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A hacker published personnel records for about 41,000 DHS employees, including information tied to undercover ICE agents. The breach leads today’s edition, followed by the expanding local reach of 287(g) and ICE surveillance of left-wing activists.
Leak exposes personnel data for about 41,000 DHS workers
A hacker obtained and published personnel information for thousands of DHS workers, including CBP and ICE employees. WIRED puts the number at about 41,000 and says the records include information tied to undercover ICE agents. The exposed records include names, job titles and work contact information, TechCrunch reports. Okta said it had no evidence its systems were compromised, while DHS had not publicly detailed the breach’s full operational impact or its response. [WIRED, TechCrunch]
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The 287(g) expansion reaches the “long tail” of local policing
More than 1,850 local and state agencies were enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) Task Force Model as of October 1, FWD.us found. That count covers only the task-force model, one of three kinds of 287(g) agreements. Recovered Factory’s 287(g) Watch counts 2,261 participating agencies across all three models as of October 28. [FWD.us, Recovered Factory]
FWD.us estimates that more than 29,000 state and local officers are deputized through the program and says the number has doubled since February. In NPR’s coverage, Jaclyn Diaz reports on the expansion and its reach into routine local policing. That reach echoes the “long tail” of small local agencies joining 287(g) that Recovered Factory previously mapped. [FWD.us, NPR, Recovered Factory]
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ICE’s investigations arm is surveilling left-wing activists
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is conducting far-reaching surveillance of left-wing activists, WIRED reports, based on government records and interviews. The reporting describes undercover agents, intercepted communications, database searches and drone surveillance connected to the prosecution of 15 Minnesota residents, and says the activity reaches beyond Minnesota. [WIRED]
Groups sue over ICE withholding detainees’ locations
Legal-services and immigrants’ rights groups sued ICE over policies they say prevent families and lawyers from locating people detained under final removal orders. The plaintiffs allege that ICE stopped disclosing those locations and unlawfully obstructed access to counsel; NBC News reports that they are asking a federal judge to block the policy. The newly filed lawsuit follows reporting on rapid transfers and locator delays, and remains unresolved. [National Immigration Law Center, NBC News]
Naturalized citizens challenge federal voter investigations
Civil-rights and voting groups sued over federal scrutiny of naturalized citizens whom the government has questioned about voting eligibility. The plaintiffs allege unlawful intimidation and discriminatory targeting, while DHS separately announced dozens of arrests in what it calls a nationwide voter-fraud crackdown. The lawsuit remains unresolved. [News From The States, Department of Homeland Security]
Immigration raids disrupt employers’ operations
Employers in industries that depend heavily on immigrant labor are changing work practices as raids reduce labor availability and frighten workers, EL PAÍS reports. Builders and other businesses described longer project timelines and operational strain, showing how enforcement can affect workplaces beyond the people directly arrested, though the scale of the broader economic effect remains uncertain. [EL PAÍS]
Upcoming
The next four weeks.
- Nov. 9, 2026
DHS proposes charging F-1 students $70,000 for an initial period of Optional Practical Training and $30,000 for a later period. The fees are not in effect: comments on the proposed rule close November 9, while comments specifically on its required paperwork and information-collection estimates close December 7.
- Nov. 10, 2026
DHS proposes ending the regulation that lets certain H-1B, O-1 and other covered workers—and their families—remain in the United States for up to 60 days after a job ends. The grace period remains in effect for now; comments on the proposal close November 10.
- Nov. 13, 2026
USCIS proposes ending the regulation that generally tells officers to give weight to an earlier approval when deciding an extension involving the same facts. The proposal is not in effect; comments close November 13.
Comments close November 13 on DHS's rule cutting from 30 days to 10 the time refugees have to answer notices proposing to terminate their status. A court has blocked the shorter deadline through November 6 for refugees sent notices October 14–27 giving them fewer than 30 days.
- Nov. 16, 2026
State unemployment agencies will have to hand over confidential unemployment compensation (UC) records — information about individual claims and claimants — to federal officials who audit the programs, including the Labor Department's internal watchdog (DOL Office of Inspector General). The stated purpose is oversight and fraud detection.
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Two Cuban women deported from the United States to Africa say they remain afraid for their lives and separated from relatives. Their accounts appear in a Univision 23 Miami video. [Univision 23 Miami]
The National Immigration Law Center presents findings from the Behavior and Attitudinal Immigrant National Survey in an allowlisted video. [National Immigration Law Center]
Dolores Huerta, the labor and civil-rights organizer who co-founded the United Farm Workers and helped popularize “Sí, se puede,” died at 96. Arizona Luminaria reports that her family announced her death. [Arizona Luminaria]
A former DHS inspector general warns that ICE’s detention-inspection ratings can obscure unsafe conditions. ICE’s oversight office rated about 71.5% of inspected facilities “superior” in fiscal 2026, Government Executive reports. [Government Executive]
The DHS inspector general published an unannounced-inspection report on Camp East Montana, the Texas ICE facility in El Paso. [DHS Office of Inspector General]
More than 300 Boston Dynamics employees protested a potential sale of robot dogs to ICE, while the company defended the deal. Ars Technica reports that executives said the robots would not be weaponized. [Ars Technica]
ICE renewed a $5.1 million contract for Webloc phone-location tools, and the U.S. Marshals Service also bought access, according to a contract-data analysis. [Tensorust]
Immigration-court asylum grants fell from 39.5% in 2024 to 5.3% so far in 2026, according to a MigraPrep analysis of EOIR data. The supplied material does not include the underlying dataset for independent review. [MigraPrep]