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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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First lady Melania Trump speaks at a roundtable at Upbring New Hope Children Center run by the Lutheran Social Services of the South in McAllen, Texas, Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Melania Trump makes surprise visit to detention facility in Texas

First lady Melania Trump made a surprise visit Thursday to a shelter for illegal immigrant children in Texas amid the furor over President Trump's rescinded family separation policy, expressing her desire to see the children reunited with their parents "as quickly as possible." Published June 21, 2018

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., listens during questioning of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz during a joint House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing examining Horowitz's report of the FBI's Clinton email probe, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 19, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

House immigration bills will fail: Conservatives

House conservatives said Thursday that both immigration bills up for votes later in the day are doomed to defeat, blaming party leaders for failing to put their effort behind enforcement-heavy legislation. Published June 21, 2018

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. More than 2,300 minors have been separated from their parents since April, when the Trump administration launched its "zero-tolerance" policy that called for prosecuting illegal immigrants and taking their children away. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

Border focus shifts to 2,300 kids already taken from parents

Having convinced President Trump to reverse separation of most illegal immigrant parents from children at the border, Democrats in Congress now say he must quickly reunite the more than 2,300 children who were taken during the six weeks the practice was in place. Published June 21, 2018

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Republican members of Congress on immigration in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Senate blocks Donald Trump’s spending cuts

Senators voted Wednesday to block President Trump's $15.4 billion spending cuts package, with lawmakers saying it trimmed the budget too much. Published June 20, 2018

President Donald Trump holds up the executive order he signed to end family separations, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump signs executive order stopping family separations

President Trump signed an order Wednesday ending the separation of families at the border, moving to end a crisis that engulfed his administration and threatened to derail his hopes of progress on broader immigration reforms. Published June 20, 2018

Protesters stand outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (Ivan Pierre Aguirre/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

House to vote on immigration Thursday

If Democrats want to stop family separations at the border, they'll get their chance in the vote on the House GOP's new compromise immigration bill, now slated for Thursday night, Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Wednesday. Published June 20, 2018

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pauses for reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Medicaid fraud exploded after Obamacare expansion: GOP report

Medicaid fraud has risen and bogus payments have more than doubled since Obamacare expanded the government's chief health insurance program for the poor, topping $37 billion a year, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Senate's chief watchdog committee. Published June 20, 2018

"There's no need for legislation," said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. "Mr. President, you started it, you can stop it, plain and simple." (Associated Press)

Democrats no help to Donald Trump, Republicans on family separation issue

Republicans thought they'd found a solution Tuesday to the separation of illegal immigrant families on the border, announcing plans to let the families stay together in Homeland Security detention facilities while they await deportation. But Democrats quickly shot down any thought of signing on, saying they're in no rush to help Mr. Trump clean up the mess they say he's made. Published June 19, 2018

Immigrant children play outside a former Job Corps site that now houses them, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Homestead, Fla. It is not known if the children crossed the border as unaccompanied minors or were separated from family members. Wrenching scenes of migrant children being separated from their parents at the southern border are roiling campaigns ahead of midterm elections, emboldening Democrats on the often-fraught issue of immigration (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Senate GOP promises family separation bill in ‘matter of days’

Senate Republican leaders said Tuesday they're rushing to try to pass a bill that would end family separations at the border, saying the solution is a middle-ground option that would keep parents out of jail but instead put them into family facilities where they can be held with their children. Published June 19, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks to the National Federation of Independent Businesses 75th Anniversary Celebration, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump: ‘You have to take the children away’

President Trump said Tuesday that he's compelled to 'take the children away' from parents at the border in order to follow through on prosecuting illegal border jumpers, and blamed reporters for being complicit with human smugglers carrying the children to the border. Published June 19, 2018

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes questions from reporters following a closed-door GOP meeting on immigration, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Ryan says compromise legislation is in the works on immigration that has an "actual chance at making law and solving this problem." The Wisconsin Republican gave an upbeat assessment to reporters after brokering a deal between party factions on a process to consider rival GOP immigration plans to protect young "Dreamer" immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ICE officers’ union blasts ‘Ryan amnesty’ plan

The National ICE Council warned President Trump on Tuesday against embracing House GOP leaders' new immigration bill, saying it amounts to an amnesty that "recklessly" repeats the mistakes of the failed Obama-era "Gang of 8" bill. Published June 19, 2018

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said his team found major problems with the FBI's handling of the Clinton probe in 2016. (Associated Press)

Justice Department IG: FBI missed biased text messages

The FBI missed critical text messages showing top employees' anti-Trump bias, and it took investigators three attempts and the use of Defense Department technology to uncover them, the Justice Department inspector general told senators Monday. Published June 18, 2018

President Trump, for his part, said he won't accept the border being overrun. "The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility. It won't be," he said. (Associated Press)

Republicans abandon Donald Trump over ‘zero tolerance’ border policy

Congressional Republicans beat a full-scale retreat Monday from the administration's zero-tolerance border policy, joining Democrats to demand that President Trump stop jailing parents and find ways to keep families together while trying to stop a new surge of illegal immigration. Published June 18, 2018