By Curtis Houck
Senator Patrick
Leahy (D-Vt) admitted Wednesday that under the Senate immigration bill, forging
up to two passports is not a crime, adding that the bill leaves the decision
whether to charge someone with passport fraud up to the discretion of
prosecutors. On Capitol Hill on
Wednesday, CNSNews.com asked Leahy,
"One of the provisions has to do with passports, that’s an important
component. Do you know how many passports someone is able to forge before it’s
a crime?”Leahy said, "Well, it
depends upon which interpretation is being used. You could have one form which
is two, but then there are other criminal conduct that would be involved with
that." "Cause you give prosecutors a certain amount of discretion,
you have two or three different crimes you have committed, so then it's [up to]
prosecutorial discretion which one they will charge. I mean, I spent eight
years as a prosecutor. One of things you learn [is] the importance of
that." - See more at:
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