title: Neo-isolationism, balanced-budget conservatism, and the fiscal impacts of immigrants.
abstract: "A rise in neo-isolationism in the United States has given encouragement to a new fiscal politics of immigration. Growing anti-immigrant sentiment has coalesced with forces of fiscal conservatism to make immigrants an easy target of budget cuts. Limits on legal alien access to social welfare programs that are contained in the 1996 welfare and immigration reform acts seem motivated not so much by a guiding philosophy of what it means to be a member of American society as by a desire to shrink the size of the federal government and to produce a balanced budget. Even more than in the past, the consequence of a shrinking welfare state is to metamorphose legal immigrants from public charges to windfall gains for the federal treasury."
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Espenshade
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D001290:Attitude; D001519:Behavior; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005376:Financial Management; D005380:Financing, Government; D009656:North America; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011287:Prejudice; D011584:Psychology; D011632:Public Assistance; D011640:Public Policy; D012940:Social Problems; D012946:Social Welfare; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Americas; Attitude; Behavior; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Financial Activities; Financing, Government; Immigrants; International Migration; Migrants; Migration; Migration Policy; North America; Northern America; Policy; Political Factors; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Psychological Factors; Public Assistance; Social Discrimination; Social Policy; Social Problems; Social Welfare; United States