Stephen Dinan

Biden sets new monthly record for illegal border jumpers

Border authorities nabbed nearly 240,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in May, according to numbers released late Wednesday that show the month marked a new record level of chaos for the Biden administration.

June 15, 2022

Justices duck ruling on Trump’s ‘public charge’ policy for immigrants

The Supreme Court backed away from a case involving the Trump administration's attempt to impose a stricter financial test on would-be immigrants, with the justices ruling Wednesday that the matter became too muddied to offer a ruling at this time.

June 15, 2022

Democrats propose marijuana amnesty for immigrants

Congressional Democrats have proposed an amnesty for immigrants with a history of marijuana use, saying those records should not be used to prevent them from gaining a more permanent legal status.

June 15, 2022

Obama’s DACA decision reverberates 10 years after the announcement

When President Obama strode into the Rose Garden 10 years ago Wednesday to announce the DACA program, he knew it was momentous. But he couldn't have predicted just how much change it would bring.

June 14, 2022

Feds ‘nowhere near’ understanding scope of pandemic fraud

The Secret Service has "hundreds" of investigations into international criminal syndicates suspected of stealing taxpayers' money from pandemic relief programs, the agency's top coronavirus official told Congress on Tuesday. But he and other federal investigators also said they can't yet say how much of the trillions of dollars paid out in relief was fraudulent.

June 14, 2022

Deputy U.S. Marshal charged with using cops’ cell tracking tool to target ‘personal relationships’

Federal prosecutors revealed charges Tuesday against a deputy U.S. Marshal for allegedly using the government's real-time cellphone tracking tool on people with whom he had a "personal relationship" and also their spouses.

June 14, 2022

Senators demand answers about the extent of work already done by DHS’ disinformation board

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave "apparently misleading" testimony to Congress about his disinformation board, Senate Republicans charged Tuesday in a letter demanding that Democrats call Mr. Mayorkas back for another chance to explain.

June 14, 2022

ICE chief adopts new ‘free speech’ rules to limit investigations of journalists

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a new policy to limit the agency's entanglements with reporters, including requiring pre-approval before arresting journalists or subpoenaing their records.

June 14, 2022

Feds claw back $10 billion from bogus pandemic loans

The federal government has recaptured $10 billion that the government wrongly paid out in pandemic loans to small businesses, according to new numbers Congress released Monday.

June 13, 2022

Border control advocates want Americans to snitch on ICE’s immigration flights

The Federation for American Immigration Reform said Monday it wants to recruit Americans to inform on the government's attempts to fly illegal immigrants to destinations in the interior of the U.S.

June 13, 2022

Supreme Court backs DHS’ ability to detain illegal immigrants

The Supreme Court delivered an affirmation of the government's system of detaining illegal immigrants, ruling Monday in two cases against migrants who'd sought the ability to be released while they fought their removal proceedings.

June 13, 2022

Pandemic fraud syndicates eye next targets for theft of taxpayers’ money

Investigators are still trying to figure out how much was stolen from government programs during the coronavirus pandemic, but the big-time fraudsters have already moved on to find new targets.

June 12, 2022

Court strikes down Mayorkas’ limits on ICE enforcement

A federal judge tossed out Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' policy limiting ICE's targets for enforcement actions, ruling Friday that the government has a general duty to try to detain and deport immigrants without documentation who have significant criminal records or who have been ordered removed by an immigration judge.

June 11, 2022

Biden, other leaders sign migration agreement to cap Summit of the Americas

President Biden and Summit of the Americas leaders pledged Friday to stiffen their borders and improve their asylum systems in an attempt to slow the unprecedented pace of illegal immigration across the hemisphere.

June 10, 2022

DHS says anti-smuggler efforts stop 900 illegal immigrants a day

Homeland Security said Friday that stepped-up efforts to target the cartels that control migrant smuggling at the U.S.-Mexico border are paying off, with as many as 900 people a day derailed from their plans to cross.

June 10, 2022

Western leaders will commit to stiffer borders, improved asylum

Leaders at the Summit of the Americas will sign an agreement Friday committing to stiffen borders and improve their asylum systems in an attempt to slow the unprecedented pace of illegal immigration across the hemisphere.

June 10, 2022

Money mystery: Feds see record tax windfall, but can’t say why

Uncle Sam is making a lot of money. But he doesn't quite know why.

June 9, 2022

‘Glam migration:’ The illegal immigrant wore Versace

A U.S. senator was stunned during his recent border trip when he saw an illegal immigrant who'd just jumped the boundary in a Versace dress.

June 9, 2022

Ill-fated DHS disinformation board pursued partnership with social media platforms to censor content

The Department of Homeland Security's ill-fated disinformation board would have been part of an effort to work with private social media platforms to police their content, two senators revealed Wednesday, citing new documents provided to them by a whistleblower.

June 8, 2022

Justices rule double-dealing migrant smuggler can’t sue Border Patrol agent

A man who helped smuggle illegal immigrants across the Canadian border, but also reported some of them to the U.S. Border Patrol, cannot sue an agent for personal damages under claims his constitutional rights were violated, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

June 8, 2022