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Homeland Security logo is seen during a joint news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

DHS board unanimously shoots down Mayorkas’ disinformation board

The Department of Homeland Security's advisory council on Wednesday gave a final, unanimous rejection to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' plans to create a disinformation board, but said the department does need to play a role in combatting disinformation.

August 24, 2022
Department of Homeland Security acting Secretary Chad Wolf makes an opening statement at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool Photo via AP, File) **FILE**

Ex-DHS chief Chad Wolf lays out ‘strong case’ for Mayorkas impeachment

Former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf laid out a case to The Washington Times for impeaching his successor, saying Alejandro Mayorkas violated his duty to carry out the laws Congress wrote by exempting whole categories of illegal immigrants from the threat of enforcement action.

August 24, 2022
In this Feb. 8, 2017, photo, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is shown in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) **FILE**

Federal court protects sexual predator from deportation

If prosecutors are to be believed, a Mexican immigrant spent years using his position as a psychologist for Santa Barbara County, California, raping and sodomizing female patients, filmed the assaults, then ensured victims' silence by threatening to send them to jail or a mental hospital. At the very least, Fernando Cordero admits to having sex with his patients and was convicted of trying to silence them.

August 23, 2022
Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Tens of thousands of Afghan allies still waiting for U.S. rescue a year after Taliban takeover

A year after the U.S. left him behind in Afghanistan, Will cannot understand what happened. Will, a pseudonym The Washington Times is using to protect his identity, has glowing recommendations from a U.S. Army major who called him "one of my most trusted interpreters." Yet Will is stuck in a bureaucratic battle with the State Department, which told him his file isn't complete and he can't come to the U.S. for now.

August 22, 2022
A small gap appears in the unfinished border wall Wednesday, May 19, 2021, near Sasabe, Ariz. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also told Texas it was canceling deportation requests — known as “detainers” — on other illegal immigrants, including some who pleaded guilty to felony charges of evading arrest, had convictions for drunk driving, drug possession or domestic assault injuring a family member. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

‘Family loophole’ lies damn immigrant children to hellish homes

Federal prosecutors have brought charges against a family they say conspired to smuggle a 10-year-old illegal immigrant girl into the country and then put her through a living hell that saw her repeatedly raped, stabbed with a kitchen knife and subjected to regular beatings.

August 21, 2022
The U.S. Border Patrol says a drug-sniffing dog helped capture a suspect accused of smuggling 250 pounds of fentanyl worth more than $3 million early Monday, July 18, 2022. (Image: Courtesy of the U.S. Border Patrol) ** FILE **

July border stunner: Enough fentanyl to kill every American

Fentanyl is surging across the southern border at an astronomical rate, with July's rate of seizures shattering the previous record and tripling June's rate, according to Homeland Security Department statistics released this week.

August 16, 2022
Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The Taliban marked the first-year anniversary of their takeover after the country's western-backed government fled and the Afghan military crumbled in the face of the insurgents' advance. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Biden, Trump trade blame on anniversary of Afghanistan collapse

Former President Donald Trump and the Biden administration traded shots Monday over who bore the most blame for last year's Afghanistan collapse, the deaths of 13 American troops and the abandonment of tens of thousands of Afghans who had been promised a safe place but were abandoned by the U.S. withdrawal.

August 15, 2022