Stephen Dinan

Appeals court sides with ICE, blocking New Jersey’s sanctuary law banning migrant detention

States cannot actively try to thwart federal immigration enforcement, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, blocking a New Jersey law that sought to ban ICE from contracting with facilities to detain migrants within its boundaries.

July 22, 2025

Judge forces Miami to hold regularly scheduled election

A Florida judge has ordered the City of Miami to hold its regular elections later this year, as called for under the city charter, overruling commissioners who had attempted to delay the vote and to extend some of their own terms -- as well as the mayor -- for an extra year.

July 22, 2025

Federal judges, Trump administration accuse the other of overreach on short-term deportation amnesty

Federal judges in Maryland complained Monday that the Trump administration's lawsuit against their short-term deportation amnesty policy violates the Constitution and insisted they must have wide-ranging powers to stop a president from acting.

July 21, 2025

Judge orders Trump to restore taxpayer-funded legal advocates for incompetent migrants

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Monday to restore a program that provides legal assistance to migrants facing deportation hearings who are deemed too mentally incompetent to face the proceedings on their own.

July 21, 2025

Judge orders White House to restore transparency website on budget

A federal judge ruled Monday that the White House budget office broke the law by taking down a website that gave Congress and the public detailed data on how the administration is spending taxpayers' money.

July 21, 2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s own lawyers oppose his pretrial release

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of the fierce deportation battle, renewed their call Monday that their client remain in pretrial detention, saying they fear he'll be quickly deported if he is released in the criminal case against him.

July 21, 2025

ICE to ‘flood’ New York with agents after border officer shot by illegal immigrant

The Trump administration vowed Monday to "flood" New York City with ICE agents to round up illegal immigrant criminals after an off-duty border officer was shot in the face during what authorities say was a botched robbery attempt by two illegal immigrants.

July 21, 2025

Trump is losing 75% of federal cases challenging his executive actions

President Trump has tamed Congress and largely defanged the federal bureaucracy as he pursues his vigorous second-term agenda, but federal district judges have rushed to the battlements to take him on.

July 20, 2025

Homan says ‘no amnesty’ for illegal immigrants in Trump plans

White House border czar Tom Homan flatly ruled out any "amnesty" for illegal immigrants as part of President Trump's plans -- and said he won't accept an amnesty bill from Congress, either.

July 18, 2025

Democrats seethe as committee advances Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove to appeals court seat

Republicans powered the nomination of Emil Bove to be a federal appeals-court judge through the committee on Thursday, brushing aside Democrats' vehement complaints that President Trump's former defense lawyer is unfit for the post.

July 17, 2025

Three police chiefs charged with selling fake crime reports to help ‘hundreds’ of illegal immigrants

Federal authorities arrested three Louisiana police chiefs accused of taking part in a scam to help hundreds of illegal immigrants gain legal status by selling them bogus documents that falsely claimed they were victims of armed robberies.

July 16, 2025

Pentagon withdraws 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles immigration mission

The Trump administration will recall 2,000 National Guard soldiers deployed last month to Los Angeles, saying the city is calm enough that the president can start withdrawing the federalized troops.

July 15, 2025

Trump sues public broadcasting board members who refuse to be fired

President Trump's Justice Department announced a lawsuit Tuesday against three members of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, accusing them of defying Mr. Trump's attempt to fire them.

July 15, 2025

Homeland Security declares ‘most secure border in history’

Homeland Security on Tuesday said the border under President Trump is now the "most secure" it's been in history, celebrating the latest monthly data showing unfathomably low border activity in June.

July 15, 2025

Trump fights borderline asylum; Supreme Court asked to define migrant ‘arrival’

Close counts only in horseshoes and hand grenades -- and now the U.S. border, where the Trump administration is battling to unravel a court decision that could rewrite the definition of a national boundary.

July 15, 2025

Texas identifies 100 potential noncitizens who may have cast illegal ballots in 2020 and 2022

Texas is investigating more than 100 people who may have illegally voted as noncitizens in the 2020 and 2022 elections, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday.

July 15, 2025

Supreme Court allows Trump to slash Education Department

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to move ahead with mass firings and deep cuts at the Education Department, setting aside a lower court's ruling that put the administration's plans on hold.

July 14, 2025

Bondi starts English-only overhaul of government; agencies told to ax multilingual help

Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the federal bureaucracy to start eliminating websites, notices and forms offered in languages other than English, saying it's time to carry out President Trump's executive order declaring English the government's official language.

July 14, 2025

Homeland Security says Democratic congressman ‘doxed’ ICE employee during violent anti-ICE mob

Homeland Security said a Democratic congressman took part in "a violent mob" that tried to stop ICE agents from executing a criminal search warrant at a marijuana farm in California.

July 14, 2025

Judge rules Trump’s mass deportation arrests in Los Angeles were illegal

A federal judge ruled Friday that Homeland Security's massive operation to arrest and detain illegal immigrants in Los Angeles used illegal "roving patrols" based on racial profiling, and then wrongly denied the arrested migrants access to lawyers.

July 12, 2025