A Shoddy Cato Institute Report Aims to Undermine Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman on September 12, 2018
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has recently published a deeply flawed study by David Bier titled "U.S. Citizens Targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas".
Using specious causality, the author links the Texas anti-sanctuary law to an assertion that in Travis County, Texas — which includes the city of Austin — the police, against their desires, were forced to collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in detaining significant numbers of U.S. citizens. I say "against their desires" because until the Texas legislature enacted the anti-sanctuary statute, the sheriff of Travis County actively protected arrested alien criminals from the reach of ICE.
Bier then goes on to extrapolate the already questionable Travis County number to arbitrarily assign a figure to the number of U.S. citizens that he estimates ICE "targeted" statewide throughout Texas:
https://cis.org/Cadman/Shoddy-Cato-Institute-Report-Aims-Undermine-Immigration-Enforcement
