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Sharing Secrets: Examining Deferred Action And Transparency In Immigration Law, Shoba S. Wadhia

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

Sharing Secrets: Examining Deferred Action and Transparency in Immigration Law

Abstract

This Article is about deferred action and transparency in related immigration cases falling under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). While scholars from other genres have written extensively on the topic of prosecutorial discretion, the subject is largely absent from immigration scholarship, with the exception of early research conducted by Leon Wildes in the late 1970s and early 2000s, and a law review article I published in 2010 outlining the origins of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and related lessons that can be drawn from administrative …