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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Children detained at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility color and draw, part of the many activities as well as meals and clothing they are provided at taxpayer expense. (Associated Press)

Illegal immigrant children on border quadrupled in May

The number of children surging across the border illegally quadrupled in May compared with a year ago at the same time, and the number of people traveling as families is up sixfold, according to Homeland Security statistics released Wednesday. Published June 6, 2018

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., is shown standing while listening as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo answers questions from the panel just after President Donald Trump canceled the June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, citing the "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement from North Korea, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 24, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Senators announce bill to stop Trump tariffs

A bipartisan group of senators struck back against President Trump's new tariffs on U.S. allies, announcing legislation Wednesday that would give Congress a chance to review any new duties before they take effect. Published June 6, 2018

Demonstrators supporting the group Border Dreamers and other advocates for an open border policy hold signs while lining a walking bridge inside United States behind Customs and Border Protection officers who are blocking the vehicle entrance to the United States Monday, March 10, 2014, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi )

DACA fix will spur new wave of illegal immigration: ICE chief

Passing a "clean" Dream Act to legalize "Dreamers" will spur a new wave of illegal immigration and create a new population that will need an amnesty 10 or 20 years in the future, the government's chief deportation official said Tuesday. Published June 5, 2018

Eric Conn is escorted by SWAT team agents prior to his extradition, at the Toncontin International Airport, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. Conn, a fugitive Kentucky lawyer who escaped before facing sentencing for his central role in a massive Social Security fraud case, was captured as he came out of a restaurant in the coastal city of La Ceiba. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo) ** FILE **

Eric C. Conn, Social Security con man, pleads guilty to jumping bail

The lawyer who orchestrated the largest disability fraud in Social Security history pleaded guilty Monday to retaliating against a whistleblower who exposed the scam, and also for jumping bail last year to try to avoid being sentenced for the fraud. Published June 4, 2018

In this Oct. 24, 2013 photo, Mark Risinger, 16, checks his Facebook page on his computer as his mother, Amy Risinger, looks on at their home in Glenview, Ill. The recommendations are bound to prompt eye-rolling and LOLs from many teens but an influential pediatrician's group says unrestricted media use has been linked with violence, cyber-bullying, school woes, obesity, lack of sleep and a host of other problems. Mark’s mom said she agrees with restricting kids’ time on social media but that deciding on other media limits should be up to parents. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Bill would give kids chance to erase online profile

Two prominent Democrats announced a new bill Monday to give kids a chance to erase any data internet companies collected on them before they turned 13, saying children deserve a chance to experiment online without having it follow them for their whole lives. Published June 4, 2018

President Donald Trump poses at his desk in this Oval Office photo.

Donald Trump claims broad war powers in new DOJ memo

The Justice Department said President Trump can unilaterally commit the military whenever he claims vital U.S. interests are at stake, releasing a new legal briefing defending his decision to launch military strikes against Syria's chemical weapons capability in April. Published June 1, 2018

Children detained at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility color and draw, part of the many activities as well as meals and clothing they are provided at taxpayer expense. (Associated Press)

illegal immigrant children cost taxpayers $670 a day

Illegal immigrant children set up in comfy dormitories, coloring with "multicultural crayons," watching their favorite soccer teams from back home on the extensive cable system, even kicking the ball around themselves on a beautiful new soccer field -- all paid for by taxpayers. Published May 30, 2018

The Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md., on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Social Security pays benefits to hundreds of dead people

Social Security just can't stop paying dead people. The massive public pensions system will pay millions this year to people it knows are dead -- in many cases, it even has death certificate numbers listed -- but officials can't seem to figure out how to stop outgoing benefit checks, according to a new inspector general's audit announced Wednesday. Published May 30, 2018

In this Feb. 9, 2017, photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE agents stand outside a home in Atlanta during a targeted enforcement operation aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminals living in the country illegally. (Bryan Cox/ICE via AP) **FILE**

ICE sweep nabs 156 for deportation in Chicago

Federal officers arrested 156 illegal immigrants and other people eligible to be deported from around the Chicago area over a six-day period, Homeland Security announced Tuesday. Published May 29, 2018

Two female detainees sleep in a holding cell, as the children are separated by age group and gender, as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz., on June 18, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

White House says more detention would solve immigration

Administration officials delivered a vehement defense Tuesday of President Trump's attempts to blame Democrats for putting children at risk in the immigration process, saying the party's lawmakers in Washington are blocking the kinds of changes needed to stem the flow of children and families. Published May 29, 2018