Stephen Dinan

White House retreats on Biden’s refugee promise

White House press secretary Jen Psaki signaled a retreat Friday from President Biden's goal of allowing up to 62,500 refugees into the country in 2021, saying that now seems "unlikely."

April 16, 2021

Biden adjusts Trump’s refugee policy but doesn’t increase numbers

President Biden is facing ferocious criticism from his own party -- including charges of racism -- as the White House announced Friday he was retreating on his pledge to quadruple the number of refugees to be admitted into the U.S. this year.

April 16, 2021

Mexico border-jumping ‘gotaways’ spike from 2020

Illegal immigrants are escaping capture at more than double the pace of a year ago, according to Texas figures that show the surge of migrants being caught at the border is just a part of the problem the Biden administration is facing.

April 15, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci admits border surge breaks COVID-19 rules

Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden's special coronavirus adviser, acknowledged Thursday that illegal immigrants are being allowed across the U.S.-Mexico border without the same kind of testing and precautions any other international traveler would have to go through.

April 15, 2021

Hawaii’s ‘train to nowhere’ rakes in taxpayer cash

You'd be forgiven for wondering what a light rail system in Honolulu has to do with crushing the coronavirus.

April 14, 2021

Mark Brnovich, Arizona attorney general, calls for state of emergency over border

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked Gov. Doug Ducey on Wednesday to declare a state of emergency over the border, saying the move will help focus efforts to combat the surge of people and drugs flowing into the U.S.

April 14, 2021

Migrant surge is too big for full COVID-19 testing, agents tell Rep. Tom Tiffany

A congressman back from a trip to the border said Wednesday that agents told him they have no way of verifying migrants' identities, meaning people are boarding airplanes without the kinds of documents that would be demanded of any other passenger.

April 14, 2021

ICE priority arrests down 75%; top-ranking cases involve national security, public safety

ICE made 75% fewer priority arrests over the first seven weeks of the Biden administration than during the same period last year, according to data obtained by The Washington Times that shows even the highest-ranking cases involving national security or public safety have seen significant drops.

April 13, 2021

GOP states hit Biden immigration policy with web of lawsuits

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit Tuesday that asks a federal judge to order the Biden administration to restart the "Remain in Mexico" policy, arguing it would solve the border surge.

April 13, 2021

Biden picks police chief, immigrant-rights lawyer for key immigration roles

President Biden will nominate Tucson, Arizona's police chief to head Homeland Security's border agency and will tap an immigrant-rights lawyer to lead the department's legal immigration agency, the White House said Monday.

April 12, 2021

Biden health official uses ‘crisis’ to describe migrant surge

The White House and Homeland Security may not want to call the border a "crisis" but the top health official in charge of caring for the massive surge of children is using the term, telling a federal judge the emergency shelters they've opened to detain the kids is delivering "a crisis standard of care."

April 12, 2021

COVID-19 prevalent in shelters holding illegal immigrant children

COVID-19 exists in every shelter holding migrant kids, with some of those shelters reporting positivity rates above 30%, according to data filed Friday in a federal court case over the treatment of the children.

April 9, 2021

New York siphons coronavirus cash to illegal immigrants

When congressional Democrats changed a formula for doling out coronavirus relief money to states, New York ended up with a $2.1 billion extra windfall, Republicans said.

April 9, 2021

Embassy invitation for Peruvians to go to U.S. for coronavirus vaccination called ‘troubling’

The U.S. Embassy in Peru appeared to be giving the nod to foreign citizens to come to the U.S. to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

April 8, 2021

U.S. taxpayers pay to reunite illegal immigrant families amid border surge

Taxpayers are footing the bill for illegal immigrant parents to collect their children from federal shelters, as the Biden administration tries to speed up the process of getting a record surge of juvenile migrants out of its custody.

April 8, 2021

Unaccompanied children jumped border at record rate in March

Nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children were nabbed jumping the border in March, Homeland Security revealed Thursday, doubling the number from February and shattering the previous record of about 11,500, set in May 2019.

April 8, 2021

Child pornography not an automatic cause for deportation

An illegal immigrant caught with child pornography isn't an automatic target for deportation under ICE's new enforcement rules, The Washington Times has learned.

April 7, 2021

Greg Abbott orders probe of sexual abuse reports at migrant child shelter

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanded Wednesday that the Biden administration shut down a shelter holding illegal immigrant children in San Antonio after the state received reports of child abuse.

April 7, 2021

DHS secretary Mayorkas to visit southern border Thursday

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will visit the southern border Thursday to get an up-close look at the surge that's overwhelmed his department.

April 7, 2021

DHS hired asylum fraudster to work as immigration officer, prosecutors say

Federal agents arrested a Homeland Security immigration officer Wednesday, accusing him of lying about his own identity to falsely obtain asylum and citizenship himself.

April 7, 2021