Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Mayorkas asked for the border chief’s resignation; he refused
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus to resign this week but he refused, according to news reports. Published November 11, 2022
Voters rewarded governors who reopened fastest from COVID
The pandemic was the defining issue for many governors on the ballot last week, and those who pushed for the fastest reopenings after the initial wave of lockdowns were among the biggest winners. Published November 11, 2022
Capitol rioter pleads guilty to bashing cop with skateboard
A Texas man pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting a police officer by striking him in the side with a skateboard during the Jan. 6 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. Published November 10, 2022
‘What-ifs’ plague GOP after midterms temper outlook, spark Trump criticism
Republicans are staring at a slate of "what-if" questions as they try to figure out why their chance to steamroll Democrats in the midterm elections failed to materialize. Published November 9, 2022
GOP makes major gains among Latino voters
Republicans showed marked improvement among Latino voters on an otherwise lackluster night, claiming 39% of their vote nationally, according to networks' exit polling, which showed a 10-percentage-point increase over the 2018 midterm elections. Published November 9, 2022
Ohio congressman is first Republican House incumbent to lose
Democrat Greg Landsman ousted longtime Republican Rep. Steve Chabot in Ohio on Tuesday, delivering the first red-to-blue flip of the night. Published November 9, 2022
Voters say view from White House is largely divorced from what’s happening in their lives
President Biden's insistence that the economy is strong -- and certainly not in a recession -- rang hollow Tuesday to voters who said the view from Pennsylvania Avenue is largely divorced from what they see in their lives. Published November 8, 2022
Smugglers demand illegal immigrant pay $4,000 pregnancy fee
An illegal immigrant told Border Patrol agents she and her husband were going to be charged an extra $4,000 smuggling fee to be brought deeper into the U.S. after her smugglers realized she was too big to make it in their usual smuggling method. Published November 8, 2022
Inflation, crime top abortion, climate as voters give GOP the edge
Crime has become the tipping-point issue and has joined inflation for a one-two punch that prognosticators say appears ready to deliver significant gains to Republicans in House, Senate and governor's races nationwide. Published November 7, 2022
‘Unacceptable’: Republicans blast Biden efforts to recover stolen pandemic unemployment cash
Key House Republicans have demanded the secretary of Labor preserve evidence of how it's grappled with the massive amount of fraud in the pandemic unemployment program, saying the department's response to the theft of perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars has been "unacceptable." Published November 7, 2022
Feds paid for room service, laundry and babysitters for illegal immigrants kept at hotels
Homeland Security not only put illegal immigrant families up in hotels at taxpayer expense but the contract it signed insisted they be given five-star treatment with laundry service, their choice of mattresses and guards -- not to keep them in, but to keep others out. Published November 6, 2022
Who checks the fact-checkers after indignant accusations fizzle out?
Fact-checkers posit themselves as independent arbiters of truth. Many are even part of the International Fact-Checking Network, which lays out standards for how they should operate. Published November 6, 2022
Border numbers worsened in October; historic number of gotaways
Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 210,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in October, according to preliminary numbers obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform that show yet another rise in the level of chaos along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. Published November 5, 2022
Supreme Court’s two Black justices diverge on affirmative action
Perhaps it's fitting that a Supreme Court now deciding the largest affirmative action case in 50 years finally has two Black justices sitting on it. Published November 3, 2022
Fact-checkers were wrong: Once mocked, GOP gets last word on terrorism suspects at border
When top Republicans last year warned that Border Patrol agents were catching terrorist suspects jumping the southern border, fact-checkers were swift to object. A year later, the facts are on the Republican side -- but the fact-checkers still aren't. Published November 3, 2022
Guatemala used U.S. military jeeps to intimidate American diplomats
The U.S. gave armed jeeps to Guatemala through a military equipment program. Guatemala then used the jeeps to intimidate the American embassy and to scare protesters, according to congressional investigators. Published November 2, 2022
Republicans show Mayorkas what’s coming if GOP wins control of the House
House Republicans' top investigators wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday demanding he pony up reams of information on the chaotic border that he's withheld during his tenure in office. Published November 2, 2022
Illegal immigrant convicted of murdering good samaritan whistleblower
An illegal immigrant has been convicted of murder conspiracy for killing a man who had blown the whistle on his own hiring of illegal immigrants to work for a tree-cutting company in Georgia. Published November 1, 2022
Faces of death: Sheriffs showcase graphic evidence of the rising body count at the border
Sheriffs are collecting horrific photos of the bodies of migrants near the U.S.-Mexico boundary, looking to shock the country into action to deal with the chaotic southern border. Published November 1, 2022
Feds won’t seek death penalty for men charged in deaths of 53 migrants
The Justice Department says it won't seek the death penalty for two men it says orchestrated the smuggling run this summer that ended up killing 53 illegal immigrants in Texas. Published November 1, 2022
