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Broken Immigration System Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The truth about who really dismantled our immigration system

By Tom Homan

Migrants released by the Border Patrol with notices to appear in court on Feb. 5, 2022, in Somerton, Ariz., wait for COVID-19 testing at a Regional Center for Border Health warehouse before being taken by charter bus to the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Records obtained by The Associated Press show COVID-19 infection rates have plummeted among migrants crossing the border from Mexico as the Biden administration faces a critical decision whether to extend sweeping restrictions on asylum. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat) **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Unprecedented’ upheaval in immigration courts from Biden’s bid to reshape the agency

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows listens during an announcement of the creation of a new South Carolina Freedom Caucus based on a similar national group at a news conference on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

DOJ declines to charge Meadows, Scavino for defying Jan. 6 subpoenas

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Angola's Foreign Minister Tete Antonio, Thursday, May 26, 2022, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Blinken: Biden administration policy on China does not seek end of communist system

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

America First Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

‘America First’ is America at its best

By Keith Kellogg and Fred Fleitz

FILE - In this March 10, 2020, file photo Interior Secretary David Bernhardt testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the FY'21 budget in Washington. Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Bernhardt, a Trump administration Interior secretary, engaged in possible criminal conduct while helping an Arizona developer get a crucial permit for a housing project. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Democrats seek criminal charges against Trump Interior head

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool) ** FILE **

ICE leaving thousands of detention beds empty as feds beg for help from Supreme Court

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Biden laid out an ambitious agenda for his first 100 days in office, promising swift action on everything from climate change to immigration reform to the coronavirus pandemic. Key members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council say one year into the Biden Administration's commitment that 40% of all benefits from climate investment go to disenfranchised communities, not enough has been done. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Justices challenge Biden administration’s catch-and-release policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 15, 2015, file photo, vehicles pass a highway construction site near Sacramento, Calif. The Biden administration announced Tuesday it reimplemented core protections to an environmental law on infrastructure projects, a climate-related regulation that former President Donald Trump had rolled back. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) **FILE**

Biden reverses Trump climate policy, restores environmental rules for infrastructure projects

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are being arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: ICE to scour U.S. communities looking for border absconders

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This June 14, 2018, file photo shows an FBI seal on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The FBI and other federal government agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyberthreats through tools other than criminal indictments. That's according to the bureau’s top cyber official. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Biden scraps Trump plan to keep FBI headquarters in D.C.

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Biden is in Poland for the final leg of his four-day trip to Europe as he tries to maintain unity among allies and support Ukraine's defence. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Biden faces growing pressure over nuclear talks, rumored plan to pull Iran’s IRGC from terror list

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Trump's Abraham Accords and Mideast Pact Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Trump’s Abraham Accords continue to rack up wins

By Fred Fleitz

An American flag flies over Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 6, 2016. In the last month, two states — Nebraska and Wisconsin — have passed resolutions to hold an Article V convention focused on clipping the wings of the federal government, bringing the total to 17 states, or half of the 34 needed to trigger the event. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Convention of states movement gains steam with challenge to Washington’s power

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wa., together with Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, Rep. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., right, Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., second from right, and other Republican members of Congress speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House following a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden’s new COVID-19 aid request raises spending questions among GOP lawmakers

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

People check at a destroyed house after an operation by the U.S. military in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. U.S. special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a successful, large-scale counterterrorism raid in northwestern Syria early Thursday. Local residents and activists said civilians were also among the dead. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Islamic State top leader kills himself as U.S. special forces converge in Syria

By Dave Boyer and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this file photo, President Joe Biden salutes as he steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Biden is returning to Washington after spending the weekend at his home in Delaware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden boosts fuel-economy standards to fight climate change

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

The Assault on Executive Privilege Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Stop the witch hunt, stop the assault on executive privilege

By Peter Navarro

In this photo released on Nov. 11, 2021, by Xinhua News Agency, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, including Chinese President Xi Jinping attend the sixth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing. Words on the banner reads "The 19th Communist Party of China Central Committee sixth plenary session" (Zhai Jianlan/Xinhua via AP)

Biden administration rejects Chinese ‘Maoist’ demands for policy changes

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, U.S. President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan pose for a photo on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The bloodshed in the Gaza Strip has unleashed a chorus of voices across Gulf Arab states that are fiercely critical of Israel and emphatically supportive of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

EXCLUSIVE: Trump was ‘very close’ to getting Saudis to normalize ties with Israel

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times