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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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This July 26, 2018, file photo shows people lining up to cross into the United States to begin the process of applying for asylum near the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. A federal judge has extended a freeze on deporting families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, giving a reprieve to hundreds of children and their parents to remain in the United States.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Illegal immigrant families break record

Illegal immigration across the southwest border surged last month as President Trump's zero-tolerance effort crumbled, and smugglers and migrant families rushed to take advantage of renewed "catch-and-release" loopholes. Published September 12, 2018

President Donald Trump, left, listens to a reporters question as FEMA Administrator Brock Long, center, and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, right, listen during a briefing on Hurricane Florence in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

FEMA warns about hurricane as D.C. press chases Trump scandal

A top FEMA official attempted Wednesday to warn people in the path of Hurricane Florence but instead had to shoot down reporters' questions about whether the Trump administration wasted disaster funds on its illegal immigration agenda. Published September 12, 2018

U.S. Senate candidate and U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., speaks to supporters after her primary election victory, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, in Tempe, Ariz. McSally will face U.S. Rep. Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz., in the November election as they seek the seat of retiring U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Martha McSally takes small lead in critical Arizona Senate race

Republican Rep. Martha McSally has managed to overcome divisions from Arizona's GOP Senate primary and has taken a slight lead in the polls over her Democratic opponent, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, according to new numbers this week. Published September 12, 2018

President Donald Trump greets Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi upon his arrival to the White House in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iraq, Trump administration disagree on terms of travel ban deal

Iraq was the first country to earn its way off President Trump's travel ban last year, after the administration said it wanted to thank the Muslim nation for agreeing to start taking back its deportees whom the U.S. was trying to oust. But evidence has emerged suggesting that either Iraq has backslid or the deal was never what the administration said it was in the first place. Published September 11, 2018

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., confer during a news conference following a closed-door GOP meeting on immigration, on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 13, 2018. (Associated Press) **FILE**

House keeps on schedule despite hurricane threat

The House will still come into session this week to vote on major bills, including the first final spending bills of the year, braving the looming hurricane. Published September 11, 2018

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross stands as President Donald Trump and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker speak in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

N.Y. demands Wilbur Ross be deposed in Census citizenship question fight

President Trump's opponents asked a federal judge late Monday to order Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to sit for a sworn deposition to answer questions about why he decided to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, saying there are key matters only he can settle. Published September 11, 2018

In this Sept. 27, 2017, photo, a early morning runner crosses in front of the U.S. Capitol as he passes the flags circling the Washington Monument in Washington. Congress is considering letting President Donald Trump roll back some of the $1.3 trillion federal spending package as Republicans in the House and Senate get hammered politically by conservatives for having approved the big spending bill. Rolling back the funds would be a highly unusual move and could put some lawmakers in the potentially uncomfortable position of having to vote for specific spending opposed by a president from their party. It would also offer Republicans a way to save face. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Lawmakers move 3 spending bills forward for House vote

Negotiators reached a deal Monday on the first three spending bills for the new fiscal year, in what lawmakers touted as the best progress in a decade on making the annual funding process work. Published September 10, 2018

Eric Conn was captured in Honduras and extradited in December. An extra 15 years in prison was added to his sentence for fleeing just before he was slated to testify in a trial against one of the doctors about his role in a massive Social Security fraud case. (Associated Press/File)

Other Eric Conn-type Social Security scams operating, whistleblowers say

The man behind the biggest Social Security fraud in American history was given another 15 years in prison last week, for a total of 27 years behind bars — but those who helped expose his con say the legal penalties shouldn't obscure the very real problems they say led to the fraud, and that remain unfixed even now. Published September 9, 2018

A pair of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents look at tracks in the sand along the floating fence that makes up the international border with Mexico, Wednesday, July 18, 2018, in Imperial County, Calif. About 126-miles of border cuts through the Yuma Sector where thousands of families and unaccompanied children are continuing to cross into Arizona and California even after learning of the government's family separation policy upon apprehension. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

Assaults on ICE, Border Patrol surge as illegal immigrants get more violent

Assaults on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reached a decade high in 2017, and assaults on Border Patrol agents also have surged in recent years, according to government numbers that seem to support agents' claims that immigrants living in the U.S. illegally increasingly are looking to fight rather than flee. Published September 7, 2018

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington. (Associated Press)

Social Security’s ‘Conn’ man gets 27 years in prison

A federal judge slapped an additional 15-year sentence on Social Security fraudster Eric C. Conn, giving him a total of 27 years in prison for his role in the largest disability con in history, and for his subsequent escape. Published September 7, 2018

President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at Hector International Airport in Fargo, N.D., Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Trump is in Fargo to speak at a fundraiser. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump says Barack Obama’s speech a snoozer

President Trump said he "fell asleep" trying to watch President Obama's 2018 election takedown speech Friday -- and bristled at his predecessor's claiming credit for the surging economy. Published September 7, 2018

President Donald Trump talks to reporters while in flight from Billings, Mont., to Fargo, N.D., Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump: Doubling of China trade tariffs ‘ready to go’

President Trump said Friday that he has another $267 billion in tariffs ready to slap on China, calling his testy relationship with that nation "a far bigger problem" than dealing with Russia right now. Published September 7, 2018