Beyond deportation
Subtitle: the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration cases
By: Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia; with a foreward by Leon Wildes
Series: Citizenship and migration in the Americas; Citizenship and migration in the Americas
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781479829224
Subjects: Deportation; Emigration and immigration law; Prosecution; Decision making
Description: Beyond Deportation is the first book to comprehensively describe the history, theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law. It provides a rich history of the role of prosecutorial discretion in the immigration system and unveils the powerful role it plays in protecting individuals from deportation and saving the government resources. Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia draws on her years of experience as an immigration attorney, policy leader, and law professor to advocate for bolder standards on prosecutorial discretion, greater mechanisms for accountability when such standards are ignored, improved transparency about the cases involving prosecutorial discretion, and recognition of "deferred action" in the law as a formal benefit. -- from dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Primer: understanding how prosecutorial discretion functions in the immigration system --; title: The early years : the deportation case of John Lennon and evolution of immigration prosecutorial discretion --; title: Lessons from criminal law : how immigration prosecutorial discretion compares to the criminal system --; title: Deferred action : examining the jewel (or a precious form) of prosecutorial discretion --; title: Presidential portrait : prosecutorial discretion during the Obama administration --; title: Going to court : the role of the judiciary in prosecutorial discretion decisions --; title: Open government : transparency in prosecutorial discretion and why it matters --; title: Reform : improving prosecutorial discretion in the immigration system.