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Articles by Stephen Dinan

Migrants sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott arrive near 30th Street Station Wednesday morning, Nov. 16, 2022, in Philadelphia. Abbott has sent the buses to Democratic-led cities as a way to maximize exposure over what he says is inaction by the Biden administration over high numbers of migrants crossing on the southern border. (AP Photo/Joe Lamberti) **FILE**

Texas sends first bus of migrants to Los Angeles

Texas sent its first busload of migrants to Los Angeles on Wednesday as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's campaign to make "sanctuary cities" feel the pain of the current border surge.

June 14, 2023
President Joe Biden walks down the hall after speaking at a chiefs of mission reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Rep. Lauren Boebert announces impeachment bid against Biden

Rep. Lauren Boebert announced articles of impeachment Tuesday against President Biden over the crisis at the southern border, saying the president must be removed from office for failing to uphold the laws governing illegal immigration.

June 13, 2023
From left, Chris Fonzone, General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, George Barnes, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), David Cohen, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Paul Abbate, Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Matt Olsen, Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, are sworn in before testifying at a Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee hearing to examine Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and related surveillance authorities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FBI pleads to keep FISA spy powers despite concerns over growing abuses

Senior intelligence officials sought to shock Congress on Tuesday into renewing controversial spy powers, saying without the so-called "Section 702" ability to scoop up global communications the CIA and FBI would struggle to stop Iranian assassination attempts, Chinese hackers, Russian crimes in Ukraine, and drug smugglers pouring fentanyl across America's southern border.

June 13, 2023
A Border Patrol agent watches as a group of migrants walks across the Rio Grande on their way to turn themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. U.S. government data shows that 42% of all families encountered along the border in May hailed from places other than Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — the traditional drivers of migratory trends. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

DHS renews deportation amnesty for 350,000 migrants

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas renewed a deportation amnesty for some 350,000 migrants from four countries on Tuesday, but did not reopen the amnesty for new people to apply.

June 13, 2023
Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. U.S. authorities say an 8-year-old girl died Wednesday, May 17, in Border Patrol custody, a rare occurrence that comes as the agency struggles with overcrowding. The Border Patrol had 28,717 people in custody on May 10, the day before pandemic-related asylum restrictions expired, which was double from two weeks earlier, according to a court filing. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

GOP probes use of air marshals, Secret Service at the border

House Republicans launched a probe Thursday into Homeland Security's move to shift some 1,400 department employees to the border last month, saying the department is risking national security by pulling air marshals and Secret Service agents from their regular duties to help process migrants.

June 8, 2023
Migrants cross a barbed-wire barrier at the U.S.-Mexico border, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

Senior DHS official says border is not ‘a success’

Homeland Security's assistant secretary for the border said Tuesday that the chaos that's reigned on the U.S.-Mexico boundary has not been "a success," as he faced a grilling from congressional Republicans who said he's running a "shell game" to hide just how bad conditions are.

June 6, 2023