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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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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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State is expected to revoke B1 and B2 visas issued since 2016 to holders who later sought asylum. The disqualifying act happens after the trip is booked, and officials will not name a date.
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The charge is 20 to 50 times current levels and is being pushed through despite adverse rulings. What it reprices is not the paperwork but where companies put the work.
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DHS says the money is cost recovery, not restriction. For employers, the difference is a contingent $203,265 per hire abroad and a headcount plan hostage to litigation.
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Supreme Court lets states screen voters against DHS's SAVE database, over three dissents and lower-court findings that its data is inaccurate. Each state decides whether to use it, so eligible voters' exposure depends on which states opt in before the midterms.
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Federal authorities arrested Oxygen Forensics' CEO and CTO, alleging they hid Russian ownership to win over $2 million in Secret Service work. DOJ does not allege malicious code, so agencies running the tool are left weighing who controls it and the same software's sale to Russia's FSB.
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Rep. Hong Ki-won's office puts the 2025 fall at 5,885 visas, and the E1 and E2 trader and investor categories fell 11.9 percent against an 8 percent average. Business travel visas have since run above their 2024 monthly pace.
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The executive order signed on September 18 gives a panel of experts two months to say what an AI emergency stop should be, and the firm date inside it moves the state's audit registry from January 2029 to December 2027.
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Named practitioners, among them a former GCHQ information security specialist and a former CISA cyber deputy, say the frontier-agent hacks are containable with permissions and monitoring. They also say nobody outside the labs is checking the containment work.
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A March court filing shows DHS collected the fee on 85 applications in five months and took in about $28 million less than the year before, while all 25 tech companies IEEE Spectrum asked about their response stayed quiet.
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The memo tells DHS to vet and license firms for cyber surveillance and disruption against foreign crime groups. Contractors will be making state-grade attribution calls backed by a $1 million bond and little else.
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Jose Linares held that agencies which inform executive branch policy count as the United States itself, so Apple can pull the security and purchasing records behind the government's own phone choices without a third-party burden test.
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