Sunday, June 24, 2012

Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s amnesty-by-fiat: Naked lawlessness

Charles Krauthammer  "This is utter nonsense. Prosecutorial discretion is the application on a case-by-case basis of considerations of extreme and extenuating circumstances. No one is going to deport, say, a 29-year-old illegal immigrant whose parents had just died in some ghastly accident and who is the sole support for a disabled younger sister and ailing granny. That’s what prosecutorial discretion is for. The Napolitano memo is nothing of the sort. It’s the unilateral creation of a new category of persons — a class of 800,000 — who, regardless of individual circumstance, are hereby exempt from current law so long as they meet certain biographic criteria.

"This is not discretion. This is a fundamental rewriting of the law."Political Cartoons by Gary Varvel

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