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distinctive of a period in which crime and immigration have been increasingly politicised. In immigration enforcement, criminal …
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Immigration enforcement has ambiguous implications for the crime rate of undocumented immigrants. On the one hand …, expulsions reduce the pool of immigrants at risk of committing crimes, on the other they lower the opportunity cost of crime for … those who are not expelled. We estimate the effect of expulsions on the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in Italy …
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Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of laws and regulations. They are also determined by the incentives faced by vote-maximizing congressmen, agents acting on their behalf, and workers likely to compete with...
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This paper investigates the effect of local immigration enforcement regimes on the migration decisions of the foreign-born. Specifically, the analysis uses individual-level American Community Survey data to examine the effect of recent 287(g) agreements, which allow state and local law...
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Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United States. We exploit the geographical and temporal variation in a novel index of the intensity of immigration enforcement between 2005 and 2011 to show how the average yearly increase in interior immigration...
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This paper investigates the effect of U.S. border enforcement on the net flow of Mexican undocumented migration. It shows how this effect is theoretically ambiguous, given that increases in border controls deter prospective migrants from crossing the border illegally, but lengthen the duration...
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U.S. immigration enforcement policy seeks to change the behaviors and views of not only individuals in the United States but also those of prospective migrants outside the United States. Yet we still know relatively little about the behavioral and attitudinal effects of U.S. enforcement policy...
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