• Top News
  • AP/Bloomberg: Trump orders banks to take a closer look at clients’ citizenship in new immigration enforcement move
  • AP/Washington Examiner: Pentagon watchdog to evaluate US military’s boat strikes in Latin America
  • Roll Call: Funds to combat child exploitation added to reconciliation bill
  • Daily Signal: Hawley, Tim Tebow Win Child Protection in Senate DHS Funding Bill, Reconciliation 2.0
  • Reuters/Politico: US Senate Republicans advance major portion of $72 billion migrant enforcement bill
  • Washington Times: Senate committee advances immigration enforcement funding for filibuster-proof package
  • AP: The White House push for $1 billion in security funds is facing GOP opposition
  • Politico: Senate GOP could ditch Secret Service funding tied to White House ballroom
  • USA Today: Trump tours White House ballroom construction, reveals new details
  • FOX News: Trump pulls back curtain on White House ballroom’s fortress-like defenses above and deep below
  • Washington Examiner: Trump says military asked him to double the size of White House ballroom
  • NewsMax: Trump Slams Ruling on WH Ballroom Security Bill
  • NewsMax: Trump Defends WH Ballroom as Security Shield
  • Univision: Donald Trump says Americans won’t pay for ballroom and will be a gift
  • Bloomberg: Bill Cassidy Says He Won’t Support Trump’s Ballroom Funding
  • The Hill: Rand Paul slams Democrats for pushing GOP to reconciliation bill: ‘Y’all gave up’
  • San Diego Union Tribune: Trump demands Medicaid data for deportation. Some states go a step further
  • AP: Opposition leaders in the Bahamas demand probe after US ties politician to drug trafficking case
  • FOX News: JD Vance says DOJ looking into if Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud amid brother-marriage allegations
  • Univision Chicago WGBO: Former immigration judge in Chicago sues federal government and denounces internal pressure in the courts
  • AP: Iranian Family Detained for Relative’s Key Role in 1979 US Embassy Hostage Crisis Seeks Release
  • FOX News: DHS, War Dept join probe into Singham network allegedly sowing discord in US
  • New York Post: US violent crime rate plummets by fastest rate in nearly 90 years, FBI says
  • NPR: What we know about how the U.S. government uses spyware (and what we don’t)
  • New York Times: Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds
  • New York Times: How Trump Entrusted His World Cup to Another Giuliani
  • Newsweek: Ebola Outbreak Could Cause Fresh Blow to Struggling World Cup
  • US News & World Report: American Aid Worker Tests Positive for Ebola After DRC Exposure
  • Washington Post/ABC News: Why this Ebola outbreak will be so difficult to contain
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • Washington Examiner: Promise made, promise kept: Trump administration had full year of zero border releases
  • Los Angele s Times: [LA] 85-year-old woman’s account of ICE detention ‘is nothing short of terrifying’
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Washington Times: ICE used the honor system to track millions of released migrants -- most never showed up
  • CBS News: Army soldier says wife was arrested by ICE despite doing the "right thing"
  • Bloomberg: ICE Crackdown Hits Debt of Companies That Serve Immigrants
  • Bloomberg: These Are the Lawyers Fighting ICE
  • Newsweek: Trump Admin Looks to Charge Some Immigrants $18k to Deport Them
  • Newsweek: Map Shows Where ICE Most Often Detains Parents of US Citizen Children
  • AP: [CT] US Justice Department sues Connecticut over law banning masks, requiring ID for ICE
  • Bloomberg: [NY] US Judge Stops ICE from Arresting Immigrants in Court, for Now
  • New York Times: [NY] ICE Makes Courthouse Arrest Despite Judge’s Order
  • Breitbart: [NY] ICE: Illegal Alien Arrested for Setting Fire to 10 Cars in Long Island, New York
  • Breitbart: [SC] Illegal Alien Sentenced to 50 Years in Prison for Murdering Mother of Two, Her Unborn Baby in South Carolina
  • Breitbart: [FL] ICE Arrests 33 Migrants After Raids on Orlando Construction Sites
  • Univision: [FL] “I only ask that he can see his daughter before he dies”: A Venezuelan mother’s fight to free her husband, detained by ICE
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Judge orders mother of CPS student to be released from ICE custody
  • FOX News: [TX] Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo faces backlash for pledging to imprison ‘American Zionists’ at ICE facility
  • FOX News: [CA] DHS blasts California sanctuary policies after jail releases illegal immigrant accused in hit-and-run
  • Reuters: [Spain] US Homeland Security says it assisted Spain in probe of former PM Zapatero
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Reuters: Trump backs down from requiring banks to collect citizenship information, Semafor reports
  • NPR: ‘We’re not kids anymore’: The DACA generation hits their 30s with an unstable future
  • FOX News: [MA] Canadian noncitizen accused of illegally voting in federal and state elections
  • CNN: [TX] He was a truck driver for 20 years. With new Trump rules, he’s off the road
  • Univision: [AZ] Tucson DACA Beneficiary Detained After ICE Entered Home
  • Telemundo: [Cuba] Hundreds of Cuban doctors in the United States are in immigration limbo
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Daily Signal: Federal Fentanyl Crackdown Drops Overdose Deaths to Record Low
  • CBS News: [TX] Confusion continues in Big Bend region over border wall plans
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] Border Patrol agents arrest 19 migrants in drainage system
• Transportation Security Administration
  • New York Post: TSA quietly starts letting passengers bring their weed on planes — with a big catch
  • New York Post/USA Today: TSA Gold+ shifts airport screening to private security — travelers revolt: ‘Should terrify people’
  • Reuters: US airlines oppose Trump plan to require small airports to use private security
  • ABC News: [MA] New remote terminal for TSA security screening opens in Boston
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • AP: [CA] More Than 17,000 Under Evacuation Orders as Southern California Wildfire Threatens Homes
  • FOX News: [CA] Fast-moving California brush fire scorches hundreds of acres
  • SFGate: [CA] Over 30% of California island has burned in largest wildfire of the year
  • USA Today: [CA] Fires in California today. Here is the latest on containment
• Coast Guard
  • NewsNation: [NJ] Coast Guard searching for teen last seen in water off New Jersey beach
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Axios: Senator requests classified briefing on CISA credentials leak
  • CyberScoop: CISA credential leak raises alarms, and Capitol Hill demands answers
  • CyberScoop: Attackers hit vulnerabilities hard last year, making exploits the top entry point for breaches
  • CyberScoop: Microsoft disrupts cybercrime service that abused software verification systems en masse
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Aurora investigating cyber attack that led to fraudulent payments from city accounts
• Terrorism Investigations
  • FOX News: Patel says FBI is ‘manhunting’ terror suspects around the globe after two high-value captures
  • CNN: [CA] San Diego mosque attackers shared video of shooting, writings citing racist ideology
  • AP/CBS News/ABC News: [CA] San Diego mosque shooters met online and left writings expressing hate, FBI says
  • New York Times: [CA] The San Diego Mosque Shootings Were a Crime Made for and by the Internet
  • NPR: [DC] Shooting at San Diego Islamic Center may have been a hate crime, authorities say
  • CNN: [CA] guard, a teacher’s husband and an indispensable elder: Mosque mourns heroes who distracted shooters from children inside
  • Washington Post: [CA] Slain mosque security guard had warned teachers to lock doors, imam says
  • Breitbart: [Mexico] Mexico Freezes Accounts of Governor Wanted in U.S. on Drug Charges, President Sheinbaum Defends His Innocence
• National Security News
  • Reuters: NATO expects US troop cuts from Europe to take years
  • AP: [DC] Appeals court judges appear to be divided over Pentagon’s legal dispute with AI company Anthropic
  • NBC News: [Cuba] Raúl Castro is expected to be indicted by U.S. on Wednesday, sources say
  • Reuters: [Venezuela] US pursuing second criminal investigation into Maduro, sources say
  • Axios: [Iran] Trump held meeting on Iran war plans after pausing attack
  • CBS News: [Iran] U.S. intel assessment says military identified at least 10 mines in Strait of Hormuz
  • Breitbart: [Iran] Report: Iran Sends U.S. Revamped ‘Peace Proposal’ Demanding Reparations, No Nuclear Limits
  • FOX News: [Russia] Putin using Africa as ‘purse’ for Ukraine war while US faces ‘intelligence black hole’: commander

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