Stephen Dinan

GOP lawmaker files articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Mayorkas

A House Republican has filed the first articles of impeachment in the new Congress, targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failing to secure the southern border and then misleading lawmakers about his efforts.

January 11, 2023

Biden greets new GOP majority with rough talk and veto threat

It didn't take long for President Biden and the new House GOP majority to get off on the wrong foot.

January 11, 2023

House passes bill to cancel hiring of more IRS agents, stop new audits

Republicans flexed their new House majority to take a first swipe at President Biden on Monday, approving a bill that would claw back tens of billions of dollars from the IRS that Democrats had hoped would help the tax agency audit more Americans.

January 9, 2023

White House vows to veto first GOP bill on cutting IRS funding

The White House vowed Monday that President Biden would veto House Republicans' first bill, which would claw back tens of billions of dollars from the IRS.

January 9, 2023

Michigan paid $3.3B in pandemic unemployment to people with no work history

In a random sampling of 60 claims, auditors found a third of them showed suspicious assertions of self-employment that should have been followed up.

January 9, 2023

Biden visits border, sees more money as solution to chaos

President Biden took a walk Sunday along the border wall in El Paso, Texas, getting his first up-close look at the boundary that has bedeviled his administration with two years of unprecedented chaos and saying the solution is more money.

January 8, 2023

Texas governor hand-delivers letter demanding Biden secure the border

The Republican governor accused Mr. Biden of having "sanitized" the city by ousting migrants who had been swamping the city streets, trying to lessen the visual impact of the surge of illegal immigration.

January 8, 2023

12 terrorism suspects nabbed sneaking across southern border, according to DHS data

Border Patrol agents caught 12 illegal immigrants in November whose names popped on the terrorism watchlist, according to new data revealed this week by the Department of Homeland Security.

January 6, 2023

IRS completes pandemic unemployment refunds, pays $15 billion back to taxpayers

The IRS said Friday that it has finished repaying nearly 12 million taxpayers who overpaid on their 2020 returns after getting unemployment benefits during the pandemic.

January 6, 2023

Federal contractor pleads guilty to helping Afghans cheat to immigrate to U.S.

A federal contractor pleaded guilty this week to forging bogus recommendation letters for Afghans, helping them portray themselves as allies who aided the American war effort and who deserved to win special visas to reach the U.S.

January 6, 2023

Biden’s immigration allies revolt over new border policy

President Biden's allies in the immigrant-rights movement revolted en masse on Thursday after seeing the details of his new border policy and pronouncing it a betrayal of his promises to them.

January 5, 2023

Two years later, the FBI is still on the hunt for Jan. 6 rioters

Soon after the mob engulfed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a tipster pointed the FBI to a TikTok video of the chaos that was taken from scaffolding inside an off-limits area of the grounds.

January 5, 2023

Biden pivots on border chaos, turns to Trump-style expulsions and blockades

President Biden revealed a new approach to border security on Thursday, coupling a massive new path for some migrants from Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua to reach the U.S. while promising Trump-style expulsions and blockades to stop those who refuse to use his new avenues of entry.

January 5, 2023

Biden turns to Trump policies to solve border chaos

President Biden will announce a new approach to border security on Thursday, creating massive new avenues for some migrants from Haiti, Cuba and Nicaragua to enter the U.S., while vowing to use Trump-style expulsions and blockades to stop those who refuse to use the legal pathways.

January 5, 2023

Feds grant deportation amnesty to high-profile ‘Dreamer’ who challenged Trump-era crackdown

The Biden administration reached a deal Wednesday granting a four-year stay of deportation and a chance at permanent legal status to a high-profile illegal immigrant "Dreamer" who claimed he'd been unfairly targeted by the Trump administration.

January 4, 2023

Prisons officials cleared in death of Jamel Floyd

Federal prison guards appear to have acted within policy when they deployed pepper spray on inmate Jamel Floyd in 2020 in an incident that ended with his death, an inspector general concluded.

January 4, 2023

What you bought them: Pandemic aid feeds thieves’ hunger for luxury goods

Valesky Barosy was an up-and-coming entrepreneur, having immigrated from Haiti and quickly making a name for himself in southern Florida as a million-dollar dealmaker.

January 4, 2023

House GOP’s agenda, ready to go, is sidelined until Republicans can agree on new speaker

House Republicans know where they want to lead the country, even if they don't yet know who their actual leader will be.

January 3, 2023

Outgoing Arizona AG says border ‘has never been worse’

Mark Brnovich has watched as Arizona's border has deteriorated, saying that by any measure, the boundary with Mexico "has never been worse."

January 3, 2023

Pay up: Homeland Security proposes massive boost in fees for immigrant workers

Homeland Security on Tuesday proposed a massive increase in fees paid by immigrants, saying it needs to sweat nearly $2 billion more per year out of migrants and the families and companies seeking to sponsor them in order to keep up with its workload.

January 3, 2023