David J. Bier
director of immigration studies, Cato Institute
David J. Bier is the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute.
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David J. Bier
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ICE blamed me for assaults on agents — rather than the agency’s own recklessness
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s targets don’t know why they’re being approached or what their rights are. The result is chaos.
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Trump is looking for crime in the wrong neighborhoods when he targets immigrants
New research further debunks the Department of Homeland Security’s claims about immigrants and crime.
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Trump’s mass deportation campaign may lay waste to the Bill of Rights
New data shows the scope of ICE’s suspicion-free profiling of Latinos is even worse than we thought.
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Republicans pushed the Laken Riley Act to prioritize deporting criminals — but DHS isn’t doing that
Going after a small number of criminal fugitives will not allow the president’s team to hit its sky-high deportation targets.
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Trump says ICE is arresting the ‘worst of the worst’ — new data shows that’s not true
Serious criminal convicts are a small minority of the people taken into custody by ICE. The vast majority of detainees have no convictions at all.
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The Trump administration likely sent scores of legal immigrants to a foreign prison
The Cato Institute published the most comprehensive review to date of how the roughly 240 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador came to the United States.
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Kamala Harris shouldn’t ignore immigration. She should run on it.
Immigrants help maintain the country’s economic stability. Harris should make Trump run against that.