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Pentagon Expands Tech Testbed Along US-Mexico Border

The Pentagon is ramping up its tech testing along the US-Mexico border, with plans to bring on new projects and programs - but only if they can do so safely and with Congressional funding.

https://osintsights.com/pentagon-expands-tech-testbed-along-us-mexico-border?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#UsmexicoBorder #EmergingThreats #DefenseTechnology #HomelandSecurity #Pentagon

On September 1, 2026, #HomelandSecurity Secretary Markwayne #Mullin announced that #ICE would be at polling stations to “serve warrants or respond to specific threats."

This is wildly illegal.

18 U.S.C. § 592 — "Troops at Polls" Enacted in 1865:

"Whoever, being an officer of the Army or Navy, or other person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined … and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States.

On 9/10/2026, #Denver, along with the League of United Latin American Citizens (#LULAC), #CommonCause, and #UnidosUS, filed a federal lawsuit to block armed ICE agents from polling places during the 2026 midterm elections.

https://democracyforward.org/news/press-releases/new-lawsuit-challenges-trump-vance-administration-plan-to-send-armed-ice-officers-into-polling-places/

#ALABAMA: #HomelandSecurity agent #KentBlacklidge turned himself in & was charged for raping a child

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/alabama-hsi-agent-charged

#ALABAMA: #HomelandSecurity agent #KentBlacklidge turned himself in & was charged for raping a child

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/alabama-hsi-agent-charged

#ALABAMA: #HomelandSecurity agent #KentBlacklidge turned himself in & was charged for raping a child

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/alabama-hsi-agent-charged

#ALABAMA: #HomelandSecurity agent #KentBlacklidge turned himself in & was charged for raping a child

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/alabama-hsi-agent-charged

Haitian student in Ohio dies after losing TPS in what family believes was suicide

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Haitian-born college student in Ohio died in what his…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #deportation #DonaldTrump #HomelandSecurity #Immigration #Ohio #Refugees #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/715408/

Trump Signs Executive Orders Ending Birth Tourism And Protecting The Value Of American Citizenship

Following the unfortunate decision made the by Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) regarding birthright citizenship, US President Donald J. Trump signed two new Executive Orders to formally end birth tourism while also protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship.

To put things in perspective, posted below is the News24 (formerly Sky News Australia) video covering the Oval Office. Watch it and pay close attention to the details.

https://youtu.be/YC3PrTABmic?si=qLGS_xhbDUE99gcD&t=239

In America, birth tourism is already a huge problem that has yet to be full resolved. If it is left unchecked, it will negatively impact and even deform democracy in the US. That said, President Trump signed the Executive Order ending birth tourism. To understand it fully, posted below is the entire content of the said Executive Order sourced from the White House website. Some parts in boldface…

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.  Purpose.  United States citizenship is among the greatest inheritances the Nation can bestow.  It embodies a sacred bond between the American people and the Nation in which they live, and carries profound rights, privileges, and responsibilities reflective of the enduring allegiance of citizens to the United States and our Constitution.  Citizenship is not a commodity to be acquired through calculated exploitation and evasion of the immigration laws, such as by entering the United States on a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth within the Nation’s borders.

Birth tourism operators use deceptive advertisements and inducements to entice foreign nationals to travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.  They promise citizenship; access to public benefits; and short-term stays in specialized facilities, hotels, or rentals, but often fail to deliver on these promises.  These operators coach their clients to misrepresent the purpose and duration of their travel to consular and border officials to obtain visas authorizing entry into the United States.  Failure to appropriately combat these schemes has resulted in thriving industries around the world that profit by enabling the evasion of American immigration laws to obtain citizenship and other immigration benefits for foreign visitors, and the exploitation of the women who travel here for purposes of giving birth.

The immigration laws of the United States establish discrete categories of temporary nonimmigrant visas to allow foreign visitors into the United States for study, exchange, temporary employment, tourism, and other transitory activities that are now exploited by birth tourism operators.  Participants in birth tourism schemes abuse these categories to establish a permanent foothold in the United States by securing the advantage of citizenship for their children and then potentially for themselves.

Birth tourism, defined in section 3 of this order, undermines the integrity of the Nation’s immigration system by enabling foreign nationals to exploit their temporary admission to obtain permanent immigration-related benefits.  Birth tourism also diverts limited consular inspection and enforcement resources away from legitimate visa applicants, erodes public confidence in the faithful enforcement of the immigration laws, and impairs the executive branch’s ability to protect the national security.

The United States has a compelling interest in ensuring that each visa category is used only for the purpose for which it was established.  Foreign nationals seeking temporary admission into the United States must adhere to the purposes for which the Congress has authorized their temporary admission, and cannot be permitted to circumvent the immigration laws in an attempt to vest themselves and their children with lasting benefits that are irreconcilable with their nonimmigrant status.

It is therefore the policy of the United States to promote the integrity of its immigration system, to ensure that nonimmigrant visa classifications are used only for their lawful and intended purposes, and to prevent the exploitation of those classifications by persons engaging in birth tourism.

Sec. 2.  Authorities.  Pursuant to section 301 of title 3, United States Code, the authority granted to the President under section 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1185(a), is hereby delegated to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to the extent necessary to implement this order, including the authority to issue or adopt rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance to carry out this order.

Sec. 3.  Definition.  For purposes of this order, “birth tourism” is defined as:

(a)  the entry of any foreign national into the United States via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil; or

(b)  any effort by any foreign national to facilitate the entry of any foreign national into the United States via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.

Sec. 4.  Scope and Implementation.  (a)  The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take such actions and update any rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance as necessary to effectuate the policy set forth in this order.  Such actions may include, within the Secretaries’ respective discretion and authority, appropriate action to prevent the entry into the United States of, or the granting of any visa or other travel authorization to, any alien entering or attempting to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism; revoking the visa or travel authorization and permanently barring entry of any alien who enters or attempts to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism; denial of entry to, or removal of, any alien who previously engaged or plans to engage in birth tourism; or other appropriate action against entities, organizations, or individuals, within or outside of the United States, responsible for facilitating or enabling birth tourism in any manner.

(b)  All other relevant executive departments and agencies shall provide such records and information as are necessary for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to implement the terms of this order and the rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance issued pursuant to it, subject to applicable law.

Sec. 5.  Exemptions.  Notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by this order, the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security may exempt a foreign national from actions taken pursuant to this order on humanitarian grounds or when the foreign national’s entry is in the national interest, as determined by the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Sec. 6.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c)  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d)  If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of any of its other provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

(e)  The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Homeland Security.

                             DONALD J. TRUMP

Let me end this piece by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this development? Do you think the two new Executive Orders signed by Trump will effectively end birth tourism while protecting the value of American citizenship? What kind of responses do you think the Democrats will come up with to oppose the Executive Orders. Do you think Islamist states like Iran, Pakistan, Qatar and Bangladesh are deliberately sending their citizens to America with birth tourism in mind? Did you spot any Chinese nationals engaging in birth tourism in America lately?

You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.

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FORT WAYNE - ICE PROTEST 🧊🩸

ALLEN COUNTY COURTHOUSE
715 S CALHOUN ST - FT WAYNE IN
July 18th 2026 12:00 - 2:00 PM

https://allevents.in/fort-wayne/protest-protesta-ya-basta-how-many-more/200030412113256

#FortWayne #FtWayne #AllenCounty #Indiana #ICE #ICEProtest #Rally #AntiICE #LivesMatter #StopTheKillings #Community #Protest #NoICE #America #USA #USImmigration #BorderPatrol #HomelandSecurity #NationalGuard #USCustoms #Killings #Murder

David Streever wrote an email critizing ICE to their department head. Months later Federal agents w/ Homeland Security tracked him down with a stark warning that he potentially violated the law.

This Prompted a lawsuit to be filed. The email was protected under free speech & the agency violated his First Amendment rights.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5883784/dhs-ice-critic-lawsuit-free-speech - NPR

#FreedomOfSpeeh #FirstAmendment #Rights #ICE #HomelandSecurity #FederalAgents #Harassment #Lawsuit #ProtectedRights #Freedom

#DHS Wants a Single #SearchEngine to Flag Faces and #Fingerprints Across Agencies

#HomelandSecurity aims to combine its face and #fingerprint systems into one big #biometric platform—after dismantling centralized #privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.
#facialrecognition #ice #privacy #security #facerecognition #immigration #deportation

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-single-search-engine-to-flag-faces-and-fingerprints-across-agencies/

@zackwhittaker @lorenzofb

#PrivacyMatters #CivilLiberties #DataPrivacy #Surveillance

#CellSiteSimulator #LawEnforcementTech
#GovernmentSurveillance
#MobileTracking
#TechForLawEnforcement
#ICEsurveillance
#SpyGear #SurveillanceVehicles
#DataCollectionTech #HomelandSecurity

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#SpyGear #SurveillanceVehicles
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#PrivacyMatters #CivilLiberties #DataPrivacy #Surveillance

#CellSiteSimulator #LawEnforcementTech
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#PrivacyMatters #CivilLiberties #DataPrivacy #Surveillance

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‘Unforgivable’: FEMA Missed Thousands of Calls from Texas Flood Victims After Noem Fired Contractors

Outrage continues to grow against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over her response to the deadly…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #chrismurphy #FEMA #Headlines #HomelandSecurity #kristi-noem #Naturaldisasters #newyorktimes #RichardBlumenthal #Texas #Trumpadministration
https://www.newsbeep.com/2765/

Trump’s Border Czar to Protesters: ‘Come Get Some’

White House “border czar” Tom Homan and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem played good cop, bad cop at…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Border #deportations #DonaldTrump #Headlines #HomelandSecurity #ICE #Immigration #kristi-noem #TomHoman #TurningPointUSA
https://www.newsbeep.com/2539/

Is #Trump planning to declare #MartialLaw on April 20? The frightening claim, explored

Story by Charlotte Simmons, March 14, 2025

"First, the essentials. Martial law is the term for when civilian government and legal processes (such as mayoral jurisdiction and police officers, respectively) are overtaken by state military, so as to make demands on behalf of the nation’s leader, and then enforce those demands with their wealth of resources. Typically, martial law is invoked in dangerous situations, such as natural disasters or major #CivilUnrest.

"This is different from the United States’ #InsurrectionAct, wherein those civilian enterprises are not replaced by military personnel and resources, but supplemented by them. More importantly, the official nature of the Insurrection Act allows the #POTUS to deploy the military domestically during emergencies, as the #PosseComitatus Act of 1878 prohibits the use of the military against American civilians. In short, the Insurrection Act can waive the rules of the Posse Comitatus Act to create a sort of #MiniMartialLaw. Remember this.

"Recently, fears have been rising over whether or not the United States could enter martial law on April 20 under Donald Trump. But why then? What is it about April 20 that holds significance? When Trump first took office back on January 20, he signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency at the United States’ southern border, requiring the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to submit a report about what the 'situation' is at said border, together with recommended actions for 'resolving' said 'situation.' This report needed to be submitted within 90 days.

"When this order was signed, Trump also declared that 'A #NationalEmergency exists at the southern border of the United States…I hereby declare that this national emergency requires use of the Armed Forces…' This, directly references the potential execution of the Insurrection Act.

"The Secretary of Defense? #PeteHegseth. The Secretary of #HomelandSecurity? #KristiNoem. Two of Donald Trump’s most prominent yes-men. And guess how many days January 20 and April 20 are apart? Ninety.

"So, essentially, on April 20, there’s a not-insignificant chance that those two aforementioned Trump yes-men are going to tell Trump whether or not he should deploy the military in the southern United States so as to crack down on immigration. Except, as we saw with the case of #MahmoudKhalil — a recent #ColumbiaUniversity graduate who played a major role in that student body’s recent #ProPalestinain campus occupations — it doesn’t matter if you have a green card or if you haven’t committed any crimes; under this presidency, #ICE will illegally detain you if they think you’re troublesome to the vision of #TrumpsAmerica. They’re trying to deport Khalil for speaking out against #genocide as we speak. This is a direct, wholly #unconstitutional attack on #FreeSpeech.

"And here’s why that distinction between the Insurrection Act and martial law was so important earlier. On April 20, Trump will constitutionally — through the Insurrection Act — be allowed to deploy the military against #AmericanCivilians, and his government has already demonstrated that legal American civilians who have not committed any crimes are at risk for detention and deportation. It’s not technically martial law, but this #Trumpian cocktail is just as bad, if not worse.

"#Khalil’s detention — again, occurring in response to his speaking out against the #genocide of #Palestinian people — was made on the grounds of Trump’s executive order prohibiting #AntiSemitism. How long before more executive orders (none of them made in good faith, let’s be clear on that) just so happen to limit more ways of speaking, acting, and thinking? A scary thought, and a horrifyingly pertinent one."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is-trump-planning-to-declare-martial-law-on-april-20-the-frightening-claim-explored/ar-AA1AUIqy
#USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Crackdown #CriminalizingDissent #NDAA #ExpandedPowers
#USPresidency #NationalEmergency #Terrorists #Activists #USPol #BorderEmergency #Gitmo #IllegalDetention #IndefiniteDetentionClause #IndefiniteDetention

Drug shipments, eh? Is that why they are flying over Lakota and Navajo territory and the Grand Canyon? I suspect this is to spy on #ClimateActivists, especially #NativeAmericanActivists.

From 2019: Pentagon testing #MassSurveillance balloons across the US

Mark Harris
Fri 2 Aug 2019 06.00 EDT

"The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal.

"Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons are being launched from rural #SouthDakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, before concluding in central Illinois.

"Travelling in the stratosphere at altitudes of up to 65,000ft, the balloons are intended to 'provide a persistent #surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and #HomelandSecurity threats', according to a filing made on behalf of the Sierra Nevada Corporation, an aerospace and defence company.

"The balloons are carrying hi-tech radars designed to simultaneously track many individual vehicles day or night, through any kind of weather. The tests, which have not previously been reported, received an FCC license to operate from mid-July until September, following similar flights licensed last year.

"Arthur Holland Michel, the co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in New York, said, 'What this new technology proposes is to watch everything at once. Sometimes it’s referred to as ‘combat TiVo’ because when an event happens somewhere in the surveilled area, you can potentially rewind the tape to see exactly what occurred, and rewind even further to see who was involved and where they came from.'

"The tests have been commissioned by the US Southern Command (#Southcom), which is responsible for disaster response, intelligence operations and security cooperation in the #Caribbean and #CentralAmerica and #SouthAmerica. Southcom is a joint effort by the #USArmy, #USNavy, #USAirForce and other forces, and one of its key roles is identifying and intercepting drug shipments headed for the United States."

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

#Orwell #WarrantlessSpying #AntiProtestLaws
#BigMining #HumanRights #ClimateJustice
#Environment #AntiProtest #MilitaryIndustrialComplex
#SpyBalloons