By THOMAS BEAUMONT and REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on television advertising in select metro areas around the country, an Associated Press tally found, aimed at recruiting local officers frustrated with their cities’ restrictions on immigration enforcement into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

“You took an oath to protect and serve, to keep your family, your city, safe,” the narrator says, as images of the cities targeted and ICE agents arresting people move across the screen. “But in sanctuary cities, you’re ordered to stand down while dangerous illegals walk free.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents make an arrest during an early morning operation in Park Ridge, Ill., Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

The campaign — airing in more than a dozen cities, including Chicago, Seattle and Atlanta — is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year to supercharge deportations. The money is part of the $76.5 billion sought by Trump’s Republican administration for ICE — a 10-fold increase in its current budget — as part of the sweeping, multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill enacted in July.

ICE is already offering bonuses of up to $50,000 for new recruits and other benefits such as tuition reimbursement as it seeks to fast-track hiring.

And while some parts of the federal government are shut down as the result of Congress’ failure to pass a spending measure last week, the ICE ads reflect that the push for mass deportations, the Trump administration’s top priority, is still flush with cash.

Millions spent on the 30-second ads

The ads open with video of each metro’s familiar skyline and the narrator’s voice announcing, for example, “Attention, Miami law enforcement.” Beyond that, the spots are identical, inviting officers to “join ICE and help us catch the worst of the worst. Drug traffickers. Gang members. Predators,” according to a review of the ads on the ad-tracking service AdImpact.

The 30-second spots began running in mid-September in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Boston; Chicago; Denver; New York; Philadelphia; Sacramento, California; Seattle; and Washington, D.C. Adding to the list a week ago: Atlanta; Dallas; El Paso, Texas; Houston; Miami; Salt Lake City; and San Antonio.

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As of Friday, total spending on the ads had topped $5.7 million, with the most spent since mid-September being $853,745 in the Seattle area. However, Atlanta saw the most in the past week, $794,084, according to AdImpact.

It was unclear why ICE targeted those locations and not others. There is no standard definition of what is a sanctuary jurisdiction although it generally refers to cities or states that limit their cooperation with ICE. Some but not all of the cities appear on a Justice Department list of cities that “that impede enforcement of federal immigration laws.”

Asked in an AP email to explain why specific areas were chosen as advertising targets, Department of Homeland Security officials declined to provide an explanation. Instead, they replied with a Sept. 16 press release, near the beginning of the ad campaign, reporting that it had received more than 150,000 applications and had extended 18,000 tentative job offers.

Some cities where the ads have been playing, particularly Boston and Chicago, have been repeatedly criticized by the Trump administration for their policies that limit how much they can work with federal immigration enforcement. ICE has launched immigration crackdowns in both of those cities. Local officials in Chicago have been particularly outspoken against the stepped-up enforcement.

Albuquerque is among the smallest metropolitan areas where the ads are airing, though the city’s mayor, Tim Keller, has been a vocal opponent of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. In July, Keller signed an executive order barring city employees from assisting federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement “unless legally required.”

Local police can’t compete with ICE promises

The AP reached out to police departments in areas where the ads were running. Most departments either did not respond or said they did not comment on actions of outside agencies. A few, including Sacramento and Miami, said they had not noticed any of their officers leaving for positions at ICE or DHS.

Four of the markets where the ads are playing are in Texas, including San Antonio.

Danny Diaz, the president of the city’s Police Officers Association, said he’d seen the ads and was concerned about prospective recruits who might be thinking of joining the city’s police department joining ICE instead.

“We can’t compete with a $50,000 signing bonus,” Diaz said. “I do think that the younger generation will jump on that.”

The government shutdown could dampen ICE’s recruitment hopes, he said.

“They’re furloughing federal employees, and I don’t think individuals want to leave one department to go work for a federal agency when they don’t know if they’re going to receive a check or not,” he said, referring to the lapse in funding that has led to federal law enforcement officers going without pay.

Philadelphia police Capt. John Walker said it’s too early to tell whether the ad campaign has had an impact on the city’s recruiting. Instead, he suggested, the ads appeared more geared toward reassuring viewers that the Trump administration was addressing illegal immigration.

“It’s the psychological feel. You want to know that there are cops out there because it makes you feel good,” said Walker, who’s in charge of Philadelphia police recruiting. “That’s all this is, strengthening the belief that they’re doing something.”

The ad blitz comes as law enforcement departments around the country are struggling to meet staffing demands.

Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa.

By KOSTYA MANENKOV, STEFANIE DAZIO and LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press

STOCKHOLM — Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. Ramsdell, 64, is a scientific adviser for Sonoma Biotherapeutics in San Francisco. Sakaguchi, 74, is a distinguished professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Center at Osaka University in Japan.

The immune system has many overlapping systems to detect and fight bacteria, viruses and other bad actors. Key immune warriors such as T cells get trained on how to spot bad actors. If some instead go awry in a way that might trigger autoimmune diseases, they’re supposed to be eliminated in the thymus — a process called central tolerance.

The Nobel winners unraveled an additional way the body keeps the system in check.

The Nobel Committee said it started with Sakaguchi’s discovery in 1995 of a previously unknown T cell subtype now known as regulatory T cells or T-regs.

Then in 2001, Brunkow and Ramsdell discovered a culprit mutation in a gene named Foxp3, a gene that also plays a role in a rare human autoimmune disease.

The Nobel Committee said two years later, Sakaguchi linked the discoveries to show that the Foxp3 gene controls the development of those T-regs — which in turn act as a security guard to find and curb other forms of T cells that overreact.

The work opened a new field of immunology, said Karolinska Institute rheumatology professor Marie Wahren-Herlenius. Researchers around the world now are working to use regulatory T cells to develop treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.

“Their discoveries have been decisive for our understanding of how the immune system functions and why we do not all develop serious autoimmune diseases,” said Olle Kämpe, chair of the Nobel Committee.

Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Committee, said he was only able to reach Sakaguchi by phone Monday morning.

“I got hold of him at his lab and he sounded incredibly grateful, expressed that it was a fantastic honor. He was quite taken by the news,” Perlmann said. He added that he left voicemails for Brunkow and Ramsdell.

The award is the first of the 2025 Nobel Prize announcements and was announced by a panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics Oct. 13.

The award ceremony will be held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, who founded the prizes. Nobel was a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite. He died in 1896.

The trio will share the prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor (nearly $1.2 million).

Dazio reported from Berlin and Neergaard from Washington.

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LONDON — In a game they absolutely had to have on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Vikings found a way to escape with a 21-17 win over the Cleveland Browns.

It wasn’t pretty by any stretch of the imagination.

The sloppiness is something head coach Kevin O’Connell said he needs to get cleaned up moving forward. But O’Connell also praised his team for its relentlessness, crediting them for making it through an unprecedented international swing over the past week and a half.

Though they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Dublin, the Vikings made sure that they returned home with a win over the Browns in London.

The Vikings are now 5-0 in games played in London. Here are some takeaways from the latest:

Carson Wentz’s toughness

After getting crushed on a scramble up the middle, veteran quarterback Carson Wentz got checked out in the blue medical tent, then made his way to the locker room shortly before halftime. It started to look like rookie quarterback Max Brosmer might be thrust into action. Instead, Wentz emerged from the locker room after halftime and played through the pain to lead the Vikings to a comeback win. He was at his best on the final drive, completing 9 of 9 passes for 71 yards and a touchdown with 21 seconds left that proved to be the difference.

Justin Jefferson’s excellence

It was almost as if Justin Jefferson knew he had to be the best player on the field. The Vikings’ star receiver was spectacular throughout, with a performance that seemed to elevate everybody around him. He had a leaping grab over the middle on which he put his body in harm’s way without hesitation. He also made an incredible catch near the sideline after winning a battle at the point of attack. The latter came on the final drive and helped put the Vikings in position to win.

Jordan Addison’s benching

The absence of star receiver Jordan Addison was conspicuous in the opening 15 minutes. He wasn’t playing despite being on the sideline with his helmet on. The reason for him not playing was initially unclear, but O’Connell said after the game that Addison was benched as a punishment for missing a walkthrough this week. As soon as he was allowed to return to the huddle, Addison made his presence felt, recording a handful of receptions, including a touchdown in the final seconds that put the Vikings on top for good.

Christian Darrisaw’s snaps

As the Vikings were trying to mount a comeback, star left tackle Christian Darrisaw was watching from the sideline. That caused some shuffling on the offensive line, forcing left tackle Justin Skule and right tackle Walter Rouse to serve as the bookends. Asked about having to sit out down the stretch, Darrisaw explained that it was part of a plan that has long been in place, designed to limit his snaps as he continues to ramp up after having surgery on his left knee.

Ryan Wright’s punt

It’s not often that punter Ryan Wright gets talked about during a game. That’s how impressive his 77-yard punt was in real time. It came at a big moment, too, as the Vikings very much needed to flip the field to avoid potentially surrendering points. Though it didn’t actually contribute to the scoreboard, the punt helped swing the momentum. Who knows what happens if Wright doesn’t step up with his right foot? Maybe the game gets out of hand before Wentz and Addison have a chance to win the game.

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Today is Monday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2025. There are 86 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Oct. 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad while reviewing a military parade.

Also on this date:

In 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, a feature film containing both silent and sound-synchronized sequences.

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In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur holiday, starting a nearly three-week conflict that would become known as the Yom Kippur War.

In 1976, Republican President Gerald R. Ford, in his second presidential debate with Democrat Jimmy Carter, asserted that there was “no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.” Carter went on to narrowly defeat Ford.

In 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a weeklong U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.

In 2007, British adventurer Jason Lewis completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe, spanning 13 years and more than 46,000 miles.

In 2010, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay tossed just the second postseason no-hitter in MLB history, blanking the Cincinnati Reds 4-0.

In 2014, the Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States as it rejected appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans, effectively making such marriages legal in 30 states.

In 2018, in the narrowest Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court justice in nearly a century and a half, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by a 50-48 vote; he was sworn in hours later.

Today’s Birthdays:

Actor Britt Ekland is 83.
Irish politician Gerry Adams is 77.
Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy is 70.
Bowler Walter Ray Williams Jr. is 66.
Actor Elisabeth Shue is 62.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is 60.
Actor Emily Mortimer is 54.
Basketball Hall of Famer Rebecca Lobo is 52.
Actor Ioan Gruffudd (YOH’-ihn GRIH’-fihth) is 52.
Actor Jeremy Sisto is 51.
Football Hall of Famer Richard Seymour is 46.
NFL quarterback Trevor Lawrence is 26.
Social media personality Addison Rae is 25.
Basketball player Bronny James is 21.