This paper focuses on the immigration-related demands currently being placed on local police in the United States, and the emergence of what we call a “multilayered jurisdictional patchwork” (MJP) of immigration enforcement. The evolving relationship between layers of government involved in...

Previous research suggests two factors that may help explain differences in local government policies directed toward immigrants: the anxieties of “new destinations” (areas that have experienced a rapid, recent rise in immigrant settlement), and the “old politics” of local partisanship...

Editor's IntroductionEditorial Foreword1. Liberalism2. The Transmission of the Ideals of Economic Freedom3. The Prospects of Freedom4. The Webbs and Their Work5. Closing Speech to the 1984 Mont Pèlerin Society Meeting6. 'Free' Enterprise and Competitive Order7. The Economic Conditions of...

We examine attempts by public officials and advocates in the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area to help integrate and empower Latino immigrants – socially, economically, and politically – in the face of an anti-immigrant political climate. We find that despite the emergence of a growing...