Stephen Dinan

Rubio scorches Van Hollen: ‘We deported gang members … you had a margarita with’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio angrily denounced Sen. Chris Van Hollen Tuesday for his visit with an MS-13 gang suspect in El Salvador.

May 20, 2025

Republicans balk at price of Trump’s border wall

Senate Republicans cast doubt Tuesday on President Trump's request for $46 billion in new border wall money, saying that would be enough to cover the U.S.-Mexico border more than two times over.

May 20, 2025

Homeland Security chief Noem botches habeas corpus during Senate hearing

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem seemed to misunderstand what habeas corpus is during a Senate hearing Tuesday, flipping the core right on its head and saying it was a power of the president to deport people.

May 20, 2025

Criminal prosecutions of illegal entry skyrocket after Biden lull; migrants feel full weight of law

The Trump administration is increasingly throwing criminal charges at illegal immigrants, seeking to bring the full weight of consequences on those who defy the law.

May 19, 2025

Judge slams Trump’s attempt to shut down USIP, orders full restoration

President Trump's attempt to fire the board of directors and shut down the U.S. Institute of Peace was illegal, a federal judge ruled Monday, as she restored the ousted officers and told the government to keep the funding flowing to the USIP.

May 19, 2025

Supreme Court allows Trump to cancel Biden’s deportation amnesty for Venezuelans

The Supreme Court delivered a key victory to President Trump Monday on immigration policy, allowing him to move forward with canceling a special deportation amnesty for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.

May 19, 2025

Trump unleashes on justices after Supreme Court blocks Tren de Aragua deportations

President Trump lashed out at the Supreme Court after it blocked him from using antiterrorism powers under the Alien Enemies Act to make any more deportations. He pleaded with the justices to "come to the rescue of America."

May 18, 2025

Trump: ‘Supreme Court must come to the RESCUE OF AMERICA’

President Trump unleashed scathing posts about the Supreme Court, chiding its Friday decision to halt his deportations of alleged illegal gang members to El Salvador.

May 17, 2025

Merrick Garland displayed ‘a breach of the oath’ by shielding Biden audio, congressman says

A congressman from Wisconsin said Attorney General Merrick Garland broke his oath of office by wrongly shielding the damning audio of President Biden's October 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur, which seemed to show the president's mental decline was worse than the White House acknowledged.

May 17, 2025

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s Alien Enemies deportations, demands more due process

The Supreme Court hit pause Friday on President Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang suspects, saying the administration was not giving them full due process and rights.

May 16, 2025

Judge blasts Trump, Noem for saying Abrego Garcia won’t ‘return’ to U.S.

The federal judge working to un-deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia unloaded on the Trump administration Friday, saying statements that the MS-13 gang suspect won't "return" to the U.S. suggest the government is defying the court's orders.

May 16, 2025

DHS: Six illegal immigrants charged with murder in South Carolina

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that six illegal immigrants -- including three juveniles ages 13, 14 and 15 -- are charged with murdering a mother in South Carolina.

May 15, 2025

Trump’s birthright citizenship order strains Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday acknowledged the "abuses" of district judges shutting down government action but struggled to find a clean way to rein in local courts.

May 15, 2025

House Republicans consider punishing New Jersey Democrats over ICE center ‘storming’

House Republicans are likely to try to pass a resolution to formally discipline three New Jersey Democratic members of Congress who are accused of storming an ICE detention center in Newark on Friday.

May 14, 2025

Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem: Border ‘invasion’ meets criteria for suspending habeas corpus

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday that the flow of illegal immigrants at the border would qualify as an "invasion" for purposes of suspending habeas corpus rights.

May 14, 2025

DHS secretary says Democrats advocating ‘for a terrorist’ in Abrego Garcia case

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem thrashed Democrats on Wednesday for their continued demands to un-deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, saying they are trying to help "a terrorist" at the expense of Americans.

May 14, 2025

Almost 6,000 millionaires collected unemployment benefits after COVID-19 crisis subsided

Thousands of millionaires were still collecting unemployment benefits even after the coronavirus emergency receded, according to new data released Wednesday.

May 14, 2025

New Newsom: California governor now calls for rollback of health coverage for illegal immigrants

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has spent years championing illegal immigrants' right to taxpayer-funded health care, is now calling for a rollback, saying it's threatening to bust his budget.

May 14, 2025

Judge indicted for shielding illegal immigrant from ICE

A Wisconsin judge not only helped an illegal immigrant escape from federal agents but told him he could appear for his next hearing online to continue shielding him in the future, a grand jury charged Tuesday.

May 13, 2025

Court backs Trump on Alien Enemies deportations but grants 21-day grace period before removals

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Trump was largely on solid legal footing in using the Alien Enemies Act to try to deport some illegal-immigrant gang members, though the court said the administration does need to give deportation targets better notice ahead of time.

May 13, 2025