🚨 Decreased Reporting: While debates swirl around sanctuary cities, one lesser-discussed consequence of interior immigration enforcement involves its effect on crime reporting by undocumented immigrants.
❓ The Core Question: Does federal collaboration with local law enforcement agencies erode trust among the undocumented?
👨👩👧👦 Survey Experimentation: Our study employed an embedded experiment within a survey of 512 probability-based, undocumented immigrants.
📊 Context Variation: We systematically manipulated perceptions of local law enforcement's involvement with ICE by varying the reported level of interior immigration enforcement activity across our sample.
📉 Trust Deficit: Results demonstrate a statistically significant decline in trust when respondents perceive higher levels of federal collaboration.
⚖️ Policy Implications: These trust dynamics directly influence whether the undocumented community becomes an unwilling partner—or even disengages entirely—from local public safety efforts.
| How Interior Immigration Enforcement Affects Trust in Law Enforcement was authored by Tom Wong, S. Deborah Kang, Carolina Valdivia, Josefina Espino, Michelle Gonzalez and Elia Peralta. It was published by Cambridge in POP in 2021. |
