A Meta Employee Who Just Lost Their Job Was Detained by Immigration Agents

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-immigration-customs-enforcement/

Researchers 'tried to smuggle vials of MPox and human DNA on packed commercial flight from Congo'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/mpox-virus-congo-researchers-smuggling-37241429

Late Monday, Sen. #ChuckGrassley unveiled the $72B spending package designed to fund 2 fed #immigration enforcement agencies – $38.2B for #ICE & $26B for #CustomsAndBorderProtection – which have been largely unfunded since mid-Feb

Included in that package was a $1 billion ask for “security adjustments & upgrades” related to President Donald #Trump’s #WhiteHouse #ballroom project, which the president has long claimed would not be funded using #taxpayer dollars

#CBP

https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-ballroom-2676868214/

'Toxic' Trump demand sees House Republicans rush to cut links: 'No way in hell'

Critics immediately condemned the $1 billion request related to the White House ballroom project included in Senate Republicans’ $72 billion spending package unveiled earlier this week and, as of Friday, a growing number of Republican lawmakers have joined in damning the proposal as being “too polit...

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US Senate GOP wants $1 billion for security for Trump’s ballroom in immigration bill • Missouri Independent

Senate Republicans released a $70 billion spending package that includes $1 billion for security features at a new White House ballroom.

Missouri Independent
ICE director Todd Lyons admits he didn't know some deportation countries existed • Missouri Independent

Trump deportation officials vow more ICE raids at Phoenix's 2026 Border Security Expo

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Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/border-patrol-bortac-borstar-use-of-force-midway-blitz/