Stephen Dinan

4 days ago | washingtontimes.com | Stephen Dinan

- The Washington Times - Homeland Security released a video Saturday it said showed a congresswoman assaulting a federal officer during a scuffle when lawmakers “stormed” into an ICE detention facility on Friday. 🚨WATCH: US Congresswoman, LaMonica McIver (wearing a red blazer), storms the gate of Delaney Hall Detention Center ASSAULTING an ICE agent.

4 days ago | washingtontimes.com | Stephen Dinan

- The Washington Times - Homeland Security officials took a victory lap Saturday after immigration groups asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that had claimed the government wrongly deported an American child. The case had become a major flashpoint, with Democrats on Capitol Hill using reports of a child deportation to blast President Trump for violating the law by deporting a U.S. citizen.

4 days ago | washingtontimes.com | Stephen Dinan

A federal judge issued a restraining order blocking President Trump’s plans for major personnel cuts across the government, saying he has to ask Congress for permission before he attempts such a broad rewrite of the bureaucracy. Mr. Trump had ordered agencies to pursue major reductions in force, or RIFs, as part of his modernization efforts.

5 days ago | washingtontimes.com | Stephen Dinan

The Democratic mayor of Newark and members of Congress from New Jersey “stormed” an ICE detention facility on Friday, authorities said. Reps. Robert Menendez Jr. and Bonnie Watson Coleman and Mayor Ras Baraka were part of a broader group of protesters who rushed into the Delaney Hall Detention Center just as a bus of new detainees was entering the security gate, according to Homeland Security officials and local news reports.

5 days ago | washingtontimes.com | Stephen Dinan

Michael Snow Jr., who torched an American flag as part of anti-Israel protests at Union Station in Washington last summer, was slapped with a 4-month probation sentence. Snow, whose lawyers said he was once an Eagle Scout, was part of the rally at Columbus Circle just blocks away from where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking to Congress. The protests turned unruly, with some demonstrators grappling with cops called to break it up.