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The Hill reports: A coalition of 20 states on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its decision to shut down a multibillion-dollar grant program aimed at strengthening infrastructure before natural disasters strike. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, contends that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) unlawfully eliminated its Building Resilient Infrastructures and Communities (BRIC) program earlier this …

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration sent five migrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to a small African nation on Tuesday, resuming the practice of so-called third-country deportations after the Supreme Court cleared the practice earlier this month, Department of Homeland Security officials said Tuesday. Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is a nation of about 6,700 …

NBC News reports: Immigrants being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in at least seven states are complaining of hunger, food shortages and spoiled food, detainees and immigration advocates say. They say some detainees have gotten sick; others say they have lost weight. In one facility, an incident involving detainees reportedly broke out in part because of food. …

KRISTI NOEM: “No employees were off of work. Every one of them was answering calls, so false reporting, fake news, and it’s discouraging. It’s discouraging that during this time, when we have such a loss of life and so many people’s lives have turned upside down, that people are playing politics with this because the response time was immediate. And …

NBC News reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that President Donald Trump wants FEMA “remade” rather than dismantled entirely. “I think the president recognizes that FEMA should not exist the way that it always has been. It needs to be redeployed in a new way, and that’s what we did during this response,” Noem said in an interview …

The New York Times reports: As President Trump builds the infrastructure to carry out mass deportations, with domestic military deployments and $165 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, third-country agreements could offer a path to swiftly move large numbers of detainees out of U.S. custody with little due process. And the lack of information about detainees sent to South …

The New York Times reports: Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person …

The New York Post reports: Border Czar Tom Homan on Friday angrily condemned the violence at a California pot farm as proof anti-ICE protests will turn deadly, blaming the inflammatory rhetoric of Democrats comparing agents to Nazis. “What happened in California is just another example of protesters becoming criminals, and they’ve been emboldened by even members of Congress who compare …

Wired reports: The Department of Homeland Security is urging local police to consider a wide range of protest activity as violent tactics, including mundane acts like riding a bike or livestreaming a police encounter, WIRED has learned. The guidance urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear—like masks, flashlights, and cameras—as potential precursors to violence, …

The Washington Post reports: For months, President Donald Trump and his homeland security secretary have said the Federal Emergency Management Agency could be eliminated. But as the president heads to Texas to view the impact of last week’s deadly floods, administration officials say abolishing the agency outright is not on the agenda. A senior White House official told The Washington …

ABC News reports: A division of the Department of Homeland Security created a team that was instructed to look into more than 5,000 people who were named on a doxxing website that lists purported critics of Israel on U.S. college campuses, a government official testified in federal court Wednesday. This is the first time a government official has detailed how …

The Associated Press reports: On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York. For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless. “I cannot describe the pain …

Gothamist reports: Immigrants being detained in federal holding rooms in Lower Manhattan have complained of being unable to bathe or change clothes, cramped conditions, sometimes being provided just one meal a day, and sleeping on concrete benches or the floor. Some immigrants staying at ICE holding rooms at 26 Federal Plaza also report stays lasting days at a time — …

404 Media reports: Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have gained access to a massive database of health and car insurance claims and are using it to track down people they want to deport, according to internal ICE material viewed by 404 Media. The database, which contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical …

NBC News reports: The White House is still saying it plans to hire 10,000 new officers, however, which would more than double the number of enforcement agents, and the “Big Beautiful Bill” gives him a lot money to do so. But that may be harder than it looks. To begin with, ICE has historically struggled to fill open positions. When …

CBS News reports: Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura, arrested last week in Miami-Dade on assault charges, was transferred to South Florida’s new immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades, the singer confirmed in a phone call. He and other detainees claim they are enduring inhumane conditions at the site, including lack of access to water, inadequate …

The Wall Street Journal reports: After nearly 20 years of passengers having to take off their shoes while going through airport security, they might soon get a break. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out new procedures to allow passengers to keep shoes on while passing through standard airport screening checkpoints, according to people familiar with the matter. “TSA and …

Bloomberg News reports: The Trump administration is stitching together a wider network of immigrant-detention sites, expanding capacity by thousands of beds through agreements with local jails and private contractors across the country. About 60 additional local, state and federal jails and prisons have begun holding newly arrested migrants facing deportation since Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, according to government …

The Meidas Touch reports: Homeland Security Secretary and former Republican Governor Kristi Noem spent the day pushing her department’s assistance in rescue operations in Texas following severe flooding resulting in several deaths. Noem took to Instagram to ask her followers which portrait should become her official Governor’s portrait to hang in the South Dakota State Capitol. She posted three images, …

From a lengthy DHS thread on X: The mainstream media is deliberately lying about the events leading up to the catastrophic flooding in Texas. The National Weather Service executed timely, precise forecasting and warnings, despite unprecedented rainfall overwhelming the region. Here is the timeline of NWS’s proactive response: Morning, July 3rd: NWS Austin/San Antonio conducts forecast briefings for emergency management, …