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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, speaks with others on opening day of the 117th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

GOP Reps. Gohmert, Clyde sue to block Pelosi’s fines

Two Republicans announced a lawsuit Monday challenging fines slapped on them for violating the House's new security screening rules, saying someone has to stand up to what they see as an increasingly imperial way that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has run the chamber. Published June 14, 2021

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas tours the City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency (ITA) command center, responsible for the city's cybersecurity at the Emergency Operations Center in Los Angeles Thursday, June 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Victims of immigrant crimes demand say in ICE deportation rules

A group of people who lost relatives to crimes committed by illegal immigrants has demanded to meet with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, saying they deserve to be part of his decision-making as he writes new rules restricting ICE arrests and deportations. Published June 14, 2021

President Donald Trump points to a member of the audience after speaking near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Alamo, Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

DHS ‘legally required’ to spend Trump’s border wall money, officials say

Homeland Security officials said Friday they are "legally required" to spend billions of dollars Congress allocated to Mexican border wall construction, but said they will focus on projects that "mitigate" damage from previous construction rather than on finishing the wall President Trump had planned. Published June 11, 2021

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2019 flagged more than 11,000 illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office custody. They accounted for 180 homicide charges, 750 sex crimes and 1,400 weapons offenses. (Associated Press/File)

DHS cancels Trump’s office for victims of illegal-immigrant crimes

President Trump gave an unprecedented voice to victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, creating an office in ICE to highlight their plight. On Friday, the Biden administration announced it was repurposing the mission of that office in a way that victims' advocates say drowns out their voice. Published June 11, 2021

Migrants pass the time at a migrant shelter, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in McAllen, Texas. The U.S. government continues to report large numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with an increase in adult crossers. But families and unaccompanied children are still arriving in dramatic numbers despite the weather changing in the Rio Grande Valley registering hotter days and nights. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Amnesty International says DHS is deporting thousands of children to Mexico

The Biden administration reversed a Trump policy and is no longer expelling illegal immigrant children from Central America who show up at the border without parents -- but children from Mexico who show up in the same condition are being deported, according to a new analysis. Published June 11, 2021

Women and children sit idle at a migrant camp amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Lajas Blancas, Darien province, Panama, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. In Lajas Blancas, the migrants did not wear masks or practice social distancing, but Panama's Public Security Minister Juan Pino said there have not been more than 10 infections among the migrants. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco) **FILE**

Doctors Without Borders details rape, murder of migrants heading toward U.S.

A U.S. congressman's shocking account last week of migrant abuse in Panama, including incidences of babies being washed downriver, is being echoed in a new report from Doctors Without Borders, which says staffers in the region are seeing a stunning number of sexual assaults of migrant women. Published June 10, 2021

In this Dec. 10, 2018, photo, a girl waves to a young man watching from Mexican territory who said he was her cousin, as a group of Honduran asylum seekers is taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents after the group crossed the U.S. border wall into San Diego, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. San Diego County has approved a plan to provide attorneys to immigrants facing deportation proceedings. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 approved a $5 million, one-year pilot program. It would provide lawyers for free to those detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center, the local federal immigration detention facility. San Diego will be the first southern border county in the U.S. to provide such legal representation. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: Sly smuggler uses Border Patrol for free trips home

In the category of not all crooks are stupid, one accused migrant smuggler figured out an ingenious way to cut in half the time it took him to get back to Mexico from the U.S. to prepare for his next load of people: He turned himself in to the Border Patrol. Published June 3, 2021

Rep. Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin Republican, describes in a video he posted to Twitter his visit to the Darien Gap. Many illegal immigrants from South America and elsewhere traverse this jungle wilderness on the Colombia-Panama border as part of their trek to the U.S.

‘Babies washing down the river’: Congressman hears of migrant misery at the Darien Gap

For migrants making the land trek up the spine of the Americas to the U.S., there's one spot that consistently proves the most dangerous -- the Darien Gap, a jungle wilderness that covers the boundary between Colombia and Panama. Having been to Texas to see what was arriving at the U.S. border, Rep. Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin Republican, figured he'd get a first-hand look at what was coming through the Darien Gap. Published June 2, 2021

Children and adults wait in lines for donated food at a makeshift camp for migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border Friday, May 14, 2021, in Reynosa, Mexico. Growing numbers of migrant families are making the heart-wrenching decision to separate from their children and send them into the U.S. alone. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Cost to house migrant kids ‘skyrocketing,’ GOP says

House Republicans' lead investigator demanded Wednesday that Democrats convene a hearing to look at the "skyrocketing" cost for hundreds of illegal immigrant children still surging across the border each day and said the Biden administration is using semantics to downplay the ongoing crisis. Published June 2, 2021