Stephen Dinan

Texas attorney general rejects Biden demands over border standoff

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton flatly rejected the federal government's demands that the state relinquish access to a key illegal immigrant staging ground on the Rio Grande, saying the Department of Homeland Security should spend more time enforcing the border and less time suing Texas.

January 26, 2024

DHS reports worst border numbers in history as House moves to impeach Mayorkas

More than 371,000 illegal immigrants were encountered entering the U.S. in December, Homeland Security reported on Friday, delivering a final devastating report card just days before Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will face an impeachment vote in a House committee.

January 26, 2024

IRS worker who leaked Trump’s taxes begs for leniency, tells court he acted to ‘benefit society’

The IRS consultant who leaked tax returns of former President Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans pleaded with a judge to show some leniency, casting himself as digital-era Robin Hood, crusading to steal data from the privileged in a bid to "benefit society."

January 26, 2024

Trump urges support for Texas in border ‘invasion’ fight with Biden

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott must be given "full support" in his standoff with President Biden over the border, including the state's ability to "repel" illegal immigrants.

January 25, 2024

NSA secretly buying Americans’ data without a warrant

The National Security Agency has secretly been buying Americans' internet records and using them for spying purposes without obtaining a warrant, a senior senator revealed Thursday.

January 25, 2024

DHS performed unnecessary sterilizations on migrant detainees, watchdog says

Homeland Security's deportation agency performed at least two unnecessary sterilizations on immigrant women, the department's inspector general said Thursday, confirming the gist of whistleblower allegations raised during the Trump administration.

January 25, 2024

Biden begs Mexico to solve his border woes

Unable or unwilling to secure the border on his own, President Biden has decided to outsource the job to Mexico -- and it's working.

January 25, 2024

Border deal with Ukraine aid on the verge of collapse in Senate

Top Senate Republicans said bipartisan talks to address the crisis at the southern border are on life support with former President Donald Trump turning GOP lawmakers against it.

January 25, 2024

Border wall materials sold at discount; Air Force nominee says sales part of effort to duck Congress

The administration's expanding border wall troubles have infected President Biden's nominee for undersecretary of the Air Force, who encountered trouble on Capitol Hill this week over her role in the Pentagon's hasty and wasteful sell-off of the construction materials.

January 24, 2024

Defiant Texas Gov. Abbott cites migrant ‘invasion’ in escalation with Biden over border

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a defiant statement Wednesday saying Texas has a constitutional right to defend its borders, after the Supreme Court ruled that the feds could cut down the state's razor wire border fence.

January 24, 2024

House committee sets vote next week on Mayorkas impeachment

The House Homeland Security Committee announced it will meet next Tuesday to vote on articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

January 24, 2024

Senator blames Biden’s vacation culture for defense secretary’s hospital fiasco

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's bizarre absence from work got plenty of attention, but he wasn't the only government bigwig who's gone MIO -- missing in office.

January 23, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson says Biden ‘can’t be trusted’ on border

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said President Biden "can't be trusted" on the border, further complicating negotiations on a national security spending deal.

January 23, 2024

Federal agency spent $20 billion to welcome migrants over past two years

The federal agency responsible for busing, sheltering and supporting the largely unauthorized immigrant population pouring across America's borders spent nearly $20 billion over the past two years, according to a new report.

January 23, 2024

Justices side with Biden over Texas in razor wire border fence case

The Supreme Court on Monday issued an order allowing federal Border Patrol agents to cut through Texas's razor-wire border fence, delivering a win to President Biden's border policies.

January 22, 2024

Winning: Trump victorious in nearly all ‘insurrection’ lawsuits to toss him off the ballot

Former President Donald Trump is on a bit of a winning streak in court rulings, prevailing in every decision about blocking him from the ballot this year except for the Colorado Supreme Court.

January 22, 2024

Border security negotiators can’t hide from constituents on social media

When senators tried to power through an amnesty for illegal immigrants in 2007, the bill was met with an avalanche of phone calls and faxes from angry voters who helped doom the measure to defeat. Fast-forward to today. The one place they can't escape constituents is on social media, and that's where a new immigration pressure group plans to hound them.

January 20, 2024

GOP has enough support to bring Mayorkas impeachment to House floor

All Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee announced their support Thursday for impeaching Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, signaling that the case has enough votes to clear the panel and head to the full chamber for a vote.

January 18, 2024

Prosecutor says Hunter Biden could face up to 21 months in prison on gun charges

Hunter Biden faces real prison time -- between 15 and 21 months -- if he is convicted on the gun charges he faces, prosecutors have told a federal judge.

January 18, 2024

Border victims’ families berate Mayorkas for not testifying over impeachment

A mother whose daughter died at the hands of an illegal immigrant and another whose daughter died of a fentanyl overdose laid blame at the feet of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, telling Congress on Thursday that his policies opened the border and unleashed death.

January 18, 2024