Stephen Dinan

Feds tell courts not to get involved in family separation issue

The Trump administration begged the courts Tuesday not to wade into the border family separation crisis, saying the government should be given time to work out what it's going to do about more than 2,000 children who were taken from their parents after the zero-tolerance policy.

June 26, 2018

Trump says travel ban ruling is ‘tremendous victory’

Vindicated by the Supreme Court's Tuesday ruling upholding his travel ban policy, President Trump called it a "tremendous victory" and a rebuke to the "hysterical commentary" from anti-Trump critics who'd accused him of religious hatred and racism.

June 26, 2018

Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban

President Trump's travel ban policy is both legal and constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, delivering a massive victory to the White House and dashing hopes of Democrats and activists who hoped the justices would join the resistance.

June 26, 2018

White House says DHS ‘out of resources’ to prosecute families

The administration poked holes in its own zero-tolerance immigration policy Monday after the man who oversees the Border Patrol said they are no longer prosecuting illegal immigrant parents and the White House said they are out of resources to hold them anyway.

June 25, 2018

Feds deliver ultimatum to ‘Occupy ICE’ protesters: Leave or face arrest

The federal government threatened Monday to jail protesters who have blockaded the ICE building in Portland, Oregon, saying that while they have a right to protest they cannot entirely shut down a federal agency's operations.

June 25, 2018

Mark Pocan, Dem congressman, to write bill abolishing ICE

A Democratic congressman returned Monday from a border visit to say he's writing a bill that would abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying it's become a tool for "white nationalists."

June 25, 2018

Supreme Court orders Washington to reconsider same-sex marriage First Amendment case

The Supreme Court on Monday vacated a Washington state ruling that found a florist violated the rights of a same-sex couple she refused to sell flowers for their wedding ceremony and ordered a do-over.

June 25, 2018

Sandra Sanchez, mother of iconic child, bogus for asylum

The mother and child in that now-iconic photo of family separation not only weren't separated, but their claims of asylum are also likely bogus, experts tell The Washington Times.

June 24, 2018

More than 500 children reunited with families after Trump ends family separation

More than 500 children held in Border Patrol custody have now been reunited with their parents and the rest who were separated under the zero-tolerance border policy will be connected within a day, the government said late Saturday.

June 23, 2018

DHS blames DACA for feeding surge of illegal-immigrant families

The Trump administration for the first time connected the Obama-era DACA program to the surge of children and families on the border, in new court documents filed Friday laying out in more expansive detail why the courts should invalidate DACA.

June 23, 2018

Stories of family separation

One illegal immigrant mother from Guatemala says that during the phone calls she's had with her son, he cries for most of the time.

June 22, 2018

CNN, MSNBC cut away from Trump event with ‘Angel Families’

Two major cable TV news channels cut away from President Trump's event Friday with families of people killed by illegal immigrants, switching to coverage of illegal immigrant families complaining about treatment at the border.

June 22, 2018

Maryland court tosses attempt to punish Hillary Clinton lawyers over email scandal

Maryland's top court this week rejected an attempt to punish Hillary Clinton's lawyers for their role in deleting her emails, overturning a lower court that had approved a misconduct investigation.

June 22, 2018

House Republicans cancel immigration votes

Staring at a certain defeat, House Republicans canceled votes on their immigration compromise Thursday -- an embarrassing setback for leaders who'd thought they'd finally been able to wrangle some unanimity on an issue that's bedeviled them for years.

June 21, 2018