Stephen Dinan

DHS drawdown begins in Minnesota; 700 officers to leave immediately

White House border czar Tom Homan declared a victory of sorts in Minneapolis, saying the feds are now getting "unprecedented cooperation" from local communities and the Department of Homeland Security will remove 700 officers from the state.

February 4, 2026

‘The system sucks’: Government lawyer says feds not prepared to handle immigration enforcement surge

A government lawyer begged a federal judge to hold her in contempt of court so she could spend 24 hours behind bars and finally get some sleep, rather than deal with the tsunami of legal work President Trump's immigration enforcement surge has spawned.

February 3, 2026

Motor mayhem: ICE says it has documented 3,300% increase in vehicle attacks

Aliens and U.S. citizens alike are increasingly turning to cars and trucks as weapons of choice in their attempts to stop ICE from carrying out arrests, according to new government data that shows a 3,300% increase in vehicular attacks.

February 3, 2026

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ visa for wealthy foreigners

President Trump's opponents went to court Tuesday to try to shut down his "Gold Card" visa, saying his attempt to sell a pathway to U.S. citizenship to wealthy investors violates the laws Congress has written laying out who gets into the country.

February 3, 2026

ICE sets new record pace for deportations

ICE has hit a new record pace for deportations, averaging more than 1,450 deportations a day in the middle of January, according to the agency's latest data.

February 3, 2026

‘Hostility to nonwhite immigrants’: Judge slams DHS Secretary Noem

A federal judge delivered a withering rebuke to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday, accusing her of harboring a "hostility to nonwhite immigrants," and blocking her decision to end a deportation amnesty for hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants.

February 2, 2026

DHS to make all immigration agents in Minnesota wear body cams

All immigration personnel operating in the Minneapolis enforcement surge will be outfitted with body cameras, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday.

February 2, 2026

Thousands of Epstein docs pulled down after victims complained

Millions of pages of new Epstein files went up -- and several thousand have already come down, after victims complained the files contained information that could reveal their identities.

February 2, 2026

Judge orders ICE to let members of Congress make snap inspections

A federal judge ordered ICE to restore immediate access for members of Congress seeking to make inspections of detention facilities, saying the agency seems to be playing games with its funding to try to block the lawmakers.

February 2, 2026

Trump’s deportation surge loses big in Texas court, but prevails in Minnesota

The Justice Department plans to appeal a federal judge's scathing ruling that freed 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father and suggested the Trump administration was acting immorally and violating the founding principles of the Declaration of Independence.

February 1, 2026

‘Jesus wept’: Federal judge slaps DHS, orders release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos

A federal judge on Saturday ordered the government to release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Ramos, from ICE custody, saying their detention offended the principles of America enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.

January 31, 2026

Judge won’t order ICE to leave Minnesota

A federal judge ruled against Minnesota's emergency request to end the surge of federal immigration enforcement officers into the state, saying the national government has the right to enforce the law.

January 31, 2026

Official admits fraud at government’s African aid agency; Trump tried to cut operation

The chief financial officer at the African Development Foundation has confirmed the Trump administration's claims of fraud by agreeing to plead guilty to directing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to a friend who performed little actual work.

January 30, 2026

ICE arrests 650 in West Virginia in January; state hails ‘professionalism’ of agents

ICE quietly surged personnel into West Virginia in January and arrested 650 illegal immigrants, all without the violent pushback and chaos that erupted in places such as Minnesota.

January 30, 2026

Immigration groups sue to stop new ICE arrest policy

Several immigrant-rights groups sued Friday to try to shut down a new ICE policy that lets officers enter homes to make arrests of deportation targets based on administrative warrants that don't have a regular federal judge's signature.

January 30, 2026

Trump sues IRS for $10 billion over past leak of tax information

President Trump sued the IRS on Thursday, saying his own tax agency should pay him $10 billion for having allowed his private tax information to be leaked during his first term in office.

January 30, 2026

Murderers, kidnappers, rapists caught by ICE, but so are refugees

Victor Navarro Govea, a Mexican, crossed into the U.S. illegally in 2009. Last year, he was deemed to be a bona fide candidate for a special victim's visa. He was granted a four-year deportation amnesty by the Department of Homeland Security, which should have lasted through 2029. He was caught by surprise when ICE officers arrested him in Minnesota this month.

January 29, 2026