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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Migrants cross the Rio Grande toward Del Rio, Texas, from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) ** FILE **

Americans want border jumpers to have to get COVID-19 vaccine

Americans may be divided on whether to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on citizens, but when it comes to immigrants jumping the border illegally, there's little debate: Most people say the government should give them the vaccine. Published October 12, 2021

In this July 19, 2019, file photo, Associate Deputy Attorney General Antoinette Bacon attends a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. On Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020, Attorney General William P. Barr announced that Bacon has been designated as the acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Shiite militiaman reached U.S. posing as Iraqi refugee

An Iraqi man admitted to immigration fraud last week, saying he cheated America's refugee system by lying about his past as a member of an Iranian-funded Shiite militia in order to win asylum in the U.S. Published October 11, 2021

This May 4, 2021, photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Feds ran second-highest deficit ever in 2021: CBO

Uncle Sam ended fiscal 2021 deep in the red, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday, calculating the government ran a $2.8 trillion deficit, the second-worst on record. Published October 8, 2021

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a meeting with the Council of Presidents of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, also known as the "Divine Nine," in her ceremonial office on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kamala Harris faces pressure to deliver on amnesty

Activists are increasingly targeting Vice President Kamala Harris as they battle to inject a large amnesty for illegal immigrants into the Democrats' massive social safety net makeover, saying she has the power to make their dream a reality. Published October 6, 2021

In this Aug. 20, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Marines and Norweigian coalition forces assist with security at an Evacuation Control Checkpoint ensuring evacuees are processed safely during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP) **FILE**

DHS pleads for department volunteers to process Afghans

Homeland Security's legal-immigration agency issued a plea for volunteers to help "parole" Afghans into the U.S., saying they're seeing "an increasing number of requests" from people still outside the U.S. Published October 5, 2021

A Customs and Border Patrol agent detains a migrant atop Montezuma's Pass in Coronado National Memorial, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Hereford, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Catch-and-release at border up more than 430,000% in August

In August 2020, the Trump administration managed something stunning. Border Patrol agents caught more than 47,000 illegal immigrants and immediately released just 10 of them into the interior. This August, under President Biden, the Border Patrol made more than 195,000 arrests and released 43,941 people -- an increase of more than 430,000%. Published October 3, 2021

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2019, file photo asylum seekers in Tijuana, Mexico, listen to names being called from a waiting list to claim asylum at a border crossing in San Diego. The Supreme Court has ordered the reinstatement of the "Remain in Mexico" policy, saying that the Biden administration likely violated federal law by trying to end the Trump-era program that forces people to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S. The decision immediately raised questions about what comes next for the future of the policy, also known as the Migrant Protection Protocols. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Biden’s DHS rebuilding Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it has formed a task force to "rebuild" the Remain in Mexico policy the Trump administration used to solve the last border surge -- though the department said it needs Mexico's cooperation in order to move forward. Published September 29, 2021

In this May 23, 2019, photo, is a "Welcome to Yuma" sign in Yuma, Ariz. Overwhelmed border officials have started releasing migrants into Arizona's rural Yuma County as more people arrive amid the coronavirus pandemic with hopes of making their home in America. Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls says the U.S. Border Patrol on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, released a group of 20 people in the neighboring community of San Luis and that several similarly sized groups were let out later in the week. (Randy Hoeft/Yuma Sun via AP) **FILE**

Not just Haitians: Brazilian, Venezuelan and Cuban migrants stream to Arizona border

It's not just Haitians, and it's not just Texas where the border seems out of control. Some 3,400 migrants -- most of them Brazilian, Venezuelan or Cuban -- were mired in Border Patrol holding facilities in Yuma, Arizona, over the weekend, according to the sheriff, who said he has never seen such unruliness. Published September 28, 2021