August 4, 2026 - Gov Brief Today

What Happened Today – August 3, 2026

August 4, 2026 by George Bounacos

Masked ICE agents in tactical gear and camouflage confront protesters outside the Broadview ICE processing center, one demonstrator pulled to the ground beside a pink protest sign.

Masked and armored ICE agents confronted protesters outside Chicago's Broadview processing center, the anonymity a federal judge ruled this week that New York cannot ban (Photo: Paul Goyette, CC BY 4.0).

Border agents swabbed a four-year-old’s cheek and uploaded her DNA to the FBI’s criminal database. Federal agents sent more than 2,700 records into that database every day last year, nearly a million in all, most from people never charged with any crime. Immigration enforcement now captures more profiles than any police force in the country, … Read more