TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wadhia,Shoba Sivaprasad
AU  - Wildes,Leon
TI  - Beyond deportation: the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration cases 
T2  - Citizenship and migration in the Americas
SN  - 9781479807543
AV  - KF4842 .W33 2016
U1  - 342.73082 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Deportation
KW  - United States
KW  - Emigration and immigration law
KW  - Prosecution
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Migration, immigration & emigration
KW  - thema
KW  - International relations
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
KW  - Constitutional & administrative law: general
KW  - Citizenship & nationality law
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2015; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - When Beatles star John Lennon faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s, his lawyer Leon Wildes made a groundbreaking argument. He argued that Lennon should be granted 'nonpriority' status pursuant to INS's (now DHS's) policy of prosecutorial discretion. In U.S. immigration law, the agency exercises prosecutorial discretion favourably when it refrains from enforcing the full scope of immigration law. A prosecutorial discretion grant is important to an agency seeking to focus its priorities on the 'truly dangerous' in order to conserve resources and to bring compassion into immigration enforcement. The Lennon case marked the first moment that the immigration agency's prosecutorial discretion policy became public knowledge. Today,the concept of prosecutorial discretion is more widely known. This text examines this topic
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479829224.001.0001
ER  -