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Author:
Chacon, Jennifer, 1972- author.
Title:
Legal phantoms : executive action and the haunting failures of immigration law / Jennifer M. Chacon, Susan Bibler Coutin, and Stephen Lee.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
x, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Emigration and immigration law--United States.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (U.S.)
Children of noncitizens--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Noncitizens--United States.
Illegal immigration--United States.
Immigrants clandestins--Etats-Unis.
Immigration clandestine--Etats-Unis.
Other Authors:
Coutin, Susan Bibler, author.
Lee, Stephen, 1975- author.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Enforcement -- Discretion -- Uncertainty -- Advocacy -- Experiencing local enforcement -- Performing citizenship.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1503637573
9781503637573
150361171X
9781503611719
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1396561523
LCCN:
2023029771
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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