148:. Wildes contributed five full law review articles on the subject of developments in U.S. immigration law which resulted from his handling of the Lennon case. While working on the Lennon case, he discovered the government's unpublished practice of granting deportable aliens non-priority status to avoid their removal in sympathetic cases. He has guided the development of this remedy in the law, later referred to as Deferred Action or
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Nonpriority Program of the Immigration and Nationalization Service Goes Public: The Litigative Use of the Freedom of Information Act." San Diego Law Review, Volume 14, Number 1, December
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Deferred Action Program of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services: A Possible Remedy for Impossible Immigration Cases." San Diego Law Review, Volume 41 No. 2 Spring 2004.
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Operations Instructions of the Immigration Service: Internal Guides or Binding Rules?" San Diego Law Review, Volume 17, Number 1, 1980.
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