As the Obama Administration prepares to roll-out a plan for immigration reform through executive action, Matthew I. Hirsch has joined 136 professors and legal scholars in a letter to the White House voicing support for the President’s action. The letter offers a survey of executive action on immigration under previous Administrations and provides a well-researched legal foundation for the use of prosecutorial discretion as a tool for both prioritizing enforcement resources and for providing limited relief to the qualified undocumented in this country. The letter to the President, endorsed by Professor Hirsch and law professors from leading law schools nationwide, urges the White House and the Department of Homeland Security to use the authority of the executive branch to implement a program that would lead to temporary relief from removal and employment authorization for millions of people still waiting for Congress to take action on comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). To view the text of the letter, click here. To contact your elected officials to express support for CIR, click here.