Stephen Dinan

Illegal immigration down 60% at border amid coronavirus

Illegal immigration is down nearly 60% at the southern border amid the coronavirus crisis, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday.

April 6, 2020

Smugglers posing as border wall construction crew in shootout with border patrol

A Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting last week with a smuggler who was posing as part of the construction crews working on President Trump's border wall in Arizona, The Washington Times has learned.

April 5, 2020

Trump power limited in coronavirus pandemic by Constitution

Americans have been getting a serious civics lesson over the past month as they turn to Washington for answers to the coronavirus crisis -- only to find out their state governors have far more control over what goes on in their daily lives.

April 5, 2020

Marijuana business hide income, use illegal deductions to cut tax bill

Majority of the businesses have been bilking Uncle Sam to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars from illegal deductions or hidden income, the IRS inspector general said in a report released Thursday.

April 2, 2020

Gun sales up 85% in March amid coronavirus fears

A record 2.5 million guns were sold in March, up 85% compared with the same month last year, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting that said all the speculation about pandemic-induced buying was accurate.

April 1, 2020

Feds have 10,469 total ventilators available

The federal government announced Wednesday it has 10,469 ventilators in reserve, ready to dole out to needy states amid the coronavirus crisis. Now it will make what could be literally life-and-death decisions about where they'll go.

April 1, 2020

Sex and smuggling under HHS as feds charge shelter worker with helping illegal immigrant teen escape

Federal agents have exposed a shocking tale of illicit relationships between a worker at a government-sponsored shelter and an illegal immigrant boy she was supposed to be taking care of -- and a plot by three employees to orchestrate a jailbreak, freeing him from custody.

March 31, 2020

Immigration activists take to streets, demand ICE release migrants being held in custody

Immigration activists stepped up their campaign to force ICE to release migrants amid the coronavirus crisis, taking to the streets in California in a drive-by protest Tuesday demanding the governor issue an emergency shutdown order for federal detention facilities in the state.

March 31, 2020

How the FDA is thwarting distilleries trying to make hand sanitizer amid coronavirus pandemic

Scott Harris, co-founder of Catoctin Creek distillery in Purcellville, Virginia, has been eager to convert 55 gallons of disposal alcohol he already had into hand sanitizer and ordering another 1,000 gallons from his supplier. As one of those with easy access to alcohol, the key ingredient in sanitizer, he says he felt a "moral responsibility" to step up.

March 31, 2020

U.S., Mexico bust drug-smuggling border tunnel; agents seize $30 million in drugs

Federal agents discovered and shut down a "sophisticated" smuggling tunnel between the U.S. and Mexico, officials announced Tuesday, and seized what one prosecutor called "a jaw-dropping" $30 million in drugs.

March 31, 2020

FBI’s FISA problems run deeper than Carter Page, Trump probe: Inspector general

The FBI's bungling of FISA applications runs far deeper than the already well-known problems with the bureau's snooping on the Trump campaign, according to a new inspector general's audit Tuesday that found agents either lost or never compiled backup information for some applications, and made errors in others.

March 31, 2020

Distillers making hand sanitizer threatened by FDA regulations

The Food and Drug Administration has issued guidelines that distilleries say could shunt them to the sidelines, unable to use their stocks of alcohol any more to help out.

March 30, 2020

Judges ordering release of high health risk illegals from ICE custody

Federal judges have begun to order release of high health risk illegal immigrants from ICE custody amid the coronavirus crisis, saying the agency is showing "callous disregard" by keeping them in group facilities where they are at risk of infection.

March 29, 2020

Former Sen. Tom Coburn, Washington’s top waste watcher, dead at 72

Tom Coburn, a medical doctor turned politician died Saturday morning at age 72 after a lengthy battle with cancer, according to his family, leaving one of the most substantial legacies in recent congressional history.

March 28, 2020

Coronavirus can’t stop border wall

The coronavirus has shut down much of the country, left Capitol Hill a ghost town and even sidelined aircraft carriers. But it hasn't been able to dent construction of the border wall.

March 28, 2020

Dreamers to Supreme Court: Coronavirus is reason to preserve DACA

Illegal immigrant "Dreamers" told the Supreme Court on Friday they are a key resource to combat the coronavirus crisis and that it's another reason the high court should reject President Trump's attempt to end the DACA program.

March 27, 2020

Americans get year reprieve on REAL ID deadline after coronavirus

Americans will have an extra year to update their state-issued driver's licenses and other official identification used to board a commercial airplane under the Real ID Act, Homeland Security announced Thursday.

March 26, 2020

Coronavirus relief deal will become most expensive ever

The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief deal will shatter spending records, and if it passes it will go down in history as the law with largest price tag -- by far.

March 25, 2020

ICE uses deportation flights to rescue Americans stranded by coronavirus

ICE announced Wednesday that it has been able to use two deportation flights taking illegal immigrants back to Central America to rescue more than 200 Americans stranded in that region, bringing them back on the return flights.

March 25, 2020

Nancy Pelosi retreats on coronavirus stimulus ‘wish list’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi beat a retreat Tuesday from the massive coronavirus wish list of Green New Deal projects, immigration measures and other non-virus changes she and fellow Democrats had proposed just hours earlier.

March 24, 2020