An Evil Precedent

Illegal immigration is, by definition, illegal. When things are illegal and we know they've been done we prosecute, don't we? Answer, not if we are President Obama and we want Hispanic votes. How about if he failed to prosecute Mafiosi because he wanted Sicilian votes? Isn't that sort of the same thing? Or Russian mobsters? Where does this end? 

Prosecutors work for the President and he's decided not to prosecute illegal immigration, to ignore violations of the law. In other words, not to do his job. That sounds like (a) political pandering, and (b) grounds for impeachment for simple failure to do one's job.


I believe the Republican majority in the House should bring charges of impeachment, charges which would not pass in the Democrat-controlled Senate.Let's put the Democrats on record as not being willing to enforce laws in which they don't believe. 

Does this mean a Republican president can use this as precedent to refuse to enforce laws in which he doesn't believe, for example organization rights for unions or habeas corpus for lefty trouble-makers? Down this road lies autocracy, a scary business altogether.