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The concern of this chapter is the genesis of the backlash against immigration, and illegal immigration in particular, which began in California in the early 1990s and later spread to the wider United States. Many intersecting factors contributed to the backlash, including a deteriorating economy, environmental worries, crime, the perceived welfare burden imposed by immigrants, and concerns about immigrants’ assimilability and threat to whites’ numerical and cultural dominance.
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© 2008 Andrew Wroe
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Wroe, A. (2008). The Early Politicization of the Illegal-Immigration Issue. In: The Republican Party and Immigration Politics. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611085_3
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