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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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In this file photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, right, speaks during a roundtable at the Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center in Reston, Va., Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

DHS expands power to initiate deportations

The Trump administration has expanded the government's deportation powers, issuing guidelines urging officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services -- the legal immigration agency -- to begin the removal process for people who use fraudulent documents or who illegally took government benefits. Published July 5, 2018

In this March 27, 2018, file photo, David Hernandez, left, Genevieve Peters, center, and Jennifer Martinez celebrate after the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted to join the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against the State of California's sanctuary cities law (SB54) during their meeting in Santa Ana, Calif. Leaders of California's second-largest county voted Tuesday, April 17, 2018, to officially support the Trump administration's lawsuit against the state's so-called sanctuary law that limits police cooperation with federal immigration agents. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP, File)

Judge gives green light to California’s sanctuary laws

A federal judge upheld the bulk of California's sanctuary laws Thursday, delivering a major victory to immigrant rights advocates and blazing a path for states and localities to consider as they seek ways to resist President Trump's immigration policy. Published July 5, 2018

Hundreds of activists protest the Trump administration's approach to illegal border crossings and separation of children from immigrant parents, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

No children reunited yet from border separations

The federal government will have to cut corners on safety checks in order to meet a federal judge's "extreme" deadlines to reunify families separated at the border, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday. Published July 5, 2018

In this June 29, 2018, photo, Sirley Silveira Paixao, an immigrant from Brazil seeking asylum, left, and paralegal and interpreter Luana Mason listen on the phone to Denise Brown, director of Heartland Human Care Service, on the procedures Paixao needs to fulfill to get her son Diego released from immigration detention in Chicago. Seated with them are Lidia Karine Souza, second from right, and her son Diogo, who recently was released from immigration detention. Paixao and her son arrived in this country from Brazil on May 22, and were separated shortly after. She was released on June 13 and has been living in Massachusetts, while her son was taken to Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Feds blame congressional meddling for stopping family unification

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department chided members of Congress on Tuesday for all the demands to visit the dorms where illegal immigrant children are staying, saying the hundreds of hours it took to show facilities to lawmakers could have been better spent reuniting parents and children. Published July 3, 2018

In this June 28, 2018 photo, Salvadoran deportees arriving from McAllen, Texas, listen to instructions from an immigration officer at La Chacra Immigration Center in San Salvador, El Salvador. Very few gang members try to get into the United States. In fiscal year 2017, the U.S. Border Patrol carried out 310,531 detentions of people who were in the U.S. illegally, but only 0.09 percent of them belonged to the gangs operating in Central America, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Voters say both Dems, President Trump exploiting immigration

The public seems fed up with both President Trump and congressional Democrats when it comes to immigration, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll Tuesday that shows both sides are seen to be exploiting the issue for political gain. Published July 3, 2018

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