David J. Bier
@David_J_Bier
@CatoInstitute Director of Immigration Studies. Cato, not CATO. "Beer," not Buyer. Libertarian. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Wow. So the Supreme Court's DACA decision cites me, albeit indirectly. cato.org/blog/ending-da…
Why would Trump deport an undocumented Mexican immigrant who has lived in the US for 31 years and owns a vineyard management company employing 10 people. Two of his children were born in the US and are American citizens, and he was a pillar of his church. nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opi…
If she was asked about it, she’d say, “I would’ve thought the admin disappearing legal immigrants to a foreign prison without a hearing or even telling anyone would’ve been a hoax too but it happened. Don’t want hoaxes? Don’t do things that sound like hoaxes!”
LA Mayor Karen Bass was on both ABC and CBS Sunday shows wailing about ICE “spreading fear,” but wasn’t pressed about her own spreading of a hoax about a woman who faked an ICE kidnapping. That diverted DHS agents and continued to brew hatred for brave agents risking their lives.
I'm willing to bet that Congress comes together and reverses these Medicaid/SNAP cuts, but keeps the mass deportation trains running on time.
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Biggest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, 4 times the size of the previous biggest; $894-$990 bn Kicks 10 million off health insurance Biggest SNAP cuts ever, $187 bn Still increases deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
The Trump admin will propose a new way to distribute H-1B visas, likely wage-based, making it less likely international students can obtain H-1B status. As with ending OPT, the policy aims to sever the U.S. immigrant talent pipeline. @David_J_Bier @SIIA_US forbes.com/sites/stuartan…
ICE says in response to my FOIA request that it is ignoring the Laken Riley Act. It says it has NO documents related to the implementation of Trump's first law. Believable?
Will Noem have to explain why she is not enforcing the Laken Riley Act? Will she detail why this administration has chosen to prioritize noncriminals at Home Depot over following the law Congress passed (at Trump's request) that requires them to go violent thieves like this guy
How much would it be increased if we just gave them away to anyone who wanted one?
The economic value of the H-1B program could be increased by 88% without changing the number of visas if we stopped giving them away at random.
👀Basically every month of the Biden presidency
Lots of good data in this. jasher.substack.com/p/assessing-cr…
This is an advertisement for more hostage taking of Americans. And since the US now takes hostages too, we will have no moral or legal grounds to object.
Not enough credit being given to @marcorubio and the Trump administration this week for getting 10 American hostages released from Venezuela in exchanges for the return of 250 alleged Venezuelan gang members who had been deported to El Salvador.