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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Immigrants gather with their belongings outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Wednesday Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration's failed border policies. (Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette via AP)

Florida ships illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard

Florida shipped two planeloads of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, joining Texas and Arizona in trying to make deep blue territory feel the pain of the migration surge that's taken place under President Biden. Published September 15, 2022

Migrants wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents near the end of a border wall Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, near Yuma, Arizona. The Border Patrol is seeing a dramatic shift in the type of migrants who come across the busiest places on the U.S.-Mexico. Migrants are now coming from more than 100 countries, and Mexicans are virtually absent. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

29% of border migrants failed to show up for check-ins: Audit

Nearly a third of illegal immigrants released during the early months of the Biden migrant surge last year failed to show up for required check-ins, according to a new inspector general's report that said Homeland Security is having a tough time tracking all the people it's setting free. Published September 13, 2022

Then-Census Bureau Director nominee Robert Santos, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, Thursday, July 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Santos, now the Census Bureau director, said Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in an interview with The Associated Press that the statistical agency was starting its outreach efforts with hard-to-reach communities earlier, rather than just before the next count, which is in 2030. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Stimulus spending lifted Americans out of poverty: Census Bureau

The child tax credit helped push a key measure of poverty to its lowest level on record, according to new Census Bureau data Tuesday that signaled just how critical government assistance was to propping Americans up in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic. Published September 13, 2022

Migrants share food as they load a bus to take them to a refugee center outside Union Station in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Chicago officials say 75 immigrants have arrived in the city on buses from Texas, as part of an aggressive border policy by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office confirmed that the migrants arrived Wednesday night and that the city has welcomed them and will make sure they receive shelter and food. (Anthony Vazquez /Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Texas migrant busing crosses 10,000 mark

Texas has bused its 10,000th migrant to other regions of the U.S. as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to share the pain of the border surge. Published September 9, 2022

New York Mayor Eric Adams, left, and Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee, right, listen as Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference about the search for a gunman that has been targeting homeless men sleeping on the streets of Washington, and New York City, Monday, March 14, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

D.C. declares ‘emergency’ over migrants being bused into city

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency Thursday over the surge of illegal immigrants arriving in the nation's capital, calling it "a crisis that is certainly not of our making" and tapping millions of dollars in aid to help house and feed the newcomers. Published September 8, 2022

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande illegally, stand behind an unlocked gate at Heavenly Farms, a pecan farm, Heavenly Farms, owned by Hugo and Magali Urbina, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Texas National Guard and state troopers built a fence around Heavenly Farms and, in mid-August, locked a gate to arrest migrants after crossing the Rio Grande illegally. The Border Patrol felt the lock impeded operations and had it removed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Suspected smugglers caught peeking in windows of Border Patrol headquarters

Straight from the files of "what were they thinking" comes a criminal case out of California, where agents nabbed smuggling suspects who were prowling around Border Patrol headquarters, peeking over hedges and peering in windows to try to spot some friends of theirs. Published September 7, 2022

The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen during a news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. DHS says a looming Supreme Court decision on abortion, an increase of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and the midterm elections are potential triggers for extremist violence over the next six months. DHS said June 7, 2022, in the National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin the U.S. was in a "heightened threat environment" already and these factors may worsen the situation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Inspector general says DHS allowed unvetted, dangerous Afghans to reach the U.S.

The Homeland Security Department failed to fully vet some of the Afghan evacuees it brought into the U.S. during last year's airlift, the department's inspector general said in a devastating audit, which warned that some people who "posed a risk to national security" were indeed let into the country. Published September 7, 2022

In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Pollsters still searching for fixes as 2022 voting nears

If ABC and The Washington Post were to be believed in the days before Election Day 2020, then-candidate Joseph R. Biden was about to wipe the floor with President Trump in Wisconsin. The news outlets' Oct. 28 survey, just a week before voting day, showed the Democrat up by a staggering 17 percentage points. Published September 5, 2022

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Congressman invites White House spokeswoman to visit the border

Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, extended a formal invitation Thursday to President Biden's press secretary to visit the U.S.-Mexico border and get a first-hand look at the chaos local officials say has been unleashed by the new administration's policies. Published September 1, 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, Texas on June 8, 2021. Abbott, has ordered the state's child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as "child abuse" in a directive that opponents say is a first by any governor over GOP efforts to restrict transgender rights. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas ships first batch of illegal immigrants to Chicago

Chicago is the latest target for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's campaign to bus illegal immigrants to Democrat-led cities, after the Republican governor announced the first busload arrived Wednesday. Published August 31, 2022

Slain Wake County Sheriff's Deputy Ned Byrd's K-9 partner, Sasha, leads the N.C. State Highway Patrol's Caisson Unit during a procession for Deputy Byrd before his funeral at Providence Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Byrd, 48, had been with the sheriff's office for 13 years. Byrd was responding to a domestic call and was killed after stopping along a dark stretch of road late at night. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)

ICE identifies cop-killer suspects as illegal immigrants

Three Mexican brothers identified as part of an investigation into the shocking murder of a North Carolina sheriff's deputy were all in the country illegally -- including one who was caught and released at the border under the Trump administration. Published August 31, 2022