CATO Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh examines the class of migrants known as “special interest aliens” & the role they are playing the debate over a border wall
Watch here: https://cs.pn/2Fsv3BQ
Trump is mentioning lots of awful anecdotes of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, but they are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-res
"A count of real terrorists who have crossed the Mexican border since 2001 and wanted to harm Americans would be very short: it would contain zero names." - @AlexNowrasteh Nov, 2018 for @CatoInstitute
After a second immigrant child dies in U.S. custody, @AlexNowrasteh of @CatoInstitute examines the debate over President Trump's border wall: http://bit.ly/2ViVwXg
EXCLUSIVE: Cato policy analyst @AlexNowrasteh sits down with North American Programs Director @liz_hayes to discuss immigration and #LibertyCon19!
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Here, @AlexNowrasteh compares the different ways that the GOP approached immigration in the states of California and Texas (led by George W. Bush) in the 90s and how that turned out for them.
This article
1 poses big challenges to @TomBossert (ex-Trump Homeland Security Adviser) on statistics of migrant detention policy
2 references @CatoInstitute @AlexNowrasteh valuable work
"Studies: Detention of Migrant Families Unnecessary, Inefficient"
https://www.justsecurity.org/58897/studies-sh
Reviving this by @AlexNowrasteh in light of that idiotic piece by Michael Anton..
The 14 Most Common Arguments against Immigration and Why They’re Wrong https://www.cato.org/blog/14-most-common-arguments-against-immigration-why-theyre-wrong via @CatoInstitute