• Top News
  • Breitbart: Ahead of Super Bowl, Texas Rep Seeks Stronger Legal Protections for Border Patrol Tactical Teams
  • CBS News: How drones impact Super Bowl security
  • AP/Daily Wire/Daily Caller: Appeals court affirms Trump policy of jailing immigrants without bond
  • New York Times: Top ICE Lawyer in Minnesota Departs as Immigration Lawsuits Overwhelm Courts
  • The Hill: Senators far apart on DHS deal as talks stall with deadline looming
  • The Hill: Graham: Democrats’ ‘fatally flawed’ DHS reform proposal ‘deserves a vote’
  • NewsMax: Report: Patel FBI Blocked Probe Into ICE Killing
  • Washington Post: Moderate Republican willing to break with party is set to lead ICE hearing
  • Breitbart: GOP Sen. Daines on Minneapolis: You Have ‘Independent Third Party’ Probe Every Time There’s Deadly Force by Law Enforcement
  • Washington Times: Minnesota immigration operation generates over 700 legal challenges, strains federal courts
  • Breitbart: Karoline Leavitt: ‘Tom Homan Is the Perfect Guy to Be in Charge of Minneapolis’
  • NBC News: Renee Good’s partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
  • Univision: Protest in Minneapolis over the death of Renee Nicole Good leaves dozens arrested
  • FOX News: Dozens of anti-ICE agitators arrested in Minneapolis
  • New York Times: At Least 50 Arrested After Protests Escalate Outside Minnesota Federal Building
  • AP: Police arrest protesters at Minneapolis federal building on 1-month anniversary of woman’s death
  • New York Post: Anti-ICE protesters attack their own supporter with sex toys during Minneapolis rally
  • New York Post: Gun-wielding LA protester aims at feds then vanishes under pepper-ball fire
  • New York Post: Meet Ivy League activist and socialist union boss exporting California’s anti-ICE chaos nationwide
  • Chicago Tribune: Judge says Chicago man acquitted in Bovino murder-for-hire plot being unlawfully detained
  • Chicago Tribune: Mrvan: DHS should scrap plans for Merrillville detention center
  • NewsMax: House GOP Presses SAVE Vote, Eyes Senate Pressure
• Opinion – Editorials
  • New York Post: To get beyond Minneapolis, GOP, it’s still ‘the economy, stupid’
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • New York Post: The anti-ICE activists are an insurgency, not a protest movement
  • FOX News: MIKE DAVIS: 2 assassination plots, 2 judges and 2 brands of justice
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Politico: ICE surveillance concerns shift Democrats’ demands for body cameras
  • New York Times: As American Views of ICE Dim, Warehouses Become a Symbol of Resistance
  • Daily Caller: Democrats Blasted Federal Detention Operations Despite Accepting Donations From ICE Contractor
  • CBS New York: [NY] Mamdani signs executive order to protect New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement"
  • FOX News: [NY] DHS SLAMS Mamdani: Making New York ‘less safe’
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Mayor Johnson’s ICE executive order would compromise investigations of immigration agents, state’s attorney says
  • Univision: [IL] "We were expecting this": children welcome their father back after 4 months of being detained by ICE
  • AP: [MN] Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota
  • AP: [MN] Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
  • NBC News: [TX] Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
  • USA Today: [TX] Denied his father’s care, a disabled son died after ICE detained dad
  • Breitbart: [TX] Bugs in food and sickness haunt immigrants held in Texas
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] I’m scared’: Chaotic video shows ICE agents entering San Antonio home
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] Green Day tells ICE agents to ‘quit your job,’ calls out Epstein files at Super Bowl week party in San Francisco
  • FOX News: [Italy] Jake Paul defends ICE agents after watching Olympic hockey with JD Vance, rips American skier’s comments
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • CNN: Judge grants continuance in the asylum case of Liam Conejo Ramos and his family
  • Telemundo: The government says it will not return the university student deported to Honduras to the U.S.: it considers granting her a visa "unfeasible".
  • Breitbart: [FL] Feds Bust a Chinese Marriage Fraud Ring for Evading U.S. Immigration Laws
  • FOX News: [Haiti] Top Haiti leader reveals which US policy the country would be ‘helpless’ without: ‘Give them money’
  • FOX News: [Haiti] Haiti leader says country is ‘helpless’ if United States ends TPS
• Customs and Border Protection
  • FOX News: Calm amid chaos: Noem defies calls to resign, touts border victory as shutdowns, storms and riots swirl
  • FOX News: DHS fires senior CBP official for allegedly leaking sensitive information
  • FOX News: [AZ] Area around Nancy Guthrie’s home is ‘very difficult terrain,’ border security advisor says
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Daily Caller: Disaster Declarations For Tennessee, Mississippi Approved By President Trump Following Historic Winter Storm Fern
• Secret Service
  • AP/FOX News/Breitbart/CNN: [OH] Ohio man charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance and possessing child abuse files
• Coast Guard
  • NewsNation: US Coast Guard operation marks 200,000 pounds in cocaine seizures
  • SFGate: [CA] Santa Cruz: U.S. Coast Guard Suspends Search For 2 Surfers Missing Off Lighthouse Point
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Washington Post: Killers without a cause: The rise in nihilistic violent extremism
  • New York Times: [TN] Man Pleads Guilty to Arson in 2019 Attack on Tennessee Civil Rights Center
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Paxton launches probe of Houston-based anti-fascist group he says encouraged terrorism
• National Security News
  • FOX News: Ambassador Mike Waltz lays out ‘America First’ vision for US leadership at the UN
  • Breitbart: [Israel] Netanyahu to Meet Trump Wednesday, Insists Iran Talks Include Missiles and Proxy Networks
  • FOX News: [Iran] Trump’s special envoy Witkoff and Kushner visit US aircraft carrier amid Iran tensions, talks
  • New York Post: [Iran] Trump says US held ‘very good talks with Iran’ as Islamic Republic ratchets up rhetoric

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