U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice

Bohn, Sarah; Pugatch, Todd

doi:10.1007/s13524-015-0416-z

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“…Yet, most of this literature has focused on border enforcement (e.g. Espenshade 1994, Angelucci 2012, Bohn and Pugatch 2013 And, can we conclude that these interstate mobility patterns are driven by the desire to evade tougher immigration enforcement? Or could they possibly be motivated by other state-level traits affecting other demographic gropus, such as economic conditions?…”

Section: Background Of Interior Immigration Enforcement and Mobilmentioning

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Interstate Mobility Patterns of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants: Evidence from Arizona

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Lozano

2018

J Econ Race Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte.A growing literature has documented the displacement effects of tougher interior immigration enforcement measures; yet, we still lack an understanding of where the displaced populations are choosing to relocate. In this paper, we address this question using Arizona as a case study. Specifically, we examine the destinations of Mexican noncitizens leaving Arizona for other states in the union following the adoption of tougher enforcement measures using two different groups of control states: one consisting of all states that had not adopted similar measures, and another one derived using the synthetic control method. We find that Mexican non-citizens who migrated from Arizona to other U.S. states went, primarily, to New Mexico and California. Other destination states differed with the control group being used, underscoring the sensitivity of this type of analysis to the choice of control group. Furthermore, the trajectories of Mexican non-citizens leaving Arizona overlapped with those of non-Hispanic natives, hinting on the role that socioeconomic and political factors, in addition to potential complementarities between immigrants and natives, might have played in explaining the destinations of Mexican non-citizens leaving Arizona after 2007. JEL Classification:J61, K37

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Section: Background Of Interior Immigration Enforcement and Mobilmentioning

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Interstate Mobility Patterns of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants: Evidence from Arizona

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Lozano

2018

J Econ Race Policy

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“…Ironically, increased United States-Mexico border enforcement in the 1990s has been causally linked to Latino immigrant dispersal, which appears to have partly precipitated the ensuing interior enforcement. (Bohn and Pugatch 2015;Massey, Durand, and Pren 2016).…”

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Deporting the American Dream: Immigration Enforcement and Latino Foreclosures

Rugh¹,

Hall²

2016

SocScience

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Over the past decade, Latinos have been buffeted by two major forces: a record number of immigrant deportations and the housing foreclosure crisis. Yet, prior work has not assessed the link between the two. We hypothesize that deportations exacerbate rates of foreclosure among Latinos by removing income earners from owner-occupied households. We employ a quasi-experimental approach that leverages variation in county applications for 287(g) immigration enforcement agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data on foreclosure filings from 2005-2012. These models uncover a substantial association of enforcement with Hispanic foreclosure rates. The association is stronger in counties with more immigrant detentions and a larger share of undocumented persons in owner-occupied homes. The results imply that local immigration enforcement plays an important role in understanding why Latinos experienced foreclosures most often. The reduced home ownership and wealth that result illustrate how legal status and deportation perpetuate the racial stratification of Latinos.

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“…Whether measured in terms personnel, patrol hours, or budget, studies indicate that the surge in border enforcement had little effect in reducing unauthorized migration to the United States (Hanson and Spilimbergo 1999; Hanson, Robertson, and Spilmbergo 2002; Davila, Pagan, and Soydemir 2002; Hanson and McIntosh 2009, 2010; Massey and Riosmena 2010; Angelucci 2012; Massey, Durand, and Pren 2014). The strategy of enhanced border enforcement was not without consequences, however, for research also suggests that it reduced the rate of return migration and redirected migrant flows to new sectors along the border with Arizona and then toward new destinations throughout the United States (Massey, Durand, and Malone 2002; Massey and Capoferro 2004; Carrión-Flores and Sorensen 2006; Gathmann 2008; Kaufman 2008; Bohn and Pubatch 2013; Rocha et al 2014; Massey, Durand, and Pren 2014). …”

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Why Border Enforcement Backfired

Massey

Durand

Pren

2016

American Journal of Sociology

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In this article we undertake a systematic analysis of why border enforcement backfired as a strategy of immigration control in the United States. We argue theoretically that border enforcement emerged as a policy response to a moral panic about the perceived threat of Latino immigration to the United States propounded by self-interested bureaucrats, politicians, and pundits who sought to mobilize political and material resources for their own benefit. The end result was a self-perpetuating cycle of rising enforcement and increased apprehensions that resulted in the militarization of the border in a way that was disconnected from the actual size of the undocumented flow. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show how border militarization affected the behavior of unauthorized migrants and border outcomes to transform undocumented Mexican migration from a circular flow of male workers going to three states into an eleven-million person population of settled families living in 50 states.

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U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice

Cited by 37 publications

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Interstate Mobility Patterns of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants: Evidence from Arizona

Interstate Mobility Patterns of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants: Evidence from Arizona

Deporting the American Dream: Immigration Enforcement and Latino Foreclosures

Why Border Enforcement Backfired

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