Alan: Imprisoning Capone fortax evasion illustrates selective law enforcement.
If the government had the ability to itemize every penny of income and expenditure, would you be found innocent?
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The president can legally enforce — or not enforce — immigration law. "The executive branch spends a lot of time not enforcing laws. Congress has illegalized an enormous amount of activity without giving the president the resources to enforce the laws, so the executive has no choice but to make a list of priorities and devote its attention to law violations that, in its opinion, are the most serious. Thus, the IRS doesn’t audit paupers very often. The Justice Department ignores a lot of anticompetitive behavior that might raise prices a bit but not much. The DEA focuses on criminal syndicates rather than ordinary drug users....Nearly all of this non-enforcement takes place with implicit congressional acquiescence." Eric Posner in The New Republic
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