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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Under a proposed Justice Department rule change, migrants arrested by Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would have DNA samples taken and sent to the FBI, which would then put the DNA information into its Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, database. (Associated Press/File)

Justice Department proposes collecting DNA samples from detained migrants

The Justice Department announced Monday that it will require the Department of Homeland Security to collect DNA samples from the migrants it arrests, in a move that likely will add hundreds of thousands of names each year to the government's criminal databases. Published October 21, 2019

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Elizabeth Warren, announces that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Supreme Court to decide whether Obama-era Wall Street cop is legal

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren set up to police Wall Street in the wake of the Great Recession. Published October 18, 2019

In this Aug. 11, 2017, photo U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents pick up immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas. The election of President Donald Trump contributed to a dramatic downturn in migration, causing the number of arrests at the border to hit an all-time low in April and helping the U.S. end the 2017 fiscal year at a 45-year low. But since bottoming out in April, the number of immigrants caught at the southern border has been increasing monthly. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

DOJ sets record for prosecuting illegal immigrants

The Justice Department set a record over the last year, prosecuting more criminal cases against illegal immigrants and migrant smugglers than any other year on record, officials announced Friday. Published October 18, 2019

A construction worker's gloved hand is seen through a portion of the 30-foot tall bollard fence as work continues on the U.S./Mexico border fence two miles east of the Lukeville, Arizona port of entry on Oct. 8, 2019. An effort to overturn the president's direction of emergency funding for border-wall construction fell short of passage on Oct. 17 in the Senate. Photo taken from Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP) **FILE**

Senate can’t stop Donald Trump’s border wall

Senators gave a backhand approval Thursday to President Trump's border emergency wall building plans by failing to override his veto, marking the latest instance when the White House has outmaneuvered Congress. Published October 17, 2019

President Donald Trump tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump used anti-Taliban funds to build border wall: Democrats

Congressional Democrats lashed out at President Trump on Wednesday over his border wall plans, saying they've learned he cut $129 million from funds to fight drug trafficking in Afghanistan and is spending it instead on the wall here at home. Published October 16, 2019

Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Ken Cuccinelli: Birthright citizenship can be changed without amending Constitution

The government's citizenship chief said Wednesday that there's no need to amend the Constitution to stop automatic citizenship being granted to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, though he said he's not sure whether President Trump could act alone or if it would take a law from Congress. Published October 16, 2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., looks on as former White House Counsel Donald McGahn addresses the Kentucky chapters conference of The Federalist Society at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) **FILE**

Congress struggles to counter Donald Trump on Syria

Lawmakers streamed back to Washington Tuesday determined to fight President Trump's troop pullout from Syria -- but they struggled to figure out exactly what they can do about it. Published October 15, 2019

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrive to inform reporters about their failed meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on infrastructure, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer set vote to rebuke Trump on Syria

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill announced a bipartisan resolution Tuesday to rebuke President Trump for his decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria, and said it's time Republicans join them in spanking the president for reckless decisions. Published October 15, 2019

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is joined by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., at a news conference as House Democrats move ahead in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE***

Impeachment calls may cause gridlock on deals in House

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her troops will face that question head-on, with Democrats increasingly agitating for the impeachment route and President Trump and fellow Republicans saying that will squelch any chances at doing big bipartisan deals on legislation. Published October 14, 2019