Lessons About the Future of Immigration Law from the Rise and Fall of DACA

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Kevin R. Johnson
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UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper
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Abstract
Observers spanning the political spectrum have characterized the American immigration system as “broken.” Unfortunately, Congress for many years has been unable to forge agreement on the appropriate set of reforms, including a path for regularizing the legal status of the approximately eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Congress also has been unable to change the immigration laws in ways that measurably reduce the undocumented population, which has more than doubled over the last three decades.

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