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Protesters suing DHS in Maine allege the agency stored photos and license plate numbers of ICE observers in a database Palantir built. Techdirt says the filing contradicts ICE's denials, but their wording is narrow enough that both can be true.
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FBI Los Angeles officers wrote in a May 2026 memo that built-in generative-AI safeguards are insufficient to stop illicit use. Chat privacy also kept police from learning of the Palm Springs bomber's request, the Guardian reported.
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Judges in two states signed cell-site simulator warrants to locate a 21-year-old who helped produce Don Lemon's coverage, Wired reported. The records it reviewed do not establish that agents ever deployed one.
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At least one ICE agent fired seven rounds into a car holding a 5-year-old in Marble Hill, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. WIRED names the supervisor on scene as Brenden Cuni and cites federal rulings that found arrests involving him unlawful.
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A memorandum signed on 12 August lets contracted US firms attack foreign criminal networks. It excludes state-directed groups and is silent on prosecution abroad.
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TSA ordered chairs out of checkpoint document stations on September 25 without telling the officers' union, AFGE officials say. The union now has a public campaign to restore them, on top of existing fights with the agency over its contract and pay.
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Homeland Security proposed making US schools pay $70,000 for each international student entering the OPT work program, plus $30,000 per renewal. Colleges would be paying for one of their main recruiting draws, and Fortune reported that new foreign enrollment fell 17% last fall.
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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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Labor Department investigators have subpoenaed nine universities, Harvard and MIT among them, over J-1 visas held by foreign postdocs. The White House did not immediately source Vance's case, a 61% J-1 rate at the schools against a 38% national average.
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US military officials logged 378 cartel drone detections at the southern border in the past month, a rise they partly credit to having more sensors in place. That leaves the monthly count a weak measure of whether cartels are actually flying more drones.
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Judge Kathleen Cardone halted border-wall building across Texas's 500-mile Big Bend region, one part of the administration's $46 billion programme. Contractors there now wait on a merits ruling, and upriver and downriver of the park they also wait on landowners who have not granted access.
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Four ICE observers allege in a partly unsealed filing that a DHS agent logged at least six observers in ICM, the case system Palantir built for ICE. Drawn largely from government documents, it traces how a plate lookup and a disputed photo match became a federal case record in one afternoon.
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Supreme Court justices voted 6-3 to let the Trump administration keep making third-country deportations until a merits ruling expected in 2027. At the policy's first-year pace, each month of that wait covers about 2,000 more removals.
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Vicksburg Mayor Willis Thompson says ransomware forced a shutdown of city systems that hit utility payments in the Mississippi city of more than 20,000. The city, still investigating, has not determined whether personal data on customers, employees or vendors was accessed.
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Homeland Security plans to have Google's AI propose redactions on 100,000 to 140,000 FOIA requests by the end of September. Officers will review the suggestions, but the plan's stated payoff is faster processing, a measure that cannot show text blacked out in error.
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An August 13 memorandum lets vetted US firms run surveillance and disruption operations against criminal networks. The controls are written around US persons, not bystanders.
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Chainalysis Government Solutions filed at the Court of Federal Claims on August 17 over a sole-source blockchain forensics award to TRM Labs. The contract's value has not been disclosed.
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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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A presidential memo directs DHS to authorise vetted private firms to conduct cyber surveillance and cyber effects operations against foreign criminal groups. The boundaries matter more than the announcement.
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The proposed per-petition fee runs 21 to 52 times what cap-subject petitions used to cost, and its exemptions steer hiring toward whoever is already in the US. Comment is the last stop before finalisation.
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