In response to reporting that ICE agents were seen at a Chicago school today, White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller said "there's no sanctuary for criminal aliens in this country."

"ICE officers will take the actions necessary to protect the lives and safety of our children and to identify individuals who are involved in this smuggling and trafficking of our children," Miller told Fox News.

A spokesperson for ICE said “this was not an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounter,” according to NBC 5 Chicago.

Last month, NBC News reported that the Trump administration plans to make arrests at schools, churches and hospitals.

New Jersey officials and immigrant rights advocates blasted federal immigration authorities for conducting a workplace raid on a small business in the city of Newark without a warrant.

Sen. Susan Collins, one of only two Republicans to vote against advancing Hegseth's nomination, told NBC News that she had a "number of concerns" with his background.

"I ended up having a number of concerns," she said. "They had to do with his lack of experience in managing an organization as large and as complex as the Pentagon, given that he had a decidedly mixed record in managing two very small nonprofit veterans organizations where there were allegations of wasted money and mismanagement."

She added that she was also "disturbed about his comments on women in the military."

Collins said she has already faced blowback from Trump allies for her decision to vote against Hegseth, saying, “Oh, there already is, there already is, and I’m sure there will be more, but I have to do what I think is right, and in this case, I believe I made the right decision.”

In a statement, California native and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized Trump for posing conditions for delivering aid to California wildfire victims.

"Urgently-needed assistance for families and communities ravaged by natural disasters should never be used as a pawn for political games," she wrote. "We must work together to deliver relief aid for all Americans impacted by natural disasters across the country, including for Californians to rebuild and recover from the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles."

Earlier today, Trump suggested he could condition disaster aid to California over policy disagreements.

All of the section chiefs in the Justice Department’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division have been reassigned to sanctuary cities task force, a source told NBC News.

One ENRD official wrote in an email they had been assigned to the “Sanctuary Cities Environmental Working Group,” citing an email they received from the acting attorney general that gave them a 15-day notice to move to the new Senior Executive Service position.

The Trump administration is directing DOJ resources toward immigration enforcement to prioritize identifying and prosecuting immigrants who have entered the country illegally, NBC News previously reported.

The New Jersey Department of Education launched a new webpage this week to provide guidance and resources to help educators understand state and federal requirements related to immigrant students and families.

Resources on the webpage include protocols to prepare for immigration enforcement activities in schools and practices to respond to students affected by deportation-related trauma.

The guidance is designed to “support school officials, staff, and communities in safeguarding the physical well-being of students and their fundamental right to be enrolled in New Jersey schools,” NJDOE wrote. The webpage will update as more resources become available.

Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott has requested that Congress pass more than $11 billion in funding for his state's efforts to secure the southern border.

In a letter to congressional leadership, Abbott explained that his state's campaign to secure the border, called Operation Loan Star, came at a cost over the last four years, saying that they reduced illegal immigration by 87% in Texas.

Abbott said border wall construction and deployment of buoys cost nearly $3 billion; installation and fortification of border fencing cost $58 million and the deployment of more than 10,000 Texas National Guard soldiers cost nearly $6 billion.

"In total, Texas has spent over $11 billion to protect the nation and secure the border," he said. "I am formally requesting that the federal government reimburse Texas for these costs in full. The burden that our State has borne is a direct result of a refusal by the federal government to do its job. The work that Texas has done through Operation Lone Star has protected and will continue to benefit the entire country."

Two U.S. military C-17s flew immigrants to Guatemala last night, according to three U.S. defense officials and a source familiar with the situation.

Another flight that was supposed to fly to Mexico never took off after Mexican authorities denied it access to land, the officials said.

The two flights had approximately 80 passengers on each. There are no flights scheduled for today as of now, but that could change.

Several senior career Justice Department officials have been told they are being removed from their jobs and reassigned to a new effort to take legal action against so-called sanctuary cities, four department officials familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Two of those reassigned, one senior DOJ official said, were George Toscas, who had been deputy assistant attorney general in the National Security Division, and Cory Amundson, who had been head of the Public Integrity Section.

“Everyone they don’t like is being dumped there,” one official said.

NBC News had previously reported that Toscas had been removed from his job. He played a key role in pushing to overcome resistance within the FBI to conducting the search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents in August 2022.