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Journal Article
Unauthorized Welfare: The Origins of Immigrant Status Restrictions in American Social Policy
2016
Overview
When the modern welfare state was established in 1935, no federal laws barred non-citizens, even unauthorized immigrants, from social assistance. During the 1970s, however, the federal government abruptly changed course, barring unauthorized immigrants from nearly all federal welfare programs. Fox examines the origins and consequences of this little-known policy shift. Federal restriction exacerbated the consequences of illegality for unauthorized immigrants and threatened the rights of their US-born children and those suspected of entering the country illegally. It also ushered in years of struggle between local, state, and federal officials over who was responsible for the social costs of unauthorized immigration.
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Organization of American Historians
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