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Title: Do Apprehensions of Undocumented Immigrants Reduce Crime and Create Jobs? Evidence from U.S. Districts, 2000-2015

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: We analyze whether the intensity of immigration enforcement, measured as apprehensions of undocumented immigrants 1 per thousand people, affects local crime rates and the local labor market opportunities of native workers. 2 Using data across seventeen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") districts over the period 2000-2015, we take advantage of a sudden surge in the apprehension rate from 2007-2011, followed by a decline in 2012-2015. The magnitude of the increase in apprehensions varied significantly across districts, depending on the intensity of local enforcement, and on the size of the local undocumented population. We use the variation created by this surge in difference-indifferences analysis. We do not find any evidence that more apprehensions in a district reduced crime rates, nor do we find evidence that apprehensions improved employment and wages for less educated natives. These findings do not support the rhetoric that deportations remove criminals and/or make more jobs available to natives. †

Url: https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/52/1/Symposium/52-1_Hines_Peri.pdf

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Authors: Hines, Annie Laurie; Peri, Giovanni

Periodical (Full): Law Review University of California, Davis

Issue: 1

Volume: 52

Pages: 255-298

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Migration and Immigration, Other

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