• Top News
  • AP/FOX News/Washington Examiner: Police in Idaho search for suspect who stole ambulance, drove into building that houses DHS offices
  • CNN/New York Times/NPR: Trump administration expands ICE’s ability to detain legal refugees in latest memo
  • FOX News: DHS Secretary Noem: We don’t have the funding to help people through this
  • NPR/Bloomberg Law: Trump Aims to Block Mixed Immigrant Status Families’ Housing Aid
  • Washington Examiner: Eighth Circuit may give Trump another win on mandatory immigration detention
  • FOX News/AP/New York Times: Judge Condemns ‘Terror Against Noncitizens’ and Orders Hearings for Detainees
  • NewsMax: Homan to Newsmax: Nuremberg Rhetoric Inflames Crazy People
  • FOX News: Federal judge holds DOJ attorney in contempt over ICE case
  • CNN: DHS admits its website showcasing the ‘worst of the worst’ immigrants was rife with errors
  • NBC News: DHS dramatically increased spending to obtain weapons last year, report says
  • NBC News: ‘No expense has been spared’: Inside a luxury jet DHS wants to buy for deportations
  • NBC News: Inside the $70 million luxury jet DHS wants to buy
  • CNN: DHS is hunting for any US citizens who may have voted before being naturalized
  • FOX News: Democrats fight ‘SAVE Act’ for election integrity, Rep. Steil responds to Schumer’s stance
  • The Hill: DHS shutdown talks hit a wall as GOP fumes
  • Breitbart: Gallego: ICE, CBP ‘Have Enough Money for Them to Continue’
  • NewsMax: Rep. Alford to Newsmax: DHS Shutdown ‘Stupidest’ in US History
  • NewsMax: Rep. Cloud to Newsmax: Shutdown ‘Will Not Last Too Much Longer’
  • CNN: Lawmakers say they’ve been stonewalled by DHS, undercutting attempts to hold Trump officials accountable
  • Washington Post: 4 journalists detained in Cameroon reporting on Trump’s deportations
  • ABC News: FBI in touch with Mexican law enforcement in Nancy Guthrie investigation
  • FOX News: Critics warned Trump’s deportations would spark bloodshed — progressive group reports police killings fell
  • CNN: Trump’s immigration crackdown is brewing a health care crisis in the US, doctors warn
  • CNN: How immigration agents are using a once-obscure law to detain US citizens
  • NewsMax: Democrats Looking to Dismantle Not Just ICE, but DHS
  • Chicago Tribune: Cook County top prosecutor circulates policy outlining process for charging federal immigration agents
  • CNN: How does the U.S. fix immigration? Two governors say it’s time to put governors in charge.
  • New York Times: World Cup Crowds Could Be Targeted. This Team Worked to Keep Them Safe.
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • FOX News: Democrats turn their backs on DHS and ICE when America needs them most
  • Blaze: ‘Phase one’ was quality control. ‘Phase two’ needs to be quantity control.
  • The Hill: Is Trump going too far with immigration enforcement?
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Texans care about hard work, safety and the economy. ICE doesn’t.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Bloomberg: The Next Phase of ICE’s $38 Billion Detention Plan: Centralized, DHS-Owned Warehouses
  • Washington Examiner: Inside ICE’s battle with local Democrats to convert warehouses into detention centers
  • Roll Call: Lawmakers try to halt ICE plans for new detention centers
  • Axios: When ICE slips: Viral videos mock Border Patrol, ICE agents
  • FOX News: How ICE went from post-9/11 counterterror agency to center of the immigration fight
  • NPR: Some cities are ditching license plate readers over immigration surveillance concerns
  • Univision: [NY] At least 15 ICE agents arrest man on streets of West New York
  • Daily Caller: [PA] Watch Principal Lay Down The Law To Students On Anti-ICE Walkout
  • Telemundo Washington DC: [MD] Hyattsville groups protest alleged plans to install ICE center
  • New York Post: [VA] 300 Virginia high school students who ditched class for anti-ICE walkout suspended
  • Univision: [GA] DHS confirms warehouse in Georgia will be one of eight ICE mega detention centers
  • AP: [GA] Cherished teacher mourned following deadly crash with driver who was being pursued by ICE
  • FOX News: [VA] Navy reservist on active duty accused of murdering wife believed to have fled to Hong Kong
  • FOX News: [NC] 2 illegal alien ‘perverts’ allegedly sodomized, beat, ripped fingernails off male victim in NC home invasion
  • Univision: [GA] DHS reveals details of Linda Davis’s death: Why is Guatemalan Óscar Vásquez being blamed?
  • The Hill: [MD] Hogan says Maryland police will ‘ignore’ new law prohibiting them from working with ICE
  • CBS Miami: [FL] Florida is set to give $50 million more to local law agencies for immigration enforcement for three counties
  • Blaze: [FL] Juvenile hit by car at student anti-ICE protest in Florida
  • FOX News: [IN] Illegal immigrant truck driver accused of killing Indiana man after running red light
  • Bloomberg Law: [IL] Chicagoland Attorneys Update Protocol for ICE Accountability
  • Univision Chicago WGBO: [IL] Cook County establishes protocol to criminally prosecute federal immigration agents
  • FOX News: [IL] Illinois university moves classes online after learning ICE is operating in the same building
  • Reuters: [IL] Catholic leaders bring communion to immigration detainees near Chicago after court win
  • Breitbart: [NC] North Carolina Sanctuary County Frees from Jail Illegal Alien Accused of Raping Child
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Religious leaders allowed into Broadview ICE facility for Ash Wednesday after judge orders DHS to grant access
  • New York Times: [MN] Police Investigate ICE Arrest of a Man Who Suffered Severe Head Injuries
  • Breitbart: [MN] ICE Arrests Liberian Illegal Alien Working as Minnesota Corrections Officer
  • FOX News: [MN] Pastor speaks out on harrowing church invasion that sent congregants fleeing in terror
  • NBC News: [TX] Russian family who complained of mistreatment in ICE facility is released after 4 months
  • CBS News: [TX] Trial for 9 involved in alleged attack on officers at North Texas ICE facility to start Monday following mistrial
  • Breitbart: [TX] Dozens of Texas Schools Now Under Investigation for Alleged Role in Anti‑ICE Walkouts
  • NewsMax: [OK] Okla. Gov. Lauds School for Suspending Students Protesting ICE
  • New York Post/Univision: [CA] Newsom’s mask ban for ICE agents in tatters as court backs ‘Supremacy Clause’
  • Bloomberg Industry Group Bloomberg Law: [CA] Los Angeles ICE Raids Racial Profiling Case Moves Forward
  • Telemundo 20: [CA] Pressure is mounting in Escondido to cancel the contract with the Department of Homeland Security
  • Newsmax/Breitbart: [Cuba] ICE Deports Criminals Back to Cuba for the First Time in Decades
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Bloomberg: DHS Pushes for Detention of Refugees While Cases Are Reviewed
  • Axios: Thousands of refugees are vulnerable to ICE detention
  • Daily Wire: [MN] ‘Serial Fraudster’: Feds Nab Minnesota Corrections Officer Who Lied About U.S. Citizenship
• Customs and Border Protection
  • NewsNation: Migrant encounters continue to fall along Southwest border
  • New York Post: [NY] Northern border suffering from CBP staffing crisis — with New York struggling to track Canadian crossings, fed audit reveals
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] CBP asked a California county for info on all of its property owners
• Transportation Security Administration
  • CBS Miami: [FL] New technology developed in Florida designed to keep travelers safe tested at Miami International Airport
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • The Hill: DHS halts some FEMA travel amid partial shutdown
  • Bloomberg: Explosive Wildfires Surge Through Oklahoma Panhandle and Kansas
  • USA Today: Wildfires continue in Texas, Oklahoma as high winds persist: See map
  • Washington Examiner: [DC] Bowser requests federal help over Potomac sewage spill public emergency
  • NBC News: [MD] A month after the pipe burst, Potomac sewage spills onto the national stage with political finger-pointing
• Secret Service
  • Washington Post: [DC] D.C. protesters say they were attacked by guards of Azerbaijani president
  • Washington Examiner: [DC] Fine arts panel approves Trump’s ballroom
• Coast Guard
  • FOX News: Emergency scare rocks major cruise ship company as another voyage is canceled
  • CBS News: Coast Guard recovers 1 ton of cocaine after boat crew tosses drugs into sea while fleeing
  • FOX News: Coast Guard caught as ‘collateral damage’ in Democrats’ DHS shutdown as China, Russia press US waters
  • Reuters: [Mexico] Mexico Navy Seizes Submarine With Four Tons of Cocaine
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • CyberScoop: FBI: Threats from Salt Typhoon are ‘still very much ongoing’
  • DefenseScoop: DOD leaders warn AI, cryptocurrency ‘lowers the bar’ for cybercriminals
• National Security News
  • New York Times: Trump Says He Will Release Files on Aliens and U.F.O.s
  • NewsMax: Trump: Obama Made ‘Big Mistake’ Revealing Alien Info
  • FOX News: GOP rips FISA court for tapping ex-Biden ‘disinformation’ lawyer to advise on surveillance
  • FOX News: Trump says US contributing $10B to Board of Peace, Iran must reach nuclear deal or ‘bad things happen’
  • Politico: White House wants a reprieve in spy-powers fight that is splitting the GOP
  • CBS News: [AK] U.S. fighter jets intercept Russian warplanes off Alaskan coast
  • FOX News: [Venezuela] Top US military commander visits Venezuela, meets new leader following operation to capture Maduro
  • Daily Wire: [Syria] Thousands Of ISIS Terrorists Nearly Escaped – Inside The U.S. Operation That Blocked It
  • AP: [Iran] Trump warns of ‘bad things’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal, as second US carrier nears Mideast
  • FOX News: [Iran] Iran and Russia hold military drills as US military buildup in Middle East intensifies

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