Stephen Dinan

Food stamp overpayment rate was 9% last year

The country's food stamp overpayment rate topped 9% last year, the Agriculture Department announced Wednesday, as states continue to struggle with fraud and waste in the program.

June 24, 2026

Courts grant Trump powers to speed deportations, erase Biden-era delays

The Trump administration scored major immigration victories in district court, circuit court and the Supreme Court this week, winning rulings that make it easier to deport migrants -- and to do so faster.

June 23, 2026

Trump’s DOJ erases Biden backdoor immigration courts amnesty

The Trump administration has quietly reached a deal to erase a Biden-era policy that let immigration judges put off rulings on deportation cases and gave migrants an indefinite amnesty to remain in the U.S. despite lacking a legal visa to do so.

June 23, 2026

Appeals court backs Trump’s expansion of speedy deportations

A federal appeals court said Tuesday the Trump administration was likely on firm legal footing with its massive expansion of speedy deportation powers.

June 23, 2026

Supreme Court gives administration more leeway to deport migrant criminals

Immigrants facing criminal charges who leave and then come back to the U.S. can be left in a legal limbo upon their return, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

June 23, 2026

Judge rules Trump’s voter database violates Americans’ privacy

A federal judge ruled Monday against the Trump administration's attempt to repurpose a database meant to check welfare eligibility into a system for verifying voters' citizenship, saying the move violates U.S. privacy laws.

June 22, 2026

Ian Roberts, prominent illegal immigrant criminal, is finally booted from Maryland’s voter list

The state of Maryland has finally removed from its voter rolls an illegal immigrant from Guyana who grabbed national headlines last year over scamming multiple school systems into hiring him as an administrator for several years.

June 21, 2026

Justice Department sues Philadelphia over anti-ICE mask law

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging Philadelphia's anti-ICE policy banning federal agents from wearing masks while on duty.

June 18, 2026

Court agrees Trump team can rewrite slavery exhibits at Independence Park in Philadelphia

A federal appeals court gave the Trump administration permission Thursday to proceed with replacing exhibits at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia that had touched on the Founding Fathers' attitudes and treatment of slaves.

June 18, 2026

11 suspected migrants charged with stealing food stamps, other benefits

Federal authorities announced charges Thursday against 15 people -- including 11 suspected unauthorized immigrants -- who they say stole food stamps and other welfare benefits in Massachusetts.

June 18, 2026

Supreme Court undercuts law barring occasional drug users from owning guns

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of an occasional marijuana user, saying the government went too far in prosecuting him as a habitual drug addict who faces a lifetime ban on possessing a gun.

June 18, 2026

Feds charge 15 ‘antifa’ activists with ginning up anti-ICE violence in Minneapolis

Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against 15 people they said were part of an "antifa" plot to stoke violence against ICE in Minneapolis earlier this year, accusing them of spurring clashes with federal agents and shutting down government offices.

June 16, 2026

‘Set up’: Federal court suggests DHS orchestrated release of homicide suspect to embarrass judge

The federal court in Rhode Island leveled a stunning accusation against ICE on Tuesday, suggesting the deportation agency "manipulated" a case to force a judge to release a migrant homicide suspect so the Trump administration could attack the judge.

June 16, 2026

Supreme Court declines to hear Carter Page case against FBI officials

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Carter Page's case against former FBI officials who oversaw what the government now concedes was an ill-advised attempt to surveil his activities during the 2016 campaign.

June 15, 2026

Supreme Court to consider how long migrants can be held pending deportation

The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up a case that tests how long the government can hold immigrants with serious criminal records in detention while it tries to deport them.

June 15, 2026

Illegal immigrant gets prison term for abusing, impregnating girl in Biden migrant children program

An illegal immigrant who gamed the lax immigration system under President Biden, coaxing a young teen migrant to come to the U.S. and be placed in his care, then sexually abusing her, has just been sentenced to federal prison for his smuggling crimes.

June 14, 2026

IRS overpaying supervisors to do grunt work after Trump budget cuts: Inspector general

President Trump took such a hatchet to the IRS' workforce that it was forced to reassign higher-paid employees to do lower-paid work -- but still collect their bigger salaries -- the agency's inspector general said in a new report.

June 12, 2026

Border Patrol operation nabs three dozen illegal immigrants driving semitrucks in Arizona

Border Patrol agents said they nabbed 36 illegal immigrants who were driving tractor-trailers on roads during a recent operation in Arizona, highlighting what the Trump administration has described as a wave of migrants getting behind the wheel of dangerous vehicles.

June 1, 2026

Illegal immigrant school superintendent who lied about citizenship gets 2-year prison term

Ian Roberts was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for lying about his citizenship and possessing guns.

May 29, 2026

Postal service reveals plan to enforce Trump’s citizenship voting order

The U.S. Postal Service officially proposed plans to carry out President Trump's executive order asking it to help police voting in elections, saying it will refuse to deliver ballots from states that don't comply with the new standards.

May 29, 2026