{"id":21953,"date":"2014-11-20T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21953"},"modified":"2014-11-20T20:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:19:14","slug":"mccarthy-on-amnesty-obama-perverts-prosecutorial-discretion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21953\/mccarthy-on-amnesty-obama-perverts-prosecutorial-discretion\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy on Amnesty: Obama Perverts Prosecutorial Discretion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who better than a former federal prosecutor to judge whether President Barack Obama can unilaterally impose amnesty for illegal immigrants via \u201cprosecutorial discretion\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/393094\/no-prosecutorial-discretion-does-not-justify-obamas-lawless-amnesty-andrew-c-mccarthy \" target=\"_blank\">Andrew C. McCarthy<\/a>, now a contributor at National Review, explains: \u201cProsecutorial discretion means you are not required to prosecute every crime\u201d, but it \u201cdoes <em>not<\/em> mean that those crimes the executive chooses not to enforce <em>are now no longer crimes<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet that\u2019s just what President Obama is proposing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is claiming not only the power to determine what immigration laws get enforced and which illegal immigrants get prosecuted \u2013 power he unquestionably has,\u201d writes McCarthy. The president, \u201calso claims the power to declare (a) that criminal acts are somehow lawful \u2013 that illegal aliens now have <em>a right to be here<\/em> \u2013 just because Obama has chosen not to prosecute them; and (b) that those who engage in this unprosecuted activity <em>will be rewarded with benefits<\/em> (lawful presence, relief from deportation, work permits, etc.), as if their illegal acts were valuable community service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Obama\u2019s amnesty perverts prosecutorial discretion beyond recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Next up: Consequences?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who better than a former federal prosecutor to judge whether President Barack Obama can unilaterally impose amnesty for illegal immigrants via \u201cprosecutorial discretion\u201d? Andrew C. McCarthy, now a contributor at National Review, explains: \u201cProsecutorial discretion means you are not required to prosecute every crime\u201d, but it \u201cdoes not mean that those crimes the executive chooses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,1553,981,4615],"class_list":["post-21953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-prosecutorial-discretion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21958,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions\/21958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}