David Bier

1 week ago | cato.org | David Bier

Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind. Also, among those with criminal convictions, they are overwhelmingly not the violent offenses that ICE continuously uses to justify its deportation agenda. ICE has shared this data with people outside the agency, who shared the numbers with the Cato Institute.

1 week ago | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | David Bier |Alex Nowrasteh

IMMIGRATIONTrump’s Lawless, Baseless Immigration BanPublished 17 June 2025President Trump signed a proclamation that, with few exceptions, bans nineteen nationalities from entering the United States, supposedly based on “security” concerns, and went into effect on June 9. The president claims that there is no way to vet these immigrants. Yet that is precisely what his consular officers and border officials were successfully doing for decades—up until June 9.

1 week ago | pressdemocrat.com | David Bier

Many voters elected President Donald Trump to end border chaos. Illegal immigration remains low, but voters’ opinions of his immigration policies as a whole have soured. The reason is that they view Trump’s actions away from the border as just more chaos. Americans aren’t against enforcement. But not like this. So what’s the root problem — and what’s the real fix? The public’s perception of chaos stems from the fact that Trump’s policies appear arbitrary.

2 weeks ago | yakimaherald.com | David Bier

Many voters elected President Donald Trump to end border chaos. Illegal immigration remains low, but voters’ opinions of his immigration policies as a whole have soured. The reason is that they view Trump’s actions away from the border as just more chaos. Americans aren’t against enforcement. But not like this. So what’s the root problem — and what’s the real fix? The public’s perception of chaos stems from the fact that Trump’s policies appear arbitrary.

2 weeks ago | cato.org | David Bier |Alex Nowrasteh

Riots rocked Los Angeles over the weekend, ostensibly started by protesters upset at deportation raids. Yet if there are any rioters who legitimately care about immigrants and aren’t just violent opportunists, they have harmed the immigrants’ cause. The riots are just threatening the city immigrants helped build, hurting innocent residents, and setting up political support for a broader immigrant crackdown. If any rioters are illegal immigrants, they should be arrested and deported.