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The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees
Immigration enforcement cooperation between final-destination and transit countries has increased in the last decades. I examine whether the Southern Border Plan, an immigration enforcement program implemented by the Mexican government in 2014, has curbed intentions of unauthorized migrants from El...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32914332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00914-3 |
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author | Martínez Flores, Fernanda |
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description | Immigration enforcement cooperation between final-destination and transit countries has increased in the last decades. I examine whether the Southern Border Plan, an immigration enforcement program implemented by the Mexican government in 2014, has curbed intentions of unauthorized migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to migrate to the United States. I use the announcement of the Southern Border Plan to implement a difference-in-differences approach and compare the evolution of short-run intentions to engage in additional unauthorized crossings of Central American (treatment group) relative to Mexican deportees (comparison group). The findings suggest that increased enforcement in Mexico decreases the likelihood of attempting repeated unauthorized crossings. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s13524-020-00914-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-75845572020-10-27 The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees Martínez Flores, Fernanda Demography Article Immigration enforcement cooperation between final-destination and transit countries has increased in the last decades. I examine whether the Southern Border Plan, an immigration enforcement program implemented by the Mexican government in 2014, has curbed intentions of unauthorized migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to migrate to the United States. I use the announcement of the Southern Border Plan to implement a difference-in-differences approach and compare the evolution of short-run intentions to engage in additional unauthorized crossings of Central American (treatment group) relative to Mexican deportees (comparison group). The findings suggest that increased enforcement in Mexico decreases the likelihood of attempting repeated unauthorized crossings. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s13524-020-00914-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2020-09-10 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7584557/ /pubmed/32914332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00914-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Martínez Flores, Fernanda The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees |
title | The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees |
title_full | The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees |
title_fullStr | The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees |
title_short | The Effects of Enhanced Enforcement at Mexico’s Southern Border: Evidence From Central American Deportees |
title_sort | effects of enhanced enforcement at mexico’s southern border: evidence from central american deportees |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584557/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32914332 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00914-3 |
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