Cato Institute Vice President for Economic and Social Policy Studies Alex Nowrasteh has a new piece titled “Trump’s Deportation Priorities Didn’t Shift, They Won’t Shift, and You Should Stop Falling for Rumors that They Will Shift.”

Nowrasteh advises on President Trump’s immigration enforcement announcements:

He doesn’t like immigration, and he’s a committed enforcer of immigration laws. Thus, any announcement that he’ll pull back or otherwise liberalize is simply not true. This rule of thumb holds every time except when the courts force him to pause.

What could signal a real change in Trump’s immigration policy? Stephen Miller leaving the White House, Nowrasteh says. If Miller leaves, then that would be an actual sign of changing policy unless a more strident nativist were appointed in his place.

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