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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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In this June 25, 2014, photo, a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas. The epicenter of the recent surge in illegal immigration is a 5-mile slice of deep South Texas that has become a hot spot for migrants, human smugglers and drug cartels. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Illegal immigration up 200 percent in March along U.S.-Mexico border

Illegal immigration across the southwest border surged 200 percent in March compared to the same month last year, according to Homeland Security statistics released late Wednesday that back up White House's claims that things are quickly deteriorating on the border. The surge also could be a signal that the Senate's debate on legalizing illegal immigrants earlier this year has sparked a new wave of migration. Published April 4, 2018

In this June 12, 2006, file photo, Army National Guard Spc. Gustavo Gutierrez, 23, of Las Cruces, N.M., scans the U.S./Mexico border from the top of Radar Hill, near Columbus, N.M. In his threat Tuesday, April 3, 2018, to use the military on the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised wall is built, President Donald Trump again heaped blame on his predecessor, Barack Obama, and congressional Democrats for creating a dangerous and dysfunctional border. (Norm Dettlaff/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP, file)

Donald Trump signs order deploying National Guard to border

President Trump signed an order Wednesday deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to boost security while he pressures Congress to deliver more resources to build his wall, hire more Border Patrol agents and make it easier to deport new illegal immigrants. Published April 4, 2018

Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) outside the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 21, 2018. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DACA program grows after judges ordered restart

More than 64,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers have applied to renew their status under the Obama-era DACA program since a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restart the program, the government said in new numbers released Tuesday. Published April 3, 2018

The U.S. population now stands at 328,231,337 which is up 6.31 percent since the last national census. (U.S. Census Bureau) ** FILE **

New York, 16 other states sue to stop citizenship question

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Trump administration's decision to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, saying the question will ruin the upcoming count, violating the Constitution's demand for an accurate count. Published April 3, 2018

Central American migrants stand in line for food during the annual Migrant Stations of the Cross caravan or "Via crucis," organized by the "Pueblo Sin Fronteras" activist group, as the caravan makes a few-days stop at a sports center in Matias Romero, Oaxaca state, Mexico, late Monday, April 2, 2018. The annual caravans have been held in southern Mexico for years as an Easter-season protest against the kidnappings, extortion, beatings and killings suffered by many Central American migrants as they cross Mexico. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Mexico says it’s already deported 400 people in ‘Caravan’

The Mexican government says it's already deported 400 people who were part of the caravan of illegal immigrants crossing its territory in a journey from Central America to the U.S. -- but says it's up to American officials, not Mexicans, to stop them from getting into the U.S. Published April 3, 2018

This Feb. 1, 2018, file photo shows an IRS W-4 form in New York. (AP Photo/Barbara Woike, File)

IRS tax return audit rate lowest in 15 years

The IRS is auditing fewer tax returns than at any other time in the past 15 years as the agency struggles with what it says it a shrinking budget and pressure from Congress to be less zealous in enforcement. Published April 2, 2018

In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Border Patrol agents back Trump wall, survey finds

In a new survey conducted by the National Border Patrol Council, the agents' union, they overwhelmingly backed adding a "wall system" in new strategic locations, saying it will boost their ability to nab or deter would-be illegal immigrants. Published April 2, 2018

President Trump lashed out at Democratic lawmakers and Mexican officials after learning about a caravan of migrants making its way to the U.S. border. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump threatens DACA, NAFTA after immigrant caravan

President Trump said Sunday that he was pulling a DACA deal off the table in negotiations with Democrats and warned Mexico to step up its own efforts to control the flow of people headed north across its territory -- or else he will cancel NAFTA. Published April 1, 2018

In this Oct 7, 2013, file photo, attorney 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, a fugitive Kentucky lawyer at the center of a nearly $600 million Social Security fraud case, has fled the country using a fake passport and has gotten help from someone overseas with a job to help support himself, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported Sunday, June 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Curtis Lee Wyatt pleads guilty to helping Eric C. Conn escape U.S.

A man who helped the orchestrator of the largest Social Security fraud in U.S. history cut off his ankle bracelet and fled the country pleaded guilty Friday to his role in the escape, admitting he'd spent months working to set it up. Published April 1, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a tour as he reviews border wall prototypes, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump wall would stretch 1,000 miles on border

The Trump administration's plans for a border wall will put about 1,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border behind some barrier -- up from 654 miles right now, the Border Patrol said Friday. Published March 30, 2018

In this May 1, 2017, file photo, a pregnant Olivia Tincani of Calif., paints a supportive message to immigrant farmworkers as she joins a large group protesters outside the White House to denounce President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies on May Day in Washington. The Trump administration says pregnant women charged with being in the United States illegally will no longer receive special considerations that allowed them to be released while their cases wind through immigration court, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday, March 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) **FILE**

DHS expands detention of pregnant illegals

Homeland Security announced a new policy Thursday that allows it to detain more pregnant illegal immigrants, reversing an Obama-era policy that had generally pushed for pregnant women to be released. Published March 29, 2018