Bill said I should read the affidavit. And WOW it shows that everything ICE has said publicly (and Fox and Bill have dutifully regurgitated as fact) about this surgical center case was a LIE. This was not a "targeted" operation, but a racial profiling incident gone bad!

https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1948860434498650194

DHS initially claimed that the officers were engaged in a "targeted" enforcement operation--that is, this was not a random racial profiling incident, but the affidavit repudiates this directly, saying the agents were on a roving patrol

It appears that an order went out on January 28 of this year that resulted in the proliferation of ICE masking. The irony is that the way this order is portrayed that it is about disclosing their identity, but perhaps this is not how it was interpreted on the ground or there was resistance on the ground to it. cnn.com/2025/01/27/pol…

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow. Fixing the link: Citizens being assaulted, arrested, and sent to jails. Military-style sweeps of Hispanic neighborhoods. This is what Congress just gave President Trump $150 billion to do to Americans in every state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Every time you hear DHS say that anyone who objects to ICE's mass deportation campaign is pro-violent felons, understand that those violent convicts are less than 7% of its work for this year. It's misleading the public about what ICE actually does. cato.org/blog/65-people…

Contrary to claims made by its proponents, the mass deportations' components of the Big Beautiful Bill will not improve its CBO score. Indeed, it will make it much worse. Accounting for lost net revenue from immigrants adds nearly $1 trillion in additional cost. Adopting HR 1's flawed assumptions, mass deportations will likely account for 1/4 of the bill's total deficit. This is far more than many other hotly debated costs in the bill. Congressional Republicans didn't let the CBO account for deportations cato.org/blog/deportati…

The immigration dictatorship just announced a ban on immigration for 12 nationalities with 7 more facing draconian discrimination as well. Horrible policies with no justification Here are the 19 disfavored nationalities, which have produced many Americans of great character who have benefited our country enormously. In 1965, Congress attempted to rid American immigration law of this rank nonsensically national origins discrimination. It should again.

Cato published my review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense. When I started researching their methods of an entry, I thought finding 4 such cases would be an unbelievable crime and scandal. In the end, it’s apparent that at least four DOZEN were legal immigrants who came with advanced permission. cato.org/blog/50-venezu…

🚨Your US government has kidnapped this child. Not family separation. Kidnapping. It took a 2-year-old child from her parents, deported the mom to Venezuela, and have imprisoned the dad in a Salvadoran torture prison without charge or trial. Every day, new evil level reached THEY ARE INVENTING CONVICTIONS. The White House says the father was convicted of prostitution offenses but it's impossible: he was never even inside the US. Criminal checks reveal no such crimes in both the US and Venezuela. The mom isn't even alleged to have convictions

What explains Trump's immigration agenda? It's not about legal immigration. He is the most anti-legal immigrant president ever. He is stripping legal immigrants of their status, arresting them, detaining them and deporting them.... It's also not about... citizenship or nationality. He wants to strip citizenship and nationality from Americans, and he wants to foreclose citizens' rights to associate with immigrants. He wants to be able to intentionally arrest and deport citizens....

Recall that Kristi Noem deliberately deported eight WOMEN to a MALE prison in El Salvador. It was only the conscience of Salvadoran officials (reporting to THE DICTATOR) who corrected this monstrous evil. Noem should be immediately impeached and removed from office. Recall further that Kristi Noem "accidentally" deported a Nicaraguan woman to El Salvador, despite the Salvadorans only agreeing to accept Venezuelans. Again, it was only corrected by "THE DICTATOR." No one cared. No one still cares. They'd do it again in a minute.

39% of the detainees disappeared to the Guantanamo offshore prison were deemed "low threat" by the Trump administration. Some of the individuals being detained at Guantanamo did not cross illegally, legally requesting asylum at a port of entry. For over 2 weeks, people were being detained with no way to reach a lawyer. It was only yesterday in response to this lawsuit any effort was made to protect their rights. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Among the most commonly accepted and yet utterly baseless political theories out there is the idea that you can "satisfy" nativist urges by giving into some of their demands. How much history do you need to refute this? Did the Chinese Exclusion Act satisfy nativism?
The Japanese Gentlemen's Agreement?
The Asiatic Bar Zone?
The literacy act?
The 2-year Emergency Quota Act?
The Permanent National Origins Quota Act?
1930 public charge visa ban?
Deporting Mexicans?
Blocking Jews?

Here are some funny exchanges from @bryan_caplan & @DanielDiMartino at @sfliberty.
-Caplan: "Why don't you restrict childbirth based on projected net fiscal burden like you want to do with immigration?"
-DiMartino: "It's immoral. I'd never support deporting even homeless Americans if it saves govt money."
-Caplan: "Oh, now it's immoral. Why?"
-DiMartino: "It's different. You're assuming everyone has a right to come like everyone born here has a right to be here."
-Caplan: "Why assume that everyone born here has a right to be here?"
-DiMartino: "Well, some people, I guess, do want us to change that..."
-Caplan: "Uh, yeah..." [chuckle]
-DiMartino: "But I'm not making a moral argument."
Wait, weren't you? DiMartino: One of our first restrictions was ideological. We banned anarchists!
Caplan: So you'd ban much of this audience?
DiMartino: There were different kinds of anarchists.
Caplan: So you trust the govt to decide the good anarchists from the bad anarchists? [laughter]
Note: DiMartino would ban the only libertarian head of state: Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist (who he supports)

NBC: Trump's admin is releasing immigrants arrested into the US. After 4 years of nonstop lies about Biden, Trump does exactly what Biden is doing. MAGA will have all the excuses about how it's really the Democrats' fault. But the facts will remain the facts! NBC reports that they are releasing people but not anyone "convicted of a serious crime." Hilarious! On the one hand, Noem's out there insulting our intelligence by saying that they're only arresting "dirtbags." On the other hand, they aren't releasing any "serious" criminals!

Wow! The DHS notice to terminate TPS for 300,000 Venezuelans claims Venezuelan TPS holders cost the US government "billions of dollars". The citation is to testimony from a hearing at which I testified and where I point-by-point dismantled the testimony being cited... You can watch me shred the testimony here. You can watch the whole hearing. There was never any response. The chairman of the committee ended up asking CBO to research the issue because he had lost confidence in his own witness's testimony.

https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/1821616135735062826

What Trump Has Done and Imminently Plans to Do:
A comprehensive review of the illegal, unconstitutional, and merely bad:
"The country is facing 4 years of indescribable lawlessness, waste, chaos, and economic uncertainty that will leave America smaller, poorer, and less free." Link⬇️"He is diverting America’s military and all types of law enforcement at every level away from their primary public safety and security missions and toward this economically destructive and socially damaging project that will make America less safe" alexnowrasteh.com/p/what-trump-h…

Members of Congress accused me of not telling them the truth so I just want to go through point-by-point my testimony, so we can be clear about the data being cited: Trump destroyed the immigration system and Biden rebuilt it. 🧵

https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/status/1882184703178133563

"President Trump abused his authority to cut legal immigration from abroad by nearly 80 percent."

SHOCKING but not shocking. As I predicted, Trump's birthright citizenship EO includes a Kamala Harris clause, specifically designed to deny the legitimacy of her US citizenship as the child of someone with a temporary status. This order jeopardizes the citizenship of millions... of people in the United States. It purports to limit the damage by applying it only to future children but if they can get away with this blatantly unconstitutional action, they can strip anyone of their citizenship. The 14th amendment would be dead. This order is...

As I predicted, Trump has signed an order deprioritizing public safety threats for removal, requiring that DHS target anyone removable regardless of their security risk. This EO is a dangerous threat to the public, diverting resources away from critical security tasks. But it's even worse! Trump's order requires the attorney general to prioritize misdemeanor criminal cases for illegal entry OVER the rest of its criminal workload: terrorism, fraud, trafficking, homicides, and other crimes just got bumped down. This is insanity.

Trump Will Cut Legal Entries More Than Illegal Entries.
-Illegal immigration is low right now. He doesn't have much to cut. And look at what he did last time. Illegal immigration actually increased significantly by the end of his term in office. Link to the whole piece: alexnowrasteh.com/p/trump-will-c…

1/ Trump will lie about who he is deporting. Week 1, we expect a big televised series of arrests. We know that ICE was *already* planning to arrest the criminal targets of this raid. But Trump will also tell ICE to go ahead and arrest noncriminals in the area as well.... 2/ Trump will sign an order Day 1 allowing ICE to arrest anyone without legal status. He will then slander everyone arrested as a criminal or gang member when, in reality, he will have deprioritize criminals and diverted resources away from serious threats.