Stephen Dinan

Dems move to strip Bolsonaro of U.S. visa, make him deportable

Democrats have found one high-profile immigrant they want to see deported: former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

January 27, 2023

Biden extends deportation amnesty for people fleeing Hong Kong

President Biden renewed a deportation amnesty Thursday for people from Hong Kong who have made their way to the U.S., saying they should not be forced to return home to growing political oppression by Beijing.

January 26, 2023

House GOP asks IRS employees to snitch on agency

The new Republican chairman of the panel that oversees the IRS said Wednesday that he has created a new online form for agency employees to report directly to Congress on any abuses or wrongdoing they see.

January 25, 2023

DHS says illegal border crossings plummet after new ‘parole’ program

Homeland Security said Wednesday that illegal border crossings of key nationalities have plummeted after the department began a new program that converts would-be illegal immigrants into legal arrivals.

January 25, 2023

NIH failed to track how China’s Wuhan virus lab was spending U.S. money

The federal government missed warning signs from the lab at the center of the coronavirus controversy, allowing U.S. money to flow to the Wuhan Institute of Virology without adequate oversight of what the Chinese scientists were doing, an inspector general reported Wednesday.

January 25, 2023

Criminals free despite extension of border rule, spaces made for migrant surge now empty

Homeland Security released more than 1,100 illegal immigrants with criminal records from its detention facilities in December as it sought to make room for a border surge that never materialized.

January 25, 2023

States sue to stop new Biden border ‘parole’ policy set to bring in 30,000 more migrants per month

GOP-led states sued Tuesday to try to stop President Biden's "parole" program that would create a new pathway for up to 30,000 migrants to enter the U.S. each month.

January 24, 2023

Federal worker who ran for Congress as a Democrat gets fired

It took more than five years, but the federal government has finally won the right to fire Keith Arnold, a federal employee who repeatedly ran for Congress in violation of laws against mixing government work with politics.

January 24, 2023

Federal agent used DHS car to deliver packages for Amazon

A federal agent was slapped with probation after admitting he used his government-issued vehicle to make deliveries for Amazon and to pick up Uber and Lyft passengers, all while on duty with the Department of Homeland Security.

January 24, 2023

Suspect in killing of 20-year-old autistic woman was newly released illegal immigrant teen

The teen accused of killing a 20-year-old autistic woman in Maryland last summer was an illegal immigrant and member of MS-13 who had been caught then released into the U.S. as part of the government's leniency toward illegal immigrant children, according to a new report.

January 23, 2023

Woman stole nearly 50 years of VA benefits by pretending to be her dead mother

A federal judge cut a break for a 76-year-old Ohio woman, giving her probation but no jail time after she admitted to stealing nearly 50 years' worth of benefit checks from the Department of Veterans Affairs in the name of her long-dead mother.

January 23, 2023

DHS sets new record for illegal immigration at border in December

Homeland Security set a new record for chaos at the southern border in December with more than 250,000 encounters with illegal immigrants.

January 20, 2023

DHS faces blowback over shortchanging Haitian language in new parole program

The Department of Homeland Security's new smartphone app designed to let people sponsor migrants from Haiti comes in English and Spanish -- but not Haitian Creole, the country's most common language, immigrant rights advocates said Friday.

January 20, 2023

Rep. Comer launches probe of effort to sanitize El Paso before Biden’s border visit

The House's top investigator revealed a probe Friday into the attempt to cleanse El Paso, Texas, before President Biden's first border trip earlier this month, demanding Homeland Security reveal whether it was part of the effort.

January 20, 2023

Biden’s ‘parole’ program stretches immigration powers

When Emilio Gonzalez ran U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, offering immigrants "parole" into the U.S. was a selective and specialized occasion -- the sort of thing he would talk over with other agency chiefs before personally making an approval.

January 19, 2023

ICE arrests fake violinist illegal immigrant

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday it will try to deport an illegal immigrant who made tens of thousands of dollars begging for money on Florida streets while posing as a violinist.

January 19, 2023

Supreme Court can’t identify abortion-opinion leaker

The Supreme Court has come up empty in its search for how a draft opinion on last year's highly charged abortion-rights case leaked to the media weeks before it was issued.

January 19, 2023

Biden administration announces private sponsorship program for refugees

The Biden administration announced a new effort Thursday to recruit private citizens to sponsor new refugees seeking to come to the U.S.

January 19, 2023

House Oversight Committee launches probe into border chaos

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Thursday a broad probe into the chaos at the southern border and said he'll give top Border Patrol agents a chance to explain directly to the public how bad things have gotten.

January 19, 2023

New York mayor says other jurisdictions should bear burden of Biden’s border migrants

New York Mayor Eric Adams complained Wednesday that big cities are bearing too much of the burden of welcoming the surge of illegal immigrants from the southern border, and he called for the feds to create a new national system to "fairly distribute" the newcomers.

January 18, 2023