Stephen Dinan

Alejandro Mayorkas rejects terror threat at border

The threat of terrorists sneaking across the border hasn't risen despite the overall surge of illegal immigrants and a growing number of them who've evaded capture, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress on Wednesday.

May 12, 2021

Texas Border Patrol agents spend less than 50% of time patrolling border amid migrant surge

Border Patrol agents in some of the hardest-hit areas of the migrant surge are being pulled off the front lines and have to spend a majority of their time processing and taking care of illegal immigrants, according to law enforcement officials who ticked off the grim statistics of the situation for The Washington Times.

May 12, 2021

Troy Miller, CBP acting head, says Border crisis changing as numbers set 20-year high

Border authorities nabbed nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants trying to sneak into the country from Mexico in April, but the nature of the crisis is changing from children to adults, officials revealed late Tuesday.

May 11, 2021

Karl Ifemembi wife suspected of helping illegal get DHS immigration enforcement job

The case of a Homeland Security immigration officer accused of lying about his own immigration history is getting even more sordid with the revelation in court documents that his wife also works for the department -- as part of an anti-fraud unit.

May 9, 2021

Brian Kolfage, ‘We Build The Wall’ co-founder, indicted on tax charges

The co-founder of the "We Build The Wall" project aimed at raising money for a border wall is facing federal tax charges in Florida.

May 6, 2021

George W. Bush: White evangelical churches ‘have become political instruments’

Former President George W. Bush said Thursday that White evangelical churches have become too political, as he called for lowering the volume of the immigration debate and focusing on the humanity of migrants themselves.

May 6, 2021

Illinois, Nevada, Virginia ask federal appeals court to count them in ERA ratification

Depending on your perspective, the ERA has become the Energizer Bunny — or the zombie — of constitutional governance. It's the amendment that just won't die.

May 5, 2021

Americans fear border surge is spreading COVID-19

Americans, by a two-to-one margin, fear the surge of illegal immigrants breaching the country's southern border is helping spread the coronavirus, according to a new poll taken for the National Sheriffs' Association.

May 5, 2021

Democratic socialists the biggest obstacles to bipartisanship on Capitol Hill

When it comes to bipartisanship, the democratic socialists in Congress don't seem to want very much of it.

May 3, 2021

Joe Biden raises refugees cap to 62,500 for 2021

President Biden bowed to intense pressure from his political left flank Monday and raised the cap on refugees the U.S. can accept this year to 62,500, more than quadrupling the number his predecessor had set.

May 3, 2021

Capsized boat off San Diego coast leaves at least 3 dead

Three people died after a boat trying to smuggle illegal immigrants into the U.S. capsized off the coast of San Diego Sunday.

May 2, 2021

Lee Zeldin lays out case for bid for New York governor

New Yorkers, fed up with soaring state spending and rising crime, are nearing their "breaking points," Rep. Lee Zeldin said, laying out his case for voters to elect a Republican to the governor's mansion for the first time in two decades.

May 2, 2021

Alejandro Mayorkas hails pace of handling border surge of children

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said his department has cut the number of children in Border Patrol custody by nearly 90%, taking a 100-day victory lap even as immigrant rights activists took to the streets around the White House to complain that the Biden administration hasn't done enough to erase the Trump legacy.

May 2, 2021