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Securing Communities or Profits? The Effect of Federal-Local Partnerships on Immigration Enforcement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Jillian Jaeger
Jillian Jaeger*
Affiliation:
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Jillian Jaeger, Department of Political Science, Boston University, 232 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Leading theories of local responses to immigration claim that ideology drives policy differences. However, these studies focus exclusively on policy adoption, neglecting whether or not ideological preferences also govern the extent to which local actors choose to cooperate with federal immigration initiatives. To account for this shortcoming, I use zero-inflated negative binomial regression to assess county-level deportations resulting from local participation in the Secure Communities program. I find that existing financial and structural resources as well as financial incentives are strong determinants of county deportation levels. Furthermore, there is no evidence to suggest that conservative counties produce more deportations. Instead, the size of a county's policing budget moderates the relationship between ideological orientations and deportation outcomes. With federal-local policy partnerships on the rise, these findings provide an important foundation for developing a better framework to understand the implications of such partnerships for policy implementation. In short, this article suggests that although policy adoption may be a politicized process, local compliance with federal initiatives is highly dependent on the resource constraints and incentives of the actors involved.

Keywords

immigration policyfederalismpolicy implementationlocal politicsbudgeting
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Research Article
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State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 362 - 386
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2016

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