Posted on 08/12/2019 9:18:15 AM PDT by deplorableindc
Senior Trump administration official Ken Cuccinelli said Monday he doesn't think President Trump sent the wrong message by giving his first prison commutation to a man who was one of the nation's largest employers of illegal immigrants.
The acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a hardliner on immigration policy, said the Trump administration's message is one of toughness, not leniency, after raids this month of seven food processing plants in Mississippi resulted in 680 arrests.
"I don't think so," Cuccinelli said, regarding whether the 2017 release of Sholom Rubashkin sent the wrong message. The former Iowa meatpacking executive was seven years into a 27-year sentence. "The president does those one person at a time."
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And literally nobody could tell they were illegal before that moment.
I realize it’s comforting to think that it’s easy to tell, but for small businesses it really isn’t, not these days. Make eVerify the law of the land and open it up for easier use, *then* you may have a point.
OK, that sounds convincing. Hmmm
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