{"id":15740,"date":"2026-04-16T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=15740"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:23:50","slug":"cato-institute-official-pushes-back-after-trump-touts-its-immigration-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=15740","title":{"rendered":"Cato Institute official pushes back after Trump touts its immigration data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/56.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/56.png 456w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/56-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is pushing back on President Trump\u2019s claim that its immigration research shows the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the southern border is \u201cthe best in the History of the U.S.A.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president on Tuesday posted a graph on his Truth Social platform tracking a 99.9 percent decline of legal entries of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border once Trump took office in January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was put out by the CATO Institute, who hates \u2018TRUMP,\u2019 but they can\u2019t hide the facts,\u201d Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats were a DISASTER on the Border, and we were the best in the History of the U.S.A.!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in a blog post later on Tuesday, Cato\u2019s director of immigration studies, David Bier, pushed back on Trump\u2019s labeling of Democrats as the \u201cdisaster.\u201d He noted that the chart, which only shows legal entries by immigrants, does not say anything about either party\u2019s handling of illegal immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe people in that chart were going to official ports of entry, declaring themselves, applying for asylum\u2014doing exactly what the law says they\u2019re supposed to do. They were following the rules. That\u2019s what he cut by 99.9 percent\u2014not illegal entries,\u201d Bier wrote in his response to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe legal entries weren\u2019t the \u2018disaster,&#8217;\u201d he continued. \u201cThey were a good solution to the \u2018disaster\u2019 of illegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cato scholar noted that most research suggests that Americans are frustrated with illegal immigration, but \u201cvery few Americans say the problem was people coming in legally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf he really wants his followers to have all the facts, we invite him to share the other charts in the piece as well, which show how decimated legal immigration has become under his administration,\u201d the libertarian scholar wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bier pointed to data showing refugee admissions down by 90 percent; immigrant visas for spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens down by half; student visas down by 40 percent; H-1B visas down by 25 percent; and so-called fianc\u00e9 visas down by 65 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cato\u2019s research suggests 72 percent of all cuts to immigration during Trump\u2019s second term have been to legal immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bier called the president\u2019s claim that he is focused on illegal immigration, not legal immigration, \u201ca useful line\u201d that \u201clets him present mass deportations and visa bans as reluctant law enforcement rather than what they actually are: a broad ideological campaign against immigration of every type.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t want people coming the right way any more than the wrong way,\u201d Bier added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Bier also denied that the Cato Institute \u201chates TRUMP,\u201d as the president suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, we routinely praise him when he deserves it, as Trump has recognized, but criticize him when he undermines individual liberty\u2014like we do with all presidents,\u201d Bier wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is pushing back on President Trump\u2019s claim that its immigration research shows the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the southern border is \u201cthe best in the History of the U.S.A.\u201d The president on Tuesday posted a graph on his Truth Social platform tracking a 99.9 percent decline of legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4083],"class_list":["post-15740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-cato"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - 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