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Articles by Stephen Dinan

People line up against a border wall as they wait to apply for asylum after crossing the border from Mexico. Tuesday, July 11, 2023, near Yuma, Arizona. Thousands of migrants from the north African country of Mauritania have arrived in the U.S. in recent months, following a new route taking them to Nicaragua and up through the southern border. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Gunshots at border as smugglers take aim at agents

Homeland Security has detected multiple instances of people armed with guns sneaking into the U.S. from Mexico, including one where agents trying to arrest a group of illegal immigrants came under fire twice.

August 26, 2023
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, ahead of the lifting of Title 42. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Buying friends: Mayorkas gave $1 billion in extra vacation to DHS employees

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has granted his employees more than $1 billion worth of additional taxpayer-funded vacation time, according to department staffers, who say Mr. Mayorkas is using taxpayers' money in an ill-fated attempt to win affection from an alienated workforce.

August 24, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris tours McKinstry's facilities after giving remarks ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Trump unloads on Democrats’ presidential hopefuls

Former President Donald Trump delivered a withering critique of the Democrats who might compete for the presidency should President Biden not "make it to the gate" -- and he was particularly brutal about Vice President Kamala Harris.

August 24, 2023
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

GOP prods Mayorkas over ‘ignorance’ of smuggling cartel tactics

The House Homeland Security Committee is probing a breakdown in Homeland Security's ability to share critical intelligence about border security after Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas showed an astonishing "ignorance" about how the smuggling cartels operate.

August 22, 2023

Border chaos rises, undercutting Mayorkas’ claims of progress

Illegal immigration across the southern border surged in July, challenging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' claims of progress in gaining control of the chaos that's reigned since the start of the Biden administration.

August 18, 2023
Migrants wave as a bus leaves to take them to a refugee center outside Union Station in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Chicago officials say 75 immigrants have arrived in the city on buses from Texas, as part of an aggressive border policy by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office confirmed that the migrants arrived Wednesday night and that the city has welcomed them and will make sure they receive shelter and food. (Anthony Vazquez /Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Texas ships 30,000th migrant to blue-state sanctuary cities

Texas has now bused more than 30,000 migrants from its state to sanctuary cities across the country, Gov. Greg Abbott announced, taking a victory lap on what has been the most effective GOP public relations effort against President Biden's border policies.

August 11, 2023