• Top News
  • FOX News/Breitbart/New York Times/NewsMax: One Person Is Wounded in Shooting Involving Border Patrol in Arizona
  • AP: FBI names suspect of shooting with Border Patrol agents near US-Mexico border
  • New York Times/FOX News: Judge Orders ICE Chief to Appear in Court Over Potential Contempt
  • FOX News: Federal judge threatening ICE director with contempt donated to group helping illegal immigrants
  • CNN: Trump held 2-hour meeting with Noem as his administration grapples with Minneapolis strategy
  • Politico/FOX News: ICE, Border Patrol leaders to testify in House, Senate
  • FOX News: DHS official warns of ‘highly coordinated campaign’ of violence against ICE in Minnesota
  • FOX News: Trump deploys Homan to Minnesota to meet with Mayor Frey
  • New York Times: Minnesota Leaders Meet With White House Border Czar
  • Washington Examiner: Homan hails ‘productive’ meeting with Walz and Frey after Pretti shooting
  • Breitbart/ABC News: Trump says Homan mission to Minneapolis going ‘very nicely’ amid shooting backlash
  • NPR: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and border czar Tom Homan begin talks over ICE surge
  • NewsMax: Gov. Walz Agrees to ‘Ongoing Dialogue’ With Homan
  • Wall Street Journal: Tom Homan’s Bid for Minnesota Reset Begins With Series of Demands
  • The Hill: Frey to Homan: Minneapolis ‘will not enforce federal immigration laws’
  • NewsMax: Minneapolis Mayor Frey: ‘Some’ Federal Agents to Leave
  • AP: Trump says he wants an ‘honorable and honest’ investigation into Pretti’s ‘very sad’ killing
  • Washington Examiner/Breitbart/Reuters: Trump says he doesn’t ‘like’ that Alex Pretti was carrying a gun and ‘two fully loaded magazines’
  • The Hill: Trump on Alex Pretti shooting: ‘You can’t walk in with guns’
  • New York Times: D.H.S. Review Does Not Say Pretti Brandished Gun, As Noem Claimed
  • CBS News: 2 federal agents fired their weapons during Alex Pretti shooting, government report to Congress says
  • CNN: Alex Pretti broke rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death, sources say
  • Reuters/Wall Street Journal: Trump, seeking damage control, weighs less aggressive approach in Minneapolis
  • New York Times: Trump Suggests He Will ‘De-Escalate’ in Minneapolis, Without Offering Details
  • Wall Street Journal: The 48 Hours That Convinced Trump to Change Course in Minnesota
  • FOX News: Minnesota shakeup shifts leadership not strategy, White House says, pushing back on ‘retreat’ claim
  • NBC News: Trump on death of Alex Pretti: ‘I want to see the investigation’
  • FOX News: Trump laments shooting deaths of Good and Pretti, insists Minnesota personnel shuffle is not a ‘pullback’
  • Breitbart/Politico: Trump aide Miller says Minneapolis agents may have breached ‘protocol’
  • FOX News: Tim Walz accuses Trump of ‘organized brutality’ in immigration crackdown, says ICE tactics are ‘un-American’
  • NewsNation: Border Patrol’s Bovino officially out of Minneapolis: Sources
  • Washington Times: Trump says Border Patrol official pulled from Minnesota is an ‘out there’ agent
  • The Hill: Some Border Patrol agents leaving Minneapolis ‘great first step’: Council member
  • Washington Post: Trump aides declared 16 DHS shootings since July justified before probes completed
  • The Hill: Trump says he didn’t hear officials call Alex Pretti ‘a domestic terrorist’
  • The Hill: Fox News host presses DHS spokesperson on ‘domestic terrorist’ label on Alex Pretti
  • New York Post: Alex Pretti’s sister slams ‘disgusting lies’ about brother: ‘When does this end?’
  • Wall Street Journal: Fallout From Minnesota: Citizen-Watchdog Claims of ICE Retaliation
  • CNN: ‘We all have to be brave’: Meet the woman whose video of Alex Pretti’s killing contradicted the administration’s claims
  • Daily Caller: Cops Finally Unleashed On Anti-ICE Rioters Near Minneapolis
  • Los Angeles Times: Man arrested after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at Minneapolis town hall
  • CNN: Melania Trump calls for unity after Minneapolis shootings in rare interview
  • USA Today: Bondi’s ‘ransom note’ to Minnesota shows Trump’s real game there
  • FOX News: FBI investigating Minnesota anti-ICE Signal group chats, Patel says
  • Reuters/FOX News: US House Democratic leaders threaten Noem with impeachment
  • Axios: Three quarters of House Dems now back Noem’s impeachment
  • The Hill: Homeland Security Democrats: Noem will be impeached if she is not fired, resigns
  • NewsMax: Fetterman to Trump: ‘Immediately Fire’ Kristi Noem
  • The Hill: Murkowski says Noem should resign over Minneapolis shootings
  • NBC News: Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary
  • FOX News: House Republicans blast Noem impeachment resolution as ‘partisan stunt,’ as Dems fail to reach across aisle
  • FOX News/NewsNation: Trump says Noem doing ‘very good job,’ won’t step down as homeland security chief amid Minnesota shift
  • ABC News/USA Today: Trump says ‘no’ when asked if DHS Kritsi Noem is stepping down
  • Wall Street Journal: Trump Defends Noem as She Faces Bipartisan Calls to Step Down
  • Politico: Trump keeps defending Noem. Allies see a warning sign.
  • New York Times: Noem’s Handling of Shooting Put Her in Trump’s Penalty Box, but Just Briefly
  • Washington Examiner: DHS grapples with PR nightmare after Alex Pretti shooting in Minneapolis
  • DailySignal: While Conservatives Call on Congress to Hold The Line, Some Senate Republicans Are Questioning ICE Tactics
  • Washington Examiner: Top Republican on ICE funding committee questions Noem over Minnesota killings: ‘Not in a good place’
  • Reuters: Evidence contradicts Trump immigration officials’ accounts of violent encounters
  • FOX News: Support slipping for Trump immigration push as majority say crackdown ‘goes too far’: poll
  • USA Today: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joins wave of ICE skepticism from Republicans
  • CBS News: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says Minneapolis immigration crackdown "must be terminated," says Noem should be fired
  • NewsMax: Rep. Gimenez to Newsmax: Need ‘Better Way’ With Immigration
  • FOXBusiness: Meta blocks controversial site that allegedly published thousands of DHS employee names
  • FOX News: House Freedom Caucus draws line on DHS, ICE funding as Minneapolis unrest fuels shutdown risk
  • FOX News: Senate Republicans tee up key shutdown test vote as Democrats dig in on DHS funding
  • FOX News: Dems’ DHS shutdown threat would hit FEMA, TSA while immigration funding remains intact
  • NewsMax: Rep. Stutzman to Newsmax: Shutdown Over DHS Funds ‘Very Poor Decision’
  • Daily Caller: Democrats Plan To Shutdown ICE Funding Has Already Been Foiled
  • Washington Examiner: Texas Democrat admits shutdown over DHS will still allow funding ‘for years’
  • The Hill: Republicans reject calls to change DHS funding bill
  • Federal News Network: DHS spending bill would formalize Trump cuts to oversight offices
  • Los Angeles Times: After Minneapolis shootings, California advances a bill allowing lawsuits against federal agents
  • FOX News: US deports 3 former Iranian Guard members amid rising tensions with Tehran
  • Breitbart: Iran to Accept More Deportees from U.S. as Trump’s ‘Armada’ Parks in Middle East
  • Politico: Minnesota’s chief judge, a veteran in conservative legal circles, takes on ICE
  • New York Times: A Shocked Nation Watches Minneapolis Killings: ‘Something Needs to Change’
  • New York Times: At the Center of the ICE Uproar, a Familiar Figure: Corey Lewandowski
  • New York Times: Homeland Security’s Shifting Mission Over the Past Quarter-Century
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Wall Street Journal: America’s Immigration Labor Shock
  • Houston Chronicle: Trump sidelined the Border Patrol commander. Don’t be fooled.
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • New York Times: G.O.P. Congressman: We Need to Wake Up After Minneapolis
  • Wall Street Journal: DHS’s Is Wrong on ‘Administrative Warrants’
  • USA Today: Kristi Noem has to go. Things have gotten out of hand.
  • Washington Examiner: [MN] A welcome course correction in Minnesota
  • The Hill: [MN] Who are the ‘domestic terrorists’ in Minneapolis? Certainly not Pretti and Good.
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Breitbart/NewsMax: DHS Confirms ICE Will Conduct Enforcement Operations at Super Bowl
  • Washington Post: Trump administration uses ICE to pressure blue states
  • Breitbart/Blaze: ‘I Hope Your Wife Dies: ‘ ICE Agents, Their Families Face 8,000% Increase in Death Threats
  • FOX News New watchdog database names hundreds of school districts limiting ICE cooperation as tool for parents
  • USA Today: Protest organizers train thousands to observe immigration agents
  • Axios: How TikTok became a flashpoint in the ICE firestorm
  • Axios: ICE memo raises alarm over home entry policy
  • NBC News: Deportations, ICE street arrests are way up — and so are arrests of immigrants with no criminal convictions
  • CNN: NAACP launches "Dry ICE" campaign to cut DHS funding
  • Bloomberg: ICE Does Not Have Immunity Under the Law
  • FOX News: Many of America’s safest cities are in jurisdictions that cooperate with ICE
  • Federalist: Illegal Aliens Kill Scores Of Americans For Every Leftist Who Dies Protecting Them
  • FOX News: Katy Perry urges fans to oppose ICE funding as potential government shutdown looms
  • FOX News: Stephen Colbert says ‘f--- ICE’ following Alex Pretti shooting, condemns Trump administration response
  • FOX News: [ME] ICE Maine operation nabs 200 as governor seeks to ask Trump to remove agents
  • New York Times: [ME] Maine’s Immigrant Students Stay Home as ICE Operation Ramps Up
  • Politico: [ME] The DHS crisis is squeezing Susan Collins
  • FOX News: [MA] Boston police ignored 100% of ICE detainer requests in 2025, citing sanctuary law
  • Washington Examiner: [NY] DHS investigating woman who tried to buy guns to ‘kill ICE Agents’
  • FOX News: [NY] Dozens arrested after protesters take over NYC hotel lobby during anti-ICE demonstration
  • Washington Examiner: [NY] Buffalo mayor signs order prohibiting coordination with ICE ahead of sanctuary city funding deadline
  • Breitbart: [NJ] Sanctuary New Jersey: ICE Seeks Custody of Illegal Alien Accused of Fracturing 8-Year-Old Girl’s Skull in School Bus Attack
  • Univision: [MD] ICE admits to mistakenly deporting a Salvadoran father residing in Maryland; he had protective orders
  • CBS Baltimore: [MD] ICE blames weather after viral video allegedly shows dozens packed inside Baltimore facility
  • FOX News: [DC] Far-left DC suburb tells residents to call 911 if they see ICE
  • Daily Caller: [VA] Democrats Urge Locals To Call Cops On ICE
  • FOX News: [VA] Virginia Commonwealth University nurse instructs TikTok followers to contaminate ICE agents’ food, jab opponents with paralytic
  • FOX News: [WV] West Virginia man allegedly threatened to kill Trump supporters, ICE agents in online videos
  • Daily Caller: [GA] ICE Seeks Illegal Migrant ‘Monster’ Accused Of Raping 11-Year-Old At Knifepoint
  • Breitbart: [GA] Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter Calls for More ICE Operations in Atlanta
  • USA Today: [OH] Ohio prepares for possible ICE surge in Springfield
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Aldermen want new power to investigate Chicago police cooperation with ICE
  • The Hill: [IL] ICE agent charged with misdemeanor after altercation with activist in Illinois
  • Washington Post: [MN] ICE agents blocked from entering Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis, ministry says
  • Blaze: [MN] Minnesota’s ‘worst of the worst’: DHS highlights arrests of repeat offenders, violent criminals in Operation Metro Surge
  • Daily Wire: [MN] While Anti-ICE Protests Raged, Feds Say They Nabbed Rapists And Murderers In Minneapolis
  • Daily Signal: [MN] Appeals Court Sides With Trump, ICE in Minnesota Civil Rights Case
  • Blaze: [MN] ICE unleashed: Agents can once again fend off agitators after court torpedoes Biden judge’s injunction
  • NBC News: [MN] Two Minnesota women say they helped agent having seizure while detained by ICE
  • Axios: [MN] Fear of ICE is driving patients away from medical care
  • Washington Examiner: [MN] How local businesses are helping anti-ICE activists obstruct immigration enforcement
  • Reuters: [MN] Woman recounts husband’s ICE detention and deportation to Senegal
  • FOX News: [IA] Federal judge rules ICE in Iowa illegally detained man, tried to ‘cover its tracks’
  • New York Times: [TX] Judge Temporarily Blocks Deportation of 5-Year-Old Detained Near Minneapolis
  • ABC News: [TX] ‘Let go of me’: Cuban man who died in ICE custody allegedly slammed by guards, witnesses say
  • USA Today: [TX] US agrees not to deport witnesses in migrant’s death at Texas facility
  • USA Today: [CA] Detainees sue Adelanto ICE facility, alleging inhumane conditions
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] San Diego congressional Democrats demand stricter use-of-force standards by immigration agents
  • NewsNation: [CA] Statewide human trafficking operation leads to more than 100 arrests in San Diego
  • AP Tribune: [Italy] ICE agents to have security role at Milan Cortina Olympics
  • The Hill: [Italy] DHS stresses ICE will be under Italian authority at Olympics
  • New York Times/CBS News: [Italy] Milan mayor calls ICE "a militia that kills" and says agents not welcome as part of U.S. Olympic security
  • CNN: [Italy] Italians furious over deployment of ICE agents to bolster US security at Winter Olympics
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • AP/Wall Street Journal: Trump’s immigration crackdown led to drop in US growth rate last year as population hit 342 million
  • Washington Examiner: Mike Lawler urges Congress to devise ‘path to legal status’ for illegal immigrants post Minnesota unrest
  • Blaze: SAVE Act hangs in the balance as Republican Study Committee pushes for Senate passage
  • Reuters: UN experts condemn US move to strip migrant children of legal aid
  • CBS Miami: [FL] Haitian community pleads to keep TPS as expiration looms in South Florida
  • AP: [IL] Chicago man cleared in Border Patrol bounty trial now faces immigration proceedings
  • New York Times: [TX] Texas Moves to Curtail Visas for Skilled Foreign Workers
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Greg Abbott halts future use of H-1B visas at Texas state agencies and universities
  • FOX News: [China] Chinese spies ‘sham marriage’ scandal exposes ‘targeted’ national security threat at major US base: expert
• Customs and Border Protection
  • CBS News: [IL] How a collision with Border Patrol led to a Chicago woman’s arrest
  • AP: [CA] U.S. Customs to Auction 22,000 Tons of Seized Aluminum in Riverside, California
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • New York Times: Extra Scrutiny of FEMA Aid to States Has Created a $17 Billion Bottleneck
  • Washington Examiner: [DC] Democrats’ ICE funding halt could leave FEMA stranded after monster snowstorm
  • NewsMax: [DC] Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax: Shutdown Threat Hurts Winter Storm Aid
  • Los Angeles Times/AP: [CA] Trump signs executive order to ‘preempt’ permitting process for fire-destroyed homes in L.A.
  • Reuters: [CA] Trump order targets rebuilding after California wildfires, Newsom seeks money instead
  • New York Post: [CA] Gov. Gavin Newsom begs Trump for help rebuilding fire-ravaged LA neighborhoods: ‘Please!’
• Coast Guard
  • Reuters: [Venezuela] Captain of seized Venezuela-linked tanker now aboard U.S. vessel, wife’s lawyer says
  • Washington Post: [Antarctica] Coast Guard called to help luxury cruise stuck in Antarctica
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Axios: How Trump 2.0 has shaped and shrunk the top U.S. cyber agency
  • CyberScoop: Cybercriminals and nation-state groups are exploiting a six-month old WinRAR defect
  • Politico: Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT
  • Homeland Preparedness News: CISA releases list of technologies using quantum cryptography standards
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Washington Times: [Nigeria] U.S. sends weapons to Nigeria just before kidnappers grab 176 Christians
• National Security News
  • CBS News: Families of 2 men killed in Caribbean boat strike sue U.S. government
  • Reuters: [Venezuela] US intelligence raises doubts about Venezuela leader’s cooperation
  • AP: [Venezuela] Rubio set to warn of future military action if Venezuela’s new leaders stray from US goals
  • FOX News: [Greenland] NATO chief warns Europe can’t defend itself without US as tensions rise over Greenland
  • Reuters: [Denmark] Denmark renews green maritime tech and shipbuilding pact with China
  • NewsMax: [Iran] Trump Says Iran Wants Talks as US Aircraft Carrier Deploys
  • Free Beacon: [China] CCP-Controlled Messaging App WeChat Used for ‘Coordination Among Chinese Criminal Networks’ in US, Sen Lankford Writes to Trump

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