David Bier
Director, Immigration Studies at Cato Institute
@CatoInstitute Director of Immigration Studies. Cato, not CATO. "Beer," not Buyer. Libertarian. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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1 week ago |
cato.org | Jacob L. Vigdor |David Bier |Michael Howard
Immigration has increased sharply in recent years, and many people worry about its potential effects on government budgets. Many analyses have concluded that immigration is clearly a fiscal benefit to the federal government, but state and local effects can depend more on the particular circumstances in those areas.
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2 weeks ago |
usnews.com | Sarah Turberville |John Roth |David Bier |Ilya Somin
President Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to oversee “the largest deportation operation in American history,” urging Congress to ramp up funding for mass deportations and invoking a centuries-old wartime law to defend shipping off migrants accused of having ties to a Venezuelan gang to a notoriously brutal El Salvadoran prison.
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2 weeks ago |
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | David Bier
IMMIGRATIONTrump’s New Immigration Ban: An Arbitrary, Discriminatory Legal Immigration RewritePublished 8 April 2025President Trump claims he wants a “merit-based” immigration system, but a system banning people based on their nationality is the opposite of merit-based. It is a national embarrassment. President Trump plans to rewrite—or, rather, write over—the Immigration and Nationality Act in the coming week.
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2 weeks ago |
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | David Bier
IMMIGRATIONTrump’s New Immigration Ban: An Arbitrary, Discriminatory Legal Immigration RewritePublished 7 April 2025President Trump claims he wants a “merit-based” immigration system, but a system banning people based on their nationality is the opposite of merit-based. It is a national embarrassment. President Trump plans to rewrite—or, rather, write over—the Immigration and Nationality Act in the coming week.
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1 month ago |
texasgopvote.com | David Bier
Authored by David Bier and originally published on cato.orgPresident Donald Trump is promising to sell green cards “with a path to citizenship” to one million or more immigrants who pay his administration a fee of $5 million. He plans to shut down the EB‑5 immigrant visa category for investors and replace it with what he calls the “Trump Gold Card.” He has stated that he is not asking Congress for legislation and plans to begin selling the cards in two weeks.
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