David Bier
@davidjbier.bsky.social
Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, Cato's Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
I've watched countless videos now of confrontations between DHS agents and ICE observers, and it's awesome how many are women recording, challenging male agents, refusing to give up their rights. I'd say the number of women involved in documenting ICE crimes outnumber men three to one or more.
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I've watched countless videos now of confrontations between DHS agents and ICE observers, and it's awesome how many are women recording, challenging male agents, refusing to give up their rights. I'd say the number of women involved in documenting ICE crimes outnumber men three to one or more.
My god
NEW: Today we published a new investigation into something happening largely out of view: immigrant kids getting separated from their families and placed in federal shelters, in some cases after something as mundane as a traffic stop🧵 1/
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ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
My god
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...
ICE agent when told he's about to arrest a US citizen. Direct quote: "I DON'T CARE."
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
ICE agent when told he's about to arrest a US citizen. Direct quote: "I DON'T CARE."
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.
Utterly incredible what happens to DHS’s claims in a real court
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Utterly incredible what happens to DHS’s claims in a real court
I've watched thousands of videos of ICE profiling by now, and the saddest thing is how quickly most people comply when armed, masked government agents demand their documents. DO NOT HELP THEM VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION. DEFEND YOUR LIBERTY.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I've watched thousands of videos of ICE profiling by now, and the saddest thing is how quickly most people comply when armed, masked government agents demand their documents. DO NOT HELP THEM VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTION. DEFEND YOUR LIBERTY.
The federal government just dismissed charges against this woman who it had accused of deliberately attacking its agents and trying to kill them. Instead, it now appears they tried to murder her. Will Chicago or Illinois police prosecute?
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The federal government just dismissed charges against this woman who it had accused of deliberately attacking its agents and trying to kill them. Instead, it now appears they tried to murder her. Will Chicago or Illinois police prosecute?
DHS beat, tackled, shackled, cut, and bruised US citizen Arturo Hermosillo in June. His hands turned blue. They stuffed him in a van and drove him to a station. Yet the agents told him that he was never "arrested," just "detained," ICE's new get-out-of-jail-free word.
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
DHS beat, tackled, shackled, cut, and bruised US citizen Arturo Hermosillo in June. His hands turned blue. They stuffed him in a van and drove him to a station. Yet the agents told him that he was never "arrested," just "detained," ICE's new get-out-of-jail-free word.
As the NY Times reported this weekend, ICE has drastically reduced its sex trafficking investigations, and I guess at least one ICE employee may have seen an opportunity. Note it was the locals who arrested him.
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
As the NY Times reported this weekend, ICE has drastically reduced its sex trafficking investigations, and I guess at least one ICE employee may have seen an opportunity. Note it was the locals who arrested him.
Run away from Border Patrol, they assault and tackle you and accuse you of assaulting them. Run toward Border Patrol, they assault and tackle you and accuse you of assaulting them. Stand still... you get the idea. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Run away from Border Patrol, they assault and tackle you and accuse you of assaulting them. Run toward Border Patrol, they assault and tackle you and accuse you of assaulting them. Stand still... you get the idea. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...
Watch Bovino, head of Border Patrol's racial profiling operation, approach a random Hispanic guy at what looks like a bus stop and demand to know if he speaks English.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Watch Bovino, head of Border Patrol's racial profiling operation, approach a random Hispanic guy at what looks like a bus stop and demand to know if he speaks English.
Florida cop explains how DHS is telling FL cops to wrongfully arrest people so that they can check their fingerprints.
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Florida cop explains how DHS is telling FL cops to wrongfully arrest people so that they can check their fingerprints.
Literally shaking. Absolute monsters. DHS's Secretary Noem reassigned agents away from saving a child rape victim and arresting the depraved rapists and traffickers because she's obsessed with Trump's effort to stop immigrants from "poisoning the blood" of the nation.
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Literally shaking. Absolute monsters. DHS's Secretary Noem reassigned agents away from saving a child rape victim and arresting the depraved rapists and traffickers because she's obsessed with Trump's effort to stop immigrants from "poisoning the blood" of the nation.
Reposted by David Bier
If anything puts the lie to “we’re going after the criminals,” this shocking video should be it. Kudos to the @nytimes.com on a tremendously well done look into the immigrants here on legal visas whom we’re detaining. An absolute must watch: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If anything puts the lie to “we’re going after the criminals,” this shocking video should be it. Kudos to the @nytimes.com on a tremendously well done look into the immigrants here on legal visas whom we’re detaining. An absolute must watch: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
An off-duty ICE agent threatened a random Hispanic teenager with a gun as he was driving. He pulled him from the vehicle and started to demand that he prove he was here legally. THE ICE AGENT WAS ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT. Pretty much the same assaults we're seeing every day
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
An off-duty ICE agent threatened a random Hispanic teenager with a gun as he was driving. He pulled him from the vehicle and started to demand that he prove he was here legally. THE ICE AGENT WAS ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT. Pretty much the same assaults we're seeing every day
Security cameras caught this Border Patrol agent ditching a loaded gun behind a tree at a restaurant parking lot. Is this standard training for Bovino's Border Patrol agents?
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Security cameras caught this Border Patrol agent ditching a loaded gun behind a tree at a restaurant parking lot. Is this standard training for Bovino's Border Patrol agents?
Reposted by David Bier
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
Reposted by David Bier
Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.
Hispanic American women can't go to Home Depot without masked men pointing guns into their cars. This is a violent threat and is illegal.
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hispanic American women can't go to Home Depot without masked men pointing guns into their cars. This is a violent threat and is illegal.
"You need a warrant to come in!"
"We're just going to talk to someone..."
Uh, that's not how the warrant requirement works at all!
"We're just going to talk to someone..."
Uh, that's not how the warrant requirement works at all!
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"You need a warrant to come in!"
"We're just going to talk to someone..."
Uh, that's not how the warrant requirement works at all!
"We're just going to talk to someone..."
Uh, that's not how the warrant requirement works at all!
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
Hopefully ICE agents read 4th circuit dicta
Fourth Circuit publishes an opinion to make a point that otherwise would go unseen.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Hopefully ICE agents read 4th circuit dicta
Unconstitutional "birthplace" stop by ICE. These are crimes. The solution to crime is punishment.
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Unconstitutional "birthplace" stop by ICE. These are crimes. The solution to crime is punishment.