Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Feds tell courts not to get involved in family separation issue
The Trump administration begged the courts Tuesday not to wade into the border family separation crisis, saying the government should be given time to work out what it's going to do about more than 2,000 children who were taken from their parents after the zero-tolerance policy. Published June 26, 2018
Trump says travel ban ruling is ‘tremendous victory’
Vindicated by the Supreme Court's Tuesday ruling upholding his travel ban policy, President Trump called it a "tremendous victory" and a rebuke to the "hysterical commentary" from anti-Trump critics who'd accused him of religious hatred and racism. Published June 26, 2018
Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban
President Trump's travel ban policy is both legal and constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, delivering a massive victory to the White House and dashing hopes of Democrats and activists who hoped the justices would join the resistance. Published June 26, 2018
White House says DHS ‘out of resources’ to prosecute families
The administration poked holes in its own zero-tolerance immigration policy Monday after the man who oversees the Border Patrol said they are no longer prosecuting illegal immigrant parents and the White House said they are out of resources to hold them anyway. Published June 25, 2018
Feds deliver ultimatum to ‘Occupy ICE’ protesters: Leave or face arrest
The federal government threatened Monday to jail protesters who have blockaded the ICE building in Portland, Oregon, saying that while they have a right to protest they cannot entirely shut down a federal agency's operations. Published June 25, 2018
Mark Pocan, Dem congressman, to write bill abolishing ICE
A Democratic congressman returned Monday from a border visit to say he's writing a bill that would abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying it's become a tool for "white nationalists." Published June 25, 2018
Supreme Court orders Washington to reconsider same-sex marriage First Amendment case
The Supreme Court on Monday vacated a Washington state ruling that found a florist violated the rights of a same-sex couple she refused to sell flowers for their wedding ceremony and ordered a do-over. Published June 25, 2018
Sandra Sanchez, mother of iconic child, bogus for asylum
The mother and child in that now-iconic photo of family separation not only weren't separated, but their claims of asylum are also likely bogus, experts tell The Washington Times. Published June 24, 2018
More than 500 children reunited with families after Trump ends family separation
More than 500 children held in Border Patrol custody have now been reunited with their parents and the rest who were separated under the zero-tolerance border policy will be connected within a day, the government said late Saturday. Published June 23, 2018
DHS blames DACA for feeding surge of illegal-immigrant families
The Trump administration for the first time connected the Obama-era DACA program to the surge of children and families on the border, in new court documents filed Friday laying out in more expansive detail why the courts should invalidate DACA. Published June 23, 2018
Stories of family separation
One illegal immigrant mother from Guatemala says that during the phone calls she's had with her son, he cries for most of the time. Published June 22, 2018
CNN, MSNBC cut away from Trump event with ‘Angel Families’
Two major cable TV news channels cut away from President Trump's event Friday with families of people killed by illegal immigrants, switching to coverage of illegal immigrant families complaining about treatment at the border. Published June 22, 2018
Maryland court tosses attempt to punish Hillary Clinton lawyers over email scandal
Maryland's top court this week rejected an attempt to punish Hillary Clinton's lawyers for their role in deleting her emails, overturning a lower court that had approved a misconduct investigation. Published June 22, 2018
House Republicans cancel immigration votes
Staring at a certain defeat, House Republicans canceled votes on their immigration compromise Thursday -- an embarrassing setback for leaders who'd thought they'd finally been able to wrangle some unanimity on an issue that's bedeviled them for years. Published June 21, 2018
House postpones immigration showdown to Friday
GOP leaders postponed a vote on their compromise immigration bill until Friday after conservatives said the bill can't pass. Published June 21, 2018
Feds ask judge to overturn ‘Flores’ ruling; Trump blames ruling for family separations
The Justice Department asked a federal judge Thursday to expand family detention, seeking permission to hold children beyond the 20-day limit set in a 2015 court ruling. Published June 21, 2018
House defeats first GOP immigration bill
The House defeated the first of two GOP immigration bills Thursday, rejecting an enforcement-heavy approached favored by conservatives that would have mixed a narrow legalization for "Dreamers" with a major boost in border and interior enforcement. Published June 21, 2018
El Salvador to refuse U.S. deportations until children are reunited with parents
The government of El Salvador said Thursday it won't accept back deportees from the U.S. unless it's certain they have gone through the full legal process and have been reunited with their children. Published June 21, 2018
Trump: Democrats ‘don’t care about the children’
Democrats are exploiting illegal immigrant children for their own political purposes, President Trump asserted Thursday, seemingly preparing the country for the failure of a number of GOP immigration bills on Capitol Hill. Published June 21, 2018
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