Laissez-Faire, Laissez-Passer w/ Alex Nowrasteh & David Bier
Alex Nowrasteh, David J. BierThoughts on immigration, economics, social science, public policy, and more
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I'm the Senior Vice President for Policy at the Cato Institute. I write about immigration and occasionally other subjects.
I am Director of Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute and occupy The Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy
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