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The President and Immigration Law

The President and Immigration Law

Author: Adam B. Cox; Cristina M. Rodriguez
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190694364
Published In: November 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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When President Barack Obama announced his plans to shield millions of immigrants from deportation, Congress and the commentariat pilloried him for acting unilaterally. When President Donald Trump attempted to ban immigration from six predominantly Muslim counties, a different collection of critics attacked the action as tyrannical. Beneath this polarized political resistance lies a widely shared belief: that Congress, not the President, makes our immigration policies, dictating who can come to the United States, and who can stay, in a detailed and comprehensive legislative code.

In The President and Immigration Law, Adam Cox and Cristina Rodriguez shatter the myth that Congress controls immigration policy. Drawing on a wide range of sources-rich historical materials, unique data on immigration enforcement, and insider accounts of our nation's massive immigration bureaucracy-they tell the story of how the President became our immigration policymaker in chief over the course of two centuries. From founding-era debates over the Alien and Sedition Acts to Jimmy Carter's intervention during the Mariel boatlift from Cuba, presidential crisis management has played an important role in this story. Far more foundational, however, has been the ordinary executive obligation to enforce the law. Over time, the power born of that duty has become the central vehicle for making immigration policy in the United States.

A pathbreaking account of the President's relationship to Congress, The President and Immigration Law helps us better understand how the United States ended up running an enormous shadow immigration system-one in which nearly half of all noncitizens living in America are here in violation of the law. It also provides a blueprint for reform, one that accepts rather than laments the role the President plays in shaping the national community, while outlining strategies to curb the abuse of law enforcement authority in immigration and beyond.

Introduction: Stalemate

Part I: The Rise of Presidential Immigration Law

1. Immigration Lawa$e s Long Founding Moment

2. Domesticating Emergency Powers

3. The Rise of the Deportation State

4. De Facto Delegation and the Shadow Immigration System

Part II: Executive Power Consolidated

5. The Transformation of Immigration Federalism

6. Disciplining the Bureaucracy

7. The Limits of Enforcement Power

Part III: The Way Forward

8. The Promise and Peril of Enforcement Discretion