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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott answers questions during a press conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. Abbott says the state will provide migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border bus charters to Washington, D.C. The move announced Wednesday amounts to a taunt at President Joe Biden and Congress over what the Republican governor calls a failure by the federal government to stop the flow of migrants coming to the southern border. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Texas will try to ship illegal immigrants to D.C., governor says

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that illegal immigrants caught and released by federal agents into his state will be quickly shipped straight to Washington, seeking to bring the pain of border communities straight to the doorstep of the Biden administration. Published April 6, 2022

Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., speaks at a news conference held by members of the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Congressman pushes DHS to shoot down cartel drones at border

Rep. Dan Bishop was incredulous when Homeland Security officials told a House committee last week that they see about 200 suspicious drone flights a day at the southern border -- and that's just what they are able to detect. Published April 5, 2022

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are being arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: ICE to scour U.S. communities looking for border absconders

The Department of Homeland Security will deploy teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers into communities to track down illegal immigrants the Biden administration caught and released at the border last year and who have since gone AWOL, The Washington Times has learned. Published April 5, 2022

President Barack Obama talks on the phone with a Member of Congress while en route to a health care event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., March 19, 2010 in this file photo. The White House comments line was reported as disconnected on Jan. 14, with just five and a half days left in the Obama presidency. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) **FILE** This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

‘Obamaphone’ company pays $13.4 million to settle fraud claims

A company that the government paid to distribute "Obamaphones" -- the nickname critics gave to government phones given to poor people -- has agreed to pay $13.4 million to settle a case alleging that it doled out devices to tens of thousands of people who didn't deserve them. Published April 4, 2022

In this Jan. 10, 2018, photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before serving an employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) **FILE**

ICE force-installed suicide prevention app on employees’ phones

ICE automatically installed a suicide prevention app on employees' government-issued smartphones this week, staffers told The Washington Times, calling it a grim sign of just how far morale has sunk at the immigration agency. Published March 31, 2022

In this April 19, 2017 file photo, barn worker Jose Cesada, an immigrant worker in the United States on an H-2B visa, rakes the cool down path at the barn of trainer Dale Romans on the backside at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

DHS releases 35,000 new slots for summertime guest workers

The Homeland Security Department announced Thursday it will make 35,000 additional visas available to foreign workers for summer seasonal jobs, thrilling summer resorts, seafood processors and landscaping businesses that say they struggle to find Americans willing to do that kind of work. Published March 31, 2022

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, waves off an aide during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

GOP in new video urges Biden, Dems to visit the border

With the chaos at the southern border deepening, Republicans released a video Wednesday pressing President Biden and his Democrats to visit the area to get a firsthand look at what local communities have been left to deal with. Published March 30, 2022

In this May 25, 2010, photo, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent walks down the aisle among shackled Mexican immigrants a boarded a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter jet for deportation in the air between Chicago, Il. and Harlingen, Texas. (Associated Press) **FILE**

ICE officers prepare for ‘massive crash’ in immigration system

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees have been warned to prepare for the end of the border pandemic emergency policy as soon as this week -- with predictions that illegal border crossings, already at record levels, could triple. Published March 29, 2022

Migrants walk to be processed by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande on May 14, 2021, in Roma. Texas. Biden took office on Jan. 20 and almost immediately, numbers of migrants exceeded expectations. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Illegal immigrant population soars to 11.4 million

The number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. soared by more than 1 million last year, reaching 11.4 million as of this January, according to new research released Tuesday that puts new contours on the border chaos under President Biden. Published March 29, 2022