The litmus test for any prosecutor in America, delivered by Philadelphia's Larry Krasner: I will prosecute ICE crimes

What are the most negative trends in American culture from your perspective?

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

The lunatic messages continue daily

Trump’s DOJ purged the Board of Immigration Appeals of anyone deemed too likely to vote in favor of an immigrant facing removal. The result has been a rubber stamp, one so obvious that the admin is actually trying to get rid of it almost entirely and just replace it with an automatic denial system.

One in four people raised Muslim have left Islam, which means that all polls of Muslim opinion substantially understate the degree of Muslim immigrant assimilation since leaving Islam is a type of assimilation. In my post today I document how big this bias is...

A new @cato.org report estimates there are +1.2M frozen immigration-benefits applications from these 3 countries, out of 2M frozen in total across all countries: - 935,000 applications from Cubans - 239,000 applications from Venezuelans - 81,000 from Haiti Follow @davidjbier.bsky.social for more

I made a brief appearance in this NPR story, for those interested. www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

WATCH: Cato's David Bier talks immigration realities on the Chris Hayes podcast. @davidjbier.bsky.social @cato.org

Great episode of @chrislhayes.bsky.social's podcast with @davidjbier.bsky.social, whose work and testimony on immigration issues I've highlighted here before. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Trump is paying feed, clothe, house, and provide lousy medical care for illegal immigrants at DHS jails. Then he's paying for free flights to their home country, no questions asked. Then, he's giving them thousands of dollars in taxpayer CASH. Scandal of the century.

The government has a ~$1 BILLION program for illegal immigrants to receive government cash and free flights if they came or stayed illegally. It is literally what they accused Biden of doing in reverse. Cash handouts and free flights for illegal aliens. No principles. www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/u...

I estimated how much revenue the State Department and USCIS have received from legal immigrants and US sponsors for benefits that they are now banned from receiving. The answer is over $1 BILLION. That's just from the people who would've been approved this year cato.org/blog/banned-...

This was tremendous.

I had a fun in-depth conversation about immigration policy in 2025 with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. We talked about my two big predictions for the Trump administration and how they've worked out, among many other topics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhj5...

The birthright EO would deny citizenship papers to US-born people whose parents were in temporary or illegal status, giving no thought at all to the fact that numerous people born in that situation would end up in a position to naturalize, but the EO denies them even that.

The sophisticated empirical arguments against immigration are disproven, but all the objections that matter most politically are just complete nonsense that you don't need any complex analysis to reject...🧵

The sophisticated empirical arguments against immigration are disproven, but all the objections that matter most politically are just complete nonsense that you don't need any complex analysis to reject...🧵

Grady Judd endorsing immigration reform and calling for the Trump admin to pull back on deportation is seismic. He is a strong Trump and DeSantis ally who has been a hardliner on immigration for years.

After saying Cato's report finding that immigrants cut deficits by $14.5 trillion over the last 30 years was impossible, the Manhattan Institute published a fiscal effects calculator that shows that doubling immigration will reduce deficits by $11 trillion over the next 30 years. Seriously!

Death threats just because I spoke the truth about what Trump is doing

Sen. Kennedy took issue with this post below. Since our exchange, I have been inundated with unhinged emails and voicemails, including this one: deranged, violent hostility. But over the last decade, I've gotten used to these responses from nativists.

George Will features our findings on the fiscal upside from immigration: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“It’s unfortunate that senators find learning about this administration’s ethnic cleansing fantasies more revolting than the existence of those fantasies.”

My argument with a GOP senator exposed how the Trump administration’s extremism gets a pass from Congress www.ms.now/opinion/sen-...

Apparently Sen. Kennedy thought better of reading this post for some reason.

One of the biggest and least understood shifts in immigration enforcement isn't happening at the border. It's happening at your local sheriff's office. A thread on 287(g). 🧵

Satisfying to see @davidjbier.bsky.social absolutely dogwalk Sen. Kennedy here. Kennedy is so far gone he doesn’t even seem to realize the “Blue-ski” posts he’s reading are the consensus view of most Americans and not some Marxist smoking gun or something.

This is the way a lot of us would like to think we would respond to hostile questions in a Congressional hearing, but its rare to see a witness just turn the tables on a Senator like this.

Here's my Blooski statement that Sen. Kennedy calls hyperbolic. I will defend natural law until the day I die, Senator. People's rights come from their humanity, not their government. If ordered to act unethically, you should always refuse. Do Republicans now disagree?

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

RON JOHNSON: 650k people that are at large in America have committed crimes. Mr Bier, you're shaking your head BIER: They're not at large. They're in prison. They're in prison where they should be JOHNSON: They're not detained! BIER: They're detained by the states. They're not detained by ICE

A shocking number of people responding to this video clearly did not watch the video. David is extremely opposed to the Trump administration's terrorization of immigrant communities. He is describing serious problems with the current laws which make accountability difficult.

Racial profiling is the most important immigration policy in the last year. We went from having effectively no problem with this at all in January 2025 to over 2,000 people per week being arrested for no reason (and that number excludes all the US citizens targeted)

Insane! Noem admitted to ordering more than TWO DOZEN violations of the Constitution when agents illegally entered homes without judicial warrants. "ONLY 28 times" she says. When will her trial be held?

CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

The fact that she starts giggling uncontrollably is absolutely grotesque. Democrats better not foist on America another nominee who thinks civil liberties are a laughing matter again.

That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...

This was a good hour on this subject

"Anthropic Just Showed What Doing the Right Thing Looks Like" [Jennifer Huddleston, Cato]

the bombings will continue until peace improves

Every time the government initiates war against another country, it is used as pretext to suppress the rights of the US population, especially our rights to associate, contract, and trade with foreigners born in the targeted country.

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.” I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

Violence in Mexico doesn’t increase violence in the USA.

We are living through the most serious crackdown on civil liberties built on lies

Worth noting that Rubio's speech also suggests that the 1965 immigration act is when our "western" inheritance started going to shit. Amazing to see Rubio go full Miller/Vance here. In this discussion, @polphilpod.bsky.social and I go hard at that big idea in what I hope is an ambitious way:

Since you're not on X, you don't get to see me debate the fiscal effects of immigration with the conservatives at the Manhattan Institute. x.com/twitter/stat...

A great look at Ayn Rand's illegal immigration from communism 100 years ago this week: “I Chose to Be an American”: Ayn Rand’s Immigration Story. It reinforces how many refugees chose America over others because they don't want lukewarm freedom. They want the real deal.

ICE offers jobs to FIRED police officers. If they don't follow rules in their current job, what makes ICE believe they will follow rules at ICE? This is contemptible and highlights their active recruitment of lawless agents.

Back in March LAST YEAR, ICE shot and killed a US citizen teenager through his car window, and it never admitted its role. ICE claims it was assisting traffic control (!?!) when the driver didn't follow its instructions. Fake cops. How many other killings are they concealing?