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Deferred Action, Supervised Enforcement Discretion, and the Litigation Over Administrative Action on Immigration
UCLA Law Review
22 Jul 2015
Abstract
In November 2014, the Obama administration announced the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) initiative, which built upon a program instituted two years earlier, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. As mechanisms to channel the government’s scarce resources toward its enforcement priorities more efficiently and effectively, both DACA and DAPA permit certain individuals falling outside those priorities to seek “deferred action,” which provides its recipients with time-limited, nonbinding, and revocable notification that officials have exercised prosecutorial discretion to deprioritize their removal. While deferred action thereby facilitates a highly tenuous form of quasi-legal recognition for its recipients, it does not provide legal immigration status. Accordingly, the two initiatives are not an equivalent substitute for legislative reform proposals that would create a pathway to durable legal status for a much larger number of individuals.
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- Title
- Deferred Action, Supervised Enforcement Discretion, and the Litigation Over Administrative Action on Immigration
- Creators
- Anil Kalhan - Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Publication Details
- UCLA Law Review
- Publisher
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law; Center for Science, Technology, and Society
- Other Identifier
- 991021883814104721