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cjrl-2311	Wadhia, Shoba Sivaprasad	Demystifying Employment Authorization and Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases	2015	26	.pdf	application/pdf	13939	444	31	DHS can terminate or renew deferred action at any time, at the agency’s discretion.85 Notably, it is presumed that the approvals contained in this data set do not include DACA recipients.86 The high rate of applications for non-DACA deferred action-based work authorization does not provide the full picture as the approval rate for deferred action based work authorization dropped between 2012 and 2014. This section analyzes a data set of 233,245 work permit applications processed with receipt dates ranging from June 19, 1990 through October 20, 2014 on the following three bases: parole, deferred action and order of supervision.65 A. Number of Employment Authorization Applications Processed In 2014, ICE data included 233,245 work authorization applications pursuant to parole, deferred action, or an order of supervision.66 Of this number, 202,619 or 87% of applications were approved.67 This data reveals the prevalent adjudication of work authorization applications based on a grant of prosecutorial discretion and the degree to which applications for employment by USCIS are pending, denied, or closed (canceled), even where the applicant has been granted relief in the form of prosecutorial discretion.	cache/cjrl-2311.pdf	txt/cjrl-2311.txt