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Republican U.S. Senator representing Oklahoma.
ICE emails list six states as enriched by its investigations lab and pending entry into ELITE, a Palantir-supported targeting tool. Palantir says voter roll data has never been integrated, so the records show a deportation tool being prepared for voter rolls.
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Three livestock associations say ICE operations kept workers home and delayed thousands of cattle shipments, costing millions of dollars in lost revenue. Feed yards holding returned cattle pay first, and beef prices rise only if the absences last.
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CISA's 2026 election security plan names outdated certification rules as one of three problems in how election system flaws get fixed. The attack path it describes starts at a compromised office inbox or workstation and moves laterally into those systems.
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Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV found that the Department of Homeland Security promulgated the rule in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, so universities keep the current duration-of-status regime while the case is heard. The cap is still on the books.
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House Democrats want the watchdog to measure what the loss of nearly 1,000 CISA staff did to the mission. The fiscal 2027 request would remove about 900 more, and GAO has not yet agreed to take the job.
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Higher education groups have sued DHS over a rule capping international students' and scholars' stay at four years from Sept. 15. Research directors should model the staffing gap now.
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