David J. Bier ✓

@David_J_Bier · Washington D.C. · joined 09 May 2011

Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies, The Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy at Cato, not CATO. "Beer," not Buyer. Libertarian, Not Left

90 109Followers

750Following

47 456Posts total

51.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views7 384this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.19%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.82%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	7 384	2 896	2.55×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.19%	9.51%	0.86×
Engagement rate	1.82%	1.56%	1.17×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

19.9K2 Sep

6.8K

3.2K

8K3 Sep

4.2K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.23%2 Sep

4.64%

1.56%

2.07%

1.36%3 Sep

4.32%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes70.3%779 in total

Reposts9.7%108 in total

Replies15.8%175 in total

Quotes2.0%22 in total

Bookmarks2.2%24 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Can't wait for all the hue and cry about how you can't call them "legal immigrants" just because they were here legally. It's a funny game these people play. They accuse us of not caring about the difference between legal and illegal, but they're the ones who couldn't care less. 4.2K views · 132 likes · 25 reposts · 21 replies 03 Sep 2026 Many nativists are right-wing Marxists. There is no sense in which the land of the USA is owned collectively by the government. Indeed, the 5th Amendment affirms the opposite: that if the government wants any of our land, it must compensate us for it because Americans, as 8K views · 67 likes · 12 reposts · 26 replies 03 Sep 2026 “This administration has cut legal immigration in half. It has created about 2 million more illegal immigrants by stripping status from vetted, legal immigrants.” – Cato’s @David_J_Bier in testimony before a House Judiciary Subcommittee. https://t.co/Q619XuME0a 9K views · 122 likes · 40 reposts · 20 replies 02 Sep 2026 The difference is that many people's (possibly even most people's) stated objection to immigration is to ILLEGAL immigration. They aren't arguing against immigrants per se. It's not like drugs. On its face, it's an argument against illegality only, not immigrants on their own. 3.2K views · 24 likes · 3 reposts · 23 replies 02 Sep 2026 @David_J_Bier This country is the collective property of its citizens. That’s why there’s such a thing as unlawful entry and unlawful presence. If you want to be an anarchist you can put on black bloc and join Antifa. 6.8K views · 298 likes · 6 reposts · 7 replies 02 Sep 2026 The parallel with private property runs the other way. They are living on their own property, in their own homes, and it's ICE violating their property rights (and ours as renters and owners) to go get them. 19.9K views · 136 likes · 22 reposts · 78 replies 02 Sep 2026 Wow. So the Supreme Court's DACA decision cites me, albeit indirectly. https://t.co/AnZHuiTzO3 https://t.co/vU1x8lkPfx 0 views · 688 likes · 105 reposts · 289 replies 22 Jun 2020