Huber G A, Espenshade T J
Int Migr Rev. 1997 Winter;31(4):1,031-54.
"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."
美国新孤立主义抬头，为新的移民财政政策提供了助力。日益高涨的反移民情绪与财政保守势力相结合，使移民很容易成为削减预算的目标。1996年福利与移民改革法案中对合法外国人获得社会福利项目的限制，其动机似乎并非源于对成为美国社会一员意义的指导理念，而是更多地出于缩小联邦政府规模和实现预算平衡的愿望。与过去相比，福利国家规模缩减的后果更是将合法移民从公共负担转变为联邦财政的意外之财。
