Partisan Preferences: The Enforcing and Crafting of Immigration Policy
Journal: Deep Blue (University of Michigan)
Year: 2016

Abstract Despite its prominence in political debates over immigration policy, undocumented immigration is largely absent from empirical research on studies of the bureaucracy and state politics. To clarify, political scientists have looked at both cultural and economic concerns and legislative activity centered on immigration policy, and they have found that economic concerns have a mild effect on attitudes toward immigrants and swift growth of the immigrant population provokes states to adopt s