Stephen Dinan

Texas starts busing illegal immigrants directly to New York

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said his state has started busing migrants straight to New York, as he seeks to make other communities share a little bit of the struggles his state has faced with the Biden migrant surge.

August 5, 2022

DHS pauses border wall construction in San Diego

Customs and Border Protection hit pause Thursday on plans to erect a more modern 30-foot border wall at Friendship Park in San Diego, bowing to complaints from the community.

August 4, 2022

Hundreds of Afghan evacuees in U.S. without vetting, GOP senators say

Hundreds of Afghan evacuees reached the U.S. despite appearing on a Defense Department watchlist or a crucial counterterrorism database, Republican senators charged Thursday, citing the claims of a whistleblower.

August 4, 2022

FBI chief calls border a ‘significant security issue’

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said Thursday that the chaos at the southern border is a security issue, and called the flow of people "staggering."

August 4, 2022

Feds announce bust of Guatemalan migrant-smuggling ring

Federal authorities on Thursday announced the takedown of a Guatemalan smuggling ring they said is responsible for "large numbers" of illegal immigrants making their way to the U.S. -- and was involved in the death of one migrant woman in Texas last year.

August 4, 2022

Supreme Court’s first Black female justice expected to weigh in on affirmative action

The Supreme Court is taking pains to make sure its first Black female justice gets to take part in at least some of the looming arguments over affirmative action policies.

August 3, 2022

GOP senators sound alarm over terrorist suspects at southern border

Republican senators said Wednesday it's a "near certainty" that terrorism suspects have sneaked into the U.S. over the porous southern border on President Biden's watch, and they challenged the administration's claims the boundary is secure.

August 3, 2022

Taxpayers brace for ‘supercharged’ IRS under Dems’ budget plan

The IRS is about to get a lot more nosy. If Democrats succeed in passing their new climate and budget package this month, it will add some $80 billion to the IRS over the next decade, with the majority of that going to enforcement.

August 3, 2022

Mayorkas faces new call for impeachment from bilingual publication

El American, a conservative-leaning bilingual news site, called Monday for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to be impeached, labeling him a "cynical, incompetent and dishonest political actor."

August 1, 2022

Texas governor invites D.C., NYC mayors to visit border for personal look at migrant ‘crisis’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday invited the mayors of New York and Washington to visit the border and get a first-hand look at the surge of illegal immigrants that are now overwhelming communities far from the boundary.

August 1, 2022

Feds send pregnant migrant teens to states where they can get abortions

The Biden administration says it is making sure pregnant teens crossing the southern border as part of an illegal surge are placed in states where they can obtain legal abortions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling this summer.

July 31, 2022

17% of immigration cases tossed because DHS failed to file paperwork, study finds

Immigration judges are tossing one out of every six new immigration cases because Homeland Security failed to file a basic form -- the original court summons -- according to a new study.

July 29, 2022

ICE comes up empty in effort to find missing border jumpers

The Biden administration's attempt to track down catch-and-release illegal immigrants and serve them with court summonses turned into a "complete waste of time," according to officers who say they were pulled off higher priority cases to chase down "ghosts."

July 28, 2022

DHS defends new border wall construction, says it will save migrants’ lives

Homeland Security announced plans Thursday to complete sections of President Trump's border wall in Yuma, Arizona, defending the new construction as a way to save illegal immigrants' lives.

July 28, 2022

Smugglers left three illegal immigrants to die in New Mexico

Federal prosecutors have brought charges against smugglers they say led a group of 11 illegal immigrants into the U.S., then abandoned three of them to their deaths when they were unable to keep up with the group.

July 28, 2022

Hatchets and radios: Smugglers prepare migrants for the dangers of border journey

All along the U.S.-Mexico border, agents continue to find smugglers risking the lives of illegal immigrants. The U.N. reported in early July that the U.S.-Mexico border was the most dangerous international boundary crossing on the globe in 2021, and this year is keeping right on pace.

July 27, 2022

Top Republican says FBI is ‘padding’ numbers on domestic terrorism

FBI employees are being pressured to reclassify crimes as domestic terrorism in order to make the situation seem worse than it actually is, a top Republican charged Wednesday, citing information from whistleblowers at the bureau.

July 27, 2022

Fertility rates down, death rates up as pandemic upends country’s demographics

The coronavirus pandemic has done a doozy on the country's demographics, with fertility rates plummeting and death rates higher than expected for years to come, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

July 27, 2022

AFGE move to ‘abolish’ labor union for ICE officers spurs call for probe

A key House lawmaker is demanding answers after a major labor union with ties to President Biden took steps to abolish the National ICE Council, which represents thousands of officers at Homeland Security's deportation agency.

July 26, 2022

Senate investigation reveals China’s effort to infiltrate Federal Reserve

China is actively trying to recruit U.S.-based economists to feed information back to Chinese officials and has even managed to place cooperating sources inside America's Federal Reserve banking system, according to a new Senate report Tuesday.

July 26, 2022