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Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the National Association of School Resource Officers
justice.gov ^ | June 25, 2018 | Jeff Sessions

Posted on 07/01/2018 6:00:59 PM PDT by ransomnote

---EXCERPT OF ARTICLE - selected for Immigration Content

You may not know, our government spends enormous sums of money every year to protect and care for unaccompanied alien children who were recklessly sent to the United States by their family members. A billion dollars a year.

Of course, this is a generous country. But word got out that this country was not prosecuting adults who illegally came to this country so long as they brought a child with them.

Predictably, the numbers of people illegally entering with children surged dramatically: 14,000 in 2013 to 75,000 in 2017—a 5 fold increase in just 4 years. Under this policy, adults and children were simply being released in the country.

If we refused to prosecute these adults for illegal entry—as many of our critics want us to do—that would be a disservice to the people of this country. It would also be an insult to those who come here legally, waiting their turn lawfully.

And most importantly: it would encourage more adults to bring more children illegally on a dangerous journey that puts these children at great risk.

The President has made clear: we are going to continue to prosecute those adults who enter here illegally. But we are going to do everything in our power to avoid separating families. All federal agencies are working hard to accomplish that goal, especially to care for children.

And its important to remember, these adults are only being arrested because they chose not to enter out country at any of the many official ports of entry where they could have applied for asylum legally. But many do not apply for asylum. And our courts find that 80 percent of asylum claims are without merit.

There would have been no crime, no arrest, and the families that apply lawfully are kept together.

And while we want to keep these families together, we need Congress to act. Some of you may know this, but under a court ruling from California called Flores, Homeland Security is not allowed to detain illegal alien children with their parents for more than 20 days even while their immigration cases are pending.

On Wednesday, President Trump ordered me to seek a change to this court ruling. We filed our request for relief in court the very next day. But Congress can fix this tomorrow.

And we’ve also seen an increase in children being sent by themselves because of the incentives in our broken system.

More than 80 percent of the children crossing the border are coming by themselves without any parents or guardian sent with a paid smuggler—we can only guess as to how many never make it to our border during that dangerous journey.

Children have indeed borne much of the burden from our broken immigration system.

And the children you serve are too. They are watching as their friends and even their family members are getting involved in drugs and getting trapped in the funnel of addiction that is being fed by drug cartels taking advantage of our porous southern border.

The vast majority of fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine in this country came here across our Southern border. That means that tens of thousands of Americans—including far too many children—are being killed every year because we do not have a secure border.

Mexico must do more to help us reduce these dangers if we are to continue our positive relationship with them.

These drug cartels know our laws and take advantage of our generosity. They are only too happy to use children to smuggle their drugs as well.

Think about this: in just four days at the end of March, Customs and Border Protection apprehended five juveniles who were allegedly smuggling fentanyl. Between the five of them, they allegedly had more than 35 pounds of it—enough to kill millions of people.

And of course, many children have been directly victimized by criminals who take advantage of our broken immigration system.

Last May, a Guatemalan man who illegally came to this country was sentenced to 50 years in prison for sneaking into a six-year old girl’s bedroom in Tennessee and then molesting her while she was asleep. He also filmed it.

A few weeks later, they found him hiding under her bed. You might be interested to know that he had been previously apprehended in 2013 but he wasn’t detained and never showed up to his removal hearing.

Last August, a nanny who was illegally in Danbury, Connecticut was sentenced to 15 years in jail for brutally abusing a three year old girl in her care. A hidden camera in the household revealed that she repeatedly burned her hands on the stove and viciously beat her.

And just last week, the Department secured the conviction of an illegal alien from Honduras who tried to coerce an underage girl in Louisiana into sending him pornographic images of her. Now he’s going to jail for at least 15 years.

There are many other stories and too many other young victims. These criminals shouldn’t have been here. These children shouldn’t be victims. They should have been protected from them by a fair and just immigration system that put their safety ahead of political talking points.

We should vet applicants for entry and not admit any with criminal histories.

And, if someone unlawfully enters our country and commits another crime, especially crimes against children like these, they should be deported after serving their sentence—not protected by sanctuary policies.

To have true compassion for our children, we must restore lawfulness to our immigration system and keep them safe—including immigrant children who are often the targets of vicious gangs like MS13.

There was an article in the Washington Post last week about a middle school ravaged by MS-13 in Maryland—just 10 miles from the White House.

And on Friday, we indicted 11 members of the gang in northern Virginia for murdering two children.

MS-13 is recruiting children who were sent here as unaccompanied minors and some are brought to help replenish the gang and they are terrorizing immigrant schools and communities from Los Angeles to Louisville to Long Island to Boston. They are able to do so because we do not have a secure Southwest border.

That is not fair to the children you serve—and it’s not fair to you.

What is the compassionate right thing to do? The compassionate thing to do is to protect our children from drugs and violence, put criminals in jail, and secure our borders. Having an immigration system that has integrity and consistency is right and just and moral. The alternative is open borders—which is both radical and dangerous. ---End of EXCERPT


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: doj; immigration; ms13; sessions
The title didn't mention illegal immigration but upon reviewing the document, Sessions uses this speech to underscore the case for halting Obama's catch-and-release program
1 posted on 07/01/2018 6:00:59 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

“Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the National Association of School Resource Officers”

How about the useless jagoff delivers on doing his freaking job?


2 posted on 07/01/2018 6:03:21 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ransomnote

Hey Magoo, you’ve got bluestate ‘officials’ by the 1000’s flaunting the fact that they’re harboring illegal aliens...Do something about that you pathetic nutless rat bastard.


3 posted on 07/01/2018 6:06:37 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Bonemaker

Hay, look:

The Keebler Elf is busy buying RosenWeasel dinner.


4 posted on 07/01/2018 6:11:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ransomnote

And that Fentanyl is coming from China, as is increased meddling in Latin America, as is increased meddling in California...


5 posted on 07/01/2018 6:13:20 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Aren't you glad Jeb! lost?)
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To: ransomnote

Go Sessions! Kick the Deep State’s ass!


6 posted on 07/01/2018 6:16:16 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: BlackAdderess

This is really meaningless unless you have the details. But no doubt, there are violations here.

Two problems with an announcement like this.
1. In many instances there are so many administrative rules that it’s possible that some individuals are being charged with crimes they were unaware of. Just like the book says, Americans commit 3 felonies a day. Madison and many others have warned us that when there are too many laws you really can’t have freedom and justice. The proliferation of law has come through the administrative state. These are the real criminals and enemies of freedom.
2. The witch hunt of Trump has demonstrated that DOJ and FBI are horribly corrupt institutions willing to charge people with crimes no matter what. Now don’t tell me that these people at DOJ and DEA are any different.

“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”

The U.S. has the highest per capital rate on imprisonment in the world. A lot of Freepers are very happy with that.

If these police state agents actually did their jobs and went after money laundering banks, stopped fentanyl from coming into the country, and if the DEA stopped cooperating with drug cartels (DEA did a 20 year “sting” on 2nd largest Latin America cartel) , we might have some progress in opioid deaths. But, sadly, I don’t think that’s the goal. The “war on drugs” must go on, these agencies are addicted to it.


7 posted on 07/01/2018 6:17:45 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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To: ransomnote

I can’t help picturing him as the teacher from South Park...”Drugs are bad..,mariguana is bad”. He needs to stop giving speeches and show some loyalty to the man who gave him his job. I use to be proud that he was my Senator and now I am embarrassed that I ever voted for the sorry POS.


8 posted on 07/01/2018 6:22:04 PM PDT by TonyM (UPS)
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To: grumpygresh
when there are too many laws you really can’t have freedom and justice.

This is the exact reason we have trial by jury of peers. An oppressive govt will pass any law they want, but the verdict is in the hands of the people.

9 posted on 07/01/2018 6:29:22 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: All
You anti-Sessions/Trump activists are in for a rude awakening.

Say, did ya'all see the list of 40k sealed indictments that's floating around the internet?

Go here for further information;

https://qanon.pub/

I leave you with this friendly pro-tip.

Trust Sessions
Q

Bagster

10 posted on 07/01/2018 6:44:21 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: ransomnote

Casper Milquetoast speaks????


11 posted on 07/01/2018 8:14:49 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: bagster

Bump! It would be more than unseemly if Sessions did not go about the task quietly. Meanwhile, some children never grow up.


12 posted on 07/01/2018 10:30:42 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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To: bagster

The decapitation of the deep state will be like a mortar shell hitting the town square: the explosion takes place with little notice due to the heat of battle, while the target briefly appears unphased. A short, noticeable pause, and the head is clean cut sheared from the body. The world moves on. No media needed.


13 posted on 07/01/2018 10:37:32 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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