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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Bollard fencing uses poles 18 feet or taller lined side by side with small gaps in between. Those gaps are crucial for visibility into Mexico, Border Patrol agents say, giving them the chance to spot ambushes. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s border wall blocked by details

The $5 billion President Trump demanded for border wall construction would build 215 miles of new or replacement barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, averaging a staggering $23.3 million per mile. Published December 23, 2018

According to indications, the sun will set on the White House many times before President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer reach an agreement on funding for a border fence. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump concedes on wall funding, not steel slatted fencing

President Trump has offered to come down from his $5 billion border wall demand, the White House said Sunday, signaling he would sign a bill that includes less money and puts limits on the type of fencing that can be constructed. Published December 23, 2018

The Capitol is seen on the first morning of a partial government shutdown, as Democratic and Republican lawmakers are at a standoff with President Donald Trump on spending for his border wall, in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. Government operations will be disrupted during the shutdown and hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be furloughed or forced to work without pay just days before Christmas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Donald Trump says shutdown ‘could be a long stay’

Prospects for a short end to the partial government shutdown seemed bleak Saturday morning, with the president warning of "a long stay" and no sign that the gap between him and Democratic leaders has narrowed. Published December 22, 2018

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, the speaker-designate for the new Congress, talk to reporters as a revised spending bill is introduced in the House that includes $5 billion demanded by President Donald Trump for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, as Congress tries to avert a partial shutdown, in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Congress fails to solve Trump border demand

Congress closed up shop Friday night without a deal to avert a government shutdown at midnight, becoming snared by President Trump's demands for new border wall money. Published December 21, 2018

Honduran migrants cross the U.S. border wall to San Diego, California from Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018, before turning themselves in to U.S. border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban

The Supreme Court issued an order Friday maintaining a blockade of President Trump's asylum crackdown, preserving the right of anyone who crosses the southern border to demand asylum -- even if they enter illegally. Published December 21, 2018

FILE - In this May 31, 2006, file photo, a man climbs over the international border into Nogales, Ariz., from Nogales, Mexico. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

ICE deports man who smuggled terrorist suspects into U.S.

The U.S. announced this week that it has deported Sharafat Ali Khan, a man convicted of running a major smuggling network for illegal immigrants from terrorist havens in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Published December 20, 2018

In this Dec. 11, 2018 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meets with Democratic leaders in the Oval Office in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Trump threatens to blow up spending deal

President Trump lashed out at Congress Thursday, blasting lawmakers for failing to fund his border wall demands -- and throwing into doubt the chances of passing a bill to fund the government by Friday's deadline. Published December 20, 2018

Experts said they had seen ultralights, small aircraft powered by lawn mower-sized engines, used to drop loads of drugs in the U.S., But they were surprised to see them being used to ferry illegal immigrants. (ICE photograph) ** FILE **

Ultralight aircraft used to smuggle illegals from Mexico to U.S.

Border Patrol agents tracked an ultralight aircraft as it crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and made it 30 miles into the country early Tuesday morning -- and when they got to the landing spot, they found two Chinese men who had been smuggled in by the aircraft. Published December 19, 2018

Annunciation House director Ruben Garcia answers questions from the media after reading a statement from the family of Jakelin Caal Maquin, pictured at left, during a press briefing at Casa Vides, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, in downtown El Paso, Texas. Maquin had received her first pair of shoes several weeks ago, when her father said they would set out together for the U.S., thousands of miles from her impoverished Guatemalan village. Instead she died in a Texas hospital two days after being taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. (Rudy Gutierrez/The El Paso Times via AP) **FILE**

Times Square billboard says DHS ‘murdered’ Guatemalan girl

An immigrant-rights group said it's bought space for a billboard in Times Square in New York to run a message accusing the Border Patrol of murdering the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died after crossing the border earlier this month. Published December 19, 2018