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David Bier

Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

Immigration Policy Analyst

1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20001-5403

United States

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Scholarly Papers (8)

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1.

Immigration Wait Times from Quotas have Doubled: Green Card Backlogs are Long, Growing, and Inequitable

Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 873
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Jan 2020
David Bier
Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Downloads 629 (105,525)

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Immigration, Quota Immigration, Visa Bulletin, Immigration and Nationality Act, U.S. Department of State, Annual Report of the Visa Office, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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Legal Immigration Will Resolve America's Real Border Problems

Cato Institute, Policy Analysis, No. 879, 2019
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 31 Dec 2019
David Bier
Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Downloads 259 (296,486)
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immigration reform, illegal immigration, United States Border Patrol, humanitarian parole, guest worker expansion, asylum seeker

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H-2A Visas for Agriculture: The Complex Process for Farmers to Hire Agricultural Guest Workers

Cato Institute, Immigration Research and Policy Brief No.17
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Apr 2020
David Bier
Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Downloads 236 (326,127)
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immigration, visa, green card, migration, immigrant workers, H-2A, foreign workers

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Backlog for Skilled Immigrants Tops 1 Million: Over 200,000 Indians Could Die of Old Age While Awaiting Green Cards

Cato Institute, Immigration Research and Policy Brief No. 18, March 2020
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Apr 2020
David Bier
Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Downloads 162 (480,208)

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immigration, backlog, indians, green card, ICE, permenant residence, skilled immigrants

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Deregulating Legal Immigration: A Blueprint for Agency Action

Cato Institute Study, 2020
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 02 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2021
David Bier
Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Downloads 102 (689,572)

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immigration, executive orders, immigration law, COVID-19, immigrants, undocumented

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Parole Sponsorship Is a Revolution in Immigration Policy

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 07 Oct 2023
David Bier
Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Downloads 81 (816,709)

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Why US Immigration Officials Should Allow "Digital Nomad" Admissions

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper 25-11
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2025
Angelo A. Paparelli, David Bier, Peter Choi and Stephen Yale-Loehr
Independent, Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Independent and Cornell University - Law School
Downloads 66 (924,743)

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Three New Ways for Congress to Legalize Illegal Immigrants

Cato Institute Immigration Research and Policy Brief, No. 12 (2019)
Posted: 18 Sep 2021
David Bier and Alex Nowrasteh
Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity

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immigration reform, illegal immigrant, Congressional proposal, DACA, dreamers, 1986 Reagan amnesty, rolling legalization policy