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  • January 10, 2001
    Cato.org
    How Washington Turns Virtue into Vice
    … have investigated Mercado more carefully to find out if she were in America illegally. But laws that deputize employers to police their workers for illegal immigrants merit repeal. The employer’s job is to hire people to produce goods and …
    By Edward L. Hudgins
  • 2017
    Cato Handbook for Policymakers
    17. Overcriminalization
    … defense attorney can only help his client by making a plea for leniency. Third, law enforcement resources are limited. The police and courts are busy enough with violent crimes, theft, and extortion. Those cases will be neglected if the police
    By Tim Lynch
  • January 22, 2016
    Blog
    What the President Should Do: Civil Asset Forfeiture
    … these practices before he leaves office. For more information about civil asset forfeiture, check out our civil forfeiture explainer on PoliceMis​con​duct​.net. And for an updated version of the Institute for Justice’s fantastic national survey of civil …
    By Adam Bates
  • July 30, 2012
    Forbes
    President Obama: Deporter-In-Chief
    … highlights Napolitano ending the 287(g) agreement with Arizona in June 2012. 287(g) is a program that trains local police in immigration enforcement. Ironically, Napolitano as governor of Arizona oversaw the extension of 287(g) into the Arizona Department …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • January 9, 2020
    Blog
    How to Make Congress Great Again
    … its act together, even if it doesn’t want to. For almost 80 years, the Supreme Court has refused to police how much power Congress transfers to the executive branch … [Yet] [f]or the first time since the New Deal …
    By William Yeatman
  • February 8, 2018
    Blog
    ICE Doesn’t Belong in the Intelligence Community
    … thousands of people being arrested (many without warrants) and hundreds of “radicals” being deported. BI agents went undercover, and local police set up “Red squads”: Local police were encouraged to set up their own “Red squads” and share their findings …
    By Matthew Feeney
  • October 16, 2020
    Salem Statesman-Journal
    This November, Oregon Can Spark a Withdrawal From the War on Drugs
    This November, Oregon Can Spark a Withdrawal From the War on Drugs
    If voters approve it, Measure 110 — the Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative — will reduce possession of all Schedule I through IV controlled substances to Class E violations, punished by a $100 fine.
    By Jeffrey A. Singer
  • August 14, 2013
    Blog
    NSA Spying in the Courts
    Cato senior fellow and Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett joined me this week on a brief to the Court urging it to accept the case so it can resolve statutory and constitutional issues that have “precipitated a juridical privacy crisis.”
    By Jim Harper
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