Professor Chin Comments on Obama Immigration Order for Yahoo! News

Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin commented for Yahoo! News on President Obama's announcement of a program of "deferred action" that would allow some undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States. Professor Chin stated that the executive branch has latitude to exercise prosecutorial discretion.

"If every trivial violation of every law that's on the books ... resulted in a criminal prosecution or even a civil penalty, life would be intolerable," said Chin. "We would be in a police state."

Gabriel "Jack" Chin, who joined the King Hall faculty in 2011, is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.

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