2024
DOI: 10.1002/pam.22649
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The impact of Secure Communities on the labor market outcomes of immigrant women

Cynthia Bansak,
Sarah Pearlman,
Chad Sparber

Abstract: The United States deported nearly 400,000 unauthorized immigrants under the Secure Communities (SC) interior immigration enforcement program between 2008 and 2014. This paper uses variation in the intensity of deportations across immigrants’ country of origin and city of residence to assess the labor market consequences of SC on foreign‐born women. We find no effect on the total number of employed immigrant women, but both annual wages and the number of hours worked fell. Moreover, SC induced a shift toward oc… Show more

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