Articles by Stephen Dinan
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, wouldn't call the border situation a crisis two weeks ago. Now, he says, it's reached that point.
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March 14, 2021
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Migrant families coming across the border are testing positive for the coronavirus at between three and 10 times the rate of the U.S. population, according to a Washington Times survey of jurisdictions that are doing the testing.
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March 14, 2021
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Homeland Security took major steps in recent days to try to get a handle on the surge of migrant children streaming across the southern border by making it easier for immigrant relatives who are in the U.S. illegally to come collect them, by asking FEMA to help care for them and by asking ICE deportation officers to volunteer to help with the children's "security."
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March 13, 2021
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Hoping to encourage more illegal immigrants to come forward and collect their illegal immigration children, the Biden administration on Friday rescinded a 2018 memo that allowed Homeland Security to access data about sponsors for the children.
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March 12, 2021
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As the border surge intensifies, Homeland Security is begging ICE deportation officers to rush to the border to help with "security operations" for the illegal immigrant children and families that are overwhelming the Border Patrol.
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March 12, 2021
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Migrant families coming across the border are testing positive for the coronavirus at between three and 10 times the rate of the U.S. population, according to a Washington Times survey of jurisdictions that are doing the testing.
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March 11, 2021
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy said Thursday he will lead a congressional delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border next week to get a first-hand look at the migrant "crisis" he says the Biden administration is bungling.
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March 11, 2021
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A man died in the Border Patrol's custody Wednesday afternoon, marking the first announced death as the border situation has reached crisis levels.
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March 10, 2021
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President Biden's first full month in charge of the country's borders set new records for illegal immigration, according to numbers released Wednesday that showed last month was the worst February ever when it comes to illegal immigrant children.
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March 10, 2021
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Rep. Andy Biggs is challenging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's claim that President Trump "gutted" the department -- and particularly the claim that the department lacks enough people to process asylum cases.
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March 10, 2021
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that he has retreated on a Trump-era policy to push immigrants to be self-supportive, saying it was an affront to the country's history as a nation of immigrants.
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March 9, 2021
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President Biden's decision to limit deportations even as it ramps up catch-and-release of new illegal immigrants at the border is "one of the stupidest things we've ever seen," Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Tuesday.
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March 9, 2021
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Praise and accolades continue to pour in for the U.S. Capitol Police who defended Congress on Jan. 6, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promising to award the force the Congressional Gold Medal. Across the country in Portland, Oregon, another federal police force is wondering where its medal is.
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March 9, 2021
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that President Biden "cares more about people who are not from this country" as his immigration policies spawn a crisis at the border, with surging numbers of migrants being released into communities without testing.
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March 9, 2021
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will testify to Congress on March 17, giving lawmakers their first crack at prodding him over his handling of the border surge that's left children mired in detention and put COVID-positive migrants out into American communities.
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March 9, 2021
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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich late Monday opened a new front against the Biden administration's immigration policies, expanding an existing lawsuit to include Homeland Security's new non-deportation rules.
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March 9, 2021
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A group of Republicans on Monday demanded that Homeland Security begin to test illegal immigrants caught jumping the U.S.-Mexico border for the coronavirus or, better yet, be prevented from entering in the first place.
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March 8, 2021
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The Biden administration said Monday that hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who have fled the economic and humanitarian crisis in their homeland can stay in the U.S. for now, moving to cement a policy President Trump had put in place in his last days in office.
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March 8, 2021
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Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez has grown frustrated at his deputies having to fish bodies out of the Rio Grande.
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March 8, 2021
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Homeland Security announced a deportation amnesty Monday for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Venezuela because of ongoing political unrest in the South American country, moving to cement a policy President Trump had put in place in his last days in office.
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March 8, 2021
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