Profile avatar
davidjbier.bsky.social
Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
720 posts 10,747 followers 161 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to post
I guess the fictitious Temporary Pass Status is what DHS was encouraging Haitians with TPS to obtain.
comment in response to post
The details: 75-year-old Isidro Perez was paroled into the US in 1966, probably fleeing Fidel Castro, as a teenager. He was convicted of drug possession, but this happened over 40 years ago! ICE knew he was in poor health. Why was he detained in the first place? newrepublic.com/article/1974...
comment in response to post
I will be checking it out. www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/t...
comment in response to post
"Among the items seen by officers in the car were “multiple copies of passports not registered under the individual’s name”, NBC reports." Where are these people? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
comment in response to post
These are the people who were caught! God only knows how many people are getting away with this.
comment in response to post
Am I a citizen? I have a passport and a REAL ID. But I cannot currently prove I was born to an American citizen.
comment in response to post
I'm not joking. That's literally what they are saying: "Velez’s outstretched arm struck that officer in the face." You can see in the photo that her outstretched arm would not even get up to the agents' chests! www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/f...
comment in response to post
It's literally the old "I-ran-into-her-fist" story. Sounds totally credible.
comment in response to post
www.presstelegram.com/2025/06/26/u...
comment in response to post
Another US citizen apparently attacked and now being prosecuted.
comment in response to post
Where are California prosecutors on arresting agents who commit trespassing, assault, and unlawful arrests?
comment in response to post
Correction: they appear to have been Border Patrol agents. www.latimes.com/california/s...
comment in response to post
The courts invent doctrines like qualified immunity, absolute immunity, and presidential immunity to protect rights-abusing public officials from accountability, but when it comes to protecting our rights, the courts feel the need to be very conservative in their powers.
comment in response to post
You could always just not do either one.
comment in response to post
Trump says ICE is arresting the 'worst of the worst' — new data shows that's not true
comment in response to post
t.co/7ap0xF5XQK
comment in response to post
I spoke to employers who were seeking to help employees abducted by ICE - including one boss seeking freedom for a U.S. citizen staffer who was arrested in the space between their uber and the front door of their workplace. Their boss had their U.S. passport in hand, pleading for their release.
comment in response to post
Attorneys are ostensibly allowed to visit clients from 9-4:00 p.m. every day. Family are only given the opportunity to meet with their loved ones from 1-4 p.m. I arrived at 10:00 a.m. and didn't speak to the client until 1:30 p.m. - 3 and a half hours later.
comment in response to post
This refers to at-large arrests. People not detained by any other law enforcement so ICE is out there grabbing them literally off the streets bsky.app/profile/davi...
comment in response to post
Most of the people ICE has arrested are individuals who would lead peaceful, productive lives in the United States if they were allowed to. When will ICE admit that it thinks that outcome is a bad thing? www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...
comment in response to post
ICE doesn't care about public safety. How do we know? People inside the agency are explicitly saying that they don't care about public safety. cato.org/blog/ice-arr...