ICE arrested more people in June than in any month in its history, and July is on pace to break that record.
The agency is averaging nearly 1,600 arrests a day this month and has held as many as 70,000 people in custody on a single day this year. ICE officials privately called the crowding “insane” after 86 people filled a Manhattan holding room built for brief stays. In California, a federal judge ordered ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at its Adelanto detention center.
The warnings came from ICE’s own memos and a federal courtroom. Four people died at Adelanto waiting for someone to fix it.
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Source: CBS News
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: The Washington Post
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GAO finds the Space Force cannot justify how many people it needs as leaders seek $71 billion and a doubling of the young service.
Source: Federal News Network
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Trump administration weighs strikes on an al-Qaeda-linked group in Mali, which would make it the eighth country attacked this term, the Washington Post reports.
Source: The Independent
July 22, 2026
Judge orders the Pentagon to explain why Hegseth's new testosterone therapy program for troops differs from the hormone care its transgender ban prohibits.
Source: The Associated Press
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Special prosecutor drops all 16 charges against Louisiana Attorney General Murrill after the New Orleans officials she allegedly threatened ask to end the case.
Source: WNNO New Orleans
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ICE arrests hit a record 43,000 in June and 1,593 daily in July, though 40% of detainees face only civil immigration violations.
Source: Government Executive
July 22, 2026
ICE officials privately warned of "insane" crowding as 86 detainees filled a Manhattan holding room built for brief stays, a Washington Post visual investigation shows.
Source: The Washington Post [gift link]
July 22, 2026
House Judiciary Chairman Jordan asks the Justice Department to prosecute former special counsel Jack Smith for perjury his lawyers say Republicans never asked about.
Source: NBC News
July 22, 2026
House passes a $1.15 trillion defense bill over Democratic objections to the Iran war, tying it to Trump's stalled voter ID legislation.
Source: Time
July 22, 2026
House passes a ban on lawmakers buying stocks that lets them keep existing shares, the second bill today carrying Trump's voter ID demand.
Source: CNBC
July 22, 2026
House votes to officially rename the Defense Department the Department of War, a change the Congressional Budget Office says could cost $125 million.
Source: The Associated Press
July 22, 2026
Senate Republican blocks a bill barring taxpayer money to retrofit Trump's Qatari jet after he flew home from Turkey on the old Air Force One.
Source: The Hill
July 22, 2026
Santa Monica opens applications for a $6 million renter's aid program paying one-time grants to keep low-income tenants from losing housing.
Source: Canyon News Santa Monica
July 22, 2026
Judge orders ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at California's Adelanto detention center, where advocates say four people have died since September.
Source: USA Today
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