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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. The American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups say they are ending settlement talks with the Biden administration over a demand to lift a pandemic-related ban on families seeking asylum in the United States. The breakdown comes three days after two nongovernmental organizations said they were halting work with the administration to identify particularly vulnerable migrants stuck in Mexico for exemptions to Title 42, named for a 1944 public health law. The administration has denied many families and nearly all single adults an opportunity to seek asylum on grounds of preventing spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

DHS must stop using pandemic to expel border migrants, judge rules

A federal judge issued an injunction Thursday blocking the government's use of pandemic powers to immediately expel illegal immigrants who jump the border, dealing a severe blow to President Biden's hopes of stemming the border surge. Published September 16, 2021

In this Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, file photo, Army Pfc. Kimberly Hernandez gives a high-five to a girl evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, before boarding a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va. U.S. religious groups of many faiths are gearing up to assist the thousands of incoming refugees. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

A warm welcome for refugees in wake of Afghan fiasco

America has seen countless waves of migrants, but rarely has the country been as eager to receive them as it has been the tens of thousands of Afghans who are being airlifted into the country right now. Published September 8, 2021

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would be taken off the streets and become criminal investigators under a reorganization plan by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. (Associated Press)

ICE counts 463 sanctuary jails, prisons in U.S.

ICE says there are 463 different jails that won't cooperate with the federal government's deportation detainer requests, and is blaming those jurisdictions for the agency's inability to comply with a court order demanding transparency in whom the Biden administration is targeting for removal. Published September 7, 2021

In this May 7, 2020, photo, a pregnant woman wearing a face mask and gloves holds her belly as she waits in line for groceries at St. Mary's Church in Waltham, Mass. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in hot spots around the U.S. see disturbingly high numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) **FILE**

Social Security predicts pandemic birth blip, not birth dearth

The COVID-19 pandemic has slashed fertility rates to their lowest point in U.S. history, but the experts at the Social Security Administration, who are deeply invested in the issue, say the decline is just a blip and women are merely deferring children to later years. Published September 6, 2021

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, assist qualified evacuees boarding a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Republicans demand answers over screening of Afghans brought to U.S.

It's been a week since the end of the American airlift that brought tens of thousands of Afghans out of Kabul and there are still more questions than answers over who exactly was evacuated, which of them have already reached the U.S., how they were chosen and where they'll end up. Published September 5, 2021

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas updates reporters on the effort to resettle vulnerable Afghans in the United States, in Washington, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

People on watch lists were among Afghanistan evacuees, DHS confirms

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that his department has flagged some Afghan evacuees as potential security risks and blocked them from reaching the U.S., and he vowed to make America's safety the core of the airlift. Published September 3, 2021