President Obama's entire legal defense for his executive amnesty programs is that the executive branch must be afforded prosecutorial discretion when enforcing immigration laws.
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So it might be a problem for his legal defense team when Obama admitted Wednesday at a Telemundo townhall that immigration officials under his policy have no prosecutorial discretion.
"The bottom line is that if somebody;s working for [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and there is a policy and they don't follow the policy there's going to be consequences to it."
You can watch the exchange below:
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