• Top News
  • AP/USA Today: Foreign ticket holders from World Cup qualifying countries won’t have to pay bonds to enter US
  • The Hill: ICE could target World Cup matches in US
  • CBS News: DHS Secretary Mullin on ICE’s role at FIFA World Cup: "We’re not there to go round up" people
  • NBC News Daily: ICE Personnel May Be at World Cup Matches in the U.S.
  • Politico: Ballroom security can’t be privately funded, Mullin tells GOP lawmakers
  • The Hill: Senate GOP balks at $1B in security for White House ballroom, despite Secret Service pitch
  • Washington Post: White House ballroom rises aboveground as legal, funding disputes cloud project
  • Breitbart: Adversaries See ‘Open Door Invitation in These Sanctuary Cities’
  • New York Times: ICE Detains Ex-Kansas Mayor Who Voted Illegally
  • FOX News: DHS says two women killed six years apart in Texas should still be alive after illegal immigrant’s arrest
  • The Hill: DOJ warns states refusing to issue ‘undercover license plates’ to DHS officers
  • CBS News: Trump demands Medicaid data for deportation. Some states go a step further.
  • Bloomberg Law: Delaware Can for Now Refuse DHS Employer Data Ask, 3rd Cir. Says
  • Axios: Rally supports family of man convicted in Boulder firebombing
  • Daily Wire: Iranian-American Pleads Guilty To Smuggling IRGC-Linked Operative Into U.S.
  • ABC News: Migrant detention center known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ expected to close soon, sources say
  • CBS News: DHS chief Mullin says agency has no plan to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center
  • Los Angeles Times: Expected closure of Everglades detention center is no accident, environmentalists say
  • Telemundo: Families worried about the closure of "Alligator Alcatraz" while hundreds remain detained
  • CBS News: Trump promised to hold 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo. A year later, it’s mostly empty.
  • AP: US deportations to El Salvador double as Bukele aligns himself with Trump agenda
  • AP: Dominican opposition criticizes deal with US to take third-country deportees
  • Politico: Trump’s immigration policies chill Japanese shipyard investment
  • NewsMax: Army Hit With $6 Billion Shortfall Amid Iran Conflict
  • Washington Examiner: White House eyeing security and SAVE Act components in third reconciliation bill
  • Washington Examiner: DHS lawyer focuses blame on Biden judge after illegal immigrant release controversy
  • New York Times: Judge Orders U.S. to Return Colombian Woman Deported to Congo
  • New York Times: Homeland Security Dept. Escalates Its Dispute With Federal Judge
  • Reuters: Fired immigration judge sues Trump administration for discrimination
  • New York Times: Trump Administration Pushes I.R.S. to Identify Undocumented Immigrants
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • FOX News: America needs a drone defense plan before disaster strikes
  • Daily Caller: Stop Rewarding Failed Assassins
  • FOX News: [TX] Texas paid for Biden’s border crisis. Republicans must make sure it never happens again
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • AP: Former private prison executive David Venturella will become ICE’s acting leader
  • Chicago Tribune: New acting ICE chief once touted GEO prison project in Gary
  • FOX News: ICE drops ‘uncontrolled’ fraud bombshell involving thousands of foreign students, ‘phantom employees’
  • Wall Street Journal: Watchdog Probes Kristi Noem’s Warehouse Purchases for ICE Detention Centers
  • FOX News: ICE cracks down on suspected fraud in foreign student employment program
  • Federalist: Washington Post Worries Illegals Might Pay Their Own Legal Fees, While Immigration Costs Americans Billions
  • Reuters: [MA] US judge skeptical of DOJ’s case over Boston’s ‘sanctuary’ immigration law
  • ABC News: [MA] ‘I’m scared for my daughters’: Pregnant Ecuadorian woman fighting deportation
  • USA Today: [PA] New Pittsburgh law bars ICE from operating on some city property
  • CBS News: [GA] Social Circle sues ICE, DHS over proposed 10,000-bed immigration detention center in Georgia
  • Washington Post: [LA] ‘There’s babies in this jail’: 85-year-old recalls her ICE detention
  • CBS Chicago: [IL] Residents of South Shore apartment building in military-style immigration raid file tort claim against DHS
  • NPR: [MN] Some Minneapolis donors have moved on. The immigrants waiting for help haven’t
  • FOX News: [TX] Illegal aliens accused in Dallas killing of teen mother’s unborn baby charged with capital murder
  • New York Times: [TX] Second Venezuelan Doctor Is Released From Immigration Custody
  • FOX News: [TX] TX AG Paxton demands Dallas sheriff pursue ICE agreement as deadline dispute sparks legal threat
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Judge appears likely to block Texas’ migrant deportation law, but not before it takes effect Friday
  • Telemundo: [TX] Immigrant family who was detained by federal agents at a school bus stop in San Antonio will be released
  • CBS Colorado: [CO] Colorado court orders new training for ICE agents after "unlawful warrantless arrests"
  • Daily Caller: [CA] Illegal Alien DHS Says Was Deported 4 Times Pleads Guilty In Hit-And-Run Death Of Child
  • New York Post: [CA] Anti-ICE agitators get iced by feds
  • USA Today: [CA] ICE, Border Patrol operations surge across Coachella Valley
  • Breitbart: [HI] ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Convicted of Attempting to Murder Police Officer
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Reuters: White House: No visa issues for Iraq’s World Cup team
  • Breitbart: U.S. restricts visas for 13 linked to fentanyl online pharmacy
  • Telemundo: Delays in DACA renewal leave some beneficiaries in uncertainty
  • CBS Chicago: [IL] Chicago-area immigration assistance business operator gets 9 years for fraud, child pornography
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] World Cup should be a tourism bonanza for the Bay Area. Visa problems may make it a ‘non-event’
• Customs and Border Protection
  • New York Times: Tariff Refunds Begin to Reach Businesses as Trump Lashes Out at Court
  • USA Today: Tariff refunds begin, but companies say payments are trickling
  • FOX News: Ex-Biden DHS head concedes administration could have acted sooner on illegal immigration
  • CBS News: [GA] Over 32,000 unapproved pills headed to Georgia seized by Philadelphia CPB officers, officials say
  • Breitbart: [TX] Death Toll in Texas Train Migrant Smuggling Incident Rises to Seven After Body Found near San Antonio
  • FOX News: [TX] Six illegal immigrants, including 14-year-old, found dead in shipping container along southern border
  • Telemundo Amarillo: [TX] Border Patrol finds 15 people being held against their will in a shelter in South Texas
  • Univision: [TX] They were trying to return after being deported: Three more migrants identified as having died on a train in Laredo
  • Univision: [TX] ‘I’m already on the train’: Father of a family identified among the victims of the Laredo train tragedy
  • Telemundo: [TX] ICE releases Venezuelan doctor Rubeliz Bolívar after detaining her a month ago at McAllen airport, despite her asylum case
  • New York Times: [MN] New Mexico Diocese Tries to Block Government From Seizing Land for Border Wall
  • Breitbart/San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] Two Mexican Fugitives Arrested in Bi-National Sting by San Diego Border Patrol Agents
  • FOX News: [CA] Arrest of gang member convicted of murder puts Dem state’s sanctuary policies on blast
  • NewsMax: [China] Gorka: China Intentionally Flooding US With Deadly Fentanyl
  • Washington Examiner: [China] Conservative parents group calls on Trump to target illegal Chinese vapes
• Secret Service
  • News Max: Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax: Secret Service Must Be ‘Cleaned Up’
  • New York Post: Sebastian Gorka reveals on ‘Pod Force One’ Trump left Vance succession instructions should he be assassinated
  • Federalist: Democrats Falsely Claim Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged To Cover Up Their Own Domestic Terrorism
  • Washington Post: [DC] D.C.’s America 250 celebration on July 4 receives highest security level
• Coast Guard
  • Reuters/Washington Examiner: Coast Guard agrees to contract for new class of arctic cutters
  • Defense Post: US Coast Guard Expands Maritime Surveillance With Saildrone Voyager Fleet
  • Reuters: [FL] ‘Miraculous’: 11 plane crash survivors rescued at sea off Florida
  • CBS News: [FL] Survivors of plane crash off Florida coast were on raft for hours, didn’t know help was coming, military says
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • CyberScoop: Closed briefing sets stage for House hearing on Anthropic’s Mythos and cyber risks
  • Bloomberg: Hackers Are Already Using AI to Beef Up Their Attacks, Hide Their Activity
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Bloomberg: ChatGPT-Linked Mass Shootings Drive Developer Liability Concerns
  • NewsMax: [GA] Raffensperger Faces Credible Threat During Campaign
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [TX] Texas man indicted in Molotov cocktail attack at S.F. home of OpenAI CEO
  • Daily Wire: [Mexico] Is The CIA Ramping Up Anti-Cartel Operations Inside Mexico?
• National Security News
  • Washington Examiner: CIA whistleblower accuses Fauci of misleading intelligence community on COVID-19 origins
  • Wall Street Journal: [NY] New York Man Convicted After Opening Chinese Police Station
  • FOX News: [CA] Dems under fire for ‘malign Chinese influence’ as shocking spy mayor donations uncovered: ‘How many more?’
  • USA Today: [Cuba] Exclusive audio reveals prisoners faced ultimatum after US-Cuba meeting
  • Washington Post: [Iran] Senate rejects bill to halt Iran war despite growing frustrations
  • Reuters: [Russia] Russia says it’s establishing ‘full partnership’ with Afghan Taliban
  • New York Times: [China] Trump Arrives in Beijing to Begin High-Stakes Summit With Xi
  • AP: [China] Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang travel to China aboard Air Force One with Trump
  • Washington Examiner: [China] China exercises linguistic license to allow sanctioned Rubio into country

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