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Stephen Dinan

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

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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

Three young migrants hold hands as they run in the rain at an intake area after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Roma, Texas. The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults were found coming without families, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

DHS officially ends ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday officially nixed the Trump policy that had allowed illegal immigrants to be pushed back across the southwestern border into Mexico immediately, a tactic that had helped solve the previous border surge. Published June 1, 2021

This photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows special agents with HSI Los Angeles's El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task Force seize a Lamborghini from an Orange County businessman on Thursday, April 6, 2021, in Irvine, Calif. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

Scammers make billions off of pandemic assistance funds

When a name such as disgraced football coach Joe Paterno, dead for nearly a decade, shows up on documents applying for a pandemic loan, it's a pretty good red flag there's something fishy going on. Published May 31, 2021

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks about aviation security ahead of the summer travel season during a news conference at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

DHS eyes deleting gang questions from green card application

Homeland Security is moving to cut questions about gang affiliation from the application migrants file to get green cards, in a change that one former employee says could mean dangerous criminals will have an easier time getting through the process. Published May 27, 2021

Estela Lazo stands for a portrait with her two children, late Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Honduran family waits in the Mexican border city to have their case for asylum in the United States heard. As President Joe Biden undoes his predecessor's immigration policies that he considers inhumane, he faces a major question: How far should he go to right perceived wrongs? (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Taxpayers to foot bill for asylum claims from border surge

President Biden will ask taxpayers to foot the bill for processing asylum applications and cutting into the backlog of other immigration cases at Homeland Security, the department's chief told Congress on Wednesday. Published May 26, 2021

A migrant wears a face mask to protect against COVID-19 while walking off a U.S. Customs and Border Protection bus at the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge as he is deported to Mexico, Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Hidalgo, Texas. The fate of thousands of migrant families who have recently arrived at the Mexico border is being decided by a mysterious new system under President Joe Biden. U.S. authorities are releasing migrants with acute vulnerabilities and allowing them to pursue asylum. But it's not clear why some are considered vulnerable and not others. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Illegal immigrants’ COVID-19 rate twice that of U.S. population

The rate of coronavirus cases has plummeted in the U.S., but on the border, illegal immigrants are pouring across with elevated rates of infections, and some of them are still being released directly into communities, a congressman revealed Wednesday. Published May 26, 2021

A young migrant gets treated for possible lice before entering the intake area at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

No-bid contract to house immigrants under new scrutiny

Homeland Security's inspector general has opened an investigation into a massive no-bid contract ICE doled out to a firm that's holding illegal immigrants in hotels, congressional Republicans revealed Monday. Published May 24, 2021