Stephen Dinan

‘Leave now’: Trump team bets big on self-deportation

Mitt Romney's dream of self-deportation has become a reality under President Trump, whose administration is making a full-court press to get illegal immigrants to leave on their own without having to be formally removed.

March 3, 2025

Dems create hotline for fired DHS employees

The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee has created a hotline for employees fired from the Homeland Security Department to share their stories.

March 3, 2025

Trump administration seeks SCOTUS relief from $2 billion ‘pay-or-else’ USAID foreign aid order

The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to cancel a lower court order for the government to immediately pay out nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance grant money.

March 3, 2025

Cuban man charged with trying to break window on airplane in flight

A Cuban man flying from Denver to Houston on Frontier Airlines tried to smash out the airliner's window in flight and had to be restrained by fellow passengers, federal authorities said.

March 2, 2025

Judge rules Trump broke the law in firing key government watchdog

A federal court judge ruled late Saturday that President Trump illegally fired special counsel Hampton Dillinger, a key watchdog for federal employees, and the judge ordered Mr. Trump's team not to interfere with him in any way.

March 2, 2025

Trump sees lowest border numbers in history, declares invasion ‘OVER’

The Border Patrol apprehended just 8,326 illegal immigrants at the southern border in February, President Trump announced Saturday, calling it the best month on record.

March 1, 2025

Legal standing to sue serves as ‘quick kill’ for the government, DOJ

When the Trump administration announced its plan to offer a buyout to federal workers, major labor unions rushed to a judge to try to stop it.

March 1, 2025

Democrats sue Trump over claim of supremacy over independent agencies

The Democratic National Committee led a lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order claiming power to be the final decision-maker on how so-called independent federal agencies interpret the law, saying it gives the president too much room to meddle.

March 1, 2025

House opens probe into leaks that thwarted ICE arrests

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has opened an investigation into leaks that scuttled immigration arrests earlier this year.

February 28, 2025

AOC lashes out at White House border czar Homan

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused White House border czar Tom Homan of trampling on her constitutional rights by saying she might be prosecuted for coaching unauthorized immigrants on how to deal with deportation officers.

February 28, 2025

Rep. Pressley leads House Dems backing special counsel’s fight with Trump

Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley is leading House Democrats in a letter supporting the U.S. special counsel engaged in a battle with President Trump over his firings.

February 28, 2025

U.S. extradites 29 cartel leaders from Mexico

President Trump took a victory lap after the Justice Department secured the extradition of 29 major crime figures from Mexico, including the man accused of killing a DEA agent.

February 28, 2025

Trump’s dog-eating migrant comments bite him in court

President Trump's far-out campaign claim that Haitian migrants in Ohio were dining on dogs is now a key piece of evidence as his opponents move to stymy his immigration agenda in the courts.

February 27, 2025

Federal judge clears way for Trump to fire DEI employees in intel community

A federal judge on Thursday lifted his block on the Trump administration, letting it fire intelligence community employees whose jobs were focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.

February 27, 2025

Tearful workers clear desks as Trump cleans house at USAID

Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development were clearing out desks at the agency's headquarters on Thursday, as President Trump's efforts to curtail foreign assistance spending took hold.

February 27, 2025

Trump DOJ tells Supreme Court that fired special counsel is delaying other firings

The Trump administration complained to the Supreme Court that one of the people it's trying to fire, special counsel Hampton Dellinger, is positioning himself to block firings of other employees.

February 27, 2025

Social Security employee given two-year sentence for using fake kids, dead person to get benefits

A Social Security employee has been slapped with a two-year prison sentence after he admitted to stealing government benefits by creating profiles for fake children and a dead person.

February 27, 2025

Supreme Court backs Trump in dispute over USAID funding

The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a lower court order telling the Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion by midnight in a fight over its hold on U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) money.

February 26, 2025

ICE tallies 20,000 arrests in one month

The government's deportation force made more than 20,000 arrests in a single month, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday.

February 26, 2025

‘Dumbest statement of the year’: White House mocks Michael Moore over defense of illegal immigrants

The White House mocked filmmaker Michael Moore on Wednesday for his suggestion that the U.S. might be missing out on a future cure for cancer because it's deporting illegal immigrants.

February 26, 2025