Immigration Policy and Hispanic Representation in National Elections

Amuedo‐Dorantes, Catalina; Bucheli, José R.

doi:10.1002/pam.22444

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“…The purpose of the falsification test is to examine whether the selected dramatic societal events and/or the country's everyday institutional and social environment of deportation threat are, on average, associated with this group's psychological distress. This falsification test is common in studies of immigration enforcement's effects on anxiety-or stress-related outcomes, as there is little theoretical reason to expect that changes in the threat of deportation should impact non-Hispanic Black and White people who are U.S.-born citizens (86)(87)(88). We have similar expectations in the current study.…”

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Deportation threat predicts Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ psychological distress, 2011 to 2018

Johnson,

Levesque,

Lewis

et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The national context of deportation threat, defined as the federal government’s approach to deportation and/or deportation’s salience to the US public, fluctuated between 2011 and 2018. US Latinos across citizenship statuses may have experienced growing psychological distress associated with these changes, given their disproportionate personal or proximal vulnerabilities to deportation. Drawing on 8 y of public- and restricted-access data from the National Health Interview Survey (2011 to 2018), this article examines trends in psychological distress among Latinos who are US-born citizens, naturalized citizens, and noncitizens. It then seeks to explain these trends by considering two theoretical pathways through which the national context of deportation threat could distress Latinos: 1) through discrete dramatic societal events that independently signal a change to the country’s approach to deportation and/or that render deportation temporarily more salient to the public or 2) through more gradual changes to the country’s everyday institutional (i.e., quotidian efforts to detain and deport noncitizens) and social (i.e., deportation’s ongoing salience to a concerned public) environment of deportation threat. We find that, though both pathways matter to some degree, there is more consistent evidence that the gradual changes are associated with Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ overall experiences of psychological distress. The article highlights how, even absent observable spillover effects of dramatic societal events bearing on deportation threat, the institutional and social environment in which they occur implicates Latinos’ well-being.

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Deportation threat predicts Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ psychological distress, 2011 to 2018

Johnson,

Levesque,

Lewis

et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“… 9 We account for the intensity of local immigration enforcement using the activation of various policies at the county level, as estimated in Amuedo-Dorantes and Bucheli (2023). Data on sanctuary policies are obtained from the Center for Immigration Studies.…”

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Family Separation and Reunification Under President Trump's Zero-Tolerance Policy

Amuedo‐Dorantes

Bucheli

2023

International Migration Review

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The past decades have been characterized by sharp increases in the number of families, mainly from Central America's Northern Triangle, apprehended by US Border Patrol. In an effort to stem those flows, the Trump administration implemented a zero-tolerance policy (ZTP) aimed at criminally prosecuting all adults crossing the border without authorization, regardless of whether they traveled with children or sought asylum upon entry. Thousands of children were separated from their parents, reclassified as “unaccompanied,” and referred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Yet, to date, there has not been a careful evaluation of the impacts of the policy. We examine how ZTP affected the volume of unaccompanied minors, their time in ORR custody, and their likelihood of family reunification. We show that ZTP boosted the ranks of unaccompanied children through family separations by 48 percent, lowered their discharge rate from ORR's custody by 38 percent, and reduced their odds of family reunification by 49 percent. Given the growing number of families from the Northern Triangle seeking asylum in the United States, the documented mental health problems of separated children, and the rotating nature of immigration policies based on the administration in place, understanding the implications of policies like ZTP is imperative.

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Immigration enforcement and labor supply: Hispanic youth in mixed-status families

Rubalcaba,

Bucheli,

Morales

2024

J Popul Econ

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Immigration Policy and Hispanic Representation in National Elections

Cited by 5 publications

References 66 publications

Deportation threat predicts Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ psychological distress, 2011 to 2018

Deportation threat predicts Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ psychological distress, 2011 to 2018

Family Separation and Reunification Under President Trump's Zero-Tolerance Policy

Immigration enforcement and labor supply: Hispanic youth in mixed-status families

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