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Articles by Stephen Dinan

Immigrants described hunger, cold and fear in a voluminous court filing about the facilities where they were held in the days after crossing the border. Advocates fanned out across the southwest to interview more than 200 immigrant parents and children. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via Associated Press)

Illegal immigrant court complaint: Bad food, chill, disease

Illegal immigrant families are furious at the treatment they received after being detained at the border, complaining of bad burritos, cold soups, being forced to drink water out of toilets and contagious disease outbreaks that have swept through the facilities.

July 29, 2018
Samuel Cazun, of Guatemala, right, waves to his family at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport before reuniting with his father Edvin after being separated about a month ago at the southern border after they crossed the Rio Grande into the United States, Monday, July 23, 2018, in Hebron, Ky. Edvin said they were separated at the "detention" and he spent 15 days without knowing anything about his son. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Judge: Border family reunification ‘has been completed’

The judge overseeing the chaos from President Trump's zero-tolerance border policy gave the government good marks for its efforts to reunify families, saying that for the parents the government has control over "that process has been completed."

July 28, 2018
 In this Jan. 25, 2017 photo, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during a press conference where sanctuary cities, which don't arrest or detain immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, and Chicago violence, two issues raised by President Donald Trump, were discussed in Chicago. A federal juge on July 27, 2018 ruled in the city's favor, saying the Trump administration overstepped its bounds by withdrawing police grants. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File) **FILE**

Chicago beats Trump in sanctuary-city challenge

The Trump administration suffered another legal defeat on its sanctuary city crackdown after a judge Friday permanently blocked the government from retaliating against Chicago's sanctuary policy by stripping police grant money.

July 27, 2018
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., attends a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting, Tuesday, July 24, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP: Trump is willing to wait on wall funding

President Trump is "willing to be patient" in waiting for more funding for his border wall, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday, suggesting there won't be any new money in the pipeline at the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1.

July 26, 2018
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., attends a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting, Tuesday, July 24, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Paul Ryan dismisses impeachment push for Rod Rosenstein

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan threw cold water Thursday on the new effort to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, saying the move could even end up hurting the chances of confirming President Trump's Supreme Court nomination.

July 26, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on the opioid and fentanyl crisis, Friday, July 13, 2018, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Feds bust illegal immigrants on ID fraud

More than 20 illegal immigrants have been charged with document and benefit fraud, officials announced Thursday, after a Boston-based sweep designed to crack down on the means many illegal immigrants use to live and remain in the U.S.

July 26, 2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pauses as he testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as lawmakers demand specifics from him on President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki last week, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 25, 2018. Pompeo says he has personally told top Russian officials that there will be "severe consequences" for any interference in U.S. elections or the American democratic process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mike Pompeo defends Donald Trump’s Russia record after Putin summit

The White House postponed a Washington summit this fall with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the State Department delivered America's toughest denunciation to date of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, as the Trump administration took steps Wednesday to back up claims it has been harder on Moscow than recent presidents.

July 25, 2018
U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Sunday, July 22, 2018, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Mike Pompeo: Donald Trump does believe Russians meddled in elections

The administration has taken serious steps to rein in Russia, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told lawmakers Wednesday, pushing back against a Congress increasingly convinced President Trump has emboldening enemies and poisoned foreign relations with America's allies.

July 25, 2018