Stephen Dinan

Stranded by U.S., Afghan allies wonder if helping was a ‘mistake’

Experts say tens of thousands of other Afghans who should have been evacuated were instead stranded -- including many who directly assisted the U.S. government and were promised a ticket out of the country under the Special Immigrant Visa program.

February 28, 2022

Supreme Court ponders EPA’s role in stemming climate change

Coal-producing states and power companies went to the Supreme Court Monday to try to block the Biden administration from imposing the president's greenhouse gas policies without seeking more authority from Congress.

February 28, 2022

GOP presses Biden administration on Afghan evacuees amid new terrorism concerns

Six months after the end of the Afghan airlift, congressional Republican investigators say it's time for the Department of Homeland Security to release details of the 76,000 Afghan evacuees who've been brought to the U.S. and released into communities around the country.

February 25, 2022

W.Va. AG Morrisey says Republican attorneys general stepping up to stop Biden ‘overreach’

President Biden has raced too far and too fast in reshaping the federal government on everything from immigration to environmental policy, leaving himself open to serious legal challenges, said West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

February 24, 2022

Border Patrol agent kills illegal immigrant during chase in Arizona

A Border Patrol agent shot and killed an illegal immigrant during a chase through a remote canyon in southeastern Arizona, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.

February 23, 2022

Supreme Court struggles for a solution to Biden’s handling of immigration ‘Public Charge’ rules

The Supreme Court cast doubt Wednesday on the way the Biden administration nixed a Trump-era rule pushing legal immigrants to be self-sufficient, suggesting during oral arguments Wednesday that the government was using subterfuge to try to get its way.

February 23, 2022

Sheriffs want DHS alert when illegal immigrants are shipped to their counties

As the Department of Homeland Security ships tens of thousands of illegal immigrants throughout the country, sheriffs are demanding they be notified of new arrivals, saying if the feds can't keep track of the migrants, the locals will have to do it.

February 22, 2022

DHS eyes more welfare for legal immigrants as Supreme Court hears challenge

The Biden administration has moved to make it more attractive for immigrants to sign up for welfare, laying down a marker just days before the Supreme Court is slated to take up the issue in a legal challenge seeking to restore tougher Trump-era rules.

February 21, 2022

Last of Afghan evacuees leave U.S. military bases amid report of botched background checks

The last of the 76,000 Afghan evacuees pulled out of the country last summer have finally been released into the U.S., the government announced over the weekend -- just as a new report says they weren't all fully vetted.

February 20, 2022

DHS has now released all 76,000 Afghan evacuees from military bases into U.S.

Homeland Security announced the departure of the last Afghan evacuees from military bases on U.S. soil Saturday, saying 76,000 of them have been processed and released into American communities.

February 19, 2022

Supreme Court to hear case over Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

The Supreme Court said Friday it will take up a case involving the Biden administration's attempt to end the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" border policy.

February 18, 2022

DHS celebrates drop in border crossings

Homeland Security on Friday touted a drop in arrests at the southern border in January, with Border Patrol agents making the fewest arrests of any month so far in the Biden administration.

February 18, 2022

Virginia withdraws from Equal Rights Amendment appeal; says court was right to reject lawsuit

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares moved Friday to withdraw from a lawsuit trying to force the Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution, saying the state now believes the lower court got it right by ruling against the amendment.

February 18, 2022

Pentagon audit says dozens of potentially dangerous Afghans let loose in U.S.

Afghan evacuees made it to U.S. soil without being checked through all the government's security databases, an inspector general reported Thursday in a devastating investigation that confirms critics' worst fears about the program.

February 18, 2022

New York street gang members busted on fraud charges after rapping about COVID unemployment

Members of the Brooklyn-based "Woo gang" were arrested this week on charges of trying to steal $21 million in pandemic unemployment benefits -- and authorities used their own social media posts to nail them.

February 17, 2022

DHS’ plunging deportation numbers fuel legal challenge

Republican-led states pleaded Wednesday with a federal judge in Ohio to nix the Biden administration's new limits on immigration arrests and deportations, saying what Homeland Security is doing now amounts to an "abdication" of duty under the law.

February 16, 2022

IRS blames pandemic, Congress for failure to process taxpayers’ returns

IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig acknowledged Tuesday the tax agency faces "enormous challenges" in providing service this year, but said taxpayers should direct their anger at Congress for not giving him enough money.

February 15, 2022

State Department nixed interviews for Afghan allies seeking evacuation

More than 450 Afghan allies awaiting final interviews to evacuate to the U.S. had those interviews canceled when Americans withdrew from Afghanistan in August, the State Department revealed.

February 13, 2022

Americans will be cleaning up from the coronavirus for years, experts warn

Americans are eager for a post-omicron lull in the pandemic, but experts warn that the coronavirus isn't finished. New variants aside, the pandemic over the past two years has carved scars across society that the country hasn't begun to face.

February 11, 2022

Audit: IRS lost more than $400 million because of broken mail machines

The IRS cost the government more than $400 million over the last three years because it didn't bother to fix broken mail machines, the agency's inspector general said in a new report Thursday.

February 10, 2022