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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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Migrants depart from Tapachula, Mexico, Dec. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente) **FILE**

Border security negotiators can’t hide from constituents on social media

When senators tried to power through an amnesty for illegal immigrants in 2007, the bill was met with an avalanche of phone calls and faxes from angry voters who helped doom the measure to defeat. Fast-forward to today. The one place they can't escape constituents is on social media, and that's where a new immigration pressure group plans to hound them. Published January 20, 2024

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Border Patrol South Station in Eagle Pass, Texas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

GOP has enough support to bring Mayorkas impeachment to House floor

All Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee announced their support Thursday for impeaching Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, signaling that the case has enough votes to clear the panel and head to the full chamber for a vote. Published January 18, 2024

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on President Biden's supplemental funding request, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Border victims’ families berate Mayorkas for not testifying over impeachment

A mother whose daughter died at the hands of an illegal immigrant and another whose daughter died of a fentanyl overdose laid blame at the feet of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, telling Congress on Thursday that his policies opened the border and unleashed death. Published January 18, 2024

People stand on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Feb.11, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court is taking up challenges by commercial fishermen to a fee requirement that could achieve a long-sought goal of business and conservative interests, limiting a wide range of government regulations. Billions of dollars are potentially at stake. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Supreme Court appears ready to curb power of executive agencies

The Supreme Court took aim Wednesday at the expansive power of federal agencies to regulate Americans' lives, with justices expressing skepticism over a 40-year-old precedent that has urged courts to show special "deference" to how administrations interpret the law. Published January 17, 2024

Luiz Velazquez, second from right, from Zacatecas, Mexico points to his family as he talks with a member of the U.S. Border Patrol as they join hundreds of migrants gathering along the border Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Lukeville, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Mayorkas shrugs off border chiefs’ demand for more wall

Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has spent recent weeks praising Border Patrol agents and vowing to get them the help they need to gain control of the border, but there's one area where he's continuously disregarded their expertise: the border wall. Published January 16, 2024

Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The mayor of Eagle Pass, a Texas border city that's at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings, accused the state Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, of a new escalation, saying state troopers closed a large public park along the Rio Grande without asking permission. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Senate border deal would allow 5,000 illegal immigrants a day

Conservative activists are recoiling as details leak from the immigration deal being negotiated in the Senate suggesting illegal border crossers will be immediately eligible for work permits and the government will allow up to 5,000 illegal immigrants a day before new expulsion powers kick in. Published January 13, 2024

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra's, R-Iowa, Faith and Family with the Feenstras event, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, in Sioux Center, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ** FILE **

DeSantis takes victory lap over battle with Disney

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday accused Nikki Haley of caving to "woke" interests when she was South Carolina governor by derailing a bill to restrict access to school bathrooms based on a child's sex. Published January 10, 2024

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, looks over towards Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, during the CNN Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Haley, DeSantis trade accusations of lying to voters on Iowa debate stage

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley strode onto the presidential debate stage in Iowa Wednesday night hoping to capitalize on recent momentum, bury Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and establish herself as the GOP's major alternative to former President Donald Trump. Published January 10, 2024

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

‘We’re going to impeach him’: GOP makes case for ousting Mayorkas

The man leading impeachment proceedings laid out the GOP's case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, saying he's earned ouster because of his lies to Congress and the public, plummeting morale among his employees and growing deaths at the border. Published January 10, 2024