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Arresting Immigrants: Unemployment and Immigration Enforcement

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  • Kara Joyner

    (Bowling Green State University, United States)

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This study provides an examination of immigrant arrests involving two different agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): The Border Patrol (BP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Descriptive time series analyses track yearly changes in immigrant arrests in the decade following the September 11 terrorist attacks (2002-2013). For many DHS jurisdictions, changes in the rates of immigrant arrest closely mirrored changes in the rates of unemployment. First-difference regression models pooling yearly data for the ICE jurisdictions demonstrate that the associations between changes in unemployment rates and changes in immigrant arrest rates were positive and significant.

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  • Kara Joyner, 2018. "Arresting Immigrants: Unemployment and Immigration Enforcement," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 15(2), pages 215-238, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:15:y:2018:i:2:p:215-238
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