Presidents Have "The Discretion Of Prosecutors" And Legally Chose To Enforce Or Not

Prosecutors pursue the cases they want to pursue... and let the rest go.

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"Legal scholars say the president has the discretion to go much farther than he’s likely to choose, given his political constraints. That could include granting 'deferred action.'...Obama, says UCLA Law Professor Hiroshi Motomura, 'has legal authority to exercise discretion in the way that all prosecutors do,' choosing which cases to pursue and how....The White House has already taken steps in this direction when it comes to immigrants....In 2012, the administration inaugurated a policy of deferred action for many people who were brought to the U.S. as kids....The politics, though, are more complicated." Josh Eidelson in Bloomberg Businessweek