County- and state-level immigration policies are associated with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation among Latino households.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between county- and state-level immigrant criminalizing and integrating policies and Latino household participation in the largest safety net program against food insecurity in the U.S., the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Our outcome, county-level proportion of SNAP-participating Latino households, and county-level covariates were obtained from the American Community Survey 1-year county files (N = 675 counties) for 13 years (2007-2019). Our exposures were county-level presence of sanctuary policies and a state-level immigrant friendliness score, created based on 19 immigrant criminalizing and integrating state-level policies obtained from the Urban Institute's State Immigration Policies Resource. We classified

SUBMITTER: Chaparro MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10530172 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature