Crime on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect of Undocumented Immigration and Border Enforcement

In the 1990s, the U.S. border led the nation in the decline of property-related crimes, while violent crime rates fell twice as fast in the U.S. as in the median border county. This paper asks how changes in undocumented immigration and border enforcement have played a role in generating these diver...

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Autores principales: Roberto Coronado, Pia M. Orrenius
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C. 2007
Materias:
Demografía
1. crime
2. immigration
3. border enforcement
4. U.S.-Mexico border
5. border counties
Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=15140102
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-016&d=15140102oai
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topic Demografía
1. crime
2. immigration
3. border enforcement
4. U.S.-Mexico border
5. border counties
spellingShingle Demografía
1. crime
2. immigration
3. border enforcement
4. U.S.-Mexico border
5. border counties
Roberto Coronado
Pia M. Orrenius
Crime on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect of Undocumented Immigration and Border Enforcement
topic_facet Demografía
1. crime
2. immigration
3. border enforcement
4. U.S.-Mexico border
5. border counties
description In the 1990s, the U.S. border led the nation in the decline of property-related crimes, while violent crime rates fell twice as fast in the U.S. as in the median border county. This paper asks how changes in undocumented immigration and border enforcement have played a role in generating these divergent trends. We fi nd that migrant apprehensions are correlated with violent crime and that increased border enforcement has not had a deterrent effect on such crime. Rather, increased border enforcement in a sector has led to more violent crime in neighboring sectors. In contrast to the results for violent crime, property crime is not correlated with migrant apprehensions, and while there is some evidence that border enforcement has lowered property crime rates, this result is sensitive to the model’s specifi cation. Our fi ndings also indicate that the improved border economy over this period, specifi cally rapid job growth, played a signifi cant role in lowering property crime rates.
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Pia M. Orrenius
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Pia M. Orrenius
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title Crime on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect of Undocumented Immigration and Border Enforcement
title_short Crime on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect of Undocumented Immigration and Border Enforcement
title_full Crime on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect of Undocumented Immigration and Border Enforcement
title_fullStr Crime on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect of Undocumented Immigration and Border Enforcement
title_full_unstemmed Crime on the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Effect of Undocumented Immigration and Border Enforcement
title_sort crime on the u.s.-mexico border: the effect of undocumented immigration and border enforcement
publisher El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C.
publishDate 2007
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