Alex Nowrasteh
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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1 day ago |
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Alex Nowrasteh
TRAVEL BANTrump Practically Bans Travel and Immigration from 12 Countries with Flimsy Security JustificationsPublished 6 June 2025The US government has a responsibility to keep terrorists and criminals out of the country and to remove those who make it through. But the government should pursue a rational and evidence-based approach when evaluating the threat posed by foreign nationals.
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2 days ago |
alexnowrasteh.com | David Bier |Alex Nowrasteh
President Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday night that, with few exceptions, bans nineteen nationalities from entering the United States starting Monday, supposedly based on “security” concerns. The ban repudiates the once-fundamental principle of US immigration law against discrimination between immigrants from different countries. It imposes devastating consequences on immigrants and foreign travelers, while severely harming their US citizen relatives, employers, and others.
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2 days ago |
cato.org | Alex Nowrasteh
Not only do government restrictions on the immigration of healthy and peaceful people to America make no sense—but they are the opposite of what America needs. Immigration is beneficial to Americans. And restricting immigration will harm America’s economy and liberal democracy.
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3 days ago |
alexnowrasteh.com | Alex Nowrasteh
President Trump announced that he’s banning almost all travel and immigration from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen for “terrorism-related and public-safety risks.” There are some exceptions for adoptions, immediate family members of US citizens, and a handful of other visas.
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4 days ago |
theunpopulist.net | Alex Nowrasteh
The UnPopulist illustrationOn Wednesday, May 21 at the Soho Forum, a debate series organized by the libertarian Reason Foundation, the Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh squared off against comedian and podcaster Dave Smith on the question of whether “government restrictions on the immigration of peaceful and healthy people make sense from a libertarian standpoint, especially in present-day America.” Alex, a contributor at The UnPopulist and co-author of Wretched Refuse?
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Hey @grok, how many foreign-born scientists contributed to the early days of the U.S. space program and the Apollo Program? https://t.co/eMbSJo6BMx
RT @ATabarrok: Trump just called Leonard Leo—the Federalist Society kingmaker and architect of the conservative legal movement—a “scumbag”…
I never got this memo. No wonder the adults around me are disgusted when I correct other children’s behavior. Another question: By breaking social norms, does that mean I build or degrade social capital? Think carefully.
Many American adults hesitate to correct strangers’ kids in public—but this wasn’t always so. @stephmurrayyyy argues for bringing back collective child discipline: https://t.co/my3ub324kC
