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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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DeMarcus Hicks, a recent graduate of nursing school who is working as a contractor with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, gives a person a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021, on the first day of a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Federal Way, Wash. The clinic is operated by King County Public Health and other partners with support from FEMA staff and contract workers, who have been traveling across the U.S. to set up temporary community vaccination centers, including in some areas with mobile bus-based clinics, in efforts to increase the availability of COVID-19 vaccinations and booster shots. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

OSHA vaccine mandate takes hold as Supreme Court justices deliberate legality

America's bigger businesses are now required to know their employees' coronavirus vaccination status and should be demanding mandatory mask-wearing on those who haven't received the shots, after the Biden administration's most expansive vaccine mandate took effect Monday. Published January 10, 2022

In this file photo, a group of migrant families walk from the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, near McAllen, Texas, March 14, 2019. New data released by the Department of Homeland Security this week shows the demographics of the typical border jumper have been completely rewritten, as Mexicans, who for decades were the overwhelming number of illegal immigrants, dropped to just 28% of the flow, marking their lowest share “in recorded history,” according to Customs and Border Protection. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

New DHS data reveals border jumpers no longer predominantly Mexicans

The old model of illegal immigration along the southern border was shattered in 2021, according to data released by the Department of Homeland Security this week that shows the demographics of the typical border jumper have been completely rewritten. Published January 5, 2022

Afghan refugees look for donated clothing and shoes at the donation center at the Fort McCoy U.S. Army base on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in Fort McCoy, Wis. The fort is one of eight military installations across the country that are temporarily housing the tens of thousands of Afghans who were forced to flee their homeland in August after the U.S. withdrew its forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban took control. (Barbara Davidson/Pool Photo via AP)

52,000 Afghan evacuees released into U.S. in 2021

More than 50,000 Afghan evacuees have been processed and released into American communities over the last four months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday as it announced the closure of another of the camps that had been erected at military bases to house the Afghans. Published December 31, 2021

The Public Interest Legal Foundation went to Pennsylvania with a list of tens of thousands of people who were likely dead, but still on the state’s voter rolls in the weeks before the 2020 election. (Associated Press/File) ** FILE **

Fight to clean voter lists gains ground after 2020 election

The Public Interest Legal Foundation went to Pennsylvania with a list of tens of thousands of people who were likely dead, but still on the state's voter rolls in the weeks before the 2020 election. Published December 26, 2021

An Afghan refugee family walks past temporary housing in Liberty Village on Joint Base McGuire-Dix- Lakehurst in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (Barbara Davidson/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Nearly 50,000 Afghans resettled in U.S., 25,000 remain at military bases

All Afghan evacuees have been processed and released from the Marine Corps base at Quantico, the Biden administration announced Thursday, shutting down the second of eight bases that had been housing the refugees who were rescued as part of the August airlift. Published December 23, 2021

President Joe Biden arrives at a meeting with his task force on supply chain issues, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Biden, Democrats face trouble with independents

President Biden and fellow Democrats head into a congressional election year seriously "out of step" with Americans on dozens of key issues, according to a Republican-leaning polling outfit, which has a year's worth of data to prove it. Published December 23, 2021

Under a pilot program, agents who operate as part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s SWAT team in Houston, New York City and Newark, New Jersey, will be outfitted with the cameras. (Associated Press)

ICE to deploy body cameras on special agents

ICE said Tuesday it will begin to deploy body cameras on special agents, to be followed eventually by deportation officers, in a move the Biden administration characterized as bringing "transparency" to the agency. Published December 21, 2021

In this March 2, 2019, file photo, a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. After a record hot and dry summer, more deaths among border-crossers have been documented in Arizona's desert and mountains. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

‘Potential terrorist’ nabbed jumping border in Arizona

Border Patrol agents say they nabbed a "potential terrorist" trying to jump the border Friday, adding a national security dimension to the border chaos that's erupted in southwestern Arizona this month. Published December 20, 2021

Alabama 6th Congressional District Republican candidate Gary Palmer hugs his wife, Ann, on stage, next to their daughter Kathleen Palmer after meeting with supporters at a hotel in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Palmer came from far behind Tuesday to defeat state Rep. Paul DeMarco in the Republican runoff the district. (AP Photo/AL.com, Frank Couch)

GOP policy chief wants party to have solutions in 2022

Backers of a socialized health care system are eager to point to Canada and European countries as models for how good it can be. Rep. Gary Palmer likes to point to them as evidence for how bad it can be. Published December 20, 2021