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Stephen Dinan

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

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This Tuesday, March 26, 2019, photo shows a border patrol checkpoint, north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, that U.S. immigration authorities have closed and have reassigned agents to repurpose inspection areas to handle an influx of Central Americans arriving at the Mexican border. All of the checkpoints in the El Paso, Texas, sector, which includes New Mexico and West Texas, have been closed. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

U.S. soldiers charged with migrant smuggling

Two soldiers have been arrested for alien smuggling in Texas after agents say they were caught with two illegal immigrants in the trunk of their car at a Border Patrol checkpoint, where they had hoped their military uniforms would get them through without inspection. Published June 15, 2021

Annika Iwugo, 16, of Takoma Park, Md., center, helps to hold a banner as she joins fellow supporters of immigration reform in protesting for a path to citizenship and an end to detentions and deportations, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

DHS will grant work permits to illegal immigrant victims

The Department of Homeland Security will speed up work permits for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who claim they are victims of crime, the department announced Monday, saying the current wait, which can last up to five years, is too long to make people remain in economic limbo. Published June 14, 2021

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