John Lennon's Deportation Fight Paved Way For Obama's Deferred Action Policy

John Lennon's Deportation Fight Paved Way For Obama's Deferred Action Policy Enlarge this image toggle caption Anthony Camerano/AP Anthony Camerano/AP Back in 1972, John Lennon hired Leon Wildes, an immigration attorney who had no idea who he was. Latino USA Arizona Dreamers Five Years Later Arizona Dreamers Five Years Later 6:32 "That's why Leon's here," Lennon answers. "Well, John was charged with being deportable in the U.S. for being an overstay," says Wildes, who has written a new book about Lennon's deportation case called John Lennon vs. "Before the work of Mr. Wildes, deferred action was a complete mystery because there wasn't even a guideline for attorneys and noncitizens," says Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, who teaches immigration law at Penn State University and wrote Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases.