Stephen Dinan

Illegal immigration ticks down at the border

Homeland Security reported a slight drop in illegal immigrants trying to sneak in across the southern border in March, suggesting the department may have turned a corner in the border chaos that's reined since the start of the Biden administration.

April 12, 2024

Supreme Court to review feds’ use of obstruction charge against Jan. 6 defendants, Trump

The fate of hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants lies with the Supreme Court, which will hear a case Tuesday arguing that the obstruction law under which they were charged was never meant to apply to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

April 12, 2024

Death threat: Mexican cartel forces witness to cancel congressional testimony

A Mexican drug cartel used death threats to force a tribal leader to back out of testifying to Congress this week, according to another tribal leader who did show up to tell lawmakers just how much power the drug lords have accumulated.

April 11, 2024

Republican lawmakers aim to reverse Biden’s expanded gun background check rule

Republican senators said Thursday they will pursue legislation to overturn President Biden's new gun control regulation that would expand the universe of gun sales subject to background checks.

April 11, 2024

Biden announces largest expansion of gun background checks in decades

The Biden administration has finalized the largest expansion of gun-sales background checks since the advent of the federal check system in the 1990s, moving to close the "gun show loophole" and online sales that have avoided checks in the past.

April 11, 2024

‘I don’t hate you’: Sen. Kennedy and other GOP lawmakers unload on Mayorkas

Republicans challenged Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, telling him that he's failed the American public which no longer trusts him to manage the border

April 10, 2024

Feds fall short on recovering pandemic fraud; less than 1% has been clawed back

The Justice Department's pandemic fraud task force has recovered just $1.4 billion in money seized or forfeited from people who stole the government's coronavirus cash, just a fraction of 1% of the total lost to theft.

April 9, 2024

House GOP delays delivery of Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said the articles of impeachment against Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will not be delivered to the Senate until next week, a move meant to build pressure on Democrats to hold a full trial.

April 9, 2024

Schumer vows to crush Mayorkas impeachment trial

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Tuesday promised to quash the impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas "as quickly as possible."

April 9, 2024

New bill would require immigrants with domestic violence history to be deported

Rep. Nancy Mace is announcing new legislation Tuesday to expand the ability of the federal government to deport illegal immigrants with domestic violence or sex offense criminal records.

April 9, 2024

Long prison sentences for family that smuggled, terrorized illegal immigrant girls

A federal judge slapped lengthy prison sentences Monday on two siblings who smuggled young illegal immigrant girls into the U.S. and then forced them into vile conditions, making them serve as cooks and cleaners at home and to get jobs, then stealing their paychecks.

April 8, 2024

White House declares Mayorkas impeachment trial ‘complete waste of time’

The Senate will take up impeachment articles this week against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the White House is weighing in, calling the proceedings a "complete waste of time."

April 8, 2024

Migrants’ gun rights at issue in appeal; U.S. urges reversal of case’s dismissal

The federal government is appealing a judge's ruling that found the Constitution allows some immigrants without documentation to possess guns, plowing new ground in the quickly evolving debate over Second Amendment rights.

April 7, 2024

Congress takes up fight over snooping; security officials oppose changes to federal spy powers

National security officials have mounted a full-court press in recent weeks to try to head off major changes to the government's most important snooping authority, warning Capitol Hill that terrorists will benefit if lawmakers require the FBI to get a warrant before querying Americans' names in its massive trove of data.

April 7, 2024

Judge rules DHS must deliver better treatment to illegal immigrants awaiting arrest

A federal judge has ruled that illegal immigrants stuck in makeshift outdoor "detention" sites in Southern California are technically in the government's custody and agents must now follow strict rules for delivering care to the children among them.

April 5, 2024

President of EcoHealth Alliance to testify to Congress; firm tied to risky research at Wuhan lab

The president of EcoHealth Alliance, which used taxpayer money to fund research at the Wuhan virus lab, will appear before Congress next month to defend his firm's work.

April 4, 2024

DHS renews work permits for hundreds of thousands of migrants

Homeland Security granted a 540-day extension on work permits to as many as 800,000 immigrants, many of whom arrived illegally, saying the economy is depending on them.

April 4, 2024

Biden moves to block Trump, future presidents from firing bureaucrats

President Biden finalized new civil service protections on Thursday aimed at preventing the sort of bureaucratic housecleaning that former President Donald Trump plans, should he win reelection.

April 4, 2024

MS-13 illegal immigrant gang members kill police dog in vicious prison attack

A police dog was killed by illegal immigrant MS-13 gang members who stabbed and kicked the K-9 as he was trying to restore order amid a gang beating at a Virginia prison, according to authorities.

April 3, 2024

‘Cross-dressing’ conservatives: Study blasts House conservatives for nearly $1 billion in earmarks

Conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus requested nearly $1 billion in pork-barrel "earmark" spending over the last two years, according to an analysis Wednesday that labeled the 22 earmarkers as "cross-dressing" conservatives.

April 3, 2024