Stephen Dinan

DHS shuts down border crossing to deal with growing migrant camp

Homeland Security announced late Friday that it was shutting down the border crossing in Del Rio, Texas, to deal with a massive migrant camp that's sprung up underneath the international bridge.

September 17, 2021

Exclusive: USCIS director warns of ‘unprecedented’ backlog as Dems seek to add millions more cases

The head of Homeland Security's legal immigration agency warned employees they're facing an "unprecedented" backlog of cases, just as Congress is aiming to add millions of new amnesty applications to their workload.

September 17, 2021

FAA bans drone flights over Texas bridge sheltering mass of migrants

The Federal Aviation Administration has placed a temporary flight restriction over the Texas bridge sheltering a swelling mass of migrants along the southern border.

September 17, 2021

Number of migrants encamped under Texas bridge swells to more than 9,000

The mass of migrants camped out underneath a bridge in Texas swelled to more than 9,000 Thursday as the Biden administration struggled to control a new hotspot testing its ability to manage the border.

September 16, 2021

DHS must stop using pandemic to expel border migrants, judge rules

A federal judge issued an injunction Thursday blocking the government's use of pandemic powers to immediately expel illegal immigrants who jump the border, dealing a severe blow to President Biden's hopes of stemming the border surge.

September 16, 2021

Border-surge spending is sapping money from COVID-19 fight, GOP investigators say

The Biden administration's move to siphon money away from health programs to finance housing for the record number of migrant juveniles is putting a dent in the effort against COVID-19, the top Republican investigator in the House charged Thursday.

September 16, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Second major felon found on Afghan evacuation flight

Another Afghan who had been deported from the U.S. after an aggravated felony conviction was found on an evacuation flight back to the U.S. this month, The Washington Times has learned.

September 16, 2021

Border apprehensions dropped in August; still on pace to challenge worst year on record

The Border Patrol saw a small drop in illegal immigrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border in August but still marked one of the worst months on record as the ongoing migrant surge tests the Biden administration.

September 15, 2021

Border migrants refuse to wear masks or social distance, inspector general says

Illegal immigrants refuse to social distance or wear masks and can't be kept in quarantine even if they do contract the coronavirus, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general said in a report Wednesday that undercuts many of the Biden administration's claims.

September 15, 2021

Shocking photos show 4,500 migrants camped under bridge in Texas community

An impromptu migrant camp under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, has swollen to more than 4,500 people, according to Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez, who said it's become an untenable situation for all involved.

September 15, 2021

Maryland seafood company owner hired 89 illegal immigrants, cheated on guest-worker program

The owner of seafood and ice-processing companies on Maryland's Eastern Shore pleaded guilty this week to employing at least 89 illegal immigrant workers and also abusing the system for guest-workers, undercutting Americans' wages.

September 15, 2021

Slowing surge of illegal immigrant children doesn’t diminish flood of heartbreaking stories

The Biden administration appears to have finally stemmed the surge of migrant children who'd been pouring across the border illegally since the start of the year.

September 14, 2021

Blinken says ‘most’ Afghan evacuees weren’t vetted before airlift

The majority of Afghans airlifted out of Kabul in last month's emergency evacuation weren't vetted before getting on the planes, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told senators on Tuesday.

September 14, 2021

Texas county challenges DHS with ban on transporting migrants who lack negative COVID-19 test

A Texas county declared a state of disaster Monday over illegal immigrants and COVID-19 exposure and adopted a policy barring them from being transported into or through the jurisdiction until they've gotten a new test showing they're free of the coronavirus.

September 14, 2021

Taxpayers to foot bill for amnesty under House proposal

House Democrats unveiled their plan to legalize millions of illegal immigrants -- and to make taxpayers pay billions of dollars to process their applications.

September 11, 2021

Mayorkas: ISIS hasn’t reached U.S. among Afghan evacuees

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas flatly rejected Thursday any possibility that Islamic State terrorists have reached the U.S. as part of the evacuation from Afghanistan.

September 9, 2021

States with higher percentages of Black taxpayers see more IRS audits

The IRS conducts a disproportionate share of its audits of the Earned Income Tax Credit in southern states with large minority populations, the agency's inspector general said in a new report Thursday that confirms long-standing fears.

September 9, 2021

A warm welcome for refugees in wake of Afghan fiasco

America has seen countless waves of migrants, but rarely has the country been as eager to receive them as it has been the tens of thousands of Afghans who are being airlifted into the country right now.

September 8, 2021

ICE counts 463 sanctuary jails, prisons in U.S.

ICE says there are 463 different jails that won't cooperate with the federal government's deportation detainer requests, and is blaming those jurisdictions for the agency's inability to comply with a court order demanding transparency in whom the Biden administration is targeting for removal.

September 7, 2021

Social Security predicts pandemic birth blip, not birth dearth

The COVID-19 pandemic has slashed fertility rates to their lowest point in U.S. history, but the experts at the Social Security Administration, who are deeply invested in the issue, say the decline is just a blip and women are merely deferring children to later years.

September 6, 2021