 RESTRICTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN THE U.S- IS IT GROUNDED IN ECONOMIC TERMS?Sorin Maha and
Claudia Stoian (Bobalca)
Annals - Economy Series, 2013, vol. 1, 238-244 Abstract: The impact of Hispanic immigration phenomenon, especially of the illegal one on the economy at local, state and federal level is a major concern in the U.S.. Challenges to effective control at the borders of the United States have increased dramatically in recent decades. The problem of the present research is the extent to which budgetary policy restricted the illegal immigration phenomenon and what were the negative consequences of the policy to strengthen the borders? The purpose of this analysis is to check if there is a significant relationship between the Border Patrol budget and the number of apprehensions at the border. The results of the research indicate that the two variables are closely linked, and the trend is that with the increase of the budget, the number of border apprehensions drops. The results were analyzed in two phases during 1990-2000 and 2001-2011. For both periods, it shows that the connection between the two chosen variables is statistically strong. However, factors such as political, social and economic resulted in a different correlation between the Border Patrol budget and the number of apprehensions for the two phases analyzed. Keywords: illegal immigration; Border Patrol budget; border apprehensions; border enforcement (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cbu:jrnlec:y:2013:v:1:p:238-244 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Annals - Economy Series from Constantin Brancusi University, Faculty of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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