<p>Immigrants increasingly face exclusion at the local level. How do they respond to such backlash? This paper examines how exclusionary local immigration policies influence immigrants’ internal migration preferences—an understudied but key outcome in the relevant political debate. Drawing on two pre-registered survey experiments conducted among first-generation Mexican immigrants in the United States, I show that while such policies do shape preferences over whether and where to move, economic considerations often outweigh their effects. Importantly, exclusionary policies influence all classes of immigrants, including naturalized citizens who are not their direct targets. This is because concerns about safety and discrimination, in particular in places with exclusionary policies, are widespread among all classes of immigrants irrespective of legal status. The findings contribute novel empirical evidence to a contentious political debate and reveal how local immigration policies can affect not only immigrants but also American citizens and voters.</p>