Stephen Dinan

Border agents miffed by Biden’s visit, say hastily planned trip avoids trouble spots

Border Patrol agents are peeved by President Biden's looming visit to the border in Texas, saying he's going to a spot that's relatively calm and won't see the real chaos.

February 28, 2024

Liberal Maryland county promises more cooperation with ICE after surge of illegal immigrant crime

Montgomery County officials promised to revisit their sanctuary policy Wednesday after federal authorities said a man accused of murdering a toddler was twice in the Maryland county's custody but was released in defiance of a deportation "detainer" request.

February 28, 2024

Appeals court upholds student-only voting for school board in Maryland

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Maryland county's policy of reserving a school board seat just for students to vote for is allowed under the Constitution, beating a challenge that said it discriminated against other voters, including students who attend private schools.

February 28, 2024

ICE confirms illegal immigrants are suspects in D.C. cop shooting, death of 2-year-old in Maryland

Suspects in a police-shooting incident in Washington and a separate shooting death of a 2-year-old boy in Maryland were in the country illegally, the government has confirmed.

February 28, 2024

Congress demands answers on illegal immigrant accused of slaying Georgia nursing student

Multiple House committee chairmen demanded Tuesday that the Biden administration come clean over how Jose Antonio Ibarra came to the U.S., why authorities caught and released him, and why he was still free when a Georgia nursing student was killed.

February 27, 2024

Court dings Pelosi’s pandemic vote-by-proxy scheme, rules spending bill was illegally passed

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stretched the Constitution beyond its breaking point with her pandemic-era voting rules that allowed lawmakers to vote on bills without even being present.

February 27, 2024

‘Safe and secure’: Feds shrug off crime spree at San Fran office named after Nancy Pelosi

The General Services Administration rejected calls to shut down the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco, insisting the crime-ridden property is safe enough for government employees to show up for work.

February 27, 2024

Trump still on the ballot in Colorado as early voting begins and Supreme Court ruling looms

The Supreme Court has yet to rule on his eligibility, but voters in Colorado can now cast ballots for Donald Trump to be the Republican presidential nominee this year.

February 27, 2024

Delaware judge strikes down state’s early voting; rules Election Day is just one day

A Delaware judge struck down the state's expansive early voting law, saying Election Day is a single day and allowing people to vote on other days violates the state constitution.

February 27, 2024

Illegal immigrant brother of Georgia homicide suspect accused of using fake immigration documents

Federal authorities on Monday brought document fraud charges against Diego Ibarra, an illegal immigrant and brother of the man accused of killing a nursing student on a college campus in Georgia.

February 26, 2024

Supreme Court digs into Big Tech censorship and First Amendment

The Supreme Court on Monday waded into the thorny intersection of social media companies and free speech, struggling to figure out whether state laws seeking to stop the tech giants' censorship is worse than the censorship itself.

February 26, 2024

Biden, Trump to make dueling visits to border this week

President Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling visits to the border on Thursday, jockeying for political advantage and blame on an issue increasingly crucial to voters.

February 26, 2024

Feds charge smuggler in case where 3-year-old migrant froze to death

Authorities have arrested "Dirty Harry," an Indian man they say ran a large migrant smuggling ring that led to four Indian immigrants freezing to death on the U.S.-Canada border.

February 26, 2024

Accusers must show Mayorkas went beyond maladministration; Impeachment raises bar to ‘high crimes’

House Republicans have reams of data showing how broken the U.S. immigration system has become and plenty of evidence that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is effectively at fault as a rogue official.

February 25, 2024

Hispanic Democrat lawmakers blast Biden over embrace of Trump solutions for asylum, border

President Biden's allies are demanding he abandon the idea of taking executive action to toughen the rules for migrants claiming asylum, with one influential Democratic lawmaker calling it "unbelievable" that the administration would seek to revive get-tough Trump policies that Mr. Biden campaigned against.

February 23, 2024

MTG eyes new title: Madame Secretary

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is hoping for a job in a future Trump administration, and she figures she'd be a perfect fit for one in particular: secretary of Homeland Security.

February 23, 2024

Pandemic karma: Fraudsters now stealing from people who stole COVID relief money

Fraudsters who bilked the U.S. of hundreds of billions of dollars in pandemic relief have found a new target: other scammers.

February 22, 2024

Babylon Bee, Trump back social media laws in First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court

The Babylon Bee is urging the Supreme Court to return the internet to its freewheeling days of free speech.

February 22, 2024

Federal judge lashes out at Biden DOJ over ‘colluding’ with activists on major immigration case

A federal appeals court judge berated the Biden administration for seemingly underhanded legal tactics in a key immigration case, accusing the Justice Department of "colluding" with the ACLU and other immigrant rights advocates to surrender a major new get-tough policy.

February 22, 2024

Less than 1% of illegal immigrants deported in key border ‘parole’ test case

Less than 1% of illegal immigrants who were caught and released by the Border Patrol using "parole" powers last year have been deported or confirmed to have left the country on their own, the Department of Homeland Security says.

February 22, 2024