Arresting Immigrants: Unemployment and Immigration Enforcement

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 follow...

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Published in:Migration letters 2018-04, Vol.15 (2), p.215-238
Main Author: Joyner, Kara
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arrests
Border stations
Changes
Criminology
Customs
Economic conditions
Employment
Enforcement
Government agencies
Immigrants
Immigration
Immigration policy
Labor relations
Migration Studies
National security
Noncitizens
Recessions
Regression analysis
Regression models
Security and defense
September 11 terrorist attacks-2001
Tariffs
Terrorism
Time series
Unemployment
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1741-8984
1741-8992
DOI:10.33182/ml.v15i2.370