Stephen Dinan

LULAC volunteer arrested for voter fraud; woman voted twice in Texas primary

Texas authorities have charged a former volunteer for LULAC, a major Hispanic civil and voting rights organization, with voter fraud after she cast two ballots in the state's March 3 primaries.

June 19, 2020

‘Dreamers’ symbol of broken immigration system

The hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant "Dreamers" protected by Thursday's Supreme Court ruling are living the full range of the American experience.

June 18, 2020

Supreme Court leaves DACA in place; justices say Trump cut corners to end program

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cut too many corners when it moved to revoke the Obama-era DACA program, leaving in place protections for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant "Dreamers."

June 18, 2020

Prince William Country ends 287(g) program involvement

Prince William County's Jail Board failed Wednesday to renew its cooperation agreement with ICE, meaning its involvement in the 287(g) program that allows deputies at the jail to begin the deportation process will expire at the end of this month.

June 17, 2020

Michael Avenatti, ex-Trump foil and 2020 hopeful, now stars in three-ring legal circus

As Michael Avenatti saw it, he would be battling President Trump for the White House this summer.

June 17, 2020

Ted Cruz warns Google over attack on conservative media

Sen. Ted Cruz, chairman of a Senate subcommittee with oversight of constitutional rights, is sending a letter Wednesday warning Google that it may face repercussions if it follows through with punishing a conservative website over its content.

June 17, 2020

Center for Immigration Studies finds native-born workers outpace immigrants in returning to work

As the coronavirus-stricken economy picks up, native-born workers are outstripping immigrants in returning to the workplace, according to a new study being released Wednesday that suggests the country's appetite for foreign labor is low.

June 17, 2020

Feds take on Nigerian internet fraud, freeze assets of six scammers

The Treasury Department said Tuesday it has frozen the assets of six Nigerians responsible for massive internet scams, including defrauding businesses and running romance schemes that prey on the most vulnerable Americans, bilking them of their savings.

June 16, 2020

Donald Trump black outreach threatened by coronavirus, George Floyd protests

When President Trump ascended the dais in the House of Representatives in February to address Congress, one might be forgiven for thinking he was delivering the Black State of the Union address.

June 15, 2020

Supreme Court declines to hear Trump challenge to California sanctuary law

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the administration's challenge to California's main sanctuary city law protecting immigrants who are in the country illegally, dealing a significant blow to President Trump's hopes of forcing jurisdictions to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

June 15, 2020

Nancy Pelosi targets Robert E. Lee statue, monuments to ‘violent bigotry’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's call to oust from the Capitol collection Robert E. Lee and 10 other statues she says are tainted by the Confederacy is the latest in a long line of attempts to blackball the South's most storied general.

June 14, 2020

Libertarian nominee says Trump, Biden both tainted on race

Libertarian presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen said Friday that President Trump and likely Democratic opponent Joseph R. Biden are both too tainted to lead the country through this moment in racial tension, and urged voters to look beyond those men to her own candidacy.

June 12, 2020

Illegal immigration rose nearly 40% amid coronavirus reopenings

America's reopening after the coronavirus crisis brought a surge of human and drug smuggling to the southern border in May along with a worrying rise in the most abusive smuggling tactics.

June 12, 2020

Xin Wang, Chinese army officer scouting U.S. research facility, nabbed for visa fraud

A Chinese army officer was arrested this week as he prepared to board an airport bound for home with American research, and he admitted he had been asked to study an American lab in order to bring back information on how to replicate it in China, federal authorities said.

June 11, 2020

Watchdog dings DHS over spending on dirt bikes, cameras instead of illegal immigrants

The Government Accountability Office dinged Homeland Security's border agency Thursday for misspending some of the money Congress approved last year to handle thew surge of illegal immigrant families, saying spending should have gone for medical care or food, not dirt bikes or security cameras.

June 11, 2020

Trump administration proposes major asylum overhaul

The Trump administration proposed a major rewrite of the asylum system Wednesday curtailing the types of dangers that can qualify for protections and effectively barring those who fear domestic abuse or gang violence from getting asylum.

June 10, 2020

Federal judge declares ICE courthouse arrests illegal

ICE's policy empowering officers to arrest illegal immigrants at courthouses is illegal, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday, delivering a major symbolic blow to the deportation agency.

June 10, 2020

Black Americans’ anxiety, depression symptoms rise after George Floyd’s death

Two out of every five black Americans experienced symptoms of depression or anxiety in the wake of George Floyd's death, according to new census data released Wednesday.

June 10, 2020

ICE offers coronavirus testing to detainees at two facilities

ICE announced Wednesday that it has offered coronavirus testing all detainees at two of its holding facilities, as the agency moves to head off more court-ordered releases and improve its knowledge of COVID-19 within the detained migrant population.

June 10, 2020

Dianne Feinstein: Coronavirus unemployment program ‘riddled with fraud’

Financial institutions have already detected $500 million in bogus coronavirus unemployment benefit claims from overseas fraudsters, officials revealed to Congress on Tuesday, saying the scammers use databases of stolen personal identifying information and file jobless claims in the names of unsuspecting Americans.

June 9, 2020