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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., questions Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kamala Harris sides with MS-13 over ICE, White House says

The White House fired an extraordinary shot at Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday, taking to Twitter to accuse her of siding with a violent criminal gang over the country's immigration enforcement agency. Published July 2, 2018

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had tried to deport Luis Rodrigo Perez after he was arrested on domestic violence charges in Middlesex County, New Jersey, last year. (Associated Press/File)

Asylum seekers must be considered for parole, judge rules

A federal judge punched another hole in the Trump administration's get-tough approach to asylum-seekers Monday, ruling that the government must consider granting them parole to be released into the U.S. while their cases are being heard. Published July 2, 2018

Activists have placed signs on the doors of the Department of Justice to protest immigration policy. (Associated Press)

Immigration activists condemn ICE, family detention

Far from settling the family separation issue, President Trump's executive order last month has only solidified the battle lines, with his administration saying it is left with no choice but to keep entire families detained and Democrats and liberal activists saying no illegal immigrants should be detained at all. Published July 1, 2018

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2017, file photo, acting Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan, right, speaks as U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello, looks on at a Department of Homeland Security news conference in Washington. At a round table on sanctuary cities at the White House on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, Homan mentioned three Northern California cases as examples of "undocumented criminals" who have reoffended after being released by California authorities. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

Ronald D. Vitiello named new ICE chief

A former top Border Patrol official was tapped Saturday to be the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Published June 30, 2018

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, right, and Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, left, talk during a prison reform roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the Washington. Kentucky has become the first state to win approval from the Trump administration requiring many of its Medicaid recipients to work to receive coverage. The Trump administration gave the go ahead Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Judge rejects attempt to add work requirement to Medicaid

A federal judge has put Kentucky's Medicaid work requirement on hold, ruling that the Trump administration cut too many corners in granting an Obamacare waiver to the state for its experimental policy. Published June 29, 2018

Eric Conn gestures as he invokes his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Conn had help in carrying out the escape plot he hatched a year before fleeing, according to a federal indictment. The indictment, released Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, alleges that an employee of Conn, the missing lawyer, opened a bank account that Conn used to transfer money out of the country. It also claims that the employee, Curtis Lee Wyatt, tested security at the U.S-Mexico border at Conn's direction, and purchased a pickup truck for use in Conn's escape in early June. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Social Security fraud henchman nets 7-month sentence

Curtis Wyatt, who served as henchman and enforcer for the man who ran the largest Social Security fraud in U.S. history, was sentenced Friday to seven months in jail for part of his role in the scam. Published June 29, 2018

Attorney General Jefferson Sessions' four new Justice Department grant solicitations will give preference to jurisdictions that are more open to immigration cooperation. (Associated Press/File)

Sanctuary cities pressured with Justice grant programs

The Justice Department broadened its effort to rein in sanctuary cities Thursday, announcing new conditions on four grant programs designed to pressure localities to provide information and access to federal immigration authorities. Published June 28, 2018

First lady Melania Trump talks with Rodolfo Karisch, Chief Patrol Agent, Tucson Sector Border Patrol, as she visits a U.S. Customs border and protection facility in Tucson, Ariz., Thursday, June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Melania Trump shocked by smugglers’ cruelty during border visit

First lady Melania Trump, visiting Arizona to get another firsthand look at the immigration situation, was told that the government is doing all it can for the children and families streaming across the border, including rescuing them from danger and providing them top-notch care. Published June 28, 2018

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, right, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, left, are sworn in to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2018, on Justice Department and FBI actions around the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House imposes July 6 deadline for DOJ to turn over Russia documents

The House voted Thursday to impose a one-week deadline on the Justice Department to turn over sensitive documents detailing the FBI's handling of investigations during the 2016 election, ramping up the heat in a major separation of powers battle. Published June 28, 2018

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks with reporters following a closed door luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mitch McConnell on court schedule: ‘This is not 2016’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell renewed his vow to vote on a new Supreme Court justice this fall, taking to the Senate floor Thursday to reject Democrats' demands to put it off until next year. Published June 28, 2018

"Mr. President, here's your chance," said Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles E. Schumer (center.) "Join us. We'd like to do this on a bipartisan basis," said the New York Democrat, regarding immigration reform legislation currently being debated in Congress. (Associated Press)

Border children must be reunited with parents, judge rules

The Trump administration struggled to respond Wednesday after the federal courts took control of the family separation crisis, ordering a halt to most separations and setting deadlines for reunification. Published June 27, 2018

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaks to faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania law school, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Anthony Kennedy retirement ends tenure as nation’s decider-in-chief

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who announced his retirement Wednesday, has been the decider-in-chief on most of the major controversial cases to rise to the Supreme Court ever since 2006, which is when the court's balance shifted to him, after Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement. Published June 27, 2018

Sen. Chuck Schumer. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Chuck Schumer: Don’t vote on new justice until next year

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised the country Wednesday that a new justice will be confirmed to the Supreme Court this fall, setting out an ambitious goal for himself to approve a key seat with the narrowest of majorities. Published June 27, 2018