Stephen Dinan

Democrats’ defiance of ICE grows after New York mayoral candidate arrested

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a mayoral candidate, was arrested by federal agents Tuesday as he tried to protect a migrant from arrest by federal agents, refusing to back away and demanding to see a warrant. Mr. Lander is the latest prominent Democrat to tussle with Homeland Security.

June 17, 2025

NYC mayoral candidate Lander arrested while trying to protect migrant

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a candidate for mayor, was arrested by federal agents Tuesday as he accompanied a migrant from an immigration court hearing and raised objections when officers moved in to arrest the man.

June 17, 2025

Texas identifies 33 potential noncitizen votes in 2024 election

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened investigations into 33 people he says voted in the 2024 election even though they may be noncitizens.

June 17, 2025

Trump upends ‘mass deportation’ order, tells ICE to go easy on ‘heartland’

President Trump has issued new orders to his deportation force, telling ICE he wants them to give the "heartland" a break while concentrating on cities as they move to carry out his demand for mass deportations.

June 16, 2025

Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to restore $400M in grant funding to Columbia University

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday brought by university professors and the American Federation of Teachers trying to get the administration to restore $400 million in federal grant money to Columbia University. The judge said the case was ill-conceived.

June 16, 2025

Trump’s family felt he had to win November’s election to thwart Democrats’ legal wrath, says book

In 2023 and 2024, Donald Trump's family came to the sobering conclusion that Democrats' goal was to fatally poison the MAGA movement -- and to do that, they had to put the former president in jail.

June 16, 2025

National Guard still needed to quell L.A. protests, ICE says

National Guard troops have been riding along on "most" of the immigration arrest operations ICE has attempted in Los Angeles over the last week, a top Homeland Security official said Monday, defending President Trump's call-up of the National Guard.

June 16, 2025

Trump directs ICE to deport illegal immigrants from cities, not ‘heartland’

President Trump ordered the government's deportation force to focus on scouring cities for illegal immigrants to deport but pay less attention to America's "heartland," where he said there's just not the same need to boot people.

June 15, 2025

Country gets first up-close look at the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The "Maryland man" finally got his first day in court, with Kilmar Abrego Garcia appearing in an orange jailhouse jumpsuit before a federal magistrate judge in Tennessee to plead not guilty to a charge of human smuggling.

June 15, 2025

Judge says DHS can keep Mahmoud Khalil, pro-Palestinian protester, in detention

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian student who became the most prominent anti-Israel activist targets for deportation by the Trump administration, thought he was on the verge of being released Friday.

June 13, 2025

Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to migrant smuggling

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was at the heart of a major deportation legal battle, pleaded not guilty Friday to migrant smuggling charges, and the government was making its case to a Tennessee judge Friday for him to remain in detention while awaiting his trial.

June 13, 2025

Four migrants escaped ICE jail in New Jersey

Four migrants escaped from a controversial ICE detention facility in New Jersey this week, Homeland Security admitted Friday.

June 13, 2025

Afghan who entered U.S. under Biden’s ‘parole’ pleads guilty to terror plot

Nasir Tawhedi, an Afghan man who came to the U.S. as part of President Biden's massive airlift in 2021, agreed to plead guilty to charges of assisting a terrorist organization and attempting to obtain weapons ahead of a planned attack on Election Day last year.

June 13, 2025