Temporary Protected Status and Immigration to the United States Webpage uri icon

abstract

  • Discussions of immigration policy and reform in the United States over the last 40 years almost always focus on Congressional gridlock and inaction. Despite the salience of immigration in public opinion polls and despite innumerable legislative proposals, Congress has largely shied away from the issue, passing no comprehensive immigration reform legislation since the early 1990s. With Congress stuck at an immigration impasse for years, presidential administrations from both parties have taken crucial actions that regulate both inflows of new immigrants and the status of immigrants already in the United States. While these actions receive little scholarly attention, executive actions on immigration have a long history, and may have widereaching and unexpected (or unintended) consequences.

author list (cited authors)

  • Leblang, D. A., Helms, B., Iadarola, A., Satpathy, A., Hunt, K., Brough, R., Xu, E., & Rao, M.

complete list of authors

  • Leblang, DA||Helms, B||Iadarola, A||Satpathy, A||Hunt, K||Brough, R||Xu, E||Rao, M

publication date

  • January 2019