'...Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino told his men “I’ve got your back, now and always” in his first public statement...“I love you, I support you, and I salute you,” Bovino said while standing in front of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota in video posted late Wednesday by right-wing influencer Nick Sortor. ...'
'...U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Donald Trump instructed her to suspend the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the diversity visa (DV1) program. Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, is suspected of being the shooter who killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday. ...'
'...President Trump issued a memorandum Friday authorizing the military to take control of federal lands along the southern border to combat illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
“Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats. The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past,” Trump wrote in the memo issued to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins. ...'
