Stephen Dinan

Ken Cuccinelli slams federal judge, warns it would have to separate illegal immigrant families

A top Homeland Security official on Tuesday lashed out at a federal judge he said will soon order the department to separate illegal immigrant children from their parents in detention facilities.

October 27, 2020

DHS names ombudsman to monitor detention of illegal immigrants

Homeland Security tapped an ombudsman to monitor how the department detains immigrants, following through on an order from Congress last year to create the position amid a number of complaints about detainee treatment.

October 27, 2020

Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court fight not resonating in Senate races

It was the most consequential vote they've taken all year, but the confirmation Monday of Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett is playing surprisingly little role in senators' reelection chances back home.

October 26, 2020

Boston ballot box set on fire; some votes likely lost

The FBI announce an investigation Sunday after someone set fire to a ballot drop box in Boston overnight. The box was outside the Boston Public Library, and the fire likely destroyed five to 10 ballots, The Boston Globe reported.

October 25, 2020

Election lawsuits break record before votes counted

This presidential election is already the most litigious in American history -- and that's before the first vote has been counted.

October 25, 2020

How the shenanigans of rogue postal workers expose the weak link in mail-in voting

Postal employees in New Jersey and Florida have been charged this month with dumping or blocking the delivery of mail-in ballots, and a third employee was fired after investigators say they found more than 100 mail-in ballots dumped in Kentucky.

October 25, 2020

Border Patrol agents involved in two shootings in one day

Border Patrol agents killed two illegal immigrants in separate incidents Friday, in both cases opening fire after being attacked, Homeland Security said Saturday.

October 24, 2020

Pa. Supreme Court says mail-in ballots will count even if signatures don’t match

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled Friday that election officials must accept mail-in ballots even if the signatures on them don't match those on file for a voter.

October 23, 2020

Biden blames Obama for deportations

President Trump lashed out at Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden over the border on Thursday, demanding to know "who built the cages" that housed illegal immigrant children during the Obama administration.

October 22, 2020

Trump getting ‘hammered’ by outside spending in election

Outside groups have now spent more than $2 billion on the U.S. election, with nearly two weeks still to go before it's all over, the Center for Responsive Politics said this week.

October 22, 2020

MS-13’s wave of murder fueled by illegal immigrants

Most MS-13 gang members charged with federal crimes are in the country illegally, according to a new Justice Department report that underscores just how much the violent criminal cartel relies on foreigners.

October 22, 2020

Growth of immigrants slows from Obama era as nearly 1 million a year decide to leave the U.S.

For many immigrants, it turns out there's no place like home -- and home is no longer the U.S.

October 22, 2020

Supreme Court ruling allows Alabama to ban curbside voting

The Supreme Court issued a ruling Wednesday that will allow Alabama to block communities that wanted to offer curbside voting, shooting down objections from some justices that disabled voters will now have to risk contracting the coronavirus if they want to vote in-person.

October 21, 2020

John Ratcliffe, DNI: Russia, Iran obtained voter info, working to ‘intimidate’ voters

Iran and Russia have obtained U.S. voter registration information and Iran is already using it to "intimidate" voters and "damage President Trump," Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Wednesday night.

October 21, 2020

DHS moves to seize Chinese stevia imports after finding forced labor was used

Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it has issued a forced labor finding against a Chinese company that manufactures stevia, which gives Customs and Border Protection officers the ability to seize and forfeit the products when they reach the U.S.

October 20, 2020

Postal worker charged with stealing vote-by-mail ballot in Florida

A postal employee in Florida was charged late Monday with stealing mail and interfering with the right to vote after authorities say they caught her pilfering a mail-in ballot, political flyers and other mail.

October 20, 2020

DOJ, DHS announce new rules to keep drunk drivers, gang members from getting asylum

The Trump administration announced a new standard for asylum-seekers Tuesday, saying those engaged in gang crimes, racked up drunken-driving convictions, engaged in domestic violence or were convicted of felonies can now be denied asylum on those grounds.

October 20, 2020

Texas prevails in court fight to block bogus ballots

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the Texas government Monday, saying mail-in ballots are more prone to voter fraud and blocking a lower court decision that could have upended the state's signature-match requirement for those ballots.

October 19, 2020

Trump H-1B guest worker rules challenged by big business, immigration lawyers

Immigration lawyers and some of the country's largest business lobbies went to court Monday to challenge new Trump administration rules designed to force employers to pay Americans higher wages before they can offer jobs to foreign guest-workers under a key visa program.

October 19, 2020

Senate GOP announces constitutional amendment to block court packing

A group of Senate Republicans on Monday announced a constitutional amendment to fix the Supreme Court at a maximum of nine members, playing defense as Democrats ramp up talk of expanding the court to try to swamp President Trump's nominees.

October 19, 2020