Stephen Dinan

Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to make immigrants prove they have health insurance

A federal judge issued an order Saturday blocking President Trump's proclamation that would have ordered government screeners to refuse entry to would-be immigrants who can't prove they have their own health insurance.

November 2, 2019

Donald Trump imposes lowest refugee cap ever

President Trump on Friday set a cap for the U.S. to accept just 18,000 refugees this fiscal year, marking the lowest number since the modern refugee system was created nearly 40 years ago.

November 1, 2019

Donald Trump names Chad Wolf as acting DHS chief

President Trump said Friday he has elevated Chad Wolf to be acting secretary at Homeland Security, putting him in charge of perhaps the administration's most critical portfolio.

November 1, 2019

Joe Arpaio loses CNN libel lawsuit

A federal judge on Thursday tossed the libel lawsuit Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona, had filed against CNN, Rolling Stone and the Huffington Post, ruling that even though they made errors, the news organizations didn't do it with malice.

October 31, 2019

2020 Democrats flood Virginia for 2019 election push

High-profile Democrats have been streaming into Virginia for weeks ahead of Tuesday's elections, rallying anti-Trump voters for what they hope will be the coup de grace in their three-decade push to reclaim total control of the state's government.

October 31, 2019

Citizenship question on 2020 Census had no effect on self-response rates, test shows

It turns out that asking about citizenship may not have soured the 2020 census after all, according to a test the Census Bureau did to see what the effect of the controversial question would be.

October 31, 2019

Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment inquiry more partisan than Clinton effort

Democrats' first official step toward impeachment got off on a deeply partisan foot Thursday, leaving House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her team already lagging behind the 1998 move to impeach President Bill Clinton.

October 31, 2019

Ken Cuccinelli blasts Congress failure to pass immigration law

The Trump administration made a rare admission of a mistake Wednesday as immigration chief Ken Cuccinelli said he bungled an August policy rollout that told some illegal immigrants caring for sick children that they had a month to leave the county or else face deportation.

October 30, 2019

Debbie Wasserman Schultz calls immigration chief Ken Cuccinelli a white supremacist

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, accused the chief of the government's legal immigration agency Wednesday of pursuing a "white supremacist ideology," sparking a brief row in a congressional committee.

October 30, 2019

Lawmakers’ support grows to forgive immigrant veterans for violent crimes rather than deport

Just about everyone agrees that the U.S. owes an immense debt of gratitude to its veterans. An increasing number of members of Congress says that debt should include forgiveness even for violent crimes such as domestic violence, and public safety risks like drunken-driving, when the alternative is deportation.

October 29, 2019

Illegal immigration at crisis level despite Donald Trump’s best efforts

The Trump administration has taken big steps to solve the border surge of illegal immigrants from Central America, but smuggling cartels are responding by recruiting new migrants from Brazil and Mexico, officials said Tuesday.

October 29, 2019

Border evasions top 150,000 in 2019

More than 150,000 illegal immigrants evaded capture at the border over the past year, Homeland Security officials said Tuesday, detailing the record surge and what agents and officers did to stop it.

October 29, 2019

DHS’ ‘Remain in Mexico’ plan causes tens of thousands to abandon asylum

The Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy has done exactly what officials had hoped -- convince illegal immigrants with bogus asylum claims to give up and return home, officials said this week, declaring the controversial policy a success.

October 29, 2019

Obama State Dept. used $600K in taxpayer cash for ‘ghost’ Facebook followers

Ghosts can bleed into the online world, as the Obama State Department found out earlier this decade when it paid $630,000 to boost its Facebook presence -- only to find out that most of those new followers were ephemeral.

October 29, 2019

Feds spent $250,000 on ridiculous mascots

The federal government loves its costumes -- and not just at Halloween.

October 29, 2019

Andrew R. Arthur, Center for Immigration Studies fellow, alarmed by provision in defense policy bill

A provision in House Democrats' defense policy bill would require the Pentagon to reveal locations of every troop deployment on the U.S.-Mexico border, including where they are housed, raising fears among activists that the language is intended to be a road map for antifa attacks on American soldiers.

October 28, 2019

Illegal immigrants exploit border wall construction to gain entry

President Trump's border wall may eventually stop illegal immigrants, but right now it has created a new way for them to sneak into the U.S. thanks to the flurry of construction in Southern California.

October 28, 2019

DHS strikes deal with El Salvador to protect 200,000 migrants in U.S.

The U.S. reached a deal with El Salvador on Monday granting more than 200,000 Salvadorans an additional year's grace period before they would become illegal immigrants, in exchange for El Salvador's cooperation in stemming this year's border surge.

October 28, 2019

ACLU argues migrant families must be reunited despite criminal records

The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court last week to order the government to allow migrant children to be released directly parents with felony or violent misdemeanor records, saying it's more important families are quickly put back together.

October 27, 2019

Virginia GOP deploys Justin Fairfax rape allegations in 2019 election

The rape allegations made earlier this year against Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax are now an issue in the state's legislative elections, with Republicans running a hard-hitting ad against Democrats who refused to listen to the accusations.

October 26, 2019