Papers please: State-level anti-immigrant legislation in the wake of Arizona's SB 1070

Political Science Quarterly

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 261-291

  Wallace, Sophia J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84903183029     PISSN: 00323195     EISSN: 1538165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/polq.12178     Document Type: Article

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12. The number of state-level policies governing immigration is vast. For examples, see Maine Executive Order 2004, "An Order Concerning Access to State Services by All Entitled Maine Residents" for formal declaration as a sanctuary city
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18. I included Utah in this list even though Utah's bill is somewhat different from those of the other states. Utah did pass a "show me your papers" law that expanded the powers of local law enforcement. However, the governor also signed into law two other bills at the same time that promote relations with a region in Mexico that sends substantial number of immigrants to Utah, along with creating the state's own guest worker program to allow undocumented people a way to obtain appropriate documents.
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60. Ramakrishnan and Wong, "Partisanship Not Spanish." 44See Appendix 2 for party platforms, and http://www.democrats.org/issues/immigration_reform for more details on the Democratic Party and immigration.
61. Appendix 2 for party positions and http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/NationalSecurity.htm for more details on Republican Party and immigration.
62. http://news.change.org/stories/kansas-state-rep-virgil-peck-advocates-slaughtering-immigrantslike-pigs for story;
63. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v1/4aPsoepCjWG4 for audio recording.
64. Interview with WHNT News in Alabama available at http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/29/ 257324/mo-brooks-anything-but-shoot-immigrants/ and see https://www.youtube.com/watch? v1/4az1uwp4wQ2k for video recording.
65. An alternate way to measure the dependent variable would be in terms of time after Arizona introduced and used an event history model instead of a logistic regression analysis.
66. Chavez, The Latino Threat; Massey and Sánchez, Brokered Boundaries." I argue that the percent change in the Latino population is the best measure to capture perception of Latino threat and invasions of immigrants. I also ran the models with the percent foreign born, which led to similar findings.
67. One legislature, Nebraska, is unicameral and non-partisan. It was coded as non-Republican.
68. Gary King, Michael Tomz, and Jason Whittenberg, "Making the Most of Statistical Analyses: Improving Interpretation and Presentation," American Journal of Political Science 44 (April 2000): 341-355.
69. I also examined the conditional effect of Republican legislature on Latino population changes and Latino legislators and found no relationship. Full results available from the author upon request.
70. Thomas Brambor, William Roberts Clark, and Matt Golder., "Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses," Political Analysis 14 (Winter 2006): 63-82.
71. Figures were generated using Fred Boehmke's "Grinter" utility for Stata, available at http://myweb.uiowa. edu/fboehmke/methods.html.
72. For example, the Kentucky state legislative staff estimates that SB 6 would cost the state of Kentucky $40 million a year. See http://www.kentucky.com/2011/01/14/1597995/immigration-bill-would-cost-state. html.
73. Valeria Fernandez, "A Year on States Draw Back from SB 1070 Legislation," New Media Report, 29 July 2011, accessed at http://newamericamedia.org/2011/07/a-year-on-states-draw-back-from-sb-1070-legislation. php.
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