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U.S. federal department overseeing border security, immigration enforcement (via ICE), cybersecurity infrastructure (via CISA), and disaster response.
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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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Five lawmakers announced two bills putting biotech and genomic data under CISA's infrastructure planning, with no new sector. If enacted, DHS would contact key biotech firms and fold their input into the National Infrastructure Protection Plan this year.
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Josh Gottheimer's AI Cyber Defense Act, co-sponsored by two Republicans and two Democrats, would have CISA procure frontier models for small water systems and utilities through 2031. Appropriators still have to fund it.
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Homeland Security Investigations used a self-issued customs subpoena to ask an outdoor retailer who bought one hat in one metro area since 2024. Every product team that keeps order history by default has a retention window it may have to defend.
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404 Media found Border Patrol units that review Americans' financial activity and hand the result to local police. The document behind the finding came out of one defendant's discovery, which leaves the input end of the pipeline unnamed.
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Meta pushed back on an ICE unmasking demand in writing, then gave the account holders ten days to hire a lawyer or lose the data. The documented record of platform resistance is a handful of cases against hundreds of subpoenas.
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Homeland Security Investigations sent 92 subpoenas in a case against 39 protest defendants. One of them asked a retailer to search two years of transactions by item and hand back the people attached to them.
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Lasso says its new LEAP engine clears most prompts and agent actions on ordinary server processors in under five milliseconds, which turns coverage from a budget line back into a policy call. It also raised $30 million.
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The forecast for a $1m to $2m Spot fleet sits in a Homeland Security database built so suppliers can prepare bids, on a purchase ICE has already marked as one it will not compete, which leaves the record without the reader it was written for.
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The bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act would let CISA compel throttle and shutdown capability inside frontier labs. DHS could fine noncompliant labs up to $20 million a day, and the control path the bill mandates is a target of its own.
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A DHS notice puts the buy at one to two million dollars for inspection and situational awareness, in the same week ICE signed a $16.7 million shock glove contract. Boston Dynamics' published red line covers weaponization only.
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DHS has priced the visa at $103,265 a head, $3,265 above the fee a judge voided in June, and hinted at $100,000 for OPT. Hiring plans get reopened mid-cycle.
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The 6-3 dismissal turned on who may sue, not on whether the order is lawful. The federally built voter lists survive, scheduled to reach states 60 days before an election.
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The proposed cap-subject fee reaches first-time petitions for people already in the US, at any employer size. Run DHS's 1 percent revenue test backwards and the break-even sponsor sits near $10.3 million.
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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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Internal CBP and DHS files obtained by WIRED describe more than a decade of officers and contractors querying government systems to track exes and relatives. The logging worked; the consequences did not.
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Universal body cams by the end of August, under a February 2025 policy that releases death and serious-injury footage only when ICE decides it serves the agency. The spend grows storage, not disclosure.
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CORCA puts a retail crime coordination center inside Homeland Security Investigations. Critics say the data-sharing trigger is any "threat," with retailers as direct suppliers.
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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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The vendor describes border patrol robots and an imminent pilot. The buyer describes no agreements, no pilots, no prime contracts. That gap is the whole story.
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