Reflections on Bureaucratic Barriers to Immigration Reform
Practical obstacles to implementing policy illustrate how agencies assess their own constitutional authority.
Lucas Guttentag is the Martin R. Flug Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and Professor of the Practice of Law at Stanford Law School. He is the founder and former national director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project, which he led from 1985 to 2011.
Practical obstacles to implementing policy illustrate how agencies assess their own constitutional authority.