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Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market

IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN A DECADE SINCE CALIFORNIA voters passed a ballot initiative entitled "Proposition 187." Though it was later declared unconstitutional, the measure would have denied unauthorized immigrants access to all public benefits. Slightly less than two years later, passage of the federal-level welfare and illegal immigration acts in 1996 effectively barred not only unauthorized immigrants, but also almost all non-citizens from receiving food stamps and supplemental social security. States, meanwhile, were permitted to exclude most noncitizens from three other important federal anti-poverty programs. Taken collectively the three policy initiatives reflect a lingering ambiguity ...

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