If this doesn't make your blood boil, you don't believe in liberty. Border Patrol agents smashed down a business's locked doors and arrested two employees, and when the owner demanded to see a warrant, they smugly said, "We don't need one." Absolutely criminal. Straight to jail

Another illegal deportation

Although extremists are more often wrong than right, they serve two useful purposes in the political system. First, they remind the center of the need for defenses of the status quo, and second, they are often the only ones to attack the most serious wrongs of the status quo.

"Activities such as speeding, walking a dog not on a leash, or fishing without a valid license may now serve as the basis for the government filing a civil denaturalization complaint in federal courts." From new TRAC report on rising denaturalizations. tracreports.org/reports/774/

This article cites Dallas ISD as an example of a school district that has benefited from the pedagogical expertise of many internationally-born teachers on H-1Bs. I can testify to that personally. www.the74million.org/article/inte...

"DHS agents invade homes without judicial warrants." @cato.org's @davidjbier.bsky.social hammered home to Congress how DHS is acting unconstitutionally, referencing the secret DHS memo our client @ryanschwank.bsky.social exposed authorizing forcible entry into homes without a judicial warrant.

Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.) Why? ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.

I testified before the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on Constitutional Rights and Institutional Abuses at a hearing entitled: "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy." I told them the only amnesty happening now is for ICE agents who violate our rights.

Republicans brought a mom to testify about her daughter's murder. She said, "I don't think it has to do with ICE. We're not a country without illegals coming in, without people coming in from other countries. That's what our country is built on." Watch how this got restated:

“Mass deportation and draconian limits on legal immigration are two sides of the same coin.” www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-...

The Labor Dept is finalizing a rule to force out H-1Bs by raising their min. wages to baselessly high levels. The new rule would mandate increases of ~$26K and disqualify H-1B wage offers for about 80% of H-1B workers in 2026, including for the most experienced (Level IV)

"100 million deportations" is catching on, thanks to the Trump admin advocacy. It reinforces the importance of birthright citizenship. I explain how the 14th amendment was implemented in part to stop ethnic cleansing and how Trump wants to undermine it www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-isnt...

From @davidjbier.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net: a whole network of MAGA officials and candidates now back the 100-million-deportations demand, which would entail deporting tens of millions of actual citizens, both naturalized and U.S.-born. Key step in this: overturning birthright citizenship.

They've killed 204-206 people. But "they have not used the presence of narcotics on the boat as one of the targeting criteria." THEY HAVE NOT USED THE PRESENCE OF NARCOTICS ON THE BOAT AS ONE OF THE TARGETING CRITERIA.

Trump administration threatens outspoken critics by way of far-fetched notions of criminal liability, part umpteen @davidjbier.bsky.social

They illegally raised taxes and then they illegally refused to make the victims whole?

Lots of new evidence in this piece showing the illegal boat strikes' failure to achieve their stated goal of reducing cocaine supplies. Excellent report:

How can Congress not impeach USCIS's Joe Edlow? Do your job, Joe. He now demands every green card applicant self-deport, so that 1) applicants have to go through a process where courts are barred from nearly any review of consular decisions; and 2) overstays get 10-year barred....

All the right-wing complaints about the left apply doubly to the right. Every. Single One. There's no complaint that they have about the left that they aren't more guilty of. They're anti-"invasion" but literally pro-home invasion.

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

If the president was King Charles, that’d be the best case scenario.

"Cato’s brand of libertarianism works great in theory and on a spreadsheet." -In other words, it's grounded in the world's best moral theory, and its empirical conclusions are rigorously tested with data. But we don't like it because we want to blame foreigners for everything.

The guy is leaving crazy voicemails but he’s got a strategy.

"Asylum entries are down 99.9%. Student visas, family visas, and H‑1B applications have all cratered." Ryan Bourne interviews @davidjbier.bsky.social about the immigration crackdown you're not hearing about.

Republicans brought a mom to testify about her daughter's murder. She said, "I don't think it has to do with ICE. We're not a country without illegals coming in, without people coming in from other countries. That's what our country is built on." Watch how this got restated:

The Trump administration is using nonprofit status "as a lever of political control." Come to Cato's event on Thursday to see how to defend the freedom to give. www.cato.org/events/freed...

With a year of data in, the results are clear: the marginal ICE arrest is NOT a criminal. You can barely even tell on the right side of these charts of arrests of convicts when an ICE operation starts and ends. The spikes for noncriminals are massive.

The Trump administration is using nonprofit status "as a lever of political control." Come to Cato's event on Thursday to see how to defend the freedom to give. www.cato.org/events/freed...

The nativists were always planning to bring about dystopian tyranny in their quest to purify our population. But you should be aware that these agents aren't going to be able to resist snooping on their neighbors, landlords, bosses, exes, and enemies, while they're at it, too.

So you can kill unarmed people, conduct racial profiling, invade homes without warrants, violate the first amendment, etc. but DHS will fire you if your ex-boyfriend was too generous and complains about you.

Normal people from all political backgrounds are shocked when I tell them what President Trump has done to legal immigration. Real people don't want this. It's the bots, trolls, and DC elite activists who are pushing this anti-legal immigration agenda. www.foxnews.com/opinion/trum...

There is a **massive** error in the TPS Haiti revocation notice in the Federal Register. Secretary Noem (and @uscisgov.bsky.social ) included this false claim about Haitian illegal entries. These numbers include LEGAL entries at ports of entry. Border Patrol arrests FELL 90% from 2022-2024!

Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

Funny that conservatives think these are crazy things to say. www.city-journal.org/article/cali...

Head of @uscisgov.bsky.social: "We have a great relationship with ICE at our offices.... We work with ICE to pick up someone and to have them arrested." Understand: the criminals avoid USCIS offices. It's the law-abiding immigrants who he's after.

In Trump DHS, you can apparently hop from "FEMA Policy Analyst, Region 2" directly to Deputy Assistant Secretary in charge of counterterrorism. www.thedailybeast.com/top-donald-t...

NEW: On top of all the cuts to legal entries, Trump (i.e. @uscisgov.bsky.social) slashed green card approvals by ~half in an effort to boost ICE arrests of legal immigrants. USCIS has *ended* humanitarian green cards, working with ICE to arrest pending applicants. www.cato.org/blog/uscis-c...

FBI confirms it spied on, investigated @cato.org . Piece live now: www.cato.org/blog/fbi-fin... cc: @radleybalko.bsky.social @adamkeiper.com @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com @blanksslate.bsky.social @attackerman.bsky.social @dell.bsky.social @steve.czmyt.com @heidikitrosser.bsky.social

PBS NewsHour has @davidjbier.bsky.social on to talk about Trump's push against legal immigration

Immigrants Pay More In Taxes Than the Average Person: They get paid lower wages per hour, but they work collectively so many more hours that over the last 30 years, the average immigrant paid ~$100K more in taxes than the average person. cato.org/blog/immigra...

Another potential #FISA Section 702 attack vector on constitutional rights. My latest, out now via @justsecurity.org

Good!

Even President Trump knows that @cato.org puts out the most rigorous and intellectually honest immigration research. Thank you for the citation, Mr. President. However, the disaster at the border was not from *legal* immigrants. They were a good solution to the disaster.

Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

E Pluribus Unum is not English. Are they going to be against that too? Oh wait…

Wow!

More constitutional violations

The head of America's Border Patrol interior operations, selected by Stephen Miller, says on camera he wanted 100 million deportations, removal of one third of America.

"100 MILLION HAVE GOT TO GO!" I believe I will go down as the first person to testify explicitly in opposition to the plan to deport 100 million people from America.

Foreigners can't come to America with a drug conviction, but you can shoot foreigners with a drug conviction.