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# Asylees and Refugees# Legislation

The Cato Institute on the Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act

This post is by David J. Bier, an immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. Below is a statement he submitted to the House of Representatives about a new bill that is currently under consideration, the Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act. The bill would make it more difficult … Read more

By Jason Dzubow
# Asylum# Immigration

Where Cato Gets It Wrong on Asylum

The Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh recently published a piece in the Huffington Post called Saving the Asylum System. The title accurately reflects the author’s point, and of course I agree that our asylum system should be preserved (and–really–cherished). But where Mr. Nowrasteh gets it wrong, I think, is his analysis of the problem. The “fundamental … Read more

By Jason Dzubow