• Top News
  • New York Times/The Hill/Los Angeles Times: Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down, Though Essential Work Continues
  • New York Times: The Homeland Security Shutdown Could Affect ICE, Travelers and the Coast Guard
  • USA Today: Coast Guard chief warns DHS shutdown will ‘cripple morale’ t
  • Wall Street Journal/CBS News: How a Homeland Security Shutdown Affects ICE and TSA
  • NewsMax: Trump Says He’ll Enter Talks as DHS Funding Nears Lapse
  • FOX News: Here’s how the DHS shutdown could impact the lives of everyday Americans
  • New York Times: A D.H.S. Shutdown Looms. Bruised Minnesotans Urge Their Parties to Dig In.
  • NewsMax: Rep. Moore to Newsmax: Fetterman ‘Spot On’ That DHS Funding Fight Risks Security
  • NewsMax: Rep. Tony Gonzales to Newsmax: Dems Playing Politics at Expense of National Security
  • Washington Examiner: Why it could take weeks to feel the brunt of a DHS shutdown
  • Breitbart: Wasserman Schultz on Funding TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard: Not Sure I Want to Give Noem More Money
  • Breitbart: House Dem: DHS Shutdown Won’t Stop ICE, but ‘It’s the Principle’
  • New York Times: Democrats’ Debate: ‘Abolish ICE,’ or ‘Abolish Trump’s ICE’?
  • AP: US military strikes another alleged drug boat in Caribbean, killing 3
  • Washington Post/NBC News/The Hill/Politico: 2 federal agents placed on leave after appearing to make ‘untruthful’ statements about violent encounter in Minneapolis
  • AP: Feds open a perjury probe into ICE officers’ testimony about the shooting of a Venezuelan man
  • AP: Perjury probe into ICE testimonies marks latest shooting where evidence contradicts Trump officials
  • The Hill/CBS News: Judge dismisses charges against men accused of assaulting ICE officer
  • The Hill: Judge rules ICE likely violated Minnesota detainees’ constitutional rights
  • New York Times: ICE Tried to Justify a Minneapolis Shooting. Its Story Unraveled.
  • FOX News: Jacob Frey is skeptical of ICE withdrawal from Minneapolis, says ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’
  • NewsMax: Minnesota Sheriffs: Policies Unchanged After ICE Surge
  • AP: Minnesotans welcome the immigration surge drawdown but remain vigilant
  • FOX News: Trump’s Operation Metro Surge located 3,000 missing migrant children in Minneapolis, Emmer says
  • Wall Street Journal: The Battles Inside Kristi Noem’s DHS: Five Takeaways From the Journal’s Investigation
  • The Hill: Noem says she’s ‘still in charge’ of DHS
  • NewsMax: Kari Lake to Newsmax: Noem’s Arizona Visit Has Corrupt People Squirming
  • NewsNation: Noem’s luxury jet saving Americans ‘tens of millions’ of dollars: DHS
  • New York Post: Corey Lewandowski fired pilot for leaving Kristi Noem’s blanket on plane as sources say pair ‘spending nights regularly’ together
  • Breitbart: Ty Cobb: Bondi, Noem, Hegseth and Trump Have Committed Impeachable Offenses
  • NewsNation: Noem pushes back on criticism of SAVE America Act
  • Blaze: Noem urges swift passage of SAVE Act to prevent illegal aliens from disenfranchising American voters
  • DailySignal: ‘Want to Cheat’: Noem Rips ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Against SAVE America Act
  • The Hill: Trump floats executive order on voter ID if SAVE Act stalls in Senate
  • Washington Examiner: Duffy cracks down on trucking carriers and ‘sham school’ linked to Indiana crash caused by illegal immigrant
  • Washington Examiner: Lower courts undermine Trump’s appeals court win on immigration detention
  • Washington Post/Bloomberg: U.S. spending millions to send migrants to third countries, report says
  • ABC News: Trump administration deportations cost taxpayers ‘upward of $40M’: Report
  • CBS News: Gov. Wes Moore argues Biden "needed to do more" on immigration but blasts Trump’s crackdown
  • NBC News: DHS has no immediate plans for sweeping city-specific immigration enforcement operations, officials say
  • San Diego Union Tribune: Public health workers are quitting over assignments to Guantánamo
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • San Diego Union Tribune: Steven Greenhut: Time to stop ICE’s efforts to ‘defenestrate’ the Constitution
  • Bloomberg: [MN] Homan Is Trying — and Failing — to Save Face in Minneapolis
  • Bloomberg: [MN] ICE Leaving Minnesota Won’t Heal My Community’s Scars
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Reuters: ICE to spend $38.3 billion on detention centers across US, document shows
  • Bloomberg: ICE Detention Center Buying Spree Skirts Oversight, Transparency
  • FOX News: ICE arrests ‘worst of the worst’ criminal illegal immigrants including murderers and pedophiles
  • FOX News: ICE director stands his ground after Swalwell blowup, says Democrats are ‘misleading their constituents’
  • Washington Times: Judge rules ICE can’t make warrantless arrests at some churches
  • Reuters: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
  • Breitbart: Report: Record Number of Illegal Aliens Self-Deporting U.S. Under Trump
  • New York Times: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
  • AP: Teachers describe immigration enforcement’s impact on classrooms in challenge of Trump policy
  • New York Times: [MA] Judge Orders U.S. to Facilitate Return of College Student Who Was Deported in Error
  • CBS News: [NJ] "We were all scared," says child who ran as ICE operation unfolded near New Jersey school bus stop
  • CBS Baltimore: [MD] Maryland lawmakers push for answers about "disturbing" conditions in Baltimore ICE facility
  • FOX News: [MD] Anti-ICE chaos erupts at blue-state county board meeting after panel endorses detention center
  • CBS News: [GA] Sen. Raphael Warnock files amendment to block funding for Oakwood and Social Circle ICE detention centers
  • Univision: [FL] Immigrant loses immigration status after being accused of stealing a $70 package
  • Breitbart: [MO] Missouri: Woman Accused of Setting Fire to Proposed ICE Detention Building
  • AP: [IL] Immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 billion to boost detention capacity to 92,000 beds
  • The Hill: [MN] Homan on ICE Minneapolis pullback: ‘If we need to come back, we’ll come back’
  • Breitbart: [MN] St. Paul, Minn., joins list of those seeking to ban ICE masks
  • New York Times: [MN] ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
  • Washington Examiner: [MN] Minneapolis prosecutors charge few anti-ICE protesters amid mass unrest
  • FOX News/Bloomberg: [MN] Don Lemon Pleads Not Guilty to Charges Over ICE Protest Coverage
  • Axios: [MN] ICE surge changed little between feds and Minnesota’s largest jails
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [MN] ICE is still rampaging in Minnesota. For Native Americans, it’s history repeating itself
  • CBS New York: [TX] ICE detainee from New Jersey suffers seizure after nearly 1 year in custody, lawyers say
  • USA Today: [TX] ‘I felt like an animal’: Leqaa Kordia on ICE hospitalization
  • NBC News: [TX] ‘Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this’: A family’s nightmare in ICE detention
  • New York Times: [CA] Three Federal Officers Injured in Los Angeles Protests, D.H.S. Says
  • Blaze: [CA] Quite literally insane’: DHS responds to new scheme from LA activists to warn illegal aliens about ICE
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Reuters/Daily Caller: Trump administration ends temporary protected status for Yemen
  • Breitbart: Justice Department Slashes Asylum Award Rates Down to 10 Percent
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Reuters: Senators urge Trump to scrap social media vetting for foreign tourists
  • Blaze: Democrat congressman’s chilling threat to border official should terrify every American, warns Glenn Beck
  • CBS News: Why is the U.S. government exploring using high-energy lasers near the border?
  • FOX News: Tom Cotton demands FDA probe into illegal Chinese ingredients in US weight loss drugs
  • New York Times: [TX] Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace
  • AP: [TX] What to know about the counter drone technology that triggered the closure of the El Paso airspace
  • USA Today: [TX] A party balloon condemns the El Paso anti-drone laser fiasco | Opinion
  • USA Today: [TX] A CBP supervisor is accused of ‘harboring’ undocumented girlfriend
  • NewsNation: [AZ] One million fentanyl pills seized in one day at Arizona border crossing
• Transportation Security Administration
  • New York Times: T.S.A. Workers Brace for Another Shutdown They Didn’t Cause
  • Reuters: Airlines, Travel Groups Warn of Impact of Partial Government Shutdown on Airport Screeners
  • Bloomberg: TSA Will Now Refer to Non-US Citizens As ‘Aliens’ Under New Rule
  • AP: TSA agents are working without pay at US airports due to another shutdown
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • AP: [MS] ‘We as a state failed them’: Senators call for improved disaster response after winter storm
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Wildfire debris removal underway at Palisades Bowl Mobile Home park
• Secret Service
  • Blaze: [PA] FBI forced to release damning docs revealing chilling new details on Trump’s would-be assassin
  • CBS News: [TX] Mansfield woman pleads guilty to producing sexually explicit videos of 9‑year‑old, prosecutors say
• Coast Guard
  • Reuters: Trump administration releases Maritime Action Plan aimed at resurrecting US shipbuilding
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Daily Caller: Inside The Effort To Put Trump’s Antifa Narrative On Trial in Historic Terrorism Case
• National Security News
  • Reuters: Trump administration releases Maritime Action Plan aimed at resurrecting US shipbuilding
  • FOX News: ‘They were spying’: Sullivan sounds alarm on joint Russia-China moves in US Arctic zone
  • FOX News: [Germany] Rubio steps into Munich spotlight as Trump leans on him to carry Vance’s populist message abroad
  • CNN: [Germany] US and Europe ‘belong together,’ Rubio tells Munich Security Conference, despite transatlantic tensions
  • Washington Post: [Norway] CIA, Pentagon investigated secret ‘Havana syndrome’ device in Norway
  • New York Times: [Syria] U.S. Transfers Thousands of ISIS Prisoners to Iraq From Syria
  • AP: [Iran] Trump says change in power in Iran ‘would be the best thing that could happen’

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