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How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Affect Unauthorized Immigrants?: Comment

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  1. The new regulation increases labor costs, which adversely affects overall employment (see Stark and Jakubek 2012).

  2. Although chilling effects were found among immigrants following the passage of welfare reform in 1996 (Watson 2010), it is not clear why an employment authorization program should have such an effect on seeking public services.

  3. Moreover, states cannot enforce the employment provisions of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, a role that law explicitly reserves for the federal government.

  4. Detailed information on other state and local laws and policies implemented during this time is needed.

  5. To examine the implications of state and local immigration policies more broadly would require changing the timing of treatment to correspond not simply to E-Verify, but to the earliest intervention in a state. See, for example, Orrenius and Zavodny (2009).

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Orrenius, P.M. How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Affect Unauthorized Immigrants?: Comment. Demography 50, 1101–1103 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-013-0207-3

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