Stephen Dinan

Lezmond Mitchell, Navajo murderer, executed

The federal government carried out its fourth execution this year on Wednesday, putting to death Lezmond Mitchell, who murdered a 63-year-old grandmother and her 9-year-old granddaughter in 2001.

August 26, 2020

Democrat governors sending COVID patients into nursing homes probed by DOJ

The Justice Department said it is probing four Democratic-led states that pushed nursing homes to admit new residents during the coronavirus, despite heightened risks to the elderly population from contracting COVID-19.

August 26, 2020

Feds say man who stabbed NYPD officer was illegal immigrant with radical Islamic ties

The man who stabbed a New York City police officer in early June was an illegal immigrant from Bosnia who was motivated by support for violent Islamic extremism, the Justice Department revealed Wednesday in bringing charges against the man.

August 26, 2020

Kajla wins TSA’s ‘Cutest Canine’

Kajla, a 5-year-old Vizsla who works as an explosives detection dog screening passengers at a Hawaii airport, has been named TSA's cutest canine for 2020.

August 26, 2020

Smugglers plead guilty after leading three women to death on U.S.-Mexico border

Two Mexican migrant smugglers pleaded guilty Tuesday to contributing to the deaths of three illegal immigrant women, whom they led across the border in February, then abandoned to perish in the jaws of a snowstorm.

August 25, 2020

DHS’ citizenship agency cuts services to avert furlough

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Tuesday that it will avert a massive furlough of its workforce -- but the price will be severe cuts to services, including delaying naturalizations.

August 25, 2020

ICE family detention facilities running at 7% capacity during coronavirus pandemic

The government's facilities that detain migrant children are running at just 7% capacity during coronavirus, officials revealed this week, as Homeland Security and the Health and Human Services Department work to try to prevent a devastating outbreak.

August 25, 2020

Illegal immigrant nabbed at border dies of coronavirus

An illegal immigrant caught at the border last month while infected with the coronavirus died Monday, Homeland Security said.

August 24, 2020

Feliz Missael Alva, illegal immigrant, charged with shooting gun during Denver protests

Federal prosecutors hauled an illegal immigrant to court Monday on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm after police said they saw him pull out a handgun and shoot it in the sky, near where police and media helicopters were circling, during racial justice protests in May.

August 24, 2020

Republicans rally around Donald Trump at RNC convention

President Trump on Monday basked in the adorning glow of the Republican National Convention and declared: "Success brings unity."

August 24, 2020

Joe Biden counters Republican National Convention programming with Republican supporters

As the GOP kicked off its national convention Monday, Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden countered with his own Republicans.

August 24, 2020

Margaret Hunter, Duncan Hunter wife, sentenced after ‘cooperation’ in corruption case

Margaret Hunter was granted a lenient sentence by a federal judge Monday who said she deserved credit for helping prosecutors make a corruption case against her husband, former Rep. Duncan Hunter.

August 24, 2020

DHS announces reboot of DACA, promises stricter approach to backdoor citizenship

The government's legal immigration agency said Monday that it will give strict scrutiny to DACA recipients who try to use a backdoor path to citizenship, as the Department of Homeland Security finalized plans for restarting the program after a Supreme Court decision this summer.

August 24, 2020

NASA-funded scientist charged with also working for China

A NASA-funded scientist has been charged with fraud and conspiracy, federal prosecutors announced Monday, saying he was working as a Chinese researcher at the same time he was taking U.S. government money.

August 24, 2020

Trump Republican National Convention speakers in 2016 see hard times

A striking number of those who were willing to stand up and be counted backing the president in 2016 -- at a time when many in the GOP and elsewhere shunned him -- have struggled to thrive in the ongoing Trump insurgency.

August 23, 2020

Portland riots intensify; balloons with feces thrown at cop cars

Heeding the advice of critics, Portland police say they repeatedly tried to deescalate with protesters Friday night. It didn't work.

August 22, 2020

Smuggler tries to shoot Border Patrol agent, gets wounded himself

A Border Patrol agent shot a man smuggling illegal immigrants Thursday after he fled an Arizona checkpoint, led agents on a 20-mile chase, then shot at them when they finally caught up to him, authorities said in filing charges.

August 21, 2020

Portland protesters turn ire toward ICE office

A pitched battle broke out Thursday night between police and protesters in Portland who seemed intent on targeting an ICE office as violence in the Oregon city raged once again.

August 21, 2020

Judge Michael Simon slams DHS targeting reporters in Portland riots

A federal judge delivered a stern scolding Thursday to Homeland Security over its behavior during the Portland riots, saying it appears agents and officers intentionally targeted reporters with tear gas and less-lethal munitions during clashes outside the courthouse.

August 20, 2020

Alejandra Juarez, illegal immigrant at DNC, was put on path to deportation by Obama administration

The illegal immigrant mother Democrats used Wednesday as a case study of cruelty in President Trump's policies was first deported during the Clinton administration, then flagged for deportation again under the Obama-Biden administration.

August 19, 2020