Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Hatchets and radios: Smugglers prepare migrants for the dangers of border journey
All along the U.S.-Mexico border, agents continue to find smugglers risking the lives of illegal immigrants. The U.N. reported in early July that the U.S.-Mexico border was the most dangerous international boundary crossing on the globe in 2021, and this year is keeping right on pace. Published July 27, 2022
Top Republican says FBI is ‘padding’ numbers on domestic terrorism
FBI employees are being pressured to reclassify crimes as domestic terrorism in order to make the situation seem worse than it actually is, a top Republican charged Wednesday, citing information from whistleblowers at the bureau. Published July 27, 2022
Fertility rates down, death rates up as pandemic upends country’s demographics
The coronavirus pandemic has done a doozy on the country's demographics, with fertility rates plummeting and death rates higher than expected for years to come, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. Published July 27, 2022
AFGE move to ‘abolish’ labor union for ICE officers spurs call for probe
A key House lawmaker is demanding answers after a major labor union with ties to President Biden took steps to abolish the National ICE Council, which represents thousands of officers at Homeland Security's deportation agency. Published July 26, 2022
Senate investigation reveals China’s effort to infiltrate Federal Reserve
China is actively trying to recruit U.S.-based economists to feed information back to Chinese officials and has even managed to place cooperating sources inside America's Federal Reserve banking system, according to a new Senate report Tuesday. Published July 26, 2022
Soros-backed group seeks to buy radio stations targeted to Hispanics
After watching Hispanic voters embrace Republicans, liberal activists are cheering a new George Soros-backed effort to buy Spanish-language radio stations, saying it should help counter "disinformation" they blame for swaying a once reliable Democratic voting bloc. Published July 24, 2022
Supreme Court rejects Biden’s bid to revive policy stopping deportations
The Supreme Court delivered a blow to President Biden's immigration plans Thursday, rejecting his bid to revive Homeland Security rules that would have limited which illegal immigrants can be targeted for arrest or deportation. Published July 21, 2022
Chief immigration judge quits amid Biden administration purge
The nation's chief immigration judge is calling it quits after sources said he faced an increasingly strident Biden administration that cut him out of decisions as it pursued a more relaxed policy toward illegal immigrants. Published July 21, 2022
Grand jury charges two men with smuggling operation that killed 53 migrants
Federal prosecutors secured indictments from a grand jury Wednesday against two men charged with orchestrating the smuggling operation that left 53 migrants, including three children, dead in San Antonio last month. Published July 20, 2022
Sanctuary cities swarmed with asylum seekers now pleading for federal aid
Some of the country's bluest cities are saying they're filling up with illegal immigrants and need federal cash to help them accommodate everyone. Published July 19, 2022
Supreme Court asked to punish Texas over use of ‘Trump judges’
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. famously declared that there was no such thing as Trump judges or Obama judges. He's about to get a very real test on that matter. Published July 19, 2022
Feds missed nearly $500 million in debts because of ‘software error’
The federal government missed nearly $500 million in uncollected debts because of a software error at the Treasury Department, according to a new audit released Monday by the Office of Special Counsel. Published July 18, 2022
Rep. Comer requests oversight hearing as migrant deaths, border crossings rise
House Democrats' chief investigative committee is picking at flea collars and pro football team harassment while the chaos at the southern border claims a record number of lives, the panel's top Republican charged Monday, demanding the committee shift gears and stark tackling one of the big issues facing the country. Published July 18, 2022
U.S. streamlines process for Afghan allies to get visas
The Biden administration announced plans Monday to streamline the application process for Afghan allies who assisted the U.S. war effort and who are seeking a special visa to live in the U.S., cutting Homeland Security out of the adjudication process. Published July 18, 2022
‘More dead bodies’ than Afghanistan: Veterans say southern border is ‘war zone’
A Marine who was in Afghanistan when the country fell to the Taliban and who now lives in Texas told lawmakers he has seen more dead bodies along the U.S.-Mexico border than he did during his tour of duty. Published July 17, 2022
Six terrorism suspects nabbed at southern border in June
Six terrorism suspects were among than 200,000 border jumpers encountered by Border Patrol in June, according to data released by Customs and Border Protection late Friday. Published July 16, 2022
Biden DHS focusing border security spending on technology upgrades rather than wall building
The Department of Homeland Security said it will push to finish the technology that was supposed to be part of former President Donald Trump's border wall, and use other remaining money to fix issues the Biden administration says have emerged from previous construction. Published July 11, 2022
‘Temporary’ migrants who entered illegally get new path to permanent status under Biden policy
The Homeland Security Department's citizenship agency has created a backdoor pathway to citizenship that is open to some of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who came to the U.S. illegally but are now under what is known as temporary protected status. Published July 10, 2022
DHS seeks Supreme Court’s blessing for policy limiting immigration enforcement
The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to give early approval to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' "priorities" policy that limits the kinds of illegal immigrants his agents and officers can arrest and deport. Published July 8, 2022
Border Patrol agents cleared of whipping illegal immigrants
Border Patrol agents didn't whip or strike Haitian migrants last year, a lengthy internal affairs investigation concluded Friday, but some agents did use excessive force by positioning their horses in the Rio Grande to try to keep the migrants from reaching the U.S. Published July 8, 2022
