David J. Bier
@davidjbier.bsky.social
Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
Illegal entries are down under Trump, but he's cut legal immigration even more than illegal immigration. The cuts to immigrants, refugees, parolees, students, H-1B workers, and fiancés were 2.7 times as large as the cut in Border Patrol arrests and evasions. www.cato.org/blog/trump-c...
ICE agents shot a man in front of his 5-year-old child during yet another botched traffic stop. Via @noahhurowitz.bsky.social
Fox calls Cato a "notoriously pro-immigration think tank," which is hilarious and great but also unfair, since being pro-immigrant is an indirect, ancillary consequence of our pro-liberty mission, not the mission itself. We're just libertarians.
The next administration needs to clearly define what successful immigration looks like: 1) Legal 2) Peaceful 3) Orderly 4) Self-sufficient And just implement that system. If Republicans stop it, then the chaos will be on them. But it's the system most people want to see.
"Not everyone was thrilled with the decline in legal immigration from this demographic, including David J. Bier, who is the director of immigration studies at Cato and who took credit for the research behind the graph." www.foxnews.com/politics/rep...
Republican glee erupts as White House boasts sharp decline in immigration from Muslim-majority nations
A White House graph shows a 96% drop in legal immigration from Muslim-majority nations since 2024, but the Cato researcher behind it pushed back.
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American crowd cheers as DHS trespassers can't get their guys. Why is it so hard to find crowds of Americans cheering like this when hard-working immigrants get dragged away from their jobs, removing labor competition? It's almost like they don't believe in zero-sum economics.
When conservatives like L0m3z declare that they need no reasons for backing policies to enforce ethnic homogeneity in America, they feel the need to spontaneously fake-apologize for it to the Cato Institute. Why? Because Cato stands for reason. www.cato.org/blog/sorry-c...
“Sorry to the Cato Institute…”
Keeperman’s comment highlights how Cato has become synonymous with a reproach to the irrational identitarianism that now typifies large parts of the political spectrum.
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Mullin is lying. These were not identified as "high-risk" nations, and it was not "tougher vetting" that cut entries. The absolute number of denials is LOWER now than under Biden. They just aren't even processing applications, and you owe every American sponsor an answer.
The White House closely follows my work. You should too!
David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump has cut legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries by 96% from 21,096 legal immigrants and refugees in Dec. 2024 to 808 in Feb. 2026. Far more severe than anything in his 1st term, falling disproportionately on spouses of US citizens and skilled immigrants... www.cato.org/blog/legal-i...
I remember when conservatives used to call liberals "snowflakes" for demanding that we care about how people's words make them feel. What's the word for demanding that we care about how people's colors make conservatives feel?
Trump has cut legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries by 96% from 21,096 legal immigrants and refugees in Dec. 2024 to 808 in Feb. 2026. Far more severe than anything in his 1st term, falling disproportionately on spouses of US citizens and skilled immigrants... www.cato.org/blog/legal-i...
Did you know that DHS is authorized by Congress to intentionally defame private individuals all day, every day and it cannot be sued for defamation? Now that you know that, does it make you more or less likely to believe anything it says? (Oh, he didn't illegally enter)
The District Court stays 3 illegal and unconstitutional DHS policies targeting Hispanic Americans: 1) warrantless entry to private construction sites without warrants, 2) preemptive detention of employees without suspicion, and 3) guilty-until-proven innocent detention
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3w agoStay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.
Fox News interviewed me about the public charge rule. "That's going to result in arbitrary denials. It's not possible to do this type of assessment and not result in people who would be self-sufficient being denied status."
Hook Global stream of @davidjbier.bsky.social testimony challenging the #TrumpRegime immigration crackdown, @raskin.house.gov presses him on #ICEGestapo enforcement priorities, detention practices, & the claim that #KingOfLies is targeting the ‘worst of the worst.’ 🙄👌🏼 www.youtube.com/live/AkcoXWc...
‘What Exactly Is Going On?’: Raskin Questions Witness as He Reveals the Real Record on Trump’s ICE
YouTube video by Hook Global
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9/11’s Visa Vetting Failures Were Fixed. Deadly visa vetting failures declined 96% in the period after 9/11, despite more immigration and travel www.cato.org/blog/9/11s-v...
9/11’s Visa Vetting Failures Were Fixed
Unfortunately, as I detailed in a paper for The Independent Review, the most lasting immigration legacy of 9/11 is how it derailed bipartisan efforts to improve the legal immigration system for peacef...
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I have an oped discussing ICE arrests at USCIS offices, focusing on one spouse of an American www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...
Opinion | ICE is weaponizing a baseless arrest-and-detain strategy. It’s working.
Arresting legal immigrants at their immigration appointments has become part of a new and terrifyingly common strategy for immigration enforcement.
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Listen to this American truck driver thank these ICE agents for protecting his job from immigrants. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
House Judiciary Republicans also didn't like this tweet and read it into the hearing record because they want Border Patrol to be loose in the interior, stopping American citizens without probable cause.
House Judiciary Committee Republicans decided to read this tweet into the hearing record yesterday, I guess, because they hate work or something.
"Subsidized immigration enforcement insurance? Is that something crazy California cooked up to help out ICE targets?" Nope! It's a new federal welfare program by ICE to cover criminal and civil liability for local cops who violate rights while helping ICE 🤯 www.insurancejournal.com/news/nationa...
I testified yesterday at a hearing, again about immigrants and crime. Nothing makes the Republicans more infuriated than pointing out that immigrants lower the crime rate.
Talk constantly about how we're going to let the peaceful deportees return legally. Make it common sense by 2029. Good on the merits, and it'll prevent a border crisis when they try to get back to their families. Bonus: it really undermines all their celebrating big #s.
Under Trump, ICE has not stopped releasing immigrants from custody. It has cut releases of noncriminal immigrants, while actually releasing 50% more immigrants convicted of or charged with crimes than in December 2024. Trump's priorities are clear. www.cato.org/blog/ice-rel...
Trump's new public charge rules focus on immigrants with disabilities. Our research finds that immigrants are 24% less likely to be disabled than US-born citizens; illegal immigrants are 64% less likely. ⬇️ www.cato.org/blog/immigra...
You're not allowed to ride a bike while Hispanic anymore. Don't call it racial profiling tho.
The clearest way to describe the population of Americans who received citizenship at birth is: 1. Natives 2. Native-born 3. Natural-born 4. US-born
