This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, September 13th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

What are your odds of being killed by a foreign-born terrorist in the United States.

Turns out far, far, far less than being murdered

by one of your fellow Americans.

Alex Narasta is author of the New Cato Report

Terrorism and Immigration, a Risk Analysis, we spoke today. to report terrorism and immigration a risk analysis.

We spoke today.

In the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack in this last December, I was trying to see

if there was a risk analysis of visa categories.

There were lots of different visas people use into the US

and I thought some of them must be more dangerous than others in terms of

letting in terrorists but nobody had done that

before.

So shortly after that attack I started going through numerous databases that have lists of

convicted and actual terrorists, terrorists who committed their attacks

and killed Americans, started to compile their names and look at where they were from.

And this required going through the RAND Corporation's database, the

University of Maryland, lots of other government sources and running it by by

lots of other policy experts in DC to see if I had missed anybody.

All right, so and John Mueller of course affiliated with the Cato Institute has done this kind of work,

not this specific calculation in the past.

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