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Before 1980:
Immigrants had little effect on natives
Immigrant concentration raised native employment - immigrants purchase goods
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1980s: uneducated, unskilled immigrants
- Lowered earnings of natives
- Oversupply of cheap immigrant labor, oversupply of cheap native labor
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Immigrants are a burden to welfare state = Myth
- Ripped off by taxpayers
- Young workers - social security, Medicare taxes
- Low fertility rate
- State sale taxes, local property taxes, gasoline taxes, unemployment insurance and worker's compensation taxes
- If legal, less social benefits than natives
- If illegal, denied all welfare benefits
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Nativist Protest: Driven by economic downturns
Unemployment, downward mobility, declines in income
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Public policies towards immigration
Determine intensity of anti-immigration violence
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Anti-immigrant groups are concentrated where
there are lots of immigrants
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Nativism is widespared among
rich democracies
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