RT Book
T1 Legal phantoms: executive action and the haunting failures of immigration law
A1 Chacón, Jennifer M. 1972-
A2 Coutin, Susan Bibler 1961-
A2 Lee, Stephen 1975-
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1859378579
AB "The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA ) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KF4819
SN 9781503637573
SN 9781503611719
K1 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (U.S.)
K1 Emigration and immigration law : United States
K1 Children of noncitizens : Legal status, laws, etc : United States
K1 Noncitizens : United States
K1 illegal immigration : United States
K1 USA : Einwanderer : Zuwanderungsrecht : Reform