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Alex Nowrasteh

Washington, D.C.

Contributor at Freelance

Director of Immigration Studies at Cato Institute

@CatoInstitute VP Econ & Social Policy. Immigration. Globalist. Elitist. Cosmopolitan. “One-man factory” - @anncoulter. Dadx3. All tweets are peer reviewed.

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  • Trump’s Afrikaner Refugees: Strange Process, Right Decision

    1 day ago | cato.org | Alex Nowrasteh

    Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. In practice, the president decides which immigrants are legal, illegal, refugees, or unworthy under current US immigration law. Nowhere is this clearer than in President Donald Trump’s recent order admitting Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees after cancelling the rest of the refugee program.

  • Trump’s Afrikaner Refugees

    1 day ago | open.substack.com | Alex Nowrasteh

    In practice, the president decides which immigrants are legal, illegal, refugees, or unworthy under current US immigration law. Nowhere is this clearer than in President Donald Trump’s recent order admitting Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees after cancelling the rest of the refugee program.

  • What If There Were More than 30 Million Illegal Immigrants?

    2 weeks ago | alexnowrasteh.com | Alex Nowrasteh

    Vice President JD Vance and a collection of online conservative commentators have argued that Biden let in 20 or 30 million illegal immigrants, swelling their population to 30-50 million. These numbers are an exaggeration, but there was a large increase in the illegal immigrant population during the Biden administration. Based on pre-2020 population trends, net immigration exceeded estimates by about 8.7 million, with illegal immigrants accounting for about two-thirds of the increase.

  • What If There Were More than 30 Million Illegal Immigrants?

    2 weeks ago | cato.org | Alex Nowrasteh

    Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. Vice President JD Vance and a collection of online conservative commentators have argued that, as president, Joe Biden let in 20 or 30 million illegal immigrants, swelling their population to 30–50 million. These numbers are an exaggeration, but there was a large increase in the illegal immigrant population during the Biden administration.

  • Illegal Immigrant Incarceration Rates, 2010-2023

    3 weeks ago | cato.org | Michelangelo Landgrave |Alex Nowrasteh

    People crossing into America unlawfully at the southwest border is one of the top public policy issues that Americans want resolved, and their concerns about it helped re-elect President Donald J. Trump. Related to immigration is the perception that immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, are criminally inclined and increase American crime rates. Is this perception supported by the facts?

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The Alex Nowrasteh
The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh
23 Apr 25

Most of the young people I know who’ve said they don’t want to have children give me this reason when I ask: “I don’t want to give up my life.” Translation: The opportunity cost of having children is too high.

The Alex Nowrasteh
The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh
23 Apr 25

RT @kpomerleau: I love how all the tariff boosters have pivoted to "actually tariffs are reckless" now that the market has completely rejec…

The Alex Nowrasteh
The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh
22 Apr 25

“Positive Populism” is such an oxymoron. Hard to believe anybody who says it isn’t a grifter.