Trump’s Emergency Economic Powers: “Case Closed”? Shaking down drug makers won’t stop IV drug users.

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August 28, 2019

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Trump’s Trade Policy So Far: Too Many Trade Wars, Very Little Trade Liberalization ([link removed] )

There was a point where President Trump and his trade advisers suggested he wanted a world with “zero tariffs, zero barriers, zero subsidies.” Cato experts argued at the time that these stated objectives contravened statements the President made over the course of decades, and at any rate the President’s actions were unlikely to achieve these objectives. President Trump’s trade policy has been protectionist, abusive of the constitutional separation of powers, destructive to U.S. alliances, and fundamentally flawed as a strategy to achieve its stated goals.

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Trump’s Trade Policy So Far: Too Many Trade Wars, Very Little Trade Liberalization ([link removed] )

By Simon Lester

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Criminal Immigrants in Texas in 2017: Illegal Immigrant Conviction Rates and Arrest Rates for Homicide, Sex Crimes, Larceny, and Other Crimes ([link removed] )

Immigrant criminality is an important public policy concern because some American voters believe that illegal immigrants have a higher crime rate than American citizens. ([link removed] ) Updated research from Cato scholar Alex Nowrasteh ([link removed] ) uses Texas Department of Public Safety data to measure the rate at which individuals were convicted and arrested by crime and immigration status in Texas in 2017. The results show that in Texas in 2017, illegal immigrants were 47 percent less likely to be convicted of a crime than native-born Americans and legal immigrants were about 65 percent less likely to be convicted of a crime than native-born Americans.

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Criminal Immigrants in Texas in 2017: Illegal Immigrant Conviction Rates and Arrest Rates for Homicide, Sex Crimes, Larceny, and Other Crimes ([link removed] )

By Alex Nowrasteh

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