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Public Opposition to Sanctuary Cities in Texas: Criminal Threat or Immigration Threat?

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  • Loren Collingwood
  • Benjamin O'Brien Gonzalez

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Objectives To assess predictors of sanctuary city attitudes in Texas. Specifically, to assess whether a criminal threat or immigration threat hypothesis better explains attitudes toward sanctuary cities. Methods Pooled representative sample surveys of Texas respondents conducted during the first half of 2017, combined with county‐level Census and crime data. Regression analysis and Monte Carlo simulations. Results Compared to the criminal threat hypothesis (as measured by county change in crime rates), the immigration threat hypothesis (as measured by Latino growth and Latino population) better explains Texans' attitudes toward sanctuary cities. Conclusions Despite elite and media narratives linking sanctuary cities to crime, respondents' attitudes toward sanctuary cities are unrelated to physical crime threat and are structured by localized experience with immigration—specifically—Latino growth.

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  • Loren Collingwood & Benjamin O'Brien Gonzalez, 2019. "Public Opposition to Sanctuary Cities in Texas: Criminal Threat or Immigration Threat?," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 100(4), pages 1182-1196, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:socsci:v:100:y:2019:i:4:p:1182-1196
    DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12632
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    1. S. E. Costanza & Ronald Helms & John C. Kilburn & David A. Bowers, 2020. "Criminal Threat, Immigrant/Minority Threat, and Political Ideology: An Examination of Handgun Permits Across Texas Counties," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 101(4), pages 1442-1460, July.
    2. Nichole Gligor & David Gligor, 2021. "A roadmap to understanding restrictive immigration policy outcomes," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 102(4), pages 1830-1847, July.

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