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January 22, 2025
News Releases

Cato Scholar Testifies Before House Subcommittee on Immigration Policies
… policies will cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration:Trump’s past actions: During his first term, Trump reduced legal immigration sharply while illegal immigration rose.Higher baseline of legal immigration: Legal immigration is currently much higher than it was …
January 22, 2025
Testimony

Restoring Immigration Enforcement in America
… government of about $5 trillion.43 Reforming the immigration system would do the most to stop violations Unfortunately, the US immigration system does not facilitate lawful migration; instead, it hinders it and encourages illegal immigration. The fundamental legal immigration framework …
By David J. Bier
January 7, 2025
News Releases

House Passes First Immigration Bill of 119th Congress
… a Trojan horse designed to destroy legal migration because nativists cannot help themselves. They simply don’t care about illegal immigration as much as legal immigration.”If you would like to set up an interview about this, please reach out.
November 8, 2024
News Releases

The Best Political Argument for More Immigration Restrictions Just Failed
… immigration. They are the understandable fear of border and immigration chaos, security concerns, and the untrue belief that the legal immigration system isn’t restrictive. Those concerns all explain much of the sharp move in public opinion toward immigration restrictionism …
November 7, 2024
Blog

The Best Political Argument for More Immigration Restrictions Just Failed
… immigration. They are the understandable fear of border and immigration chaos, security concerns, and the untrue belief that the legal immigration system isn’t restrictive. Those concerns all explain much of the sharp move in public opinion toward immigration restrictionism …
By Alex Nowrasteh
October 30, 2024
Washington Post

Trump’s Immigration Policies Made America Less Safe. Here’s the Data.
… releasing murderers, “drug dealers, drug addicts, everybody” into the country. But new data reveal that Trump was the one whose immigration policies damaged the country’s security. In fact, he released more convicted criminals into the United States than his …
By David J. Bier
October 24, 2024
The Dispatch

A Second Trump Administration Would Go after Legal Immigration Too
… recover after four years of clinical death.There’s every reason to believe that President Trump would massively restrict legal immigration and could essentially end it, with a likely exception for temporary lower-skilled agricultural workers. Trump reduced legal immigration …
By Alex Nowrasteh
October 24, 2024
The Dispatch

A Historic Crackdown on Legal Immigration Is Not the Answer to Our Demographic Troubles
If Donald Trump becomes president again, everyone expects a historic crackdown on illegal immigration. But a historic crackdown on legal immigration is a safer bet. At the end of Trump’s last term, border patrol arrests were 64 percent higher …
By David J. Bier
October 3, 2024
News Releases

Immigration Increases Housing Prices, and That’s Okay
Immigrants are people who want roofs over their heads, after all.
October 2, 2024
Blog

JD Vance Is Correct: Immigration Increases Housing Prices, and That’s Okay
Vance is correct that immigrants drive up housing prices. You can decide whether that’s good or bad, but you should accept it as true.
By Alex Nowrasteh
September 20, 2024
Blog

Immigration Isn’t Causing Unemployment
Immigrants are not taking jobs away from Americans or causing the unemployment rate to rise. A decline in immigration would be a bad sign for the labor market. Immigrants come when job opportunities exist.
By David J. Bier
September 19, 2024
Testimony

Beyond the Border: Terrorism and Homeland Security Consequences of Illegal Immigration
Zero people were murdered in attacks on U.S. soil committed by a foreign-born terrorist who entered illegally during the 1975-2023 period.
By Alex Nowrasteh
September 16, 2024
Dallas Morning News

Connection Between Immigration and Fentanyl Deaths Is Weak
The obsession with immigration as a solution to the fentanyl problem diverts attention from tangible solutions.
By David J. Bier
August 22, 2024
Blog

The Mississippi State Auditor’s Report “How Illegal Immigration Hurts Mississippi Taxpayers” Isn’t Serious
The Mississippi state auditor released a report that purports to show that illegal immigrants impose a cost of over $100 million on state taxpayers. Unfortunately, this report is deeply flawed.
By Alex Nowrasteh
August 7, 2024
Cato Daily Podcast

Prospects for Immigration Reform amid Declining Public Support
Public support for fostering robust legal immigration has taken a dramatic negative turn. What’s likely under a Trump or Harris administration on immigration? David Bier comments.
Featuring David J. Bier and Caleb O. Brown