Details of 155 Immigration Detainers for U.S. Citizens
David J. BierImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) routinely requests that local law enforcement detain U.S. citizens to allow it to pick them up. ICE ’s recordslist 3,158 U.S. citizens as targets of ICE detainers from October 2002 to September 2019. Another 1.6 percent of actual ICEarrests through Secure Communities —the targeting system that ICE uses to issue detainers—were U.S. citizens from October 2008 to April 2011—or 3,627 citizens. Immigration courts—again with incomplete records—show 2,549 removal proceedings terminated in the favor of U.S. citizens from 2002 to June 9, 2017.These totals undercount...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 4, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Most Central Americans Still Evade Mexican Migrant Crackdown
David BierMexico ’s governmenthas touted to President Trump its efforts to reduce migration of Central Americans through its territory to the United States and took credit for the drop in arrests of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border since June. Yet Mexican immigration enforcement fails to explain the drop in immigrants reaching the United States for three reasons: 1) most who try are still making it, 2) the effectiveness of Mexico ’s enforcement is slightly worse than the median month since October 2014, and 3) the drop has occurred mainly among families and unaccompanied children, while Mexican enforcement has mainly...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 3, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Thanking a lot of people - all the Acknowledgement sections from all my papers
This article was written using the Authorea scientific writing platform.The authors would like to thank the Coronado Pop Warner Islanders for initial collection of the sample and participation in Project MERCCURI, as well as Kris Tracy who assisted in the etymology of the proposed species name.The 16S rRNA sequence analysis was performed under the MiSeq Com- petition MkIIm by New Zealand Genome Limited and with the assistance of Patrick Biggs (NZGL) for MiSeq sequence processing. We thank Alex- ander Forrest for the loan of the Brancker CTD. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. W...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 28, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Chile's Success Story is Difficult to Deny
Ian V ásquezWeeks after a 3.75% rise in metro fares in Santiago, Chile sparked violent protests by a small group of students that then generated more widespread disruption, mostly peaceful mass protests continue. Some observers have seized on the political crisis to make often-repeated claims that Chile ’s free-market model has generated growing inequality and been fundamentally unjust despite having produced greater wealth.Yet such claims are difficult to square with the facts. Since its free-market reforms began in 1975, Chile has quadrupled its income per capita, making it the most prosperous country in Latin America...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 4, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
90% of Border Crossers Aren ’t Referred for Asylum Interviews
The government is implementinga new proposal that would ban asylum for immigrants coming to the United States through Mexico. It pins the uptick in border crossers on the asylum process, but the government ’s statistics reveal that 90 percent of crossers in 2019 were not referred for an asylum interview at the border, and the highest share ever referred was just 19 percent in 2018.In fact, the rate of referral was just 7 percent in March 2019. This strongly indicates that the asylum ban will not have its intended effects. Figure 1 compares the rate at which undocumented immigrants at the southwest border were referred fo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Mexico Deported More Central Americans Than the U.S. in 2018
President Trump has decided to blame Mexico for the border crisis,rescinding and then reiterating his threat to impose tariffs on America ’s neighbor to the south if it doesn’t stop migrants from Central America’s Northern Triangle from coming. Yet Mexico’s enforcement of immigration laws against Central Americans has been more vigorous than the United States for some time.In 2018, Mexico deported more immigrants back to the Northern Triangle than the United States did, and it deported nearly all the immigrants who it apprehended in that year. The United States did not. It ’s just not true that Mexico is less vig...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
1.3 Percent of All Central Americans in the Northern Triangle Were Apprehended by Border Patrol This Fiscal Year – So Far
Border Patrolapprehensions of Central Americans from the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras rose again this month to 444,509, so far this fiscal year (FY). According to United Nations population estimates, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 1.32 percent of all residents of the Northern Triangle countries to date this fiscal year. Northern Triangle citizens account for 75 percent of all Border Patrol apprehensions this FY.So far in FY 2019, 1.8 percent of the population of Honduras, 1.2 percent of the population of Guatemala, and 0.9 percent of the population of El Salvador have been appreh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 7, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The Jesus Singularity And The End of Sex As We Know It?
Transhumanism and human limitationsTechnology NOT to developHow to define a cyborg?Could transhumanism pose a threat to safety?Do we need to destruct current healthcare systems altogether?The relation between government and technology: the Chinese social credit systemChinese scientists and gene editingWhat if we all lived for 120-130 years?How will giving birth change in the future?Will sex disappear in the coming years?What is your worst nightmare scenario?Will we become an interplanetary species?
Our dystopian future might be filled with religious A.I. developed by the U.S. military, we might see the end of sexual act...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 11, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Great Thinkers AI artificial intelligence future government Health Healthcare longevity Medicine religion sex sexuality society transhuman transhumanism zoltan istvan Source Type: blogs
Amid Crisis, Ports Process 34% Fewer Central Americans
For the first time ever, two countries —Guatemala and Honduras—have surpassed Mexico as the top nations of origin for immigrants apprehended crossing illegally into the United States. Along with El Salvador, immigrants from three Northern Triangle countries of Central America have made up three quarters of Border Patrol apprehensions this year.Nearly all Central Americans cross the border and seek out a Border Patrol agent to turn themselves in to. The primary reason that they do this, rather than come to a port to apply, is that Customs and Border Protectionhas capped the number of undocumented immigrants it will proc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 7, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Threefold Increases in Border Arrests for Nicaraguans and Indians in 2018
Since 2012, Border Patrol has apprehended a growing number of nationals from countries other than Mexico —almost all of them from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Last year, however, the agency saw threefold increases in apprehensions of Nicaraguans and Indians. These spikes may represent a widening awareness that America will accept people from around the world who come to the border to request asylum.Figure 1 shows that from fiscal year 2017 to 2018, the number of Nicaraguans arrested by Border Patrol increased from 1,098 to 3,337 —a 204 percent increase—and the number of Indians grew from 3,135 to 9,234—a 1...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Five Misconceptions about the Crisis in Venezuela
Some media reports and analyses on the latest developments in Venezuela are repeating the following five misconceptions: 1. “Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself president of Venezuela” Juan Guaid ó is the president of the National Assembly, a body that is controlled by the opposition. On January 10 a new presidential term started and, as required by the Constitution, the president-elect had to be sworn-in in front of the National Assembly. However, Nicolás Maduro was “reelected” last M ay in a sham election that the leading opposition parties were prevented from contesting it. Thus, on January 10 most Wes...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 28, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
Senate GOP Bill Doesn ’t Extend TPS. It Guts It
President Trumpannounced on Saturday that he had a new plan to open government that includes “a three-year extension of temporary protected status or TPS.” But as in the case of DACA—for reasons I explainedhere—theactual legislation that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced to implement his proposal does not extend TPS. Rather, it ends it as it exists now, and replaces with an entirely different program with much more restrictive criteria.Temporary protective status, or TPS, is granted to nationals of country where the government feels it could not, at one time or another, send people back to due to a ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 22, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s $8.7 Billion Price for 3 Years of DACA & TPS Values Full Legalization at $2 Trillion
President Trump offered Democratsa new deal to reopen the government this weekend. The main components would see the president get nearly $8.7 billion for the wall and immigration enforcement and Democrats in Congress get totemporarily reverse his decisions toend legal protections for immigrants with DACA andTemporary Protective Status (TPS). Democratic leadership in the House and Senate havealready rejected the offer, and while it is unlikely to pass the Senate and even less likely to pass in the House, the Senatewill vote on his proposal anyway this week.Based onTrump ’s comments on Saturday and theWhite House outline,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Trump ’s $5.7 Billion Price for 3 Years of DACA & TPS Values Full Legalization at $2 Trillion
President Trump offered Democratsa new deal to reopen the government this weekend. The main components would see the president get nearly $8.7 billion for the wall and immigration enforcement and Democrats in Congress get totemporarily reverse his decisions toend legal protections for immigrants with DACA andTemporary Protective Status (TPS). Democratic leadership in the House and Senate havealready rejected the offer, and while it is unlikely to pass the Senate and even less likely to pass in the House, the Senatewill vote on his proposal anyway this week.Based onTrump ’s comments on Saturday and theWhite House outline,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
