their immigration policies should not impact their ability to receive disaster and counterterrorism grants. Judge William Smith, agreed, issuing a permanent injunction barring the department from enforcing the conditions. In response, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a written statement that "cities and states who break the law and prevent us from arresting criminal illegal aliens should not receive federal funding."

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Reuters [9/26/2025 4:48 PM, Ashitha Shivaprasad, 45746K] reports Humberto rapidly strengthened into a category 3 hurricane and is expected to intensify further over the Central Atlantic in the next couple of days, the U.S. Hurricane Center said on Friday. The hurricane was located about 430 miles (690 km) northeast of the northern Leeward Islands, packing maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour(185 km/hour). "Swells generated by Humberto will begin affecting portions of the northern Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda this weekend," the Miami based forecaster added.

Bloomberg [9/26/2025 5:39 PM, Lauren Rosenthal and Brian K Sullivan, 19085K] reports Hurricane Humberto is set to churn up potentially deadly waves across parts of the Caribbean this weekend as it continues to gain strength. Humberto rapidly intensified Friday into a Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale as it hurtled through warm Atlantic waters, according to an update from the US National Hurricane Center at 5 p.m. local time. Though the storm is not forecast to strike land, energy from Humberto is expected to create “life-threatening surf and rip current conditions” on beaches in the northern Leeward Islands, the US Virgin Islands, Bermuda and Puerto Rico in the coming days, NHC forecaster Brad Reinhart wrote. Humberto is projected to become a Category 4 major hurricane Saturday. It is expected to brush Bermuda with its winds before curving east toward Europe — but another tropical system brewing nearby may disrupt that path. If it fully forms, the next storm will be named Imelda.

New York Times [9/26/2025 5:57 PM, Judson Jones, 153395K] reports the National Hurricane Center has begun issuing advisories for a tropical system currently churning through the Caribbean that is expected to become Tropical Storm Imelda in the coming days. The system, currently known as “Potential Tropical Storm Nine,” would join Hurricane Humberto, which rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm on Friday. Because the two systems are so close together, meteorologists have struggled to know exactly what each will do as their energy affects the other. But they believe that the one that is expected to become Imelda, which has already brought rain to the islands in the Caribbean, could lead to a “substantial risk” of heavy rain and strong winds to the Southeastern United States in the coming days. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center were watching closely on Friday for signs that a tropical system that was moving through the Caribbean would become organized enough to become Tropical Storm Imelda, the ninth named storm of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. “It’s a very difficult forecast,” said Brian Haines, the meteorologist in charge at National Weather Service office in Charleston, S.C., where the storm could potentially come ashore next week.

USA Today [9/26/2025 11:54 PM, Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver, 64151K] reports Hurricane Humberto rapidly intensified in the open Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 26, becoming a Category 4 hurricane after gaining more than 30 mph in wind speeds in just six hours. Even though it’s forecast to strengthen even further, it’s not the storm that poses the most danger to U.S. shores. No, the storm that U.S. residents have to worry most about was dubbed Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine at 5 p.m. on Sept. 26. That storm, about 145 miles northwest of the eastern tip of Cuba and about 145 miles south of the Central Bahamas, is forecast to become Tropical Storm Imelda over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said. The center’s forecast shows the potential system could grow into a strong tropical storm or Category 1 hurricane early next week as it moves through the Bahamas and past Florida, then make a very close brush near or over the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas. "An increasing threat of heavy rainfall from this system is forecast over the southern Mid-Atlantic through coastal Georgia which could cause flash, urban, and river flooding into next week," the hurricane center said in the update. The other growing concern for millions across the Carolinas and into Virginia isn’t tropical at all. It’s the slight risk for excessive rainfall ahead of the storm in a phenomenon the National Weather Service calls a predecessor rain event.

CBS Boston [9/26/2025 7:26 PM, Mike Sullivan, 45245K] reports while it remains early, there is a chance a hurricane could reach North Carolina a year after Hurricane Helene devastated the area and residents with ties to New England said they’re still recovering. Caroline Doyle and her husband grew up in New England and lived in Charlestown and Swampscott before moving to Weaverville, North Carolina. During the storm, her family fled to her mother’s home on a nearby mountain. She said the storm knocked down hundreds of trees and left them stranded at the home for nearly a week. "The last round of debris from my parents’ neighborhood probably got cleared about two weeks ago," said Doyle. "After the storm, we had fires, we had more snow over the winter than ever before. We had an earthquake.” Her child was out of school for a month and the next big rainstorm after the hurricane left her child’s kindergarten spooked. "They reached out to all the parents to let them know that there were kids who were scared and upset," said Doyle. The lasting impressions can be felt in the town as well. Doyle said buildings that once stood are gone and their typically robust tourism crowd has yet to fully come back. "It has been really, really hard for the community, not just to clear the debris, but to get back on with their lives without the lifeline that is folks from New England and the west coast and internationally coming and seeing us," said Doyle.

CNN [9/27/2025 5:00 AM, Josh Campbell, 23245K] reports that, as gunshots pierced the air from high above, people in two different American cities this month found themselves running from a deadly shooter they could not see. The nearly undetectable threat of snipers has security professionals sounding the alarm as age-old tactics of assassination become the tool of choice for modern killers often fueled by ubiquitous streams of online hate. Snipers have been a potential threat for centuries, but security experts say the current toxic United States political climate coupled with the threat of rapid online radicalization and easy access to guns requires an especially urgent adjustment to an emerging form of deadly violence. Multiple recent high-profile incidents have put security professionals on edge. At a Utah university this month, a gunman perched on a rooftop less than 500 feet from Charlie Kirk fired one fatal round as the conservative activist was addressing an audience while flanked by a security team providing close protection. And this week in Dallas, a man armed with a rifle atop a building sprayed bullets into a nearby Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, killing one migrant detainee and critically injuring two others before taking his own life. Both killings came after an attempted assassin on a roof in Pennsylvania opened fire on Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year, grazing the president’s ear and killing a member of the audience before the gunman himself was taken out by a counter sniper team from the US Secret Service. "We are witnessing a seismic shift in the current threat environment," said Jonathan Wackrow, CNN law enforcement analyst and former Secret Service agent, who notes a sniper at relatively close range and using optics on a rifle requires very little training to be lethal. "The Secret Service and private security firms have developed a good approach to protecting individuals from the close in threat – handguns, sharp edge weapons, direct assault," he said. "But this is a new environment for them, where they now have to be worried about these long-range threats.” For security industry professionals, the most critical part of their job comes well before a high-profile person steps foot in public. "Assassination has always been, and will always be, about physical access to the protected person," said James Hamilton, former FBI supervisory special agent and founder of the Hamilton Security Group.

FOX News [9/26/2025 9:01 PM, Brooke Singman, 40019K] reports a Trump administration official was physically assaulted by a "deranged leftist" inside the United Nations Thursday afternoon during the gathering of the UN General Assembly, Fox News Digital has learned. An official working in international relations for the Department of Health and Human Services was in New York City serving in a support role for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the department’s leadership team at UNGA. "An HHS official was followed into a bathroom, recorded, physically assaulted and verbally accosted by a deranged leftist at the UN who somehow entered the venue past multiple layers of security," White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital. "Thankfully, the official is safe, and the lunatic was arrested, but this is part of a disturbing and dangerous set of failures by the UN after their sabotage of President Trump ahead of and during his speech.” Kelly told Fox News Digital that the U.S. Secret Service will investigate "how this violent protester was admitted into a major national security event.” A source familiar told Fox News Digital that the individual has been charged with assault, aggravated harassment, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon. The individual was released from custody at 7:30 p.m. Friday night, the source said. The individual is expected in court next on Nov. 13. "The UN must answer why these highly concerning incidents continue to happen against the president and his staff," Kelly said. "We are outraged that a member of the U.S. delegation was physically assaulted inside of UN Headquarters the afternoon of September 25," a U.S. UN spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "This attack must be addressed swiftly, and consequences must be felt.” The spokesperson told Fox News Digital that "the UN itself recognizes that it has lost its way.” "Now, it has devolved into an arena where an American delegation member is harassed and assaulted," the spokesperson said. "If you can’t keep people safe in your own building, how can you claim to be the world’s diplomatic center?". The spokesperson called the incident "unacceptable," and told Fox News Digital that the United Nations "will use every available resource to support the U.S. Secret Service into their investigation of this incident.” "We know the UN needs dramatic reform and now must also immediately implement a thorough review of the UN’s security operations," the spokesperson said. "The UN’s failures are evident worldwide, and now in its own halls.” The U.S. UN spokesperson added: "Enough is enough.” The official recounted her experience of being followed, harassed, and physically assaulted inside the United Nations in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. The official told Fox News Digital that she was walking down the hallway at the UN when a woman began berating her and shining a bright light in her face. "It was very disorienting," the official said. "Once I took a step back and regained my footing, it didn’t stop. I realized what was happening. I realized I was being yelled at and that the light was also a recording device.”

CBS Philadelphia [9/26/2025 12:21 PM, Tom Dougherty, 45245K] reports business owners in a New Jersey county are being warned to watch out for what police are calling phony movie money. The Gloucester Township Police Department in Camden County is investigating a string of cases involving counterfeit cash. Police said scammers have used fake money — "Hollywood" or "Motion Picture" money — at several stores in Gloucester Township. According to police, the bills look nearly identical to real money with a similar texture and size. Photos of the fake cash released by the GTPD show the "Federal Reserve Note" atop a real $20 bill changed to "Motion Picture Use" on fake "movie money" being circulated in the township. On the back, instead of "The United States of America" on the real $20 bill, photos of the counterfeit cash show "For Motion Picture Use Only" instead. "The bills will not pass other security measures, such as counterfeit pens, counterfeit detector lights, or certain watermarks/ holograms. Problems persist because most cashiers are not running random smaller denomination bills through security measures to ensure their legitimacy. A quick visual inspection of any bill will prevent fraud," the police department wrote in a press release.

HS Today [9/26/2025 1:07 PM, Staff, 38K] reports Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has publicly endorsed a letter delivered by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth supporting the creation of a Secretary of the United States Coast Guard. The Coast Guard’s broad and specialized mission gives it duties as both a federal law enforcement agency and a branch of the U.S. military. The Coast Guard has not had a civilian Service Secretary to lead its force, direct policy, and set strategic goals. As part of a full-scale effort to revitalize the Coast Guard, Secretary Noem is requesting Congress to create a Secretary of the Coast Guard. “The Coast Guard is the tip of the spear in the fight to protect our Homeland,” said Secretary Noem. “Every day, they are taking down drug smugglers, going toe-to-toe with our adversaries in the Arctic and the Pacific, and saving lives. Having a Secretary of the Coast Guard will be essential for President Trump’s mandate to rebuild the Service into the finest maritime fighting force in the world. I emphatically endorse and support Secretary Hegseth’s recommendation and look forward to working with him, President Trump, and Congress to make this a reality.”

CBS News [9/26/2025 1:22 PM, Kerry Breen, 45245K] reports the U.S. Coast Guard says it seized over $220 million worth of cocaine in multiple recent interceptions of alleged drug boats. At least one operation apparently left a small vessel burning. The crew of the USCG Cutter Midgett intercepted four different alleged drug-smuggling vessels off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America during August and September, the agency said in a news release Thursday. Coast Guard members seized about 21,126 pounds of cocaine worth approximately $156.4 million in total. The drugs were offloaded from the cutter in San Diego on Thursday. The Coast Guard shared a photo it said shows crewmembers offloading bales of narcotics. The seizures were part of Operation Pacific Viper, a Coast Guard effort to seize drugs that travel through the eastern Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile, the crew of the USCG Cutter Diligence seized 8,700 pounds of cocaine from a boat traveling about 240 miles north of Panama in early September, according to a Wednesday news release. The drugs were worth about $64.5 million, the Coast Guard said. They were offloaded in Florida on Monday. The Coast Guard shared a photo that it said shows the alleged drug boat on fire a day after the seizure, with a thick cloud of smoke coming from the vessel. It is unclear how the boat began burning or if there was anyone aboard at the time. The Coast Guard did not respond to a request for comment. Another alleged drug boat was left burning in the eastern Pacific Ocean in August, amid other Coast Guard operations. Officials did not indicate why the boat was on fire.

FOX News [9/26/2025 1:24 PM, Greg Norman, 40019K] reports that the U.S. Coast Guard joined the search for a 44-year-old diver who vanished in the waters off Hawaii’s island of Kauai. Bryson Higashi was last seen around 4:30 p.m. local time Tuesday near Hanalei, a town on the island’s northern coastline, according to the Coast Guard. "Coast Guard Sector Honolulu command center watchstanders received a notification at 7:36 p.m. Wednesday from Kauai Fire Department personnel of a possible person in the water near Hanalei Bay," the agency said. "Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and coordinated the diversion of a Coast Guard Station Kauai 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew, an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew and an HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point," it added. "The Coast Guard Cutter William Hart (WPC 1134) crew also diverted for the search.” Officials said Higashi "may have gone missing while freediving.” He is described as being 5 feet, 11 inches tall, weighing around 180 pounds. "Higashi’s truck was discovered near Hanalei Bay after being left unattended for a full day," the Coast Guard said. The Kauai Fire Department, Kauai Police Department and the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources are assisting in the search. As of Thursday, the Coast Guard said on-scene weather conditions consisted of, "15 mph winds, 2- to 4-foot seas with occasional showers and reduced visibility." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Times [9/26/2025 12:53 PM, Brad Matthews, 964K] reports a ransomware group took credit for a recent cyberattack on the Maryland Department of Transportation and is auctioning off purported agency data. DOT officials confirmed Monday that hackers got unauthorized access to Maryland Transit Administration systems and reported an “incident-related data loss.” The officials didn’t specify what data was stolen or say when the cyberattack occurred. The incident is being investigated. The Rhysida ransomware group claims responsibility for the cyberattack. The organization claims to have people’s full names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, driver’s license details and passport information, according to the Daily Dark Web website that reports on cyberattacks. The Rhysida group also says it has internal financial documents, confidential legal papers, attorney-client communication material and Maryland’s Department of Legislative Services audit information, according to Daily Dark Web. Rhysida’s starting price for handing over the data is $3.28 million. Maryland officials haven’t confirmed what data was taken or if Rhysida is, in fact, responsible.

AP [9/26/2025 7:02 PM, Staff, 1648K] reports the killing of Charlie Kirk has been followed by a string of arrests across the U.S. over alleged threats of violence in response to the assassination of the conservative activist. A Texas man who authorities say expressed support for Kirk is facing federal charges after making alleged threats online this month to shoot up a Pride parade in the city of Abilene as an act of revenge for Kirk’s killing. And in El Paso, a woman is facing an arson charge after authorities say she tried to set a church on fire and left threatening messages where a vigil was going to be held to honor Kirk. Law enforcement in Utah and Minnesota have made similar arrests. Social media lit up in the days after Kirk’s Sept. 10 death with people mourning his loss — some of whom said they disagreed with Kirk’s ideological stances but supported his right to voice them — as well as those celebrating it. Alex del Carmen, a criminologist and professor at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, said the rise in threats in the aftermath of Kirk’s killing is "dangerous and self-defeating.” "The First Amendment protects even harsh, unpopular speech, but it does not protect valid threats," del Carmen said. "When people cross that line, accountability is essential, and so is empathy for those who are grieving.” In Abilene, an FBI agent interviewed the man, who allegedly acknowledged making the posts and possessing a firearm but denied he was going to take any action or shoot participants, according to the affidavit. The parade was held without incident the day after the man’s arrest.

National Review [9/26/2025 2:30 PM, James Lynch, 109K] reports with the Democratic Party out of power and the Left’s dominance over American institutions facing severe challenges from the Trump administration, left-wing extremists have resorted to violence at rates unseen in decades, according to a new non-partisan study. Left-wing terror plots and attacks, as a percentage of all terror plots and attacks, reached a record high in the first half of 2025, according to a non-partisan Center for Strategic and International Studies study released Thursday. If the trend persists, this year will see the highest number of left-wing terror plots and attacks on U.S. soil in more than three decades. Leftist terrorism made up nearly 45 percent of all terrorism thus far in 2025, an increase of over 20 percent from last year. Through July 4, 2025 — a time period which excludes the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attack this week on the Dallas ICE facility — there have been five left-wing terror attacks and plots in the U.S. Left-wing terrorist attacks in 2025 outnumber those committed by the far-right for the first time in 30 years, due both to the rise in left-wing violence and a decline in right-wing violence. The study — which relied on 750 terror attacks and plots from January 1, 1994 to July 4 of this year — came to that conclusion despite leaving out a significant number of leftist incidents due to its specific definition of terrorism and the time frame applied.

CBS New York [9/26/2025 6:18 PM, Emerson College, 45245K] Video: HERE reports Shane Tamura, the gunman who killed four people in July’s deadly Midtown Manhattan shooting, had low-stage CTE, officials said Friday. New York’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner revealed the results Friday. "Following a thorough assessment and extensive analysis by our neuropathology experts, OCME has found unambiguous diagnostic evidence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, also known as CTE, in the brain tissue of the decedent. The findings correspond with the classification of low-stage CTE, according to current consensus criteria," OCME said in a statement. Tamura, a 27-year-old former high school football player, shot and killed Aland Etienne, Wesley LePatner, Julia Hyman and NYPD Det. Didraul Islam on July 28. He then shot himself in the chest. He left handwritten notes, repeatedly referencing CTE and writing, "Study my brain please. I’m sorry.” Though Tamura never played in the NFL, investigators believe he was targeting the NFL offices inside the office building where he killed four people."The League knowingly concealed the dangers to our brains to maximize profits," Tamura wrote. The three-page note found in Tamura’s pocket said that he wanted to have his brain donated to science so it could be researched, according to law enforcement sources. Tamura’s family previously said he suffered from migraines and mental illness, as well as multiple concussions. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a brain disease that is most common in athletes who play contact sports, such as football players, ice hockey players and boxers. It is a degenerative disease, occurring after repeated head injuries cause cells in the brain to die. It can only be diagnosed definitively after death.

AP [9/26/2025 7:37 PM, Jennifer Peltz, Adam Geller and Farnoush Amiri, 34837K] reports surrounded by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that his nation “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war. “Western leaders may have buckled under the pressure,” he said. “And I guarantee you one thing: Israel won’t.” Netanyahu’s speech, aimed as much at his increasingly divided domestic audience as the global one, began after dozens of delegates from multiple nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly hall en masse Friday morning as he began. Responding to countries’ recent decisions to recognize Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu said: “Your disgraceful decision will encourage terrorism against Jews and against innocent people everywhere.” As the Israeli leader spoke, unintelligible shouts echoed around the hall, while applause came from supporters in the gallery. Seats allotted to the United States — which has backed Netanyahu in his campaign against Hamas — and the United Kingdom were filled by low-level diplomats instead of senior ambassadors or officials. Many seats were vacant; by Iran’s empty chairs stood a compilation of photos of children that Tehran said were killed during Israel’s war there in June.

News Max [9/26/2025 12:26 PM, Jim Mishler, 4779K] reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told United Nations delegates and world leaders that Israeli intelligence services may have no equal. He relayed that a U.S. command officer heaped praise on Israel. "General George Keegan, former head of U.S. Air Force Intelligence, once said, ‘If the United States had to gather on its own, the intelligence that Israel gives us, we would have to establish five CIAs.’ Five CIAs." He said the value of Israeli counter-intelligence was made clear again earlier this year. "This past June when Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, German Chancellor [Friedrich] Merz admitted the truth. He said Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us." Netanyahu reminded delegates that most nations share the same battles. "You know, deep down that Israel, Israel is fighting your fight. So I want to tell you a secret behind closed doors." The prime minister said few want to admit in public that,"Many of the leaders who publicly condemn us privately thank us. They tell me how much they value Israel’s superb intelligence services that have prevented time and again, terrorist attacks in their capitals. Time and again, saving countless lives.” Netanyahu also thanked President Donald Trump for his support of Israel as the two countries face a common threat of Islamic terrorism.

Breitbart [9/26/2025 6:18 PM, John Hayward, 2608K] reports the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Friday that China is leading the effort to prevent the United States from regaining control of Bagram air base in Afghanistan. The SCMP reported that Yue Xiaoyong, special envoy to Afghanistan from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, held a meeting with delegates from Russia, Pakistan, and Iran on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City on Thursday. After the meeting, the four nations issued a joint statement urging "respect for Afghanistan’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.” The statement opposed military bases controlled by anyone the four signatories blamed for the "current situation," which primarily means the United States. China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran did not seem inclined to limit themselves from establishing a military presence in Afghanistan, if they so desired. The airfield at Bagram was constructed by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. It became a key element of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The U.S. took control of the long-abandoned facility in 2001, after overthrowing the first Taliban government. American forces refurbished and expanded the base, providing it with enough runway space to handle large cargo planes, a prison complex, and various amenities, including fast-food restaurants. President Donald Trump has been strongly critical of his predecessor Joe Biden for abandoning Bagram during Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2021. Senior military leaders told Congress they strongly advised Biden to retain control of Bagram and conduct evacuations from there, rather than the more vulnerable Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Terrorists bombed the Kabul airport during the chaos of Biden’s withdrawal, killing over 100 people, including 13 U.S. service members.

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