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Articles by Stephen Dinan

Migrants who had crossed the Rio Grande river into the United States are taken away by Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, Saturday, May 21, 2022. The Eagle Pass area has become increasingly a popular crossing corridor for migrants, especially those from outside Mexico and Central America, under Title 42 authority, which expels migrants without a chance to seek asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Border Patrol catches record number on terrorist list

Border Patrol agents recorded nabbing 15 illegal immigrants in May whose names popped a flag in Homeland Security's terrorism screening database, according to data released by Homeland Security this week that showed the free-for-all at the southern border continues unabated.

June 16, 2022
Migrants who had crossed the Rio Grande river into the U.S. wait to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas, Friday, May 20, 2022. As U.S. officials anxiously waited, many of the migrants crossing the border from Mexico on Friday were oblivious to a pending momentous court ruling on whether to maintain pandemic-related powers that deny a chance to seek asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Biden sets new monthly record for illegal border jumpers

Border authorities nabbed nearly 240,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in May, according to numbers released late Wednesday that show the month marked a new record level of chaos for the Biden administration.

June 15, 2022
In this Thursday, April 4, 2019, photo, a Cambodian cannabis worker trims marijuana flowers at Loving Kindness Farms in Gardena, Calif. Immigration authorities on Friday, April 19, 2019, said that anyone with any involvement with marijuana, regardless of whether it's legal in the state they live in, can be denied from citizenship because the drug is still outlawed by federal law. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) **FILE**

Democrats propose marijuana amnesty for immigrants

Congressional Democrats have proposed an amnesty for immigrants with a history of marijuana use, saying those records should not be used to prevent them from gaining a more permanent legal status.

June 15, 2022
The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021. The first three months of fiscal 2022 are in the books, and the numbers show the federal government's deficit has gone from the catastrophic levels of last year back to the merely grave situation pre-pandemic. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Feds ‘nowhere near’ understanding scope of pandemic fraud

The Secret Service has "hundreds" of investigations into international criminal syndicates suspected of stealing taxpayers' money from pandemic relief programs, the agency's top coronavirus official told Congress on Tuesday. But he and other federal investigators also said they can't yet say how much of the trillions of dollars paid out in relief was fraudulent.

June 14, 2022