Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Bipartisan disgust with Biden’s supply chain, border crises, poll finds
Voters don't want police fired for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccination, according to a Washington Times poll that found Americans see public safety as a serious policy issue. Published December 7, 2021
Poll finds border wall is popular again now that Trump is gone, bipartisan support emerges
Americans believe a border wall is part of the solution to illegal immigration and oppose the Biden administration's plans to pay settlements to illegal immigrants whose families were separated after they jumped the border in the Trump era, according to a new poll taken for The Washington Times. Published December 7, 2021
Biden panel wary of upending Supreme Court with term limits or ‘packing’
President Biden's panel to examine changes to the Supreme Court expressed wariness of any big upheavals in a draft report released ahead of a final vote Tuesday. Published December 7, 2021
House GOP to investigate COVID unemployment cash going to China, Russia
Top Republican investigators demanded answers Monday from the Biden administration about how taxpayer money meant to go to unemployed Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic has been stolen by Chinese or Russian syndicates. Published December 6, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: DHS embellished record to justify new limits on deportations
The Homeland Security Department, battling to defend its rules limiting arrests and deportations of illegal immigrants, submitted documents to a federal court that misrepresented the involvement of sheriffs' offices and victim advocates. Published December 6, 2021
Congress approves emergency $1.6 billion for care of illegal immigrant children
Tucked inside the stopgap spending bill that cleared Congress Thursday night was $1.6 billion to help the Biden administration deal with the growing number of illegal immigrant kids jumping the southern border. Published December 3, 2021
GOP senators announce bill to block payments to illegal immigrants from separated families
More than two dozen Republican senators, including party leader Mitch McConnell, signed onto a bill Thursday that would block the Biden administration from making settlement payments to illegal immigrants who saw their families separated during the Trump administration. Published December 2, 2021
DHS to restart Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy after Mexico agrees to conditions
Mexico said it will allow the restart of a Trump-era border policy that immediately sends illegal immigrants back across the boundary after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it would speed up court hearings, offer vaccinations and help improve conditions for the people it ships back to Mexico. Published December 2, 2021
Afghanistan evacuation price tag rises by $7 billion
Members of Congress say they still can't get clear answers about the U.S evacuation effort in Afghanistan, but they're being asked to approve an additional $7 billion to manage the pipeline of people still coming and the tens of thousands of Afghans already here. Published December 2, 2021
Conservative-leaning justices show unanimity in skepticism of ‘viability’ standard
The Supreme Court flirted Wednesday with unraveling the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that created a national right to abortion, with the court's Republican-appointed justices pondering whether states should have the freedom to restrict abortions earlier in pregnancy -- or to bar the procedure altogether. Published December 1, 2021
N.Y. attorney general says state should become abortion sanctuary
New York's attorney general said Wednesday that the state should create a fund to help out-of-state women come to seek abortions if the Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and allows other states to ban the procedure. Published December 1, 2021
Biden’s new COVID-19 travel ban ignores southern border
As President Biden's new coronavirus travel ban took effect Monday, security experts say he's left a glaring hole in his scheme: the southern border. Published November 30, 2021
Philip Harrington, Captain Phip’s owner, gets probation after hiring illegal immigrants
The owner of a Maryland seafood and ice processing company that employed at least 89 illegal immigrants was sentenced last week to a year of probation and a $15,000 fine, and had to promise to use E-Verify to screen new hires in the future. Published November 29, 2021
Feds pay billions to fraudsters tied to China and Russia in COVID-19 schemes
As the coronavirus pandemic raged, Uncle Sam was doing more than putting money in unemployed Americans' pockets -- the federal government was also shipping tens of billions of dollars overseas to fraudsters working with the country's most prominent adversaries, such as China and Russia. Published November 29, 2021
ICE arrests plummeted under Biden guidance; officers averaged an arrest every two months
ICE authorized just 20,858 arrests in the six months after the Biden administration announced new rules restricting which illegal immigrants could be targeted -- or an average of just one arrest every two months for each deportation officer. Published November 25, 2021
Major study undercuts Biden explanation for surge in illegal immigration
Migrants from Central America are rushing to the U.S. illegally not because of violence or natural disasters in their home countries but because of jobs, a major new study found, challenging claims that they are asylum-seekers fleeing persecution. Published November 23, 2021
17-day-old baby dies as mother carried her across border
A 17-day-old infant perished at the border after his mother carried him across the Rio Grande as part of a group of illegal immigrants, Homeland Security said Tuesday. Published November 23, 2021
AOC pleads with Senate to rescue immigration amnesty in Biden budget bill
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and dozens of her fellow Democrats, who just voted for a bill that falls well short of citizenship rights for illegal immigrants, are now pleading with their Senate colleagues to give them a mulligan and add a path to citizenship back into the legislation. Published November 23, 2021
DHS wrongly charges crime victim immigrants more than $4 million for free work permits
Homeland Security's legal immigration agency acknowledged Monday that it botched the rollout of new free work permits for crime victim immigrants and is now scrambling to refund money to more than 10,000 people who were "mistakenly" charged. Published November 22, 2021
Deportation orders from immigration judges plummet under Biden
The Biden administration's more lenient approach to illegal immigration is now showing up in the nation's immigration courts, where over the final three months of the last fiscal year, judges issued deportation directives in less than a third of cases. Published November 21, 2021