Stephen Dinan

Three police chiefs charged with selling fake crime reports to help ‘hundreds’ of illegal immigrants

Federal authorities arrested three Louisiana police chiefs accused of taking part in a scam to help hundreds of illegal immigrants gain legal status by selling them bogus documents that falsely claimed they were victims of armed robberies.

July 16, 2025

Pentagon withdraws 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles immigration mission

The Trump administration will recall 2,000 National Guard soldiers deployed last month to Los Angeles, saying the city is calm enough that the president can start withdrawing the federalized troops.

July 15, 2025

Trump sues public broadcasting board members who refuse to be fired

President Trump's Justice Department announced a lawsuit Tuesday against three members of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, accusing them of defying Mr. Trump's attempt to fire them.

July 15, 2025

Homeland Security declares ‘most secure border in history’

Homeland Security on Tuesday said the border under President Trump is now the "most secure" it's been in history, celebrating the latest monthly data showing unfathomably low border activity in June.

July 15, 2025

Trump fights borderline asylum; Supreme Court asked to define migrant ‘arrival’

Close counts only in horseshoes and hand grenades -- and now the U.S. border, where the Trump administration is battling to unravel a court decision that could rewrite the definition of a national boundary.

July 15, 2025

Texas identifies 100 potential noncitizens who may have cast illegal ballots in 2020 and 2022

Texas is investigating more than 100 people who may have illegally voted as noncitizens in the 2020 and 2022 elections, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said Tuesday.

July 15, 2025

Supreme Court allows Trump to slash Education Department

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to move ahead with mass firings and deep cuts at the Education Department, setting aside a lower court's ruling that put the administration's plans on hold.

July 14, 2025

Bondi starts English-only overhaul of government; agencies told to ax multilingual help

Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the federal bureaucracy to start eliminating websites, notices and forms offered in languages other than English, saying it's time to carry out President Trump's executive order declaring English the government's official language.

July 14, 2025

Homeland Security says Democratic congressman ‘doxed’ ICE employee during violent anti-ICE mob

Homeland Security said a Democratic congressman took part in "a violent mob" that tried to stop ICE agents from executing a criminal search warrant at a marijuana farm in California.

July 14, 2025

Judge rules Trump’s mass deportation arrests in Los Angeles were illegal

A federal judge ruled Friday that Homeland Security's massive operation to arrest and detain illegal immigrants in Los Angeles used illegal "roving patrols" based on racial profiling, and then wrongly denied the arrested migrants access to lawyers.

July 12, 2025

Going nowhere: Case study finds 99% of Biden’s illegal immigrant ‘parolees’ still in U.S.

Just 1% of the illegal immigrants caught and released in a special test case two years ago have actually left the U.S., according to ICE data that underscores how difficult a job the Trump administration faces in trying to unwind the Biden border surge.

July 9, 2025

DHS ends 26-year-old temporary deportation amnesty for Hondurans, Nicaraguans

More than a quarter century after Hurricane Mitch devastated parts of Central America, the Trump administration is moving to boot out 55,000 migrants who'd been living in the U.S. under special deportation protections since then.

July 7, 2025

Trump’s big, beautiful bill boots millionaires off unemployment benefits

The days of mega-millionaires claiming federally funded unemployment benefits are about to end.

July 6, 2025

U.S. completes deportation of eight felon migrants to South Sudan

Homeland Security said Saturday that it has finally deported eight illegal immigrants -- all of them with serious criminal records -- to South Sudan, moving to complete the removals after the Supreme Court gave permission.

July 5, 2025

Supreme Court OKs Trump to deport illegal immigrants to South Sudan

The Supreme Court said Thursday that President Trump can deport eight unauthorized immigrants with serious criminal records to South Sudan, undercutting a lower court judge who had insisted he still had the power to block the removals despite a previous ruling.

July 3, 2025

Miami commissioners vote to put off mayoral election by a year, incensing voters and office hopefuls

It is not often you see a clear case of a stolen election, but that's what the Miami City Commission has voted to do.

July 3, 2025

Judge orders Trump officials to watch what they say about Abrego Garcia

The federal judge overseeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case ordered the government Thursday to follow rules of court procedure that prevent officials from making public comments that could be prejudicial to the case.

July 3, 2025

DHS says Florida, not feds, is running ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Florida didn't just build the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention facility. The state is also responsible for deciding which illegal immigrants to hold there, the federal government said Thursday.

July 3, 2025

Amy Coney Barrett becomes ‘most interesting’ justice on court, but likely no Souter

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's legal zigzags over the last two years had begun to disturb conservative court watchers, who worried she was poised to become the next Justice David Souter -- a GOP pick who usually sided with liberal justices.

July 3, 2025

Supreme Court terms face decreasing unanimity among justices, data shows

Supreme Court justices frequently chide their critics by pointing to how many of their decisions are unanimous -- but that unanimity was tougher to find this year.

July 3, 2025