Stephen Dinan

DHS releases 35,000 new slots for summertime guest workers

The Homeland Security Department announced Thursday it will make 35,000 additional visas available to foreign workers for summer seasonal jobs, thrilling summer resorts, seafood processors and landscaping businesses that say they struggle to find Americans willing to do that kind of work.

March 31, 2022

Pregnant woman dies from apparent fall from border wall

A pregnant woman died after falling while trying to climb over the border wall in Texas, losing her fetus too, Homeland Security said Wednesday.

March 30, 2022

GOP in new video urges Biden, Dems to visit the border

With the chaos at the southern border deepening, Republicans released a video Wednesday pressing President Biden and his Democrats to visit the area to get a firsthand look at what local communities have been left to deal with.

March 30, 2022

ICE officers prepare for ‘massive crash’ in immigration system

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees have been warned to prepare for the end of the border pandemic emergency policy as soon as this week -- with predictions that illegal border crossings, already at record levels, could triple.

March 29, 2022

Illegal immigrant population soars to 11.4 million

The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. soared by more than 1 million last year, reaching 11.4 million as of this January, according to new research released Tuesday that puts new contours on the border chaos under President Biden.

March 29, 2022

Biden got 255,000 ‘excess’ votes in fraud-tainted swing states in 2020, study finds

President Biden received hundreds of thousands of "excess" votes in Democratic-controlled areas in the 2020 election, according to an academic study on voter fraud that suggests the push to relax voting standards created new opportunities for electoral mischief.

March 28, 2022

Biden’s new budget would siphon unspent money from border wall

President Biden's new budget would take $2 billion in unspent border wall money and allow it to be spent instead on building roads or cutting down brush along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

March 28, 2022

IRS still paying pandemic benefits to dead people: Audit

The IRS is still paying pandemic benefits to dead people, the agency's inspector general has revealed in a new report that identified tens of thousands of erroneous payments.

March 25, 2022

Supreme Court: Texas must accommodate condemned man, let pastor ‘lay hands’ on him during execution

A Texas man facing execution can request to have his pastor pray aloud and be touching him as the state carries out a lethal injection, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

March 24, 2022

Biden to welcome 100,000 Ukrainians as U.S. becomes refugee safety valve

The White House announced plans Thursday to welcome 100,000 Ukrainian migrants fleeing Russia's war on their country, the latest in a series of moves to make the U.S. immigration system a safety valve for those fleeing global trouble spots.

March 24, 2022

DHS finalizes plan to take over border asylum cases

Homeland Security released a final regulation Thursday taking control of decisions in border asylum cases, in a move analysts said is likely to lead to faster -- and more -- approvals.

March 24, 2022

Democrats confident of Judge Jackson’s confirmation, accuse GOP of ‘conspiracy theories’ in hearings

Two days of headlines about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's sentencing decisions for child pornography offenders don't appear to have derailed her path to the Supreme Court, according to Democrats who control her fate.

March 23, 2022

Judge Jackson says she would recuse herself from Harvard admissions case

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Wednesday that if she wins confirmation to the Supreme Court, she plans to recuse herself from an upcoming case involving race in admissions policies at Harvard University.

March 23, 2022

Dems on defense, slam GOP for claims Judge Jackson is soft on crime, child porn

Democrats lashed out at Republicans Wednesday over their probing questions of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying the GOP was trying to tarnish the Supreme Court nominee and Black Harvard-trained woman with "conspiracy theories and culture war theories."

March 23, 2022

Feds say EMS employee used his ambulance to smuggle illegal immigrants

A Texas emergency services employee has been charged with using an ambulance to try to sneak illegal immigrants deeper into the U.S. by trying to claim he was carrying a COVID-19 patient to a hospital.

March 23, 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson pushes back on scrutiny over light sentencing in child porn cases

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson vehemently rejected accusations of leniency toward child pornography offenders, telling senators Tuesday that she was following Congress' instructions when she habitually delivered sentences well below what guidelines suggested.

March 22, 2022

GOP: Democrats hiding Ketanji Brown Jackson’s records on weak child-porn sentencing

Republicans accused Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee of hiding documents from them during the confirmation hearing Tuesday for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson related to her sentencing of felons convicted of child porn crimes.

March 22, 2022

Federal judge rules Biden’s lax deportation policy is illegal

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas broke the law when he wrote new rules limiting which illegal immigrants can be arrested or deported, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, slapping an injunction on ICE that will limit its ability to pick and choose whom to target.

March 22, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson says having women on Supreme Court ‘supports public confidence’

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Tuesday it would be "extremely meaningful" for four women to sit on the Supreme Court should she be confirmed.

March 22, 2022

McConnell warns of ‘utter meltdown’ at border if Biden ends pandemic shutdown

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Tuesday of an "utter meltdown" at the southern border if the Biden administration ditches the Trump-era COVID policy allowing illegal immigrants to be expelled back to Mexico.

March 22, 2022