Jeff Sessions, Unleashed at the Border (NYT squealing)

New York Times ^ | APRIL 13, 2017

[reaganaut1]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions went to the border in Arizona on Tuesday and declared it a hellscape, a “ground zero” of death and violence where Americans must “take our stand” against a tide of evil flooding up from Mexico.

It was familiar Sessions-speak, about drug cartels and “transnational gangs” poisoning and raping and chopping off heads, things he said for years on the Senate floor as the gentleman from Alabama. But with a big difference: Now he controls the machinery of federal law enforcement, and his gonzo-apocalypto vision of immigration suddenly has force and weight behind it, from the officers and prosecutors and judges who answer to him.

When Mr. Sessions got to the part about the “criminal aliens and the coyotes and the document forgers” overthrowing our immigration system, the American flag behind him had clearly heard enough — it leaned back and fell over as if in a stupor. An agent rushed to rescue it, and stood there for the rest of the speech: a human flag stand and metaphor. A guy with a uniform and gun, wrapped in Old Glory, helping to give the Trump administration’s nativist policies a patriotic sheen.

It was in the details of Mr. Sessions’s oratory that his game was exposed. He talked of cities and suburbs as immigrant-afflicted “war zones,” but the crackdown he seeks focuses overwhelmingly on nonviolent offenses, the document fraud and unauthorized entry and other misdeeds that implicate many people who fit no sane definition of brutal criminal or threat to the homeland.

[reaganaut1]

Go, Jeff!

[TheStickman]

More winning!!!

[central_va]

When the Grey Lady cries I am O so happy!

[from occupied ga]

If the Slimes hates it then it has to be the right thing to do. Judging from the shrill frothing at the mouth response from them it was EXACTLY the right thing to do.

[JBW1949]

I have said all along that once president Trump gets his SC pick and Sessions appointed, he would open up stronger...

[grania]

Many of us Deplorables who followed the campaign closely were most impressed by AG Sessions. Trump was at his very best when Sessions was around and when he was articulating the policies which Sessions developed.

It's a shame, but in this political climate, AG Sessions could never have become president. He has neither the personality, inclination, charisma or squishy views to get ahead. But now, WOW! The whole nation is seeing what a lot of us Deplorables already realized. AG Sessions is a very tough, confident, and competent guy. He does what he says, doesn't bend, doesn't cut corners!

[T-Bird45]

The NYT must have a doctored copy of the Constitution. The one I read says that the judiciary is separate from the executive so I don’t see how judges answer to the AG.

[SteveH]

good thing that the NYT did not have an intrepid reporter on the summit of Mt. Suribachi when it was taken from the Japanese in 1945...

[Hostage]

> “... helping to give the Trump administration’s ***nativist*** policies ...”

There it is.

[ggboss]

” but the crackdown he seeks focuses overwhelmingly on nonviolent offenses, the document fraud and unauthorized entry and other misdeeds that implicate many people who fit no sane definition of brutal criminal or threat to the homeland”

The threat to the homeland is when we no longer are a nation of laws. Or is this just an insane thought.

[Lurkinanloomin]

DACA must be ended.
Continuing to hand out work permits to illegal aliens under this illegal program undercuts all the other efforts.

[GailA]

Another WIN Report: US Judges Removed From Mexico Border as Illegal Crossings Continue to Plummet
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2017/04/13/report-sharp-drop-in-illegal-border-crossings-continues-n2313120?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

This AM brings another WIN Trump Signs Bill Reversing Obama’s ‘Parting Gift’ to Planned Parenthood
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/04/13/trump-signs-bill-allowing-states-to-defund-planned-parenthood-n2313085?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

[norwaypinesavage]

"good thing that the NYT did not have an intrepid reporter on the summit of Mt. Suribachi when it was taken from the Japanese in 1945..."

Actually, the NYT was somewhat on OUR side, back then.

[Liz]

EVEN MORE STARTLING TO CONTEMPLATE: Then-Pres Obamba and Susan "The Sifter" Rice’s infamous surveillance activities, no doubt, collected ample evidence about Mexican border jumpers, savage drug gangs and their deadly operations inside the US.

Yet, w/ full knowledge, the vengeful Obamba rolled out the red carpet welcoming these criminals into the US, financing them w/ our tax dollars, and installing them in our communities to wreak havoc on US citizens.

Obama signing immigration orders on AF One. Both orders are on the WH web site.

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<><> The first of Obama's presidential action memos is entitled: “Creating Welcoming Communities Fully Integrating Immigrants and Refugees,” filed Nov. 26 in the Federal Register at Vol. 79, No. 228, (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-11-26/html/2014-28191.htm).

In the category “Presidential Documents” at page 70769, Obama ordered a White House Task Force on New Americans to “engage with community, business, and faith leaders, as well as State and local elected officials.” The task force is designed to “help determine additional steps the Federal Government can take to ensure its programs and policies are serving diverse communities that include new Americans.”

<><> The second of the presidential actions entitled, “Modernizing and Streamlining the U.S. Immigration Visa System for the 21st Century,” filed Nov. 26 in the Federal Register at Vol. 79, No. 228, in the category “Presidential Documents” at page 70765 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-11-26/html/2014-28191.htm).

This empowered the secretaries of State and Homeland Security in consultation with the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the director of the National Economic Council, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, the director of the Domestic Policy Council, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the attorney general, and the secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor and Education.

The order was to make a series of recommendations “to reduce government costs, improve services for applicants, reduce burdens on employers, and combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the system” of issuing immigrant and non-immigrant visas.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/amnesty-shocker-the-secret-behind-obamas-order/#4OPdzIoJFRwXopUU.99

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Obama and Susan "The Sifter" Rice's purposeful crimes against America and the American people cry out for justice.

ACTION NOW-—Contact your Representative and Senators Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

[poconopundit]

What?  A man of integrity at the helm of JUSTICE?  GO, Jeff, GO!

[Windflier]

FUNYT

MAGA

[SkiKnee]

"...his gonzo-apocalypto vision of immigration suddenly has force and weight behind it..."

I'm drawing comparisons to the "gonzo-apocalypto" visions of climate catastrophe these a$$holes have been screaming about for 40 years, and the force and weight that have been put behind that ration of BS.

[Tallguy]

The NYTimes got the metaphor wrong: Sessions put the flag BACK UP at the border after his predecessors let it fall over.

[hal ogen]

OMG...not the dreaded Rule of Law! I guess AG Sessions should be impeached...or something.

[Gaffer]

The first thing the NYT should be forced, via damage lawsuit, to factually prove that anything AG Sessions has done is against the law.