Legal Phantoms: Executive Action and the Haunting Failures of Immigration Law

by Susan Bibler Coutin, Jennifer M. Chacon, Stephen Lee

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503637573
• ISBN13: 9781503637573
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"