David Bier
@davidjbier.bsky.social
Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
It was illegal but DHS rewards illegality
December 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It was illegal but DHS rewards illegality
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“Despite being the highest-profile supposedly “worst of the worst” deportees during the Trump administration, none of the CECOT deportees appear in the DHS “worst” arrests database” www.cato.org/blog/dhs-doe...
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“Despite being the highest-profile supposedly “worst of the worst” deportees during the Trump administration, none of the CECOT deportees appear in the DHS “worst” arrests database” www.cato.org/blog/dhs-doe...
ICE is out of control.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
ICE is out of control.
“Despite being the highest-profile supposedly “worst of the worst” deportees during the Trump administration, none of the CECOT deportees appear in the DHS “worst” arrests database” www.cato.org/blog/dhs-doe...
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“Despite being the highest-profile supposedly “worst of the worst” deportees during the Trump administration, none of the CECOT deportees appear in the DHS “worst” arrests database” www.cato.org/blog/dhs-doe...
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
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If the international students had run a newspaper this way, Trump would’ve closed Harvard and banned all foreign students. As it is, he’s basically demanding that Harvard subsidize these “conservatives” on its campus in the name of ideological diversity
December 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If the international students had run a newspaper this way, Trump would’ve closed Harvard and banned all foreign students. As it is, he’s basically demanding that Harvard subsidize these “conservatives” on its campus in the name of ideological diversity
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss
If the international students had run a newspaper this way, Trump would’ve closed Harvard and banned all foreign students. As it is, he’s basically demanding that Harvard subsidize these “conservatives” on its campus in the name of ideological diversity
December 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If the international students had run a newspaper this way, Trump would’ve closed Harvard and banned all foreign students. As it is, he’s basically demanding that Harvard subsidize these “conservatives” on its campus in the name of ideological diversity
DOJ fails to convict tow truck driver for towing ICE vehicle. Don’t illegally park in LA while deporting people I guess www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/m...
Man accused of towing ICE SUV during LA immigration operation found not guilty
A Los Angeles tow truck driver accused of towing a federal SUV during an immigration enforcement operation was found not guilty by a federal jury Friday. Bobby Nuñez, 33, was arrested and charged with...
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December 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
DOJ fails to convict tow truck driver for towing ICE vehicle. Don’t illegally park in LA while deporting people I guess www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/m...
And, really, what else is the point of government?
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
And, really, what else is the point of government?
"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them." www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists
A free country must have an absolute wall of protection for those who record government actions.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"DHS has a systematic policy of threatening people who follow ICE or DHS agents to record their activities with detentions, arrests, and violence, and agents have already chased, detained, arrested, charged, struck, and shot at people who follow them." www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
Trump's new executive order will ban, over the next three years, more than 140,000 spouses, fiancés, and minor children of US citizens and legal permanent residents. Nearly 100,000 nuclear family of US citizens. Unconscionable
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump's new executive order will ban, over the next three years, more than 140,000 spouses, fiancés, and minor children of US citizens and legal permanent residents. Nearly 100,000 nuclear family of US citizens. Unconscionable
Within a few hours of me posting about how ICE arrests people for filming them, ICE posts an absurd assault accusation against a woman who it arrested for filming them.
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Within a few hours of me posting about how ICE arrests people for filming them, ICE posts an absurd assault accusation against a woman who it arrested for filming them.
This will be go-to piece on Millerism for a long time. Most media refuse to recognize that Miller's project is divorced from any attachment to "immigration law enforcement" but rather is about a narrow ethnic nationalism.
Some highlights from our Stephen Miller piece:
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
First, his grandmother has written an unpublished history of some of his ancestors' immigration to the US. We are publishing it online for the first time. They were attacked in terms similar to those he uses today.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This will be go-to piece on Millerism for a long time. Most media refuse to recognize that Miller's project is divorced from any attachment to "immigration law enforcement" but rather is about a narrow ethnic nationalism.
Reposted by David Bier
Important post: my colleague documents an “official, nationwide policy of intimidating and threatening people who attempt to observe and record DHS operations,” or who peacefully and without interference follow and protest them, even though the First Amendment broadly protects doing those things. /1
On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
December 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Important post: my colleague documents an “official, nationwide policy of intimidating and threatening people who attempt to observe and record DHS operations,” or who peacefully and without interference follow and protest them, even though the First Amendment broadly protects doing those things. /1
On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
On Dec. 4, DOJ labeled people who impede or "dox" ICE agents "domestic terrorists." I document how DHS believes following, recording, and protesting agents is "impeding," and has a policy of threatening & arresting ICE observers. That's unconstitutional. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...
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Even if the government had been able to meet its evidentiary burden in the sandwich case, @foxmike90.bsky.social argues, "the sheer absurdity of his prosecution made it ripe for jurors to simply say 'no.'” Jurors are "guardians against gov't oppression and bulwarks against prosecutorial overreach."
Trump's DOJ Called a Sandwich a Threat. Jurors Rightly Disagreed.
By rendering a verdict of “not guilty,” jurors can stop the government from using the law as a weapon.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Even if the government had been able to meet its evidentiary burden in the sandwich case, @foxmike90.bsky.social argues, "the sheer absurdity of his prosecution made it ripe for jurors to simply say 'no.'” Jurors are "guardians against gov't oppression and bulwarks against prosecutorial overreach."
Video shows DHS trespassers invading the private areas of a business, profiling and detaining people. They've already had to release two of them. Witness confirms what is obvious in the video: that they didn't ask anyone's names or get any information at all. "They just started taking them."
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Video shows DHS trespassers invading the private areas of a business, profiling and detaining people. They've already had to release two of them. Witness confirms what is obvious in the video: that they didn't ask anyone's names or get any information at all. "They just started taking them."
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NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NEW: A major shift in underway in recent months kicked into gear this week, with ICE trial attorneys around the country asking immigration "judges" to toss out *nearly all* asylum applications on the grounds of "safe third country" agreements with Uganda, Honduras, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
DHS published data claiming to show that it is "starting with the worst of the worst" immigrants. I analyzed the data: DHS has classified just 4% of ICE arrests as the "worst", most for nonviolent offenses, and hundreds for minor crimes like drug possession, traffic infractions, and illegal entry.
December 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
DHS published data claiming to show that it is "starting with the worst of the worst" immigrants. I analyzed the data: DHS has classified just 4% of ICE arrests as the "worst", most for nonviolent offenses, and hundreds for minor crimes like drug possession, traffic infractions, and illegal entry.
Has any president ever argued so explicitly in favor of being less prosperous?
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Has any president ever argued so explicitly in favor of being less prosperous?
An ICE agent in Ohio was arrested for strangling a woman. But police records show a woman had accused him of strangling her and beating her back in APRIL. He was not arrested back then. She called the cops on him 22 times! This is who Stephen Miller says should be immune from prosecution.
December 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
An ICE agent in Ohio was arrested for strangling a woman. But police records show a woman had accused him of strangling her and beating her back in APRIL. He was not arrested back then. She called the cops on him 22 times! This is who Stephen Miller says should be immune from prosecution.
I missed this when it happened. Why doesn't DHS want their heroic country-saving tactics on film?
December 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I missed this when it happened. Why doesn't DHS want their heroic country-saving tactics on film?
DHS trespassers smash down a door of a home owned by a US citizen without a warrant, detaining US citizens and arresting 2 parents leaving 7-year-old parentless. They know they're violating our castles. That's why they come as invaders armed with guns to separate families.
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
DHS trespassers smash down a door of a home owned by a US citizen without a warrant, detaining US citizens and arresting 2 parents leaving 7-year-old parentless. They know they're violating our castles. That's why they come as invaders armed with guns to separate families.