Stephen Dinan

FBI, ATF, DEA assigned to protect ICE amid growing violence

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued orders Monday to the Justice Department's law enforcement agencies to "defend" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and offices amid a growing wave of anti-ICE violence.

September 29, 2025

States forgave billions in fraudulent pandemic benefits

It was bad enough that fraudsters stole tens of billions of dollars in bogus pandemic-era unemployment benefits -- now it turns out states forgave much of that money without even trying to claw it back.

September 29, 2025

Why it was easy for an illegal immigrant to land top job in Des Moines’ public schools

The arrest of an illegal immigrant serving as superintendent of Des Moines' schools has exposed a broader problem in America's public education system: Few of them are using E-Verify, the federal government's tool to weed out people not authorized to work.

September 29, 2025

New York left worker on job training rolls for 21 years; thousands in system after ending program

Twenty-one years is a long time to be in a job-training program. But that's just what New York's Department of Labor systems showed, according to a new inspector general's audit that found the state left thousands of people on its rolls well after they'd completed their federally funded training programs.

September 29, 2025

Iowa revokes education license of illegal immigrant who worked as school superintendent

Iowa officials have revoked the education license of Ian Andre Roberts, an illegal immigrant from Guyana who managed to become school superintendent in Des Moines, the state's largest education system.

September 29, 2025

Trump takes birthright citizenship case back to Supreme Court

The administration has asked the Supreme Court to approve his move to deny recognition of birthright citizenship to babies born to illegal immigrants and temporary visitors, teeing up one of the biggest constitutional fights of the Trump presidency.

September 27, 2025

Supreme Court allows Trump to block billions in foreign aid money

The Supreme Court brushed aside a lower court ruling Friday and cleared the way for President Trump to do a "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign assistance money Congress approved but he doesn't want to spend.

September 26, 2025

Nevada works its way off DOJ’s sanctuary jurisdiction list

Nevada has reached an agreement to cooperate with the federal government on immigration enforcement, earning the state its way off the Justice Department's name-and-shame list for sanctuary jurisdictions on Friday.

September 26, 2025

Supreme Court’s nationwide injunction ruling fizzles as judges find new ways to stop Trump

Hyperventilating ran heavy in June after the Supreme Court issued its ruling that courts had been too profligate in using nationwide injunctions to stop the president, and ordered lower judges to cool it.

September 26, 2025

Biden let them in: DHS highlights immigrants charged in shooting at Little League game

Homeland Security heaped blame on the Biden administration Friday after revealing that two of the suspects charged with firing guns near a children's baseball game in Texas this week were immigrants approved for status in 2021 and 2023.

September 26, 2025

Department of Justice sues six states in order to access their voter rolls

The Department of Justice on Thursday announced lawsuits against six states that have refused to turn over their voter rolls to the federal government, which wants to investigate whether the lists are being properly maintained.

September 25, 2025

Immigration groups blame ‘dehumanizing’ Trump policies for anti-ICE shooting in Dallas

For immigrant rights groups, the anti-ICE shooting in Texas was worthy of condemnation -- but some took pains to say the deportation agency bore at least part of the blame for a "climate of violence" that led to the incident. One migrant died in the shooting and two others were critically wounded.

September 25, 2025

Judge rules Trump broke law by firing inspectors general, but can’t restore them to office

A federal judge said Wednesday that President Trump broke the law when he fired many of the government's inspectors general, but she said she's powerless at this point to restore their jobs.

September 24, 2025

America’s guest-worker H-1B visas sought in some unexpected fields like journalism and pickleball

Millions of Americans already play pickleball, so when news broke that companies were applying to the government for a guest-worker visa to hire immigrants as coaches -- at salaries up to $95,000 -- condemnation was swift and severe.

September 24, 2025

Political violence strikes ICE office in Dallas

Political violence reared again Wednesday when a gunman attacked an ICE office in Dallas, killing one migrant detainee and wounding two others before taking his own life.

September 24, 2025

California county decides it’s time to remove pets from voter rolls

Orange County in California ordered its voter registrar on Tuesday to scour voting lists and remove any names of pets that somehow made it onto the rolls.

September 24, 2025

DHS: 1.6 million illegal immigrants self-deported since Trump took office

The Homeland Security Department estimated Tuesday that 1.6 million illegal immigrants have self-deported since President Trump took office eight months ago.

September 23, 2025

U.S. tags 18th Street gang as terrorist group

The State Department on Tuesday formally declared 18th Street, or Barrio 18, to be a terrorist organization, placing it alongside MS-13 and Tren de Aragua as international gangs that have deep reaches inside the U.S.

September 23, 2025

Illegal immigrant accused of strangling his infant sister in Loudoun County, Virginia

Federal immigration authorities have issued a deportation order request for a man charged with strangling his infant sister last week in Loudoun County, Virginia.

September 23, 2025

Supreme Court OKs Trump firing of FTC official, may end 80-year executive power limit

The Supreme Court signaled Monday that it is prepared to embrace expansive firing powers for the president, as the justices allowed President Trump to move ahead with booting a member of the Federal Trade Commission.

September 22, 2025