Stephen Dinan

Walz complains Trump only built 2% of border wall

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that former President Donald Trump only built 2% of the border wall he promised.

October 1, 2024

CBS cuts Vance’s microphone as he tries to explain illegal immigration

CBS censored Sen. J.D. Vance, cutting his microphone during the vice presidential candidates debate Tuesday, as he tried to correct the network's anchors on the immigration process.

October 1, 2024

U.S. welcomed 100,000 refugees over last year, the most in 30 years

The U.S. took in 100,000 refugees over the last year, the highest figure in three decades, as President Biden worked to rebuild a system largely dismantled by his predecessor.

October 1, 2024

Biden expands border shutdown policy that makes immigrant expulsion easier

President Biden finalized his new get-tough border policy Monday, making it easier to trigger the government's expulsion powers for illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

September 30, 2024

Babylon Bee sues California over new laws cracking down on satire

The Babylon Bee, a website that skewers liberals, filed a lawsuit Monday challenging California's new anti-satire laws, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to take the fun out of politics.

September 30, 2024

‘Totally unrealistic’: Trump, Harris bust budget with their tax and spending plans

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are in a bidding war to bust the budget.

September 30, 2024

Harris, with pledge of border policy makeover, rewrites history, turns back on left-wing allies

Vice President Kamala Harris hopes 20 minutes at the border wall can offset nearly four years of border chaos.

September 29, 2024

DOJ sues Alabama to block state’s attempt to remove noncitizens from voting rolls

The Justice Department announced a lawsuit Friday against Alabama, arguing the state's effort to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls came too close to the November election.

September 27, 2024

15,000 killers, 20,000 sexual assault convicts, 60,000 robbers among illegal immigrants at large

The Department of Homeland Security knows of at least 660,000 illegal immigrants at large in the U.S. with criminal records, including 13,000 convicted killers, nearly 16,000 convicted of sexual assault and 56,000 involved with dangerous drugs.

September 27, 2024

Mothers blast Harris’ border visit: ‘A photo-op won’t bring our kids back’

Parents who lost children to crimes blamed on lax border security unloaded on Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday, blaming her for the criminal mayhem.

September 27, 2024

Fairfax County defied DHS in releasing illegal immigrant with multiple gun, DUI, hit-and-run charges

Fairfax County repeatedly refused deportation "detainer" requests from Homeland Security and released a Venezuelan migrant back into the community despite arrests for driving under the influence, hit-and-run, firearms crimes and malicious wounding, Homeland Security said Thursday.

September 26, 2024

Video shows noncitizens registered to vote in Arizona

The Heritage Foundation says it has video evidence of people who aren't U.S. citizens living in Arizona and hoping to vote in this year's presidential election.

September 26, 2024

Biden administration on track for $1 trillion in improper payments

The federal government blows nearly half a million dollars every minute of every day on erroneous payments, according to a new report that hopes to shock Washington to clean up its act.

September 26, 2024

Sen. Lindsey Graham announces bill to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants

Citing the surge in illegal immigrants who've come into the U.S. over the last few years, Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday announced new legislation to prevent children born to them from becoming automatic citizens.

September 25, 2024

Michael Hart pleads guilty in first-ever greenhouse gas smuggling case: ‘Clean air not for sale’

A California man pleaded guilty this week to smuggling greenhouse gases into the U.S. in a first-of-its-kind prosecution under federal law.

September 25, 2024

U.S. taxpayers funded Chinese labs that carried out grisly experiments on beagle puppies

The federal government has been paying Chinese labs that carry out animal testing including experiments that involved severing beagle puppies' spines to study how they would react to such a horrific injury.

September 25, 2024

‘There’s IDs everywhere’: How illegal immigrants erase their identities at the border

Passports, identity cards and other documents are strewn on the ground at the U.S.-Mexico border, cast aside by illegal immigrants who are erasing their old lives as they slip across the boundary.

September 24, 2024

Blinken ducks subpoena on Afghanistan bungles, House begins contempt proceedings

Secretary of State Antony Blinken defied a subpoena Tuesday demanding he appear before Congress to talk about the failures of the 2021 Afghanistan troop withdrawal. Republicans said they will move to hold him in contempt.

September 24, 2024

FBI agent Nicholas Williams admits stealing silver during raid on Jan. 6 defendant Alexander Fan

An FBI agent has pleaded guilty to stealing from targets during raids and arrests, including from a man who was part of the mob that invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

September 24, 2024

Child smuggler admits to using gummies to knock out kids at border

Federal prosecutors announced a guilty plea Monday for a woman who smuggled illegal immigrant children into the U.S. without their parents, and in at least one case used melatonin "gummies" to knock the kid out to sneak her in.

September 23, 2024