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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, a little girl is helped off an inflatable raft by a church volunteer after being smuggled across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to seek asylum. U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Fake families swarm border; none prosecuted

Fake families plagued border authorities during the 2019 surge, and experts say they are pouring through again. Yet the Homeland Security Department's use of DNA testing to validate family relationships has plummeted more than 90% this year, according to the latest statistics. Published April 18, 2021

White House press secretary Jen Psaki takes a question from a reporter during a press briefing in the White House in Washington, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House retreats on Biden’s refugee promise

White House press secretary Jen Psaki signaled a retreat Friday from President Biden's goal of allowing up to 62,500 refugees into the country in 2021, saying that now seems "unlikely." Published April 16, 2021

In this Wednesday, April 14, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden removes his mask to speak at a news conference at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Biden adjusts Trump’s refugee policy but doesn’t increase numbers

President Biden is facing ferocious criticism from his own party -- including charges of racism -- as the White House announced Friday he was retreating on his pledge to quadruple the number of refugees to be admitted into the U.S. this year. Published April 16, 2021

Some smugglers use inflatable rafts to take families across the Rio Grande from Mexico to the U.S. Authorities in Texas have reported an increase in drownings in the river this year. (Associated Press)

Mexico border-jumping ‘gotaways’ spike from 2020

Illegal immigrants are escaping capture at more than double the pace of a year ago, according to Texas figures that show the surge of migrants being caught at the border is just a part of the problem the Biden administration is facing. Published April 15, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, waits for the start of a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Dr. Anthony Fauci admits border surge breaks COVID-19 rules

Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden's special coronavirus adviser, acknowledged Thursday that illegal immigrants are being allowed across the U.S.-Mexico border without the same kind of testing and precautions any other international traveler would have to go through. Published April 15, 2021

Migrants line up for a free meal at a makeshift camp of migrants at the border port of entry leading to the United States, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Biden health official uses ‘crisis’ to describe migrant surge

The White House and Homeland Security may not want to call the border a "crisis" but the top health official in charge of caring for the massive surge of children is using the term, telling a federal judge the emergency shelters they've opened to detain the kids is delivering "a crisis standard of care." Published April 12, 2021

In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants, from ages 3 to 9, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

Unaccompanied children jumped border at record rate in March

Nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children were nabbed jumping the border in March, Homeland Security revealed Thursday, doubling the number from February and shattering the previous record of about 11,500, set in May 2019. Published April 8, 2021