• Top News
  • NewsNation/Breitbart/AP/WaPo/FOX News/Newsweek: President Trump Gives Commencement Speech at U.S. Coast Guard Academy
  • The Hill: GOP reconciliation bill to fund ICE, Border Patrol advances to Senate floor
  • Politico: Senate panel backs party-line ICE, Border Patrol bill for floor action
  • AP: Republicans expected to abandon $1B security proposal for White House and Trump’s ballroom
  • Washington Post: Trump demands Senate fire parliamentarian who ruled against ballroom funding plan
  • Washington Examiner: Tom Homan insists ICE is not narrowing deportation agenda
  • Daily Caller: Tom Homan Admits Deportations Are ‘Slightly Down’
  • Washington Examiner: Transcript: Washington Examiner’s full interview with White House border czar Tom Homan
  • The Hill: Mullin wins some praise for his quieter style at DHS
  • AP: 9 deportees from US arrive in Sierra Leone under third-country agreement
  • Washington Times: DHS nabs Canadian man who voted in U.S. elections
  • AP: Ohio woman accused of illegally voting as a noncitizen acquitted at trial
  • The Hill/AP: US targets Sinaloa fentanyl distribution with new sanctions
  • NewsMax: US Targets Sinaloa Crypto Laundering Ring
  • FOX News: Owner of daycare in viral Nick Shirley video charged in $4.6M daycare fraud scheme, prosecutors say
  • NPR: Miami shelter for immigrant children closing doors after federal funding cut
  • Breitbart: Rep. Chip Roy Introduces Bill to Ban HUD Grants to Sanctuary Cities
  • AP: A Rebel Club of Republican Lawmakers Grows and Threatens Trump’s Agenda
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Washington Post: The unintended consequences of mass deportations
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: ICE needs real oversight — demand Senate confirmation now
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Bloomberg Law: ICE Changes Environmental Review Plan for Detention Centers
  • Newsweek: ICE Reveals World Cup Operations Amid Struggling Ticket Sales
  • Federal Newswire: ICE arrests criminal illegal aliens convicted of murder, rape, and drug trafficking
  • Bloomberg: How ICE Is Hurting Local Economies
  • NewsMax: [MN] DOJ Targets Maine Over ICE License Plate Policy
  • CBS New York: [NY] Advocated outraged after ICE agents make arrest at immigration court
  • USA Today: [NY] ICE arrests man at NYC court despite ban. Why they say it’s legal.
  • Breitbart: [VA] ICE Pleads with Virginia Gov. Spanberger to Keep Illegal Alien Accused of Raping Child Locked Up
  • Univision: [VA] Spanberger signs laws to limit ICE presence in Virginia; Where and how does it apply?
  • ABC 7 Richmond: [VA] DHS urges Spanberger not to release illegal immigrant charged with child sex crime
  • Univision: [IL] Liliana Navarrete reunites with her family after ICE arrest; her youngest son remains in custody
  • CBS News: [TX] Texas Democrat Maureen Galindo under fire after saying she’d make ICE jail a "prison for American Zionists"
  • CBS News: [TX] U.S. Army soldier worries wife "can be deported at any moment" even after her release from ICE custody
  • Univision: [TX] Ana Delgado, a Venezuelan mother, is deported while her U.S. citizen children remain in Texas
  • FOX News: [AZ] Feds say Arizona suspect vandalized ICE facility and attempted to ignite lobby area
  • Univision: [AZ] Democrats demand answers after ICE pepper sprayed on detainees who were deported
  • FOX News: [CA] Illegal alien sentenced to 50 years for producing child pornography involving own relatives: ‘Monster’
  • FOX News: [CA] Illegal immigrant truck driver from India arrested in deadly California hit-and-run after Biden release
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • The Hill: Trump orders banks to more closely examine customers’ citizenship
  • CBS News: Visa delays threaten World Cup travel for international fans
  • NPR: US threatens to revoke the Palestinian UN ambassador’s visa
  • FOX News: Trump jolts immigration hawks with surprising defense of Chinese students in USA
  • Univision: [TX] "Pending asylum grants no legal status": ICE tightens its stance and confirms arrests; this says a lawyer
  • Chicago Tribune: [IL] Record-holding runner to stay despite student visa woes
  • Daily Wire: [South Africa] Leftist Group Leaves White South African Refugees Out To Dry While Fighting Trump In Court
• Customs and Border Protection
  • CBS News: DHS to tighten Ebola restrictions for foreign travelers coming to U.S. from some African countries
  • CBS News: Air France flight bound for Detroit diverted to Canada over passenger from Congo, officials say
  • USA Today: Some US-bound flyers being funneled to this airport amid Ebola outbreak
  • CNN: US military surveillance blimp on loan to CBP is lost at the southern border, wreckage found in Mexico
  • Detroit Free Press: [MI] Visiting Canada this week? Why you should prepare for long waits
  • Daily Caller: [CA] Previously Deported Meth Traffickers Found Hiding In California Drainage Tunnels
  • Breitbart: [PR] 64 Smuggled Aliens Arrested in Small Boat near Puerto Rico Coast
  • Newsweek: [Canada] Canadians Issued Advice For Crossing US Border on Memorial Weekend
  • New York Post: [China] DHS urged to crack down on Labubus made with cotton from Chinese region notorious for forced labor concerns
• Transportation Security Administration
  • NPR: TSA’s new ‘Gold+’ program looks to increase private security screening at airports
  • AP: House committee discusses modernizing the TSA as Trump seeks to privatize airport screening
  • New York Times: The T.S.A.’s Plan to Speed Up Lines? Replace T.S.A. Agents.
  • The Hill: Flying with marijuana? How a small change to TSA’s guidelines may impact you
  • CBS News: [GA] TSA workers closely watching possibility of privatizing screenings at Atlanta airport
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • ABC News: [CA] Multiple wildfires menacing Southern California, prompting thousands to evacuate
  • CBS Chicago: [CA] 6 new wildfires burning in southern California
  • New York Times: [CA] What to Know About the Wildfires in Southern California
  • New York Times: [CA] 2 Wildfires Near Los Angeles Prompt Evacuations
  • Univision: [CA] Sandy Fire: The evacuation map and the smoke already threatening Los Angeles
  • NBC News: [CA] Los Angeles-area wildfires left lead in soil, but how much and where remains contentious
• Coast Guard
  • CBS Baltimore: [MD] U.S. Coast Guard promotes safe decision-making during National Safe Boating Week
  • Washington Examiner: [MD] Judge keeps Baltimore bridge civil trial on track despite criminal charges
  • CNN: [CA] Nearly a third of National Park island home to rare wildlife has burned in spate of Southern California wildfires
  • USA Today: [CA] Did shipwreck SOS cause Santa Rosa Island Fire off SoCal coast?
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • Bloomberg: Trump Set to Sign AI Cybersecurity Directive as Soon as Thursday
  • Bloomberg: Security Firm Thwarting Nation-State Hackers Valued at $1 Billion
  • Breitbart: [China] Sen. Rick Scott & Rep. Andy Ogles: America’s Cybersecurity Cannot Be an Easy Target for Communist China
• Terrorism Investigations
  • Washington Examiner: US competing with Russia, China, and terror groups for influence across Africa
  • The Hill: [PA] Explosive device detonates near Pennsylvania polling place 
  • Washington Examiner: [CA] San Diego mosque shooting suspects’ alleged manifesto praises other religious-inspired shootings
  • NBC News: [CA] San Diego mosque suspects’ writings reveal influence of online extremism, experts say
  • Daily Caller: [CA] San Diego Mosque Shooters Hated Basically Everyone, Possible Manifesto Shows
  • New York Times: [CA] San Diego Attack Follows Alarm About Rising Islamophobia
• National Security News
  • CBS News: WHO says Ebola not a "pandemic emergency," and U.S. criticism over response may be down to "misunderstanding"
  • ABC News: US doctor infected with Ebola ‘feels good’ and is able to eat, colleague says
  • Politico: Trump moves to police frontier AI models
  • Telemundo: [Cuba] US nuclear aircraft carrier arrives in the Caribbean amid tensions with Cuba
  • New York Times: [Cuba] Justice Dept. Charges Former Cuban President in Fatal Downing of Planes
  • AP: [Cuba] A Cuban exiles’ group is at the heart of Raúl Castro’s indictment over a 1996 shootdown
  • FOX News: [Cuba] ‘Long-awaited justice’ is being set in motion for Americans murdered by Castro regime: Stephen Miller
  • CBS News: [Cuba] Rubio offers Cubans "new path" in video address as U.S. indicts Raúl Castro
  • CBS News: [Cuba] U.S. intel community analyzing how Cuba might respond to military action
  • NewsMax: [Greenland] Trump Envoy: US Must Put ‘Footprint Back on Greenland’
  • New York Times: [Russia] Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda
  • Breitbart: [China] China Offers Full Support to Cuba After Havana Threatens U.S. with ‘Bloodbath’

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