Stephen Dinan

Democrats beg Biden to expand amnesty for illegal immigrants before Trump takes office

Senior Democrats on Capitol Hill begged President Biden on Tuesday to announce new deportation amnesties for as many countries as possible before he leaves office, saying they fear what President-elect Donald Trump could do to "immigrant families."

December 10, 2024

Judge rules against Biden’s plan to expand Obamacare to Dreamers

A federal judge issued an injunction partially halting President Biden's attempt to expand Obamacare to include illegal immigrant Dreamers under the DACA program, saying the administration was trying to rewrite immigration law.

December 10, 2024

‘I’m just going to give up’: Migrants turning back rather than face Trump border

Dismayed migrants who were en route to the U.S. are starting to turn back now that they're staring at a border about to be controlled by the incoming Trump administration, according to a new report from Mexico.

December 10, 2024

DHS allowed migrant to die with slow rescue response, according to whistleblower

A "beef" between two Homeland Security supervisors may have contributed to the death of an illegal immigrant and delayed rescue for a Border Patrol agent who later died, according to a new whistleblower complaint.

December 9, 2024

Senate will tackle border security first, incoming budget chair says

Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is poised to oversee the first major legislative package in the new Congress, said Monday that border security will be the "first" priority, topping even tax cuts and spending reforms.

December 9, 2024

Sen. Chuck Grassley declares ‘no confidence’ in FBI Director Christopher Wray

Sen. Charles E. Grassley delivered a blistering denunciation of FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday, saying he's lost control of the country's preeminent law enforcement agency and lost the confidence of key members of Congress.

December 9, 2024

Alito scolds colleagues as Supreme Court ducks new affirmative action case

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case involving the affirmative action policy at three high-profile Boston schools, but several justices warned that they will have to deal with the issue at some point.

December 9, 2024

Trump says he’s open to amnesty for Dreamers; criminals at top of deportation list

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday revived the idea of an amnesty for illegal immigrant "Dreamers," saying the time has come to offer them more permanent protections in the U.S.

December 8, 2024

Judge upholds Naval Academy’s affirmative action

The U.S. Naval Academy can give Black and Hispanic applicants an advantage in admissions without violating the Constitution, a federal court ruled Friday in a case exploring the limits of affirmative action.

December 6, 2024

Trump names hard-charging Border Patrol agent, deportation officer to top immigration posts

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday picked two men with deep immigration-enforcement experience as his nominees to run the two key enforcement agencies that handle the border and deportations.

December 5, 2024

Trump-proofing: Biden officials strike deals, spend taxpayer money before Trump can stop it

President Biden's breathtakingly broad pardon of his son's criminal behavior is just one example of the Biden administration taking steps to try to block potential action from the future president in what analysts say is an attempt to "Trump-proof" government.

December 5, 2024

‘Like being on vacation’: Federal employees are abusing remote work, senator’s audit finds

Telework has become a bit of a Feds-gone-wild situation under President Biden, according to a new Senate report that says government workers have been caught taking bubble baths, drinking and driving or getting medical treatment -- all while they were supposed to be on the clock.hir

December 5, 2024

Justice Department expands firearms background checks to include gun dealer employees

Licensed gun dealers would be able to run their employees through the government's background check system under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Wednesday.

December 4, 2024

GOP accuses Biden’s citizenship director of ‘dereliction of duty’

Congressional Republicans lashed out at a top Homeland Security official Wednesday for her inability to answer questions about what sort of illegal immigrants her agency has helped enter the country.

December 4, 2024

Manchin delivers bipartisan warning to senators in farewell speech

Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin III on Tuesday recalled his arrival in Washington 14 years ago as a new senator from West Virginia, where he was greeted by Democratic leader Harry Reid with a request to start raising money for Democrats to campaign against his new Republican colleagues.

December 3, 2024

Mitch McConnell calls on anti-Trump judges to recuse themselves from some cases

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell blasted two federal judges who revoked their pending retirements after President-elect Donald Trump's victory, saying they have exposed their political bias and should recuse themselves from some cases.

December 3, 2024

Hunter Biden’s sweeping pardon covers a decade of potential criminal charges

President Biden became the latest to expand the limits of presidential powers with his breathtakingly broad pardon of his son Hunter, covering all federal crimes he may have committed over a decade.

December 2, 2024

Appeals court blasts sanctuary policy that blocked ICE from using airport

The administration has won a significant legal victory over a sanctuary jurisdiction after a federal appeals court ruled against a Seattle-area policy that barred Homeland Security from using local airports to detain and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.

December 2, 2024

Congressional probe determines COVID-19 ‘most likely’ leaked from Chinese lab

The coronavirus that killed millions of people "most likely" leaked from a Chinese lab where researchers were intentionally manipulating the virus, a two-year congressional investigation concluded Monday.

December 2, 2024

Musk, Ramaswamy’s DOGE could break stalemate in Beltway spending

President-elect Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency have given new hope to spending cutters on Capitol Hill.

December 1, 2024