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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

Articles by Stephen Dinan

President Joe Biden speaks about border security in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden pivots on border chaos, turns to Trump-style expulsions and blockades

President Biden revealed a new approach to border security on Thursday, coupling a massive new path for some migrants from Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua to reach the U.S. while promising Trump-style expulsions and blockades to stop those who refuse to use his new avenues of entry. Published January 5, 2023

Migrants stand in the cold weather around a campfire at a makeshift camp on the U.S.-Mexico border in Matamoros, Mexico, Dec. 23, 2022, as they wait on a pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on asylum restrictions. The Biden administration on Thursday, Jan. 5, said it would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, a major expansion of an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) **FILE**

Biden turns to Trump policies to solve border chaos

President Biden will announce a new approach to border security on Thursday, creating massive new avenues for some migrants from Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua to enter the U.S., while vowing to use Trump-style expulsions and blockades to stop those who refuse to use the legal pathways. Published January 5, 2023

In this July 6, 2020, photo, a sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Colette Peters, who runs Oregon's prison system, has emerged as the leading contender to run the federal prison system. That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Prisons officials cleared in death of Jamel Floyd

Federal prison guards appear to have acted within policy when they deployed pepper spray on inmate Jamel Floyd in 2020 in an incident that ended with his death, an inspector general concluded. Published January 4, 2023

A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Too big too fast? Skeptics see dangers in IRS rush to expand

The IRS is preparing to staff up, flush with a cash infusion from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers said they want to see the agency find ways to clear out a backlog of cases and secure more revenue out of taxpayers. Experts say there's plenty of reason to worry. Published January 2, 2023

People wait in line to vote at a polling place on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Las Vegas. Federal law bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections. The 1996 law states that noncitizens who vote illegally will face a fine, imprisonment or both. Noncitizens who cast a ballot and get caught may also face deportation. (AP Photo/John Locher) **FILE**

Voters’ voices carry more sway for living close to noncitizens

Rep. Ritchie Torres won reelection last month with roughly 73,000 votes, out of fewer than 90,000 cast in his district in the heart of the Bronx. Slip across the East River and it took Nick LaLota 173,000 votes, out of more than 300,000 ballots cast, to win his Long Island race. Published December 27, 2022