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David J. Bier
David J. Bier is the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. He is an expert on legal immigration, border security, and interior enforcement. Bier’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today …
October 8, 2024
White Paper

Cato Handbook on Executive Orders and Presidential Directives
Executive orders and other presidential directives that conflict with the principles of individual liberty, free markets, limited government, peace, and the American Constitution should be revoked or amended by the next president.
By Alex Nowrasteh
July 2, 2024
Policy Analysis

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Policy Analysis - 977 - Illegal Immigrant Murderers in Texas, 2013–2022
By Alex Nowrasteh
June 26, 2024
Policy Analysis

No. 977
Illegal Immigrant Murderers in Texas, 2013–2022
Most research finds that all immigrants in the United States are less likely to commit crime or be incarcerated than native-born Americans.
By Alex Nowrasteh
January 24, 2025
News Releases

Cato Scholar Argues There’s No Good Reason to End Birthright Citizenship
January 23, 2025
Blog

There Is No Good Reason to Revoke Birthright Citizenship
With the law, tradition, common sense, reason, and empirical evidence on the side of maintaining birthright citizenship, we can only hope that the courts maintain our exceptional system in its current form.
By Alex Nowrasteh
January 22, 2025
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 417
The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the Economic Development of the Western United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act reduced the male labor supply of Chinese and white workers in the West.
By Joe Long, Nancy Qian, Carlo Medici, & Marco Tabellini
January 21, 2025
News Releases

Cato Scholars Available to Talk Executive Orders
The Cato Institute is offering expert scholars for interviews following President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
January 21, 2025
Blog

Diseased Illegal Immigrants Aren’t “Invading” the United States
The claims of illegal immigrants spreading disease are just as untrue as claims of them spreading crime and terrorism.
By Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong
January 21, 2025
Blog

Trump Will Likely Cut Legal Entries More Than Illegal Entries
It’s easier to make legal activity illegal than to stop illegality.
By David J. Bier
January 16, 2025
Blog

Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis, Part 4: What Caused the Border Crisis?
We can achieve both legality and order at the border. The Biden administration showed proof of concept. Now’s the time to finish the job.
By David J. Bier
January 16, 2025
Blog

Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis, Part 2: Did Biden Cut Enforcement?
Biden did cancel some of Trump’s policies, but he accomplished more removals using different authorities. As Biden said in December 2020—before he entered office—he did not want to rescind Trump’s Title 42 expulsion policy because “the last thing we need is … two million at the border.”
By David J. Bier
January 7, 2025
News Releases

Illegal Immigrants in Georgia Have a Low Incarceration Rate
For more than a decade, Texas was the only state that reported data on illegal immigrants arrested and convicted of crimes.
January 6, 2025
Blog

Illegal Immigrants in Georgia Have a Low Incarceration Rate
The federal government rightly seeks to exclude criminal illegal immigrants from the United States and remove those who commit crimes here. However, the good news is that illegal immigrants have a significantly lower crime rate than native-born Americans, whether you measure by estimates of nationwide incarceration rates, arrest rates, or criminal conviction rates.
By Alex Nowrasteh
December 12, 2024
The Dispatch

Millions of ‘Missing’ American Men Aren’t Really Missing
Why that’s important.
By Scott Lincicome