Not all undocumented immigrants would qualify, but many would be aided by prosecutorial discretion.
In contrast, the campus-based programs the administration is proposing to change are administered by individual schools, whose financial aid offices have substantial discretion.
Rubio doesn't discuss Pedro Víctor's interlude as an illegal immigrant, however, or the police discretion that aided him; that history came to light only because of the reporting of Manuel Roig-Franzia, of the Washington Post, whose book "The Rise of Marco Rubio" also came out this month.
Connecticut officials were pushing for extra aid that President Bush has discretion to release, but that money had not been approved as of the middle of last week, said David S. Dearborn, a spokesman for the governor.
Although Hong Kong's Chinese clergy balked at his appointment, his discretion and dedication aided the church's independence from Beijing authorities.
The judge also cited the doctrine of equitable abstention, which she said held that "a court of equity has the discretion to withhold its aid".
Last year, there was $47 million in the state budget for supplemental state aid, which is distributed at the discretion of the governor and state legislative leaders.
The select committee recommends introducing an additional "catch-all" clause giving the Legal Aid Agency discretion to grant legal aid to any victim of domestic violence who does not fit within the current criteria.
After the erroneous Voice of America broadcast on August 26, which announced an aid suspension, Lodge was given the discretion on August 29 to suspend aid if it would facilitate a coup.
Instead, whether the parent will count as a household member in college has become a professional judgment item, subject to the discretion of the college financial aid administrator.
