Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Chad Wolf: DHS requests for help in Portland, Oregon, were rebuffed
Sen. Gary Peters demanded to know Thursday why Homeland Security didn't ask for help from Oregon officials before sending in officers and agents to help protect the federal courthouse in Portland. Published August 6, 2020
Feds building border wall faster than ever: DHS
Homeland Security is building the border wall faster than ever before, the department's border chief said Thursday. Published August 6, 2020
Feds charge four execs in connection to immigration raids at Mississippi poultry plants
Federal authorities announced charges Thursday against four executives they said were responsible for hiring hundreds of illegal immigrants at poultry processing plants in Mississippi. Published August 6, 2020
DHS says to expect charges against Portland riot organizers
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Thursday that a number of organizers of the riots in Portland are under investigation, and he expects arrests and charges to follow. Published August 6, 2020
Rand Paul: ‘All these cities are run by Democrats, and have been for 50 years’
Sen. Rand Paul unloaded on Democrats Thursday, saying they have controlled the country's most violent cities for decades and have done little to solve the situation, and urged voters to rethink their choices. Published August 6, 2020
Judge fast-tracks case challenging Trump on census count, illegal immigrants
A federal judge set an exceptionally fast schedule Wednesday in a case challenging President Trump's new executive memo deleting immigrants who are in the country illegally from the upcoming census apportionment count, saying he fears immigrants may stop replying to the census as long as the order is out there. Published August 5, 2020
Shots fired at latest Portland riot
Shots were fired early Wednesday morning as violent protests continued to rock Portland, Oregon, with demonstrators breaking into the Portland Police Association's offices and setting it on fire. Published August 5, 2020
Portland protests continue as feds curtail presence
Federal officers have curtailed their presence in Portland but violent protests have continued in the Oregon city, with police saying they had to declare a riot Monday night after demonstrators invaded the perimeter of a city office building. Published August 4, 2020
Jonathan Turley, George Washington Law professor, warns ‘Antifa is winning’
Prominent law professor Jonathan Turley warned Congress on Tuesday that the Antifa movement is a threat to free speech and it's "winning" in its crusade to silence opponents. Published August 4, 2020
Democrats blast attempt to speed up 2020 census count
Democrats lashed out at the Census Bureau on Tuesday after the agency's chief announced he would offer bonuses to speed up the counting and would conclude in-person data gathering by the end of September -- a month ahead of schedule. Published August 4, 2020
2020 Census to offer bonuses, speed hiring to finish count this year
The Census Bureau announced Monday that it will hire more employees and offer bonuses to those who put in extra time in order to speed up the count and finish this year. Published August 3, 2020
Revolutionary Communist Party leader backs Biden
Bob Avakian, founder and leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, told followers in an email Monday that ousting President Trump is too important a goal to miss, so they should vote for Democratic candidate Joseph R. Biden. Published August 3, 2020
Mexican migrant falls from border wall, dies in Arizona
An illegal immigrant succumbed this weekend to injuries from a fall from the border wall in Arizona, federal authorities said Sunday. Published August 2, 2020
Abel Alexander Castro Juarez, Virginia murder suspect, nabbed in bus bathroom
Border Patrol announced Sunday that they nabbed a murder suspect who fled from Fairfax County, finding the man hiding in the bathroom of a tour bus as it crossed a highway checkpoint in New Mexico. Published August 2, 2020
Trump census order can’t be done accurately, experts say
The man who designed the method Homeland Security uses to estimate the number of illegal immigrants says there's just too much margin for error to use it to carry out President Trump's new executive order to strip illegal immigrants out of the census count used to apportion congressional seats. Published August 2, 2020
Matthew Albence, acting director of ICE, to retire
Matthew Albence, who's led U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the last 15 months, overseeing an agency at the center of the national immigration debate — and increasingly under attack by Democrats — will retire at the end of this month. Published August 2, 2020
Portland protests grow violent again
With federal officers taking a lower profile in Portland, Oregon, protesters are turning their ire on local police, using the same tactics of throwing bottles and firing lasers into officers' eyes, as Black Lives Matter demonstrations enter their 10th week. Published August 2, 2020
Supreme Court says border wall construction can continue
The Supreme Court said Friday that President Trump can continue to build the border wall even as legal challenges work their way through lower courts, rejecting a demand by the ACLU and environmental groups for an immediate halt. Published July 31, 2020
Judge suggests issuing ‘football jersey’ numbers to identify federal officers in Portland protests
A federal judge said Friday he's considering making the federal officers defending the courthouse against violent protests wear large white identifying numbers, akin to "basketball or football jerseys," so he can track who's violating his rules of engagement for dealing with the crowds. Published July 31, 2020
Portland protesters police themselves in first night of local control
Portland's once unruly protesters policed themselves Thursday night, with some of them snuffing out fires started by other demonstrators as they sought to prove the city can control itself without needing to have federal agents involved. Published July 31, 2020
