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

The Trump administration’s hypocrisy is on full display in leaked ICE memo

ICE blamed me for assaults on agents — rather than the agency’s own recklessness

Trump is looking for crime in the wrong neighborhoods when he targets immigrants

Trump’s mass deportation campaign may lay waste to the Bill of Rights

Republicans pushed the Laken Riley Act to prioritize deporting criminals — but DHS isn’t doing that

Trump says ICE is arresting the ‘worst of the worst’ — new data shows that’s not true

The Trump administration likely sent scores of legal immigrants to a foreign prison

Kamala Harris shouldn’t ignore immigration. She should run on it.