Why Border Enforcement Backfired

Massey, Douglas S.; Durand, Jorge; Pren, Karen A.

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“…This analysis also speaks to the unintended consequences of border enforcement. Although immigration enforcement may have “backfired” by increasing the population of undocumented immigrants (Massey, Pren, and Durand, 2016), this policy blunder has not come at the expense of public safety. This finding provides clarifying context for why the most ambitious policies aimed at removing “criminal aliens” have not yielded sizeable reductions in crime.…”

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“…Between 1986 and 2008, the number of U.S. Border Patrol officers increased 5-fold while the budget for border enforcement increased 20-fold (Massey, Pren, and Durand, 2016). As a result, today the U.S. government spends more on immigration enforcement agencies (U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) than it does on all other principal criminal law enforcement agencies combined, including the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, Marshal’s Service, and ATF (Meissner et al, 2013).…”

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Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?*

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Miller²

2018

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Despite substantial public, political, and scholarly attention to the issue of immigration and crime, we know little about the criminological consequences of undocumented immigration. As a result, fundamental questions about whether undocumented immigration increases violent crime remain unanswered. In an attempt to address this gap, we combine newly developed estimates of the unauthorized population with multiple data sources to capture the criminal, socioeconomic, and demographic context of all 50 states and Washington, DC, from 1990 to 2014 to provide the first longitudinal analysis of the macro-level relationship between undocumented immigration and violence. The results from fixed-effects regression models reveal that undocumented immigration does not increase violence. Rather, the relationship between undocumented immigration and violent crime is generally negative, although not significant in all specifications. Using supplemental models of victimization data and instrumental variable methods, we find little evidence that these results are due to decreased reporting or selective migration to avoid crime. We consider the theoretical and policy implications of these findings against the backdrop of the dramatic increase in immigration enforcement in recent decades.

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Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?*

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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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“…In addition, the concentration of enforcement resources at the busiest crossing point in San Diego diverted flows away from California, through the Sonoran desert, into Arizona, and on to new destinations throughout the United States (Massey, Durand, and Malone 2002). Border militarization transformed what had been a circular flow of male workers going to three states into a settled population of immigrant families living in fifty states (Massey, Durand, and Pren 2016).…”

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Twenty-First-Century Globalization and Illegal Migration

Donato¹,

Massey²

2016

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Also labeled undocumented, irregular, and unauthorized migration, illegal migration places immigrants in tenuous legal circumstances with limited rights and protections. We argue that illegal migration emerged as a structural feature of the second era of capitalist globalization, which emerged in the late twentieth century and was characterized by international market integration. Unlike the first era of capitalist globalization (1800 to 1929), the second era sees countries limiting and controlling international migration and creating a global economy in which all markets are globalized except for labor and human capital, giving rise to the relatively new phenomenon of illegal migration. Yet despite rampant inequalities in wealth and income between nations, only 3.1 percent of all people lived outside their country of birth in 2010. We expect this to change: threat evasion is replacing opportunity seeking as a motivation for international migration because of climate change and rising levels of civil violence in the world’s poorer nations. The potential for illegal migration is thus greater now than in the past, and more nations will be forced to grapple with growing populations in liminal legal statuses.

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Why Border Enforcement Backfired

Cited by 282 publications

References 54 publications

Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?*

Does Undocumented Immigration Increase Violent Crime?*

Deporting the American Dream: Immigration Enforcement and Latino Foreclosures

Twenty-First-Century Globalization and Illegal Migration

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