Stephen Dinan

Six terrorism suspects nabbed at southern border in June

Six terrorism suspects were among than 200,000 border jumpers encountered by Border Patrol in June, according to data released by Customs and Border Protection late Friday.

July 16, 2022

Biden DHS focusing border security spending on technology upgrades rather than wall building

The Department of Homeland Security said it will push to finish the technology that was supposed to be part of former President Donald Trump's border wall, and use other remaining money to fix issues the Biden administration says have emerged from previous construction.

July 11, 2022

‘Temporary’ migrants who entered illegally get new path to permanent status under Biden policy

The Homeland Security Department's citizenship agency has created a backdoor pathway to citizenship that is open to some of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who came to the U.S. illegally but are now under what is known as temporary protected status.

July 10, 2022

DHS seeks Supreme Court’s blessing for policy limiting immigration enforcement

The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to give early approval to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' "priorities" policy that limits the kinds of illegal immigrants his agents and officers can arrest and deport.

July 8, 2022

Border Patrol agents cleared of whipping illegal immigrants

Border Patrol agents didn't whip or strike Haitian migrants last year, a lengthy internal affairs investigation concluded Friday, but some agents did use excessive force by positioning their horses in the Rio Grande to try to keep the migrants from reaching the U.S.

July 8, 2022

Appeals court slams DHS policy limiting deportations

A federal appeals court has shot down the Biden administration's request to revive its "priorities" policy for enforcing immigration law in the interior of the country -- and delivered a scorching rebuttal to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

July 7, 2022

Roberts, Kavanaugh helped liberals notch small victories at Supreme Court

As goes Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, so went the Supreme Court, at least over the last term. Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. emerged as the majority makers for the court.

July 7, 2022

Texas to send illegal immigrants back to border

When Texas authorities arrest illegal immigrants they will now be able to take them and dump them back on the U.S.-Mexico border, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday.

July 7, 2022

Bug infestations, moldy ceilings, botched medical care found at ICE detention facility

Hundreds of illegal immigrants being detained at an ICE facility in Georgia were kept in rooms covered in mold, were served cold meals, faced bug infestations and got substandard medical care, according to a new inspector general's audit released Wednesday.

July 6, 2022

Rapper who posted video showing COVID unemployment scam to plead guilty

A rapper who made headlines two years ago by posting a music video of himself filing bogus COVID unemployment claims has agreed to plead guilty, federal prosecutors in California said Wednesday.

July 6, 2022

Study: Most reporters don’t believe in ‘equal’ coverage in news stories

When it comes to equal treatment of all sides in the news, the public expects far more than journalists are delivering. According to a new survey by Pew Research, only 44% of journalists say every side of an issue reported in the news deserves "equal coverage." By contrast, 76% of the American public believes in equal coverage.

July 6, 2022

Appeals court ponders end to DACA program for illegal immigrant ‘Dreamers’

With the future of hundreds of thousands of immigrant "Dreamers" on the line, the Biden administration told a federal appeals court Wednesday that the government was on firm legal footing when it created the DACA deportation amnesty a decade ago.

July 6, 2022

DHS erases barrier to legal status for some illegal immigrants

Making it back into the U.S. after being ousted is "irrelevant" to an illegal immigrant's eligibility to apply for a new legal status, the Homeland Security Department's citizenship agency says in a new policy.

July 5, 2022

Smuggling suspect in mass migrant deaths was already on ICE’s radar

The man accused of orchestrating the smuggling journey that cost 53 migrants their lives was already under "active investigation" by ICE agents in Texas, according to court documents.

July 1, 2022

Supreme Court conservative majority flexed its muscle on God, guns, abortion, climate change

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court flexed its muscle this term, delivering a blockbuster series of rulings that bend decades of jurisprudence to the right on issues such as religion, guns, abortion and climate change.

July 1, 2022

Justices say DHS has power to end Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

The Biden administration has the legal power to end former President Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, delivering a significant win for the new administration's immigration policies.

June 30, 2022

Two Americans face capital charges in Texas migrant deaths case

Federal prosecutors announced capital smuggling charges Wednesday against two men they say were involved with the truck found on the side of a San Antonio road with the bodies of dozens of dead illegal immigrants packed inside.

June 29, 2022

Death toll rises to 53 in Texas migrant tragedy

The death toll for the migrants trapped inside a truck in the Texas heat this week has risen to 53, and 11 migrants are still hospitalized, federal authorities said Wednesday.

June 29, 2022

Feds to release list shaming over-budget and overdue transportation projects

The Transportation Department will soon have to release its first name-and-shame list of federally funded projects that have ballooned a billion dollars over budget.

June 29, 2022

Three smuggling suspects in custody after 50 migrants die in Texas

Federal investigators said they had three smuggling suspects in custody Tuesday and at least 50 migrants died of heat exposure after being trapped in the back of a truck in the hot Texas sun.

June 28, 2022