• Top News
  • The Hill: Top GOP senators to meet with Trump on DHS funding
  • NewsMax: Mullin Eyes Sanctuary Cities, Restores TSA Pay
  • The Hill: Confusion surrounds Trump effort to pay TSA, DHS; some could see last paycheck Friday
  • FOX News: Biden-appointed judge at center of repeated clashes with Trump admin issues new immigration block
  • Daily Wire: Push For Immigration Reform Forces Reckoning Among Republicans As Midterms Approach
  • Washington Examiner: Five ways Mullin is already pushing DHS in a new direction
  • Daily Caller: Public Attorneys Doing Way More For Illegal Migrants Than You Might Think
  • New York Times: U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left
  • New York Post: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor claims colleague Brett Kavanaugh’s prep school upbringing sways his stance on ICE raids
  • New York Times: How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations
  • AP: Immigration board denies Mahmoud Khalil’s appeal, bringing activist one step closer to deportation
  • AP: A federal judge dismisses another DOJ lawsuit seeking voter data, this time in Massachusetts
  • New York Times: Student Hit by Projectile During ‘No Kings’ Protest Lost an Eye, Lawyer Says
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: A special session for Homeland Security funding?
  • Daily Signal: There’s a Solution to Having Democrats Undermine the TSA
  • Washington Examiner: Trump’s historic border turnaround: Zero releases at the border for 11 consecutive months
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Why the resistance against a Big Bend border wall continues
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • FOX News: ICE says more criminal migrants arrested on 1-year anniversary of program to support victims of migrant crime
  • Daily Wire: ICE Director Honors Angel Families, Slams ‘Nazi’ Smears
  • CNN: ICE leaving some airport security checkpoints after helping TSA manage long lines
  • FOX News: Angel families speak out at ICE event
  • FOX News: Angel mom rips sanctuary state after daughter’s alleged killer walked free
  • Washington Times: ICE buys Kristi Noem’s luxury jet for deportations, Cabinet officials
  • AP: How US communities have responded to plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers
  • Bloomberg/NewsMax/Washington Examiner: [NY] Immigrants Sue DHS Over Alleged Racial Profiling in New York
  • National Today: [NY] Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Kidnapping 4-Year-Old In New York
  • New York Times: [PA] In a Deep Red Town, Locals Vent Over a Planned ICE Detention Center
  • AP: [MD] Protesters rally against planned Maryland immigration detention facility that’s now paused
  • FOX News: [VA] Spanberger breaks silence on ‘sanctuary’ claims as ICE clashes heat up
  • FOX News: [VA] Homan warns Spanberger blocking access to Virginia jails could force more ICE street operations: ‘Do the job’
  • National Review: [VA] Illegal Immigrant Found Guilty of Assault After Groping Female Peers in Fairfax County School
  • FOX News: [VA] White House border czar issues warning to Spanberger on blocking ICE from Virginia jails, cites Minnesota
  • ABC News: [NC] Immigrant advocates in North Carolina say family was deported without due process
  • Univision: [NC] Children aged 11 and 6 attend a court appointment and are detained by ICE and deported in less than 48 hours
  • FOX News: [FL] Trump blasts Biden admin for releasing illegal immigrant now charged in fatal hammer attack on Florida mother
  • Axios: [FL] Miami ICE leads U.S. in arrests, driven by local cops’ cooperation
  • Washington Examiner: [FL] Trump vows ‘severe justice’ for suspect in fatal bludgeoning of Florida woman
  • FOX News: [MO] ICE detainer lodged for illegal migrant accused of murdering 15-year-old Missouri boy who begged for his life
  • Chicago Tribune: [WI] Wisconsin officials to address claims from Skokie woman that she was detained by ICE for 48 hours
  • The Hill: [MN] Minnesota districts, teachers ask for restoration of immigration enforcement limits near schools
  • Univision: [TX] Hispanic woman remains detained by ICE in Texas despite signing her voluntary departure; fears she will be sent to another country
  • FOX News: [AZ] Foreign fugitive wanted for woman’s killing lived undetected in US for possibly years before ICE arrest
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Man was shot at by ICE agents in Northern California before he tried to flee, attorney says
  • New York Times: [CA] Victim in ICE Shooting Suffered at Least Six Wounds, His Lawyer says
  • ABC 7 San Francisco: [CA] Attorney says man shot by ICE in Stanislaus Co. is not gang member, ICE had ‘bad information’
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] Man shot by ICE agents in Northern California disputes agency’s account
  • AP: [CA] An attorney for a man shot by ICE in California says his client denies being a gang member
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Medi-Cal immigrant enrollment is dropping. Researchers point to Trump’s policies
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • AP: Judge postpones termination of temporary status for Ethiopians
  • Bloomberg Industry Group Bloomberg Tax: [DC] DHS Fails to Ditch Suit Over Rule on Mandatory Bars to Asylum
  • Washington Post: [DC] As ICE ramped up in D.C., immigrant crime victims faced visa roadblocks
• Customs and Border Protection
  • NewsNation: Migrant encounters jump 25% in March, CBP reports
  • Washington Times: DHS says border calm is ‘the new normal’
  • AP: [MA] Officer improperly canceled visa of Harvard scholar charged with frog embryo smuggling, judge rules
  • USA Today: [DC] DHS threatens removing customs at airports. Would DC area be affected?
  • Axios: [TX] Inside the unbuilding of Trump’s border wall
  • NBC News Daily: [TX] Lawsuit Alleges CBP Withholding Border Wall Plans
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Bloomberg: Wildfires Race Across US as Drought Spans Half the Nation
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] We’re all set’: Houston’s World Cup security plan receives $64.7M in funding for FIFA 2026
  • Telemundo52: [CA] Defense of accused of starting fire Palisades calls for "government negligence" to be included
  • ABC News: [HI] Hawaii at risk of flooding, while dry conditions raise fire danger in the Northeast
• Secret Service
  • Federal News Network: Secret Service budget request amps up hiring goals
  • Breitbart: [DC] White House: Ballroom is needed for protection of Trump family
• Coast Guard
  • Daily Caller: Coast Guard Seizes More Than $33,000,000 Worth Of Cocaine In Single Drug Bust
  • FOX News: Coast Guard seizes over 4,500 pounds of cocaine worth $34M from suspected narco-terrorist vessel on Easter
  • Daily Wire: [Bahamas] American Man Claims His Wife ‘Fell Overboard’ In The Bahamas. Now He’s Under Arrest.
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Bloomberg: US Cybersecurity Cutbacks Come at Exactly the Wrong Time
  • CyberScoop: Inside the FBI’s router takedown that cut off APT28’s ‘tremendous access’
  • CyberScoop: [Iran] Iranian attacks on US critical infrastructure puts 3,900 devices in crosshairs
• Terrorism Investigations
  • CBS News: FBI warns of rise in "764" online extremist network targeting children nationwide as cases surface in Atlanta
  • NewsMax: Report: Anti-Latino, Anti-Sikh Hate Crimes Hit Record Highs
  • Washington Examiner: [NY] Pakistani national pleads guilty to planning mass shooting at NYC Jewish center to support ISIS
  • NBC News: [FL] Florida officials investigate ChatGPT, OpenAI over alleged role in FSU shooting
  • San Francisco Chronicle/New York Times: A Mexican Cartel Leader and Ex-Partner to El Mencho Pleads Guilty in U.S.
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] Bay Area cartel leader pleads guilty to drug charges
  • New York Post: [CA] DOJ seeks death penalty for three MS-13 gang members indicted for murdering FBI informant
• National Security News
  • NewsMax: NY Times: New Anthropic AI Model Sparks National Security Concerns
  • Wall Street Journal: Florida AG Investigates OpenAI, ChatGPT, Citing National Security Risks, FSU Shooting
  • NewsMax: Rep. Miller-Meeks to Newsmax: Dems Out to ‘Get Trump’ With War Powers Move
  • ABC News: [Iran] White House considering penalizing NATO allies: Official
  • FOX News: [Iran] Trump pushes NATO for Strait of Hormuz security commitments
  • The Hill: [Iran] Rutte says NATO allies ‘were a bit slow, to say the least’ on Iran war

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