“a future Republican president who could use it to smash big government”
BUT THEY NEVER DO. THEY ALWAYS LET THE DEMOCRATS DO WHATEVER, THEN WHEN THEY GET IN OFFICE THEY DO NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING.
“I happen to believe that the United States would be better off with greatly expanded legal immigration opportunities”
EXACTLY. HE’S AN IMMIGRATIONIST WHO IS HAPPY WITH THIS AMNESTY
I tend to agree with the author, refusing to enforce a act is a kind of passive veto.
The president has 2 effective ways to do this:
1: Divert resources else where so that there are none to affectingly enforce the act.
2: Issue regular blanket Pardons to all violators, making prosecution moot.
This power could be extremely valuable to conservatives in terms of shutting down Federal agency’s.
Were I president I’d kill the EPA & education department with this power.
Then after several years in which I would argue we were better off, id uses that fact to get congress to stop allocating money permently.
We conservative have far more to gain from this power than liberals could ever even imagin. And now that our politicians have no excuses, we can push them into using it.