Stephen Dinan

Judge Tanya Chutkan rules that immigrants in U.S. custody have constitutional right to abortion

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to grant pregnant illegal immigrant girls in U.S. custody unfettered access to abortions, ruling they have a constitutional right to the procedure.

April 1, 2018

Judge grants nationwide right to abortion to illegal immigrant minors

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to grant pregnant illegal immigrant girls in U.S. custody unfettered access to abortions, ruling they have a constitutional right to the procedure.

March 30, 2018

Conn’s henchman pleads guilty to role in Social Security fraudster’s stunning escape

A man who helped the orchestrator of the largest Social Security fraud in U.S. history cut off his ankle bracelet and flee the country pleaded guilty Friday to his role in the escape, admitting he'd spent months working to set it up.

March 30, 2018

Trump wall would stretch 1,000 miles on border

The Trump administration's plans for a border wall will put about 1,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border behind some barrier -- up from 654 miles right now, the Border Patrol said Friday.

March 30, 2018

24 million could skip census because of citizenship question: Report

The man who ran the 2000 census for the Clinton administration predicted Friday that more than 24 million people may refuse to take part in the 2020 count now that the survey is going to ask about citizenship status.

March 30, 2018

DHS expands detention of pregnant illegals

Homeland Security announced a new policy Thursday that allows it to detain more pregnant illegal immigrants, reversing an Obama-era policy that had generally pushed for pregnant women to be released.

March 29, 2018

Jeff Sessions rejects call for second special counsel

Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected requests to name a second special counsel to probe allegations of misconduct at the FBI, saying Thursday that other investigations should be able to cover the ground already.

March 29, 2018

Extreme vetting: State Dept. to demand tourists’ social media history

The State Department will publish new rules this week to require most visitors and immigrants to the U.S. to divulge their recent social media histories, carrying out one of the key security enhancements from President Trump's extreme vetting executive order.

March 29, 2018

California sanctuary law exception: Police can share information with Homeland Security

California officials issued new guidance Wednesday making clear state and local police can -- and should -- share information about illegal immigrants with the federal Homeland Security Department, in what amounts to a major exception to the state's new sanctuary laws.

March 28, 2018

IG will probe FBI abuses of FISA, after Trump surveillance

The Justice Department's inspector general confirmed Wednesday that it is looking into how the department and the FBI handled requests to conduct secret surveillance, in what appears to be a review of how the Obama administration used the anti-Trump Steele dossier.

March 28, 2018

Donald Trump campaigns on census citizenship question

The Trump re-election campaign took a victory lap Wednesday over the administration's decision to ask about citizenship in the main 2020 census, saying President Trump personally deserves credit for the move.

March 28, 2018

Feds charge immigration lawyer with filing 180 bogus asylum claims

The federal government announced charges Wednesday against an immigration lawyer prosecutors say filed more than 180 bogus asylum applications, lying about her clients' criminal pasts and making up other details in order to try to pave the way for them to get legal status.

March 28, 2018

Judge dismisses class-action challenge to travel ban

A federal judge in Washington who had been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration reversed course Tuesday and ruled she could not force the State Department to grant visa lottery approvals to would-be immigrants from Iran and Yemen.

March 28, 2018

Trump administration slammed for citizenship question on 2020 census

Immigrant rights groups accused the Trump administration of a racist plot against American democracy Tuesday after the Commerce Department said it would ask Americans to disclose their citizenship status on the 2020 census.

March 27, 2018

Orange County, California, leaders vote to join Trump sanctuary lawsuit

Resistance to California's new sanctuary city laws grew this week as Orange County voted to join a federal lawsuit trying to block the laws, and the county's sheriff said he will post information on every inmate's release so the Homeland Security Department can see if there is anyone it wants to deport.

March 27, 2018