• Top News
  • AP/NewsMax/New York Post/FOX News: Trump rolls out ‘America First’ counterterror strategy targeting cartels, jihadists and domestic extremists
  • NPR/Daily Wire: Republicans want to add $1 billion for Trump’s ballroom security to ICE funding plan
  • NewsMax: GOP Senators Clash Over Third Trump Budget Bill
  • FOX News: Trump fires back at claims of ballroom ‘cost overruns’: Price is ‘something less than $400M’
  • Breitbart: Markwayne Mullin, Tom Homan Promise More Deportations, Less Street Drama
  • NPR: Border czar promises ‘mass deportations are coming’ to fulfill Trump’s promises
  • Daily Signal: Homan: ‘Mass Deportations Are Coming’
  • Breitbart: Homan: 60% of Arrests Are Criminal Illegals, Other 40% Are Not, That’s ‘Good Percentage’
  • NewsMax: Homan: Minn. Crackdown Not ‘Perfect,’ But ICE to Continue
  • FOX News: DHS blasts Minnesota board for unanimously pardoning illegal immigrant convicted of 3 assaults
  • FOX News: Patel touts FBI DNA breakthrough he says busted illegal immigrant in decade-long serial rape case
  • Reuters: US reinstates deportation proceedings against pro-Palestinian student Mahdawi
  • ABC News: 2 former immigration judges sue Trump administration over their removal
  • Washington Examiner: Illegal immigrant case spirals into controversy after ill-timed press release
  • NewsMax: Blanche: DOJ Will Prosecute All Assaults on Agents
  • Washington Examiner: Fourth Circuit grills DOJ on bid to relax ICE’s ‘sensitive locations’ restrictions
  • AP: Justice Department targets slow immigration judges as Trump pushes faster deportations
  • Washington Examiner: DOJ investigating left-wing Fairfax County prosecutor over alleged unlawful discrimination
  • San Diego Union Tribune: California immigration judge sues over ouster amid what lawyer describes as purge of federal workers who don’t support Trump
  • Los Angeles Times: He took a Molotov cocktail to an ICE protest. Now the SoCal man is going to prison.
  • New York Times: His DNA Was Taken After His Arrest at an ICE Protest. Now, He’s Suing.
  • AP: For many Americans, Trump’s immigration crackdown is personal, new AP-NORC poll shows
• Opinion – Editorials
  • Wall Street Journal: Mass Deportation and American Jobs
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • The Hill: Trump’s immigration crackdown is stronger, faster — but is it better?
  • The Hill: [Mexico] Mexico’s Sheinbaum defies Trump, defends drug trafficking suspects
  • Washington Examiner: [China] Critical vulnerability in drug supply chain puts US at China’s mercy
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Washington Post: ICE plans to scrap shortened training program for new immigration officers
  • ABC News: Independent agency overseeing misconduct in immigration detention facilities shut down
  • Axios: Trump’s mandatory ICE detention policy struck down in appeals court
  • NewsMax: Canadian Sues DHS Over Google Subpoena
  • ABC News: President Trump floats idea of changing name of ICE to ‘NICE’
  • Politico: [NY] Mamdani administration scrutinizing NYPD contracts with ICE vendor
  • USA Today: [NY] Do NYC agencies aid ICE? Mamdani decries Bushwick hospital incident
  • New York Post: [NY] Inside NYC’s upwardly mobile Gen Z agitator groups and how they target ICE enforcement
  • FOX News: [OH] Former ICE official loses GOP primary in key battleground district Republicans are hoping to flip
  • Breitbart: [IN] ICE Investigation Yields 50-Year Prison Term for Indiana Child Sex Predator
  • New York Times: [IL] Illinois State Police to Investigate Fatal ICE Shooting
  • Univision: [IL] Young man with terminal cancer asks to see his parents detained by ICE and held in a center
  • Daily Wire: [WI] Biden-Freed Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Horrific Crimes Against America’s Most Vulnerable
  • FOX News: [WI] DHS urges Wisconsin ‘sanctuary’ county to keep illegal immigrant accused in elderly sexual assaults jailed
  • Washington Times: [MN] Federal judge allows ICE school-area arrest policy to stand in Minnesota
  • Breitbart: [TX] ICE, Texas Cops Arrest Elementary School Volunteer on Child Porn Charges
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] This East Texas Republican wants to take on worker shortages amid ICE raids
  • FOX News: [TX] Video shows father fatally shooting illegal immigrant attempting to carjack family of 8: police
  • Univision: [TX] "They Were Not Entitled" Hours Before Their "Sweet Sixteen" ICE Detains Their Parents in Texas
  • New York Post: [CA] ICE agents storm Disney cruise docking in California and arrest multiple staff in front of stunned passengers
  • Blaze: [CA] Illegal alien activists OUTRAGED over ICE ‘abductions’ of Disney cruise crew members
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] While ICE cracked down on L.A. protests, Marines were told to use force as ‘last resort’
  • Blaze: [CA] MASSIVE federal operation under way to CRUSH cartel’s ‘notorious open-air drug market’ in Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Feds sweep into MacArthur Park targeting ‘open-air drug market’
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [CA] ICE reveals new data to congress members about San Diego immigration enforcement operations
  • San Francisco Chronicle: [CA] South San Francisco police recover 5 trafficking survivors in nationwide operation
  • Daily Wire: [CA] Foreign Rebel Who Led Coup Attempt Booted From U.S.
  • Telemundo: [Cuba] Cuban deported without final order returns to the United States now continues legal battle in ICE custody
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Breitbart: DHS Restarts Visa Process for Hospitals’ Foreign Doctors
  • Bloomberg: White House Reviewing Rule to Limit Foreign Students’ Status
  • CubanHeadlines: Trump’s Immigration Policies Cause Significant Delays in USCIS Processing
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Bloomberg: Trump Tariff Refunds Start Hitting Importers’ Bank Accounts
  • Houston Chronicle: [TX] Texas leads U.S. in immigration detention, even as border crossings plummet after Trump’s crackdown
  • Daily Signal: [AZ] Border District Dem Wants to End Border Security Operations
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • New York Times: It’s Harder Than Ever to Get Federal Disaster Aid. Even in Red States.
  • New York Times: [MS] Tornadoes in Mississippi Damage More Than 1,000 Buildings
  • San Diego Union Tribune: [WA] Trump’s new conditions on DEI, immigration could cut off states’ wildfire funding
• Secret Service
  • Blaze: [NH] FAA contractor charged for allegedly threatening to ‘kill you — Donald John Trump’
  • New York Times/Breitbart: [DC] Man Charged With Shooting at Secret Service Near the National Mall
  • New York Post: [DC] Texas man charged with opening fire near Vance motorcade said ‘F–k the White House’ after getting shot
  • Washington Post: [DC] Photos show man firing at Secret Service near JD Vance’s motorcade
  • Blaze: [DC] Suspect who allegedly fired at Secret Service agents near White House identified — and charging docs include possible motive
  • FOX News: [DC] Cole Allen’s alleged Trump assassination attempt may have been driven by Iran war: intel report
  • Daily Wire: [DC] Feds Uncover Critical Link In Radicalization Of Wannabe Trump Assassin
  • FOX News: [FL] Florida man arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Trump, Rubio and Bondi
• Coast Guard
  • Washington Examiner: Coast Guard organizing ‘Special Missions Command’ to oversee high-risk operations
  • Telemundo: [FL] Three plead guilty after historic cocaine seizure off Miami Beach
  • Detroit Free Press: [MI] Coast Guard says it’s looking for 3 men fishing on Saginaw Bay
  • USA Today: [Bahamas] Coast Guard seeks help after woman vanishes at sea
  • CBS News: [Bahamas] Coast Guard seeks information on Lynette Hooker’s disappearance in the Bahamas
  • FOX News: [Bahamas] Coast Guard asks public to identify sailboat moored near vessel where Lynette Hooker vanished in Bahamas
• Terrorism Investigations
  • USA Today: Antisemitic assaults reach record levels, audit says. What data shows
  • Daily Wire: White House Vows To Identify And Neutralize Trans Terrorists
  • AP: [OK] Police announce arrest in Oklahoma party shooting that left 1 dead, 22 injured
  • AP: [CO] Man charged in Colorado firebomb attack on demonstrators to plead guilty to murder
  • Washington Times: [AZ] Arizona man with Sinaloa cartel ties sentenced to 13 years for W.Va. drug trafficking
  • Telemundo: [CA] At least 18 arrested in anti-drug mega-operative in Los Angeles: they seized several kilos of fentanyl
  • Telemundo: [Mexico] Trump again threatens to intervene in Mexico to fight drug cartels: “If they don’t do their job, we will”
  • Reuters: [Mexico] Mexico’s Sheinbaum battles party split over US cartel charges
• National Security News
  • Washington Examiner: Bipartisan group introduces bill axing grants to US universities funded by foreign adversaries
  • New York Post: One of the 11 disappeared scientists claimed she was hit with Pentagon’s top-secret weapon after revealing UFO theory
  • Wall Street Journal: [NY] Trial Begins for Man Accused of Operating Secret Chinese Police Station in New York
  • AP: [DC] Brazil’s Lula to discuss fighting organized crime, tariffs in Trump meeting
  • FOX News: [Cuba] Dem representative admits to working with Mexico to sneak oil into Cuba, despite blockade
  • Breitbart: [Iran] Iran denies ship attack as Trump warns of renewed bombing, eyes deal
  • NewsMax: [Iran] US Presses Allies to Expand Counterterrorism Role in Iran and Beyond
  • NPR: [Iran] Iran is reviewing a U.S. proposal as Trump threatens renewed bombing if it doesn’t agree
  • Reuters: [Iran] Trump sees swift end to war as Iran reviews US peace proposal
  • Breitbart: [Iran] Pakistan Says U.S. and Iran Getting Close to Ceasefire Deal
  • AP: [Iran] France Moves Aircraft Carrier Group toward Strait of Hormuz for Possible Defensive Mission
  • Breitbart: [China] China Pressures Iran to Stop Blocking Strait of Hormuz During Beijing Visit
  • Breitbart: [China] China Seethes After U.S. Ambassador Says Huawei Is Not Trustworthy

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