Skip to content

Read More

Immigration, religion and AR-15s on Supreme Court’s early docket as justices open new term

TRENDING:
Donald Trump

Articles by Stephen Dinan

President Trump wants $1.6 billion to build 60 miles of new barriers, 500 more Border Patrol agents, 1,000 more agents and officers to handle deportations from the interior of the U.S. and enough money to maintain an average of 44,000 detention beds to hold illegal immigrants. (Associated Press)

Republicans set up border wall fight in House with homeland security bill

Republican House leaders on Tuesday earmarked $1.6 billion to begin building President Trump's border wall next year, including the money in their homeland security spending bill, setting up a fight with Democrats who have vowed to fight any funding for the wall, even if it means sending the federal government into a partial shutdown.

July 11, 2017
A family looks towards metal bars marking the U.S. border where it meets the Pacific Ocean in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 2, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

House GOP allocates $1.6 billion for Trump border wall in 2018

House Republicans said Tuesday they've included $1.6 billion in funding for President Trump's border wall in their new homeland security spending bill, setting up fight with Democrats who have vowed to block any wall funding -- even if it means sending the government into a partial shutdown.

July 11, 2017
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2016 file photo, a laptop is seen in Las Vegas. The Homeland Security Department is set to announce new security measures Wednesday for international flights bound to the United States, which could lead to a lifting of a ban on laptops and other electronics from passenger cabins from certain airports. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Six foreign airports earn their way off DHS’s laptop ban

Six of the 10 airports that faced the laptop ban have already improved their screening enough to earn their way off the ban list, Homeland Security announced Tuesday, as it tries to raise the global level of explosives screening.

July 11, 2017
Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina has put a "hold" on Lee Francis Cissna, the nominee for director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to try to pressure Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly to bend to the senator's will and quickly approve thousands of H-2B visas. (Associated Press/File)

Thom Tillis puts hold on nomination over H-2B visas

The White House complained Monday about Democratic obstruction of President Trump's nominees, but a Republican senator is the chief roadblock for Mr. Trump's pick to head the legal immigration service, hoping to use the position as leverage to force the administration to approve more foreign guest-workers this year.

July 10, 2017
FILE - In this June 13, 2013, file photo, hands from Daniel Zambrano of Tijuana, Mexico, hold on to the bars that make up the border wall separating the U.S. and Mexico as the border meets the Pacific Ocean in San Diego. The state legislature is debating more than a dozen bills, sponsored by Democrats, to resist President Donald Trump's immigration agenda, particularly his promises to increase deportations and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Illegal immigration spikes along U.S.-Mexico border

Illegal immigration across the southwest border rose yet again in June, according to the latest Homeland Security figures released Friday that show a noticeable jump over the past two months.

July 7, 2017
FILE- In this June 30, 2017, file photo, critics of President Donald Trump's travel ban hold signs during a news conference with Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin in Honolulu. A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday, July 6, left Trump administration rules in place for a travel ban on citizens from six majority-Muslim countries. U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson denied an emergency motion filed by Hawaii asking him to clarify what the U.S. Supreme Court meant by a "bona fide" relationship in its ruling last month. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

Derrick Watson lets Trump travel ban rules stand

A federal judge delivered President Trump yet another legal victory on his travel ban executive order late Thursday, allowing to remain in effect the White House's revised rules that cast a fairly narrow screen on who will be admitted as refugees or from six targeted countries.

July 6, 2017
Eric C. Conn, one unscrupulous judge, pleaded guilty to paying off a network of doctors and psychologists to write fake medical reviews, and then paying the ALJ to rubber-stamp the applications. He is now on the lam. (Associated Press/File)

Social Security finds difficulty firing bad employees

A Social Security judge has collected somewhere in the neighborhood of half a million dollars over the past three years while sitting at home on administrative leave, according to a report that details just how much trouble the agency faces in trying to fire bad employees.

July 6, 2017
In a photo from Tuesday, June 13, 2017, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., far right, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., comments on health care for veterans during a news conference at Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Steve Scalise readmitted to ICU over infection fears

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise took a turn for the worse Wednesday night, according to a statement released by his congressional office that said he's been readmitted to the intensive care unit.

July 5, 2017
"In all, 36 states have either agreed or are considering participating with the commission's work to ensure the integrity of the American electoral system," said Kris Kobach, who is also secretary of state in Kansas. (Associated Press/File)

Kris Kobach: Most states to work with voter integrity commission

Despite reports to the contrary, most states appear ready to cooperate to some extent with President Trump's voter integrity commission, the panel's vice chairman said Wednesday as the administration began to mount its defense against a feverish backlash from state election officials.

July 5, 2017