Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier

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April 2025

Immigrants Have a Lower Incarceration Rate than Native-Born Americans
Even When Excluding Black Americans
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Alex Nowrasteh
Why Is Trump So Intent on Sending Illegal Immigrant Noncriminals to Prison Camps in El Salvador?
They are trying to deport illegal immigrant criminals who don’t exist
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Alex Nowrasteh
2
US Citizens Don’t Have First Amendment Rights If Noncitizens Don’t
Controlling noncitizens' speech involves controlling US citizens' speech.
 • 
David J. Bier
2
Risk Analysis of Mass Shootings Committed by Immigrants and Natives
Sharks are deadlier than Mexican mass shooters
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Alex Nowrasteh

March 2025

Naturalized Immigrants Probably Voted Republican in 2024
Demographics Aren’t Political Destiny
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Alex Nowrasteh
 and 
Krit Chanwong
3
Six Ways to Understand DOGE and Predict Its Future Behavior
How else can we understand what's happening?
 • 
Alex Nowrasteh
 and 
Ryan Bourne
3
A New, Discriminatory, and Arbitrary Legal Immigration System Is Coming
Trump's new travel ban will be worse than anything he's done before.
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David J. Bier
16
Coming Trump Travel Bans Will Seek to Exclude a Small Terrorist Threat
The chance of being killed in a foreign-born terrorist attack on US soil is about 1 in 4.6 million per year
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Alex Nowrasteh
3

February 2025

Immigrants Used Less Welfare than Native-Born Americans in 2022
Different study, similar results
 • 
Alex Nowrasteh
 and 
Jerome Famularo
1
The Trump Administration Shouldn’t Designate Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Six reasons they did anyway
 • 
Alex Nowrasteh
1
What Trump Has Done and Imminently Plans to Do on Immigration
Everything: the illegal, the unconstitutional, and the merely bad
 • 
David J. Bier
1
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