@David_J_Bier (Twitter)

It takes a really really long time for highly-skilled workers from India who are *approved and in the queue for a green card* to actually get processed. @David_J_Bier at @CatoInstitute calculates astonishing figures: from 17 up to 150 years waiting:

According to analysis by the @CatoInstitute’s @David_J_Bier, this means that legal status could be denied even to immigrants who are up to 95 percent self-sufficient.

We have a new reason not to trust @ICEgov, says @David_J_Bier of @CatoInstitute, and he has the data to prove it https://wapo.st/2BZRfST?tid=ss

.@David_J_Bier reminds attendees that while U.S. immigration quotas have remained the same, America’s economy has doubled during the same time period.

“I don’t think it’s true that Americans are opposed to immigration” - @David_J_Bier says recent polls show that.

"Immigrants account for more than 11% of all GDP. Meaning without immigrants, America would be a much smaller and less influential country." @David_J_Bier w/ @CatoInstitute #withimmigrants

"The data also show that the president’s travel ban is misguided. The 65 vetting failures over the past 3 decades came from 20 different countries - only 1 of which made the president’s travel ban (Somalia). @David_J_Bier @CatoInstitute

Despite Trump’s “extreme vetting” promises, the current system is “already 'extreme’ enough to handle the challenge of foreign terrorist infiltration…the country has maxed out its capacity to improve immigration vetting," said @CatoInstitute @David_J_Bier

Extreme Vetting of Immigrants: Estimating Terrorism Vetting Failures - @David_J_Bier, @CatoInstitute:

New: @CatoInstitute study looks at extreme vetting of immigrants before/after Trump travel ban https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/extreme-vetting-immigrants-estimating-terrorism-vetting-failures via @david_j_Bier