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Articles by Stephen Dinan

A Honduran migrant and her daughter stand on the beach looking toward the U.S. border wall, moments before suddenly squeezing through a gap and pushing through fencing to emerge on U.S. soil, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall illegally and hand themselves in to Border Patrol agents to request asylum. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Asylum claims soar 67 percent at U.S. border

The number of migrants demanding asylum at the U.S. border soared 67 percent in 2018, Homeland Security officials said Monday, swamping an already overloaded system and fueling a testy debate on Capitol Hill over how the government is responding.

December 10, 2018
A Honduran migrant and her daughter peer through the U.S. border wall, moments before suddenly squeezing through a gap and pushing through fencing to exit on the U.S. side, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall illegally and hand themselves in to Border Patrol agents to request asylum. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Most Americans oppose increased immigration

The world is decidedly against immigration, with people in nearly every major economy saying they would rather see reductions than increases in the numbers of migrants their nation admits each year, according to a new global survey released Monday.

December 10, 2018
President Trump has been talking since just months after his inauguration about needing "a good shutdown" of the government to fix the "mess." (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump: Good time for shutdown

For most presidents, a government shutdown is a noun, an event and a signal of failure — something lawmakers fall into out of malfeasance. For President Trump, it's a verb, a tactic, something to order up if he doesn't get his way.

December 9, 2018
U.S. border patrol agents standing in San Ysidro, California leave after responding to at least two men on the Mexican side of the U.S. border wall, one with his face covered and another holding rocks, in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. The incident diffused soon after and the agents left. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Donald Trump cuts price tag of border wall to $15 billion

President Trump seemed to undercut the price of his own border wall Friday, saying it could be built for as little as $15 billion -- far less than the $25 billion figure his administration has submitted to Congress.

December 7, 2018
This undated photo provided by Time Warner shows William Barr. President Donald Trump says he will nominate William Barr, former President George H.W. Bush’s attorney general, to serve in the same role. Trump made the announcement while departing the White House for a trip to Missouri Friday. (Time Warner via AP)

William Barr believed Roe was wrongly decided

William Barr, the man President Trump plans to nominate as his the new attorney general, believed the 1973 Roe decision establishing a national right to abortion was wrongly decided and should be overturned, he told senators in a 1991 hearing.

December 7, 2018
In this Nov. 9, 2018, file photo Laurence Marzo, left, and Ty Ford, right, move a conveyor belt into place to help unload a truck carrying merchandise at a Walmart Supercenter in Houston. On Friday, Dec. 7, the U.S. government issued the November jobs report. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Jobs picture steady at 3.7 percent unemployment

The economy added 155,000 jobs in November, the government announced Friday, continuing a solid trend of growth and leaving the unemployment rate steady at 3.7 percent.

December 7, 2018
President Donald Trump asks if reporters can hear the audio as he talks with troops via teleconference from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump companies ignoring E-Verify, hiring illegal immigrants

Just five of the 565 companies in President Trump's business empire are signed up to use E-Verify, the government's best tool to weed illegal immigrants out of the workforce, according to a Washington Times analysis that suggests the president could personally be doing more on that front.

December 6, 2018
Migrants are escorted by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as they are detained after climbing over the border wall from Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, to San Ysidro, Calif., Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants who traveled with recent caravans want to seek asylum in the U.S. but face a decision between crossing illegally or waiting months, because the U.S. government only processes a limited number of those cases a day at the San Ysidro border crossing. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Illegal immigrant families shatter records in November

Illegal immigration ticked up in November, but the number of those people traveling as families shattered records, Homeland Security reported Thursday, saying it's proof that migrants have figured out how to game the flawed U.S. immigration system.

December 6, 2018
In this July 19, 2018, file photo, Kathleen Kraninger, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her confirmation on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ms. Kraninger won final Senate approval on Dec. 6, 2018, by a 50-49 vote. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) **FILE**

Senate approves Trump’s chief for key consumer watchdog agency

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has watched in horror as her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has been taken over by President Trump. On Thursday, she suffered her latest setback as the Senate confirmed Kathy Kraninger, Mr. Trump's first pick for a director, to the position for the next five years.

December 6, 2018
This Dec. 21, 2016, photo shows the Trump International Hotel at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, in Washington. The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland plan to file subpoenas seeking records from the Trump Organization, the IRS and other entities in their lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

D.C., Maryland subpoena Trump Organization tax returns

Maryland and the District of Columbia announced subpoenas Tuesday to be served on President Trump's business empire and five federal departments or agencies, as they seek to build their case that the president is violating the Constitution.

December 4, 2018