Stephen Dinan

Taxpayers to cover cost of Afghan evacuees’ immigration applications

Homeland Security announced Monday that it will waive the usual immigration fees for Afghan evacuees who've been paroled into the country since the start of the airlift operation, leaving U.S. taxpayers to pick up the tab for their costs.

November 8, 2021

Biden DOJ plan to pay illegal immigrants is widely unpopular, poll shows

Two-thirds of American voters disapprove of the Biden administration's plans to pay illegal immigrants $450,000 for "trauma" stemming from having their families separated during the Trump administration's zero tolerance border policy, according to a new poll Monday.

November 8, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Border Patrol agent says up to 1.2 million illegal immigrants evaded detection

As many as 1.2 million illegal immigrants may have evaded detection and sneaked into the country over the last year and more will come if they hear about plans to pay $450,000 to some migrants, a top Border Patrol union official said in a new podcast released Friday by Sen. Marsha Blackburn and provided first to The Washington Times.

November 5, 2021

Democrats block GOP attempt to derail Biden’s $450,000 payments to illegal immigrants

Republicans moved this week to block $450,000 payments to illegal immigrants who were part of family separations during the Trump administration, but they saw their first attempt quashed by Senate Democrats.

November 4, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: ‘It’s a death trap’: ICE officers file OSHA complaint over illegal immigrant COVID risks

The labor union for ICE officers has filed two workplace safety complaints about the Biden administration's handling of illegal immigrants and COVID-19 at the border, saying federal employees processing and releasing the migrants face conditions that amount to "a death trap."

November 4, 2021

Thousands of Border Patrol agents at risk of being fired over vaccine mandate, Arizona AG warns

Thousands of Border Patrol agents could be fired over failing to meet President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, Arizona's attorney general warned in a new letter calling on the administration to relax its unprecedented shots-or-else approach.

November 4, 2021

Democrats draw immigrants’ ire after watering down amnesty provisions in budget bill

House Democrats dropped plans for an expansive amnesty for illegal immigrants in their new budget proposal Wednesday, and instead called for a more tentative legal status for illegal immigrants that would block them from deportation but not offer a clear path to citizenship.

November 3, 2021

Citizenship path for illegal immigrants to cost taxpayers more than $500 billion

Offering a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants and opening the doors to more legal immigrants will cost the federal government more than $500 billion over the next few decades, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

November 3, 2021

Immigration activists blast Democrats over shrinking immigration plans

Immigration activists lashed out at Democrats on Tuesday for lacking "courage" as chances dimmed for including a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who are in the country illegally in President Biden's social spending bill.

November 2, 2021

Border deaths soar as 2021 sets record for most migrant fatalities

The Border Patrol counted 557 migrant deaths along the southern border over the past year, shattering the previous record and putting a body count on the ongoing illegal immigrant surge.

November 1, 2021

10,000 Afghans resettled two months after evacuation as questions mount over vetting

Nearly 10,000 Afghans brought out of their country during the U.S. airlift have been processed, released and resettled into the U.S. over the last two months.

October 31, 2021

DHS issues memo to cancel ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a new memo Friday seeking to cancel the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" border policy that helped solve the previous migrant surge.

October 29, 2021

Coffin caper: Illegal immigrants smuggled in a flag-draped casket

A smuggler tried to sneak two immigrants past a Border Patrol checkpoint illegally earlier this week by stuffing them into a flag-draped casket and telling agents he was carrying the body of a Navy sailor.

October 29, 2021

GOP vows to fight Biden plan to pay $450,000 to separated illegal immigrant families

Republicans moved Thursday to block a reported plan by the Biden administration to make $450,000 payments to illegal immigrants who were part of family separations during the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy.

October 28, 2021

Biden’s team sends mixed messages to migrant caravan

Migrants trekking across Mexico as part of the new caravan headed toward the U.S. could be forgiven for confusion over what the Biden administration is telling them.

October 28, 2021

Biden administration expands no-go zones where ICE can’t arrest illegal immigrants

Homeland Security has expanded its list of locations off-limits for enforcement to include anywhere near graveyards, community organization offices and any area where children "gather" -- effectively blocking officers from making arrests across many urban areas.

October 27, 2021

‘It depends on why they are coming’: AG Garland says some illegal immigrants can come

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday that some migrants in the new mass caravan headed north should come to the U.S. if they plan to demand asylum.

October 27, 2021

Activists complain of COVID-19 spread from illegal immigrants pushed back across border

Immigrant-rights activists said the U.S. is spreading COVID-19 south of the border by immediately expelling illegal immigrants back to Mexico, saying the way they are handled means one infected migrant can expose dozens of others.

October 27, 2021

439 Americans are still in Afghanistan, Pentagon official tells Congress

There are at least 439 American citizens still in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official told Congress on Tuesday, upping the number from what the administration told lawmakers just last week.

October 26, 2021

Feds uncover ‘expansive’ use of illegal immigrants in South Carolina construction

Federal prosecutors have won guilty pleas from a dozen people involved in South Carolina's construction industry who hired illegal immigrants and paid them using unlicensed check cashers in order to shield the payments from the IRS.

October 26, 2021