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41 San Diego L. Rev. 819 (2004)
The Deferred Action Program of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services: A Possible Remedy for Impossible Immigration Cases

handle is hein.journals/sanlr41 and id is 831 raw text is: The Deferred Action Program of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services: A Possible Remedy for Impossible Immigration Cases LEON WILDES* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 820 II. WHICH CATEGORIES OF ALIENS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR DEFERRED A CTION STATUS? ................................................................................................ 827 III. WHY Is DEFERRED ACTION STATUS RECOMMENDED? ........................................ 829 A . P hysical A ilm ents ..................................................................................... 831 B . M ental Illness ........................................................................................... 833 C. Separation of Fam ily ................................................................................ 834 D . Potential Negative Publicity ..................................................................... 835 IV. THE EFFECT OF LEGISLATION CHANGES .............................................................. 835 A. The Violence Against Women Act ............................................................. 836 B . D rugs ........................................................................................................ 836 V . C O NC LUSIO N ...................................................................................................... 838 * B.A. Yeshiva University; J.D. and L.L.M., New York University School of Law. The author has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law for the past twenty-three years, where he teaches Immigration Law and runs an immigration clinic. A past national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, he represented John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their five-year long battle with the Immigration Service and has published four other law review articles on aspects of the case which have affected immigration litigation. The author expresses his acknowledgement of the contribution of Debra Kobrin, a student in a dual degree program of law and social work at Fordham University Law School and Fordham Graduate School of Social Service who assisted in the preparation of this Article.

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