of the statute far beyond what congress ever intended. that's an abuse too. >> not to interrupt you too soon, but the improper, but also what is proper? this administration has made the case regularly that they need to exercise prosecutorial discretion because of limited resources, and obviously there aren't infinite resources in the world. what are some proper instances in your view when an administration might not enforce a law? >> well, critics of the immigration enforcement laws said that the prosecutorial discretion argument went too far. it basically just eliminated the laws from the books. secondly, with regard to that, the president -- well, the order came from homeland security, not from the department of justice, but on homeland security's order, it not only said we're not going to enforce the law with regard to certain large class ficks of people, but those