• Top News
  • The Hill: DHS funding impasse deepens as lawmakers blow by first payday
  • Politico: DHS funding impasse here to stay as administration ratchets up pressure
  • Roll Call: Moratorium on federal employee layoffs lapses amid shutdown
  • Bloomberg: World Cup Cities Say They Can’t Wait Much Longer on Safety Funds
  • FOX News: DHS funding stalemate thaws as White House sends Democrats ‘serious’ counteroffer
  • Politico: Trump administration delivers latest DHS funding offer
  • Daily Wire: Funding Fight Turns Ugly — Who Is Getting Shorted?
  • The Hill: Schumer, Jeffries review White House proposal to end DHS shutdown
  • NewsMax: Rep. Mark Harris to Newsmax: Dem Shutdown Jeopardizes DHS Security Plans
  • AP: Wisconsin man gets 16½ years in prison for forging threats against Trump in a deportation scheme
  • Daily Caller: Father Of Girl Maimed By Illegal Trucker Wants To Close Shady Industry Loophole For Good
  • FOX News: American citizen KILLED in boat shooting near Cuba
  • AP: Cuba unveils new details in fatal US boat shooting and says a 2nd boat on mission failed
  • Wall Street Journal: The Failed Armed Expedition to Topple Cuba’s Regime
  • Breitbart: Man Cuba Falsely Claimed to Detain in Speedboat Shootout Speaks from U.S.
  • AP: Deaths on a boat off Cuba spotlight Florida anti-government groups
  • Reuters: Cuba says attacking speedboat had nearly 13,000 rounds of ammunition
  • Daily Wire: Trump Suggests ‘Friendly Takeover Of Cuba’ After Boat Incident
  • ABC News: Florida AG on deadly shooting of Florida-registered boat near Cuba’s coast
  • NewsMax: Trump Asks If Supreme Court Can Rehear Tariff Case
  • Axios: Democrats demand $1,700 in tariff refunds for Americans
  • AP: US moves to legally control tanker and 2M barrels of oil seized off Venezuela’s coast in December
  • Blaze: ‘My own employees ... had downloaded software on my phone’: Kristi Noem claims Elon Musk helped expose spyware inside DHS
  • Axios: Noem burning deportation cash on luxury jets
  • Roll Call: Tillis threatens nominee holds over immigration data request
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • USA Today: Trump needs to apologize to families of those ICE killed
  • Chicago Tribune: [IN] Guest column: Indiana bill giving ICE access to schools unconscionable
  • FOX News: [Mexico] If Trump wants to smash Mexican cartels, he’s got history and law on his side
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • New York Times: What Are ICE Agents Allowed to Do on College Campuses?
  • New York Times: Near the White House, Hundreds of High School Students Protest ICE
  • Reuters: ICE has detained a growing share of people with no criminal record or charge
  • FOX News: Backlash grows after Clinton-appointed judge frees migrants over ICE agent masking
  • NPR: How the federal government is painting immigrants as criminals on social media
  • NBC News: Radiohead tells Trump’s ICE to take down a video using their song
  • New York Times: [MA] Student Remains in Honduras After ICE Vows to Deport Her Again
  • CNN: [NY] Columbia says ICE agents used false pretenses to enter a university residence and detain a student. Here’s what we know
  • NBC News Daily: [NY] Columbia Student Released from ICE Custody After New York City Mayor Phone Call to President Trump
  • CBS News: [NY] Did ICE agents lie to gain entry into a Columbia University residential building?
  • Politico: [NY] Columbia student detention tests universities’ immigration playbook
  • AP: [NY] ICE agents said to have posed as police, a tactic some fear could erode trust in real cops
  • Washington Examiner: [NJ] Mikie Sherrill vows to use ‘all options’ to oppose new ICE facility in letter to Noem
  • Daily Wire: [PA] Local Authorities Released An Illegal Immigrant Training To Be Cop. He Was Just Accused Of Rape.
  • FOX News: [NJ] DHS blasts vulgar ‘F---ICE Act’ as officers face 8,000% spike in death threats
  • FOX News: [VA] Dem governor under fire after illegal alien allegedly stabs woman to death at bus stop: ‘Heinous’
  • Breitbart: [TN] Marsha Blackburn Issues ‘Migrant Crime Reporting Act’ to Have States Publicly Track Crimes Committed by Illegal Aliens
  • Detroit Free Press: [MI] ICE plans Romulus detention center in historic floodplain, feds say
  • New York Times: [MN] 30 More People Are Indicted in Anti-ICE Church Protest in Minnesota
  • AP: [MN] In Minnesota, US cardinals and pope’s ambassador decry mass deportations and call for reconciliation
  • CBS News: [MN] Renee Good’s family spent "hours in limbo" after she was fatally shot by ICE officer
  • Telemundo: [MN] Renee Good’s family says neither investigators nor Trump have contacted them since her death
  • New York Times: [TX] 13 Measles Cases Reported at Texas Immigration Detention Facility
  • NBC News: [TX] 911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center
  • Washington Examiner: [TX] Veronica Escobar leads calls to close Texas ICE detention center after deaths
  • FOX News: [WA] ICE blasts Washington mayor over directive restricting immigration enforcement
  • New York Post: [CA] Stalkers found guilty for following ICE agent home and livestreaming their act
  • Daily Wire: [CA] ICE Picks Up Mexican Illegal Convicted Of Murder In California
  • Daily Wire: [CA] Another Example Of Why ICE Remains On The Streets As Critics Demand It Be Dismantled
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • AP: Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow an end to legal protections for Syrian migrants
  • NewsNation: [VA] Three charged with trafficking Mexican agricultural workers into forced labor on farms in Virginia and other states
  • AP: [MN] Federal judge extends order protecting refugees in Minnesota from being arrested and deported
  • Los Angeles Times: [MN] Federal judge extends order protecting refugees in Minnesota from being arrested and deported
  • Bloomberg: [MN] Refugee Detention a ‘Dystopian Nightmare,’ Minnesota Judge Says
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Washington Examiner: DHS releasing some illegal border crossers into US despite claims of ‘zero’ releases
  • AP: [NY] A nearly blind refugee is found dead after Border Patrol agents drop him at Buffalo doughnut shop
  • AP: [NY] Video shows nearly blind refugee being released by Border Patrol, 5 days before his death
  • CNN: [NY] Key questions surround the death of a nearly blind refugee after he was dropped off at a coffee shop alone
  • FOX News: [FL] Illegal immigrant arrested after showing up to Florida Border Patrol office for contract IT work
  • NBC News: [TX] Texas’ Big Bend braces for border wall in national park, worrying local Republicans and Democrats
  • Washington Post: [TX] U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Border Protection drone
  • New York Times: [TX] A Laser, a Shutdown of Airspace and 2 Government Agencies at Odds
  • Breitbart: [TX] U.S. Shoots Down CBP Drone near Border in Texas
  • NBC News Daily: [TX] NYT: Pentagon Shoots Down Another CBP Drone with Laser
  • Wall Street Journal: [TX] Two Drone-Related Mishaps in One Month Highlight Problems Between Agencies
  • New York Post: [CA] The hills have eyes: secret surveillance network springs up in San Diego
• Transportation Security Administration
  • Wall Street Journal: Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports
  • The Hill: Democratic senator presses Noem on suspension of global entry, TSA PreCheck
  • CNN: Partial government shutdown starts to hit TSA workers’ paychecks
  • Reuters: TSA workers consider calling out sick, quitting amid shutdown
  • GMA3: Svetlana the Stowaway Arrested Again
  • CBS Colorado: [CO] Colorado Transportation Security Administration workers feel abandoned as they work without pay
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • The Hill: FEMA releasing billions in disaster assistance, while further funds await approval
  • Politico: [DC] FEMA taps billions for disasters, warning Democrats of ‘dire’ shutdown impact
  • Washington Times: [FL] Illegal immigrant ran fake U.S. government agency: Feds
• Secret Service
  • USA Today: ‘ATM jackpotting’ leads FBI to issue warning. Here’s what to know.
  • Breitbart: [MA] Dept. of Justice Busts ATM ‘Jackpotting’ Theft Ring Allegedly Led by Tren de Aragua Gang Members
  • AP: [VA] Biden flies commercial from Reagan National Airport and winds up stuck in delays like everyone else
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Axios: CISA acting director shifted to new role at DHS
  • Federal News Network: CISA leadership shakeup comes amid ‘pressure’ moment for cyber agency
  • DefenseScoop: Senator puts hold on Trump’s pick for top uniformed cyber chief over lack of experience, ‘vague’ answers to surveillance questions
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Roll Call: Does labeling protest ‘domestic terrorism’ weaken national security — and First Amendment protections?
  • Reuters: After El Mencho’s killing, his cartel’s power endures deep inside the US
  • New York Post: [Mexico] $5M reward offered for Sinaloa cartel boss ‘La Rana’ charged with narcoterrorism
  • AP: [Mexico] US offers $10 million for capture of brothers said to lead Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel in Tijuana
  • CNN: [Mexico] Cartel violence rattles tourists and threatens peak season for Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
  • Washington Examiner: [Colombia] Colombia arrests ‘key leader’ of Tren de Aragua with US support
• National Security News
  • New York Times: Trump Said the Government Will No Longer Use Anthropic’s A.I.
  • AP: Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in a first for a first lady
  • Breitbart: [Israel] U.S. pulls staff from Israel as negotiations continue with Iran
  • Breitbart: [Iran] Trump: ‘Major Combat Operations’ Underway to ‘Obliterate’ Iranian Missile Factories
  • Blaze: [Iran] U.S. and Israel launch ‘massive’ strikes against Iran: ‘We may have casualties’
  • ABC News: [Iran] Trump starkly warns of potential US casualties in ‘massive ongoing operation’ to stop Iranian regime
  • FOX News: Trump tells Iranians the ‘hour of your freedom is at hand’ as US-Israel launch strikes against Iran
  • CNN: [Iran] Trump deliberated on Iran for weeks. His ‘massive and ongoing’ operation comes with acknowledgment US lives could be lost
  • CNN: [Iran] Trump claimed Iran is building missiles that could soon hit the US. Sources say that’s not backed up by US intelligence.
  • FOX News: [Iran] Iran appears to start counterattack on Israel
  • Breitbart: [Pakistan] ‘There Will Be Chaos’: Pakistan Declares ‘Open War’ on Afghanistan
  • Reuters: [Pakistan] US says it supports Pakistan’s ‘right to defend itself’ against Afghan Taliban
  • Bloomberg: [China] China Denies US Claims That it Conducted Nuclear Explosion Tests

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