Stephen Dinan

Border Patrol union chief says Biden must quit saying union backed border bill

National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd called on President Biden to stop "weaponizing" the union in the battle over border security, saying the White House is misrepresenting agents' position on a recent border bill.

March 8, 2024

Left accuses Biden of racism after he calls homicide suspect ‘an illegal’

President Biden's team has spent years trying to erase the use of the term "illegal alien" to describe the people surging across the border. Mr. Biden upended all of that work in just a few seconds during his address to Congress.

March 8, 2024

White House says Biden called crime victim ‘Lanken Riley’

The White House on Friday released its official transcript of President Biden's address to Congress shedding new light on what he was saying when he bungled the name of Laken Riley, the young woman slain in Georgia in a crime being blamed on an illegal immigrant.

March 8, 2024

Border Patrol marksman kills Mexican bandit to foil stickup of migrants

A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a Mexican man who was holding a gun on a group of migrants, foiling the attack and sending other bandits running back into Mexico.

March 7, 2024

Biden bungles name of Laken Riley in State of the Union, says she was ‘killed by an illegal’

President Biden waded directly into the dangerous waters of immigration in his State of the Union address Thursday but he bungled the name of Laken Riley, the woman whose death has been blamed on an illegal immigrant let into the U.S. under his catch-and-release policies.

March 7, 2024

Feds reveal gang ties, crime spree of brother of illegal immigrant charged in Laken Riley killing

Diego Ibarra, the older brother of the illegal immigrant charged with killing Laken Riley, tried to bite a Border Patrol agent in the face but was still released by the Biden administration last year, prosecutors revealed in new court documents.

March 7, 2024

House passes Laken Riley bill to rebuke Biden over border ahead of State of Union speech

Republicans made sure that Laken Riley, the nursing student whose killing has been blamed on an illegal immigrant, would be part of President Biden's State of the Union day.

March 7, 2024

Congressional Black Caucus demands civil rights probe into states that shut college DEI offices

The Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday demanded a federal discrimination investigation into states that are moving to shut down diversity, equity and inclusion offices on their public college campuses.

March 6, 2024

LGBTQ earmark pulled from spending bill over ‘sex parties’; Democrats tried to avoid disgrace

Democratic senators rushed to cancel $1 million they had inserted into a spending bill for an LGBTQ center in Philadelphia after a viral report said the place hosted sex parties.

March 6, 2024

D.C.-area leaders stick by ‘sanctuary’ policies despite crimes tied to illegal immigrants

A string of high-profile crimes blamed on illegal immigrants hasn't shaken D.C.-area leaders, who say they're still comfortable with their sanctuary policies that limit cooperation with federal deportation authorities.

March 6, 2024

UVa. spends $20 million a year on DEI staff, study concludes

The University of Virginia shells out $20 million a year to employees who work on diversity, equity and inclusion, according to a new analysis of the public school's spending.

March 5, 2024

Woke agenda surmounts GOP hurdles in budget bill; spending bans fail for ‘ecogrief’ therapy, DEI

Republicans took control of the House last year vowing to use the power of the purse to reel in President Biden's woke agenda. The first go-round didn't fare so well.

March 5, 2024

Feds aren’t doing asbestos checks in most government buildings

The federal government isn't keeping up with its safety checks for asbestos in government buildings, according to an audit this week that dings the General Services Administration for the failure.

March 5, 2024

DHS didn’t collect DNA from 60% of illegal immigrants, whistleblower says

Homeland Security is collecting DNA from less than 40% of illegal immigrants encountered trying to enter the U.S., a whistleblower has told Congress.

March 5, 2024

House to vote on get-tough illegal immigration bill named after Laken Riley

The House is scheduled to vote this week on a bill to condemn the Biden administration for the catch-and-release of a migrant accused of killing a student on a Georgia college campus.

March 4, 2024

Trump calls on Democrats to drop all legal challenges after Supreme Court ruling

Former President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling Monday keeping him on state ballots, saying the justices worked "brilliantly" to shut down a host of legal challenges calling him unqualified to run because of his behavior surrounding the 2020 election.

March 4, 2024

Supreme Court unanimously rejects attempts to ban Trump from ballots over Jan. 6 Capitol riot

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot strip former President Donald Trump from their ballots over claims he engaged in an insurrection and likely shut down future federal court challenges as well, effectively settling the debate over whether he can be an option for voters this year.

March 4, 2024

Not just Trump: States block Democrat Cenk Uygur from ballots over how he became a citizen

For Cenk Uygur, the most disappointing thing about his long-shot bid for president has been the lack of support from civil liberties and immigrant rights groups, who have been unwilling to help him in his battle to get on state primary ballots.

March 3, 2024

Congresswoman announces bill to declare border ‘invasion’

Rep. Debbie Lesko announced new legislation Friday that would declare the situation at the border an "invasion," a move that could add legal heft to Texas's defense of its strict enforcement laws.

March 1, 2024

House Majority Whip Emmer calls border ‘Joe Biden’s crime scene’

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer on Friday said the southern border is "Joe Biden's crime scene" and predicted voters will reward the GOP in November for its efforts to try to plug the illegal immigration flood.

March 1, 2024