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
Has anyone seen an I-213 (“Record of Deportable/Inadmissible Alien”) from one of the racial profiling arrests yet?
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Has anyone seen an I-213 (“Record of Deportable/Inadmissible Alien”) from one of the racial profiling arrests yet?
A fantastic investigation showing that the unit run by Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol agent in charge of racial profiling in LA and Chicago, is an outlier even in an agency already notorious for unnecessary use of force. Obama and Biden could have fired him, but didn't.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A fantastic investigation showing that the unit run by Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol agent in charge of racial profiling in LA and Chicago, is an outlier even in an agency already notorious for unnecessary use of force. Obama and Biden could have fired him, but didn't.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
Maybe the next time the Democrats shut down the government they should have a goal worth not folding for, like saving the US Constitution.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Maybe the next time the Democrats shut down the government they should have a goal worth not folding for, like saving the US Constitution.
Our government should fear the People, not the other way around. In a group chat with other agents, he wrote: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” To another recipient, Exum said: "Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes." They think it's funny to shoot Americans
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Our government should fear the People, not the other way around. In a group chat with other agents, he wrote: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” To another recipient, Exum said: "Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes." They think it's funny to shoot Americans
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So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
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No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
Every word of advocacy we say is supposed to be "hidden by the First Amendment" from the government. In a free country, our speech should be completely invisible to the governnment.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Every word of advocacy we say is supposed to be "hidden by the First Amendment" from the government. In a free country, our speech should be completely invisible to the governnment.
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Federal agents are acting with impunity at the Broadview ICE facility — packing people into holding cells without beds, forcing them to sign away their legal rights, and denying access to food, medical care, and lawyers.
The ACLU of Illinois will see ICE in court.
The ACLU of Illinois will see ICE in court.
'Inhumane' conditions at Chicago-area ICE facility, advocates allege in new lawsuit
Attorneys with the ACLU of Illinois and the MacArthur Justice Center say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have denied people being held at the Broadview facility private calls with attorneys and have blocked members of Congress, faith leaders and journalists from entering the building, creating a “black box” they say has allowed authorities to act “with impunity.”
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November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Federal agents are acting with impunity at the Broadview ICE facility — packing people into holding cells without beds, forcing them to sign away their legal rights, and denying access to food, medical care, and lawyers.
The ACLU of Illinois will see ICE in court.
The ACLU of Illinois will see ICE in court.
They care about American kids though
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
They care about American kids though
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CATO takes a remarkably firm stand on Trump's secret police and their tactics.
If ICE agents believe they have blanket immunity or that citizens have no right to record them, it’s up to the rest of us to disabuse them of that error.
A free society depends on public oversight of government force, and on courts that uphold that freedom. @walterolson.bsky.social
A free society depends on public oversight of government force, and on courts that uphold that freedom. @walterolson.bsky.social
There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders
Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
CATO takes a remarkably firm stand on Trump's secret police and their tactics.
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Latest: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on October 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record.
But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...
But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...
A Portland family says their dad was wrongly arrested by ICE. Now he's lost in immigration detention.
ICE arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland. Now he's lost in immigration detention as his family fights for answers.
reason.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Latest: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on October 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record.
But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...
But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...
Unreal. So that's what they are doing when they pull out their phones to record people who are recording them. That's dystopian. futurism.com/artificial-i...
October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Unreal. So that's what they are doing when they pull out their phones to record people who are recording them. That's dystopian. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
Watch 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."
October 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Watch 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."
I know personally how it feels to have DHS do this.
DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I know personally how it feels to have DHS do this.
WOW! 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 going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
WOW! 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 going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."
Everything the nativists have said about limits on their power has been a lie for a century
Senator David Reed, coauthor of the 1924 national origins quotas immigration act, on where the Border Patrol should be allowed to police: "they have no right to go into an interior city and pick up aliens in the street and arrest them"
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Everything the nativists have said about limits on their power has been a lie for a century
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Now combined with other material into a Cato post: bsky.app/profile/walt...
New from me at Cato: The Trump administration lately has falsely asserted that ICE / CBP agents are immune from state law no matter what they do, and also that citizens have no right to videorecord, photograph or identify the agents. There's a pattern that links these two stories! /1
There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders
Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...
www.cato.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Now combined with other material into a Cato post: bsky.app/profile/walt...
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
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Just wild: after the Kirk assassination, a Tennessee man shared a meme on Facebook about Trump's reaction to a school shooting. Somehow the local sheriff interpreted it as itself menacing a school shooting, and the man's been in jail ever since with bond set at $2 million [Matt Cavedon, @cato.org]
Free Larry Bushart: “Facebook Jail” Isn’t Supposed to Be a Real Place
The irony at the heart of this case? Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech. As Kirk wrote on X in 2024: “There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just wild: after the Kirk assassination, a Tennessee man shared a meme on Facebook about Trump's reaction to a school shooting. Somehow the local sheriff interpreted it as itself menacing a school shooting, and the man's been in jail ever since with bond set at $2 million [Matt Cavedon, @cato.org]
What a sick world.
October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What a sick world.
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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The conduct is worse than the words but stating it plainly says a lot. They aren’t stopping the boats. They are executing people
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The conduct is worse than the words but stating it plainly says a lot. They aren’t stopping the boats. They are executing people
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attorneys at @loevy.com, who represent protesters, clergy, and press (including me), accused border patrol commander greg bovino in a new court filing of personally violating a federal judge’s orders by throwing tear gas at a crowd of residents.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
attorneys at @loevy.com, who represent protesters, clergy, and press (including me), accused border patrol commander greg bovino in a new court filing of personally violating a federal judge’s orders by throwing tear gas at a crowd of residents.
www.loevy.com/wp-content/u...
www.loevy.com/wp-content/u...
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Over on X, a conservative influencer is taking credit for this.
October 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Over on X, a conservative influencer is taking credit for this.