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the islands through the program in the fiscal year 2025.

They said those travelers were vetted by Customs and Border Protection rather than a State Department officer, according to the notice, which they say is another big problem.

Now, the department ended their notification by pointing out two cases they say are pivotal for Americans to understand.

Now, these two cases involve Chinese nationals who were sentenced for smuggling other Chinese nationals from the Northern Islands to Guam.

But hopefully using that as an opportunity to show that this is the moment, like frankly, the only moment we're going to have over the next however long to actually genuinely think about civil service reform and building the workforce that the American people need to actually deliver for them.

I think with that, there's some interesting things associated with like data utilization in government, whether or not DHS and ICE and CBP are using a lot of administrative data from other agencies in targeting immigrants.

But then there's also some interesting data uses that are potentially more positive or at least potentially more neutral in veins, like exploring what that means with the overall advent of data.

heavy AI usage in government from nothing is going to mean.

So CTPAT is Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism.

It's CBP's, Customs and Border Protection, Voluntary Trusted Trader Program, where participating businesses meet additional supply chain security requirements in exchange for benefits that can include fewer cargo inspections.

So that's the CT-PAT, and what DOT is trying to do is connect to it to create like a TSA pre-check, but for cargo.

Now, a container may already be associated with CT-PAT, participate, and receive favorable treatment from customers, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the terminal knows far enough in advance to position that container for efficient movement.

Who knows? Approximately 10,000 ICE personnel may be included in the compromised records.

The data also contains records associated with more than 20,000 Customs and Border Protection employees, including Border Patrol.

Multiple sources confirm that portions of the leaked material are authentic.

Fox News weighed in, confirmed that the records contain several undercover ICE agents that are working in different areas of the country.

Exposed information included names, titles, locations, and in some cases, phone numbers and email addresses.

Those affected included roughly 10,000 United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and more than 20,000 United States Customs and Border Protection employees.

Multiple sources confirmed portions of the data were authentic.

The hacking group, calling itself the Department of Peace, claimed responsibility for the breach.

We need to make sure that they're coming in for reasons that are legal and justifiable based on our immigration laws.

But customs and border protection are different than ICE.

ICE is about internal enforcement.

I've been clear that we need a safe, secure border, but also the way that ICE has been weaponized against the Constitution itself by this administration is dead wrong.

We thank you so much, Art.

And we'll look forward to see what happens after this election in terms of immigration policy, funding of CBP and ICE and everything.

It could get very, very interesting.

I'm sure we'll be talking about that in the future, should you be willing to join us.

And...

A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on October 28, 2026, Mr. Flavio Bolsonaro arrived in South Florida with his family, were met and inspected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in accordance with applicable immigration laws and procedures.

At the conclusion of the inspection, Bolsonaro and his accompanying family members were released, end quote.

Okay.