David J. Bier

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Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies, The Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy at Cato, not CATO. "Beer," not Buyer. Libertarian, Not Left

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1Oct 17, '25An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Am451×12.2M72k15k13k
2Oct 1, '25ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about 295×8M56k15k4.8k
3May 6, '25On Facebook, Sara Baruth shares that she voted for Trump... and he's deporting her partner and father of her children who has been here since he was a kid.280×7.6M108k5k6.5k
4Nov 14, '25Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be "doxxed" after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date fr214×5.8M22k3.7k2.8k
5Nov 17, '25Security cameras caught this Border Patrol agent ditching a loaded gun behind a tree at a restaurant parking lot. Is this standard training for Bovino's Border Patrol agents?189×5.1M51k7.2k3k
6Jan 21, '25SHOCKING but not shocking. As I predicted, Trump's birthright citizenship EO includes a Kamala Harris clause, specifically designed to deny the legitimacy of her US citizenship as 176×4.8M38k6.4k7.1k
7Sep 20, '25Indian H1Bs contributed an unfathomable amount to America: 100s of billions in taxes, 10s of billions more in fees, trillions in services. Among the most peaceful, intelligent, int130×3.5M34k5.4k2.7k
8Oct 10, '25ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.96.9×2.6M4.4k1.6k651
9Oct 8, '25You can't enjoy a cup of coffee in Chicago without armed federal agents storming out and tackling you. This used to be a free country. We will become one again. Don't give up hope,87.7×2.4M31k5.2k2.1k
10Oct 29, '25WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m g76.9×2.1M18k3k2.3k
11Jan 22, '25I was invited by @HouseJudiciary to testify at a hearing on "restoring enforcement of immigration law." They should have picture and picture to allow you to see the members' faces.65.3×1.8M4.4k1.8k1.3k
12Jan 26, '25Members of Congress accused me of not telling them the truth so I just want to go through point-by-point my testimony, so we can be clear about the data being cited: Trump destroye60.8×1.6M12k4.5k3.1k
13Sep 3, '25The Indians are in many ways the new Jews, hated for their success rather than their perceived failings. Indians take away all the nativist excuses: legal, skilled, productive, law60.6×1.6M17k2.4k1.6k
14Apr 17, '25WOW. One of the Venezuelans who Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never gu57.3×1.5M17k4k1.4k
15Jun 13, '23Legal immigration is *impossible* for nearly all immigrants wishing to immigrate to the U.S. legally. You can’t just “get in line.” That’s a fiction perpetuated by those who want t55.4×1.5M7.3k2.3k2.6k
16Jan 21, '25The ONLY WAY new Indian workers will get out of the green card backlog is to have a child here and work for 21+ years until their child is old enough to sponsor them for a green ca43.8×1.2M3.7k411649
17Jan 17, '24At a House Oversight hearing entitled "The Biden Administration’s Regulatory and Policymaking Efforts to Undermine U.S. Immigration Law," I got to lay out who actually undermined t43.6×1.2M7.1k3.7k1.3k
18Feb 14, '25This is insane. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation impl40.4×1.1M8.8k3.5k1.1k
19May 19, '25Cato published my review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any40×1.1M4.6k1.7k906
21Oct 8, '25Washington Post confirms my report. They've defunded the real police so that they can enhance the population control police.37.2×1M3.2k1.1k376
23Oct 18, '25The founders repeatedly specifically called America the asylum for mankind34.3×926k37k2.7k1k
25Jun 8, '25LA was at peace before the mass deportations started so this is an ad for what mass deportations will do to our country27.8×750k43k2.4k485
26Jun 7, '25We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal27.3×738k2.8k647163
27Jun 9, '25Both the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press reported that ICE agents started the violence in LA over the weekend.25.5×688k23k8.3k1.3k
28Jun 2, '25The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren'24.8×670k6.4k1.9k790
30Mar 10, '25Sometime in the last week, the DOJ removed this from its website. Wonder why?23.8×642k27k5.3k1.8k
33Jun 10, '25The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a conspiracy by the White House and ICE to violate the Constitution and conduct warrantless, suspicionless "sweeps" of Hispanic areas of the21.6×582k3k1.2k348
34Jun 29, '25Mind blowing levels of corrupt and hypocritical behavior here21.3×576k15k3.3k815
35Jul 9, '25Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively s21×567k11k4.8k2.7k
36Oct 29, '25At some point recently, there must have been an order issued to threaten witnesses with arrest for recording DHS activities. There are a number of nearly identical instances of thi20.9×565k13k3.9k1.2k
37Aug 25, '25All states must recognize driver's licenses issued by other states. These nativists are intent on dissolving the union and violating the Constitution.20.2×546k8.3k1.3k326
38Mar 18, '25Unreal. ICE implies that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been 20×540k3.7k1.4k453
39Dec 19, '22Here's what out-of-control bureaucracy looks like. The Green card application today (all those pages on the left) v. 2003 (those 4 pages on the right). Understand this: We got no n18.9×509k2.4k605190
40Oct 22, '25NBC reports that some ICE recruits are being sent to training without background checks and with serious criminal histories.18.8×507k9.5k4.2k759
42Jun 27, '25After her family dropped her off at work, ICE agents jumped on this little woman on the right and then, after they discovered she's a US citizen, they claimed she "assaulted" them.15.4×416k3.2k1.2k151
43Feb 7, '25He's a 25-year-old who said he "hated" Indians in September....14.5×391k5.5k28196
46Apr 23, '25Insane story from @radleybalko about agents showing up at a lawyer's home to intimidate him about representing immigrants. They appear to have cut his wifi to turn off his ring cam13.2×357k6k2.9k882
47Jun 15, '25New unpublished ICE stats obtained leaked to Reuters show that only one third of the people booked into ICE jails had any criminal conviction of any kind and 39% of the convictions13.1×353k4.6k2.1k553
48Jun 11, '25It is illegal in all 50 states to do this and it’s not a gray area12.7×343k10k3.1k509
49Jan 16, '25Now that Biden is leaving office, I can give a full review of the evidence on the border crisis thanks to some new data. The prevailing narrative is wrong. Biden didn’t cut enforce12.6×341k3.9k1.4k1.1k
50Oct 30, '25Watch this ICE agent getting arrested for drunk driving tell a cop that he uses race to decide who to target. "You're a ginger, so I'm sure you're legal."12.6×341k5k1.2k629
52Oct 31, '25ICE won't allow you to deny consent for your picture to be taken and uploaded to an ICE database. ICE is building the world's biggest surveillance state with no authorization from 12×324k3.3k1.6k536
53Oct 16, '25Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.12×323k4.8k1.7k556
54Nov 17, '25An off-duty ICE agent threatened a random Hispanic teenager with a gun as he was driving. He pulled him from the vehicle and started to demand that he prove he was here legally. TH11.4×306k14k3.5k519
56Jun 8, '25ICE has a foreign gulag. ICE arrests people for op-eds. ICE violates due process. ICE breaks the law. ICE violates court orders. ICE is violating the 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, 10th amend10.8×292k7.7k1.5k463
59May 9, '25🚨Your US government has kidnapped this child. Not family separation. Kidnapping. It took a 2-year-old child from her parents, deported the mom to Venezuela, and have imprisoned th9.5×257k8.3k3.3k474
60Aug 4, '25new video shows the ICE agent who claimed he was randomly "assaulted" by this 4'11" US citizen on her way to work is shown literally picking her up and carrying her away.9.5×256k7.3k3k382
61Jun 23, '25The government has arrested a spouse of a US citizen who is stateless. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 8, when her family travelled to the U.S. on a tourist visa and applie9.2×249k2.7k992254
63Jun 19, '25Something to watch: before Stephen Miller's orders to start arresting people before their hearings at immigration courts. 98.5% of people attended their hearings. They are trying t8.7×235k8.4k2.9k594
64Sep 27, '25Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"8.4×226k3.3k1.3k617
66Jan 2, '2516 Indian skilled workers founded or cofounded 40% of the 25 largest billion-dollar artificial intelligence companies:8.1×218k4.1k735722
67Aug 23, '25They don’t want to leave a record of their crimes8.1×218k6.7k2.2k334
68Sep 20, '25Look at his conniving advisors lie and trick him into this policy, the implications of which he doesn’t even support. They have to explain even what it is to him. Unreal. Trump isn7.6×206k3.4k561329
69Jun 7, '25Reminder that they started the chaos, they provoked the protests by abandoning the rule of law, and they did it on purpose. They want to seize total power and they need the crisis 7.6×204k2.5k663108
70Feb 7, '25🚨NEW data show that a majority of the 8,200 people arrested by ICE have no criminal conviction of ANY KIND. The propaganda must be dismissed.7.4×200k4.7k2k355
71Jun 20, '25I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than6.9×185k3.1k1.6k523
72Apr 17, '25Recall that Kristi Noem deliberately deported eight WOMEN to a MALE prison in El Salvador. It was only the conscience of Salvadoran officials (reporting to THE DICTATOR) who correc6.7×180k9.4k2.8k415
73Oct 11, '25The playbook is as obvious as it is repetitive. They will illegally arrest US citizens, and when they are caught, they will still slander them, attempting to ruin their lives. We'v6.5×177k3.6k943187
74Jun 23, '25Absolute chaos. We are dumping people in random countries all over the world where they have no ties, status, or even know the language and where they will be persecuted. We don’t 6.5×176k3.5k1.5k219
75Apr 17, '25A person is in prison in AMERICA indefinitely now for writing an op-ed that is basically about small ball internal college drama. It’s evil. This is so horribly wrong6.3×171k3.9k847184
76Nov 17, '25Yet another ICE agent was arrested for DUI, just a few minutes after his shift ended. He plows straight into a hedge, luckily not killing anyone. No word on whether either drunk-dr6.2×168k8.7k2k559
77Apr 6, '25Here is the declaration of a man who entered the United States legally and was sent to Guantanamo Bay, explaining the cruelty with which the Trump officials treated him.5.7×154k2.9k1.3k556
78Sep 24, '25Pretty sick that it was the immigrants who were killed here and you would have no idea at all by Noem and Vance’s posts.5.7×153k4.2k774112
80Feb 12, '25The Trump administration is disappearing people to a prison in a foreign country and lying to their family and lawyers about their location.5.3×144k3.5k1.9k477
81May 22, '25This will cause damage to America's reputation that will take a generation to recover from. America's universities are the best in the world in large part because it can get the be4.9×134k2.8k683132
84Jun 24, '25Terrifying what the government is arguing.4.5×123k2.4k1k229
85Mar 22, '25THEY ARE STILL LYING ABOUT THIS!? Unreal. They came like any other legal travel to the United States. The only difference is that Biden required them to fly. That's it. They paid f4.5×122k2.7k692115
86Oct 30, '25The wife of Stephen Miller threatens to denaturalize and deport someone she's debating because he's winning the debate. This is why the First Amendment is absolute.4.5×121k2.6k457130
87Oct 3, '25Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable 4.3×115k4.8k1.7k501
88Jan 19, '18Incredible: The House GOP DACA bill would criminalize legalized Dreamers if they failed to maintain an income insufficiently above the poverty line4.1×04.3k5k1
89Jun 13, '25DUE PROCESS. DUE PROCESS. DUE PROCESS.4.0×108k4.1k1.1k111
90Jul 11, '25THEY ARE ADMITTING IT. Homan is admitting to participating in a criminal conspiracy against the Constitution of the United States.3.6×98k4.2k1.2k280
91Nov 17, '25Florida cop explains how DHS is telling FL cops to wrongfully arrest people so that they can check their fingerprints.3.6×97k2.4k972317
92Oct 8, '25DEI for me, not for thee.3.4×93k3.7k907220
93May 29, '25Someone called the cops about some guys at Home Depot, and ICE came and immediately tackled them? And the probable cause was...?2.9×77k4.3k335149
94Jul 11, '25ICE defines "assault" as demanding a warrant to enter private property.2.5×67k3.1k747229
96Jun 28, '25Look at this Orwellian nonsense. “We are taking away your legal status, we encourage you to obtain to legal status.” It’s insulting that our government is this dumb and evil2.3×61k2.6k740146
97Jan 21, '18The House GOP demands in exchange for DACA an endless list of extreme demands but the worst part is that their bill isn’t even a real solution for Dreamers. Its provisions show the2.2×02.6k2.2k2
98Jun 13, '25The reason Mexicans and Mexican Americans wave the Mexican flag is the same reason the Irish wave the Irish flag. Not because they want to go back there, but because they are proud2.1×58k2.4k550105
100Oct 30, '20Absolutely stunning OIG report finding that Nielsen instructed ports to turn away asylum seekers despite capacity to accept. I have repeatedly argued that her statements to Congres0.9×01.9k69972
101Jun 22, '20Wow. So the Supreme Court's DACA decision cites me, albeit indirectly.0.4×0700106101

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