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Jeff Sessions, Unleashed at the Border (NYT squealing)
New York Times ^ | APRIL 13, 2017

Posted on 04/14/2017 6:35:53 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agsessions; bordersecurity; carlosslimsblog; illegals; jeffsessions; sessions
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To: reaganaut1

I know a woman whose mother was here illegally. Mom arranged for a coyote (smuggler) to bring in her daughters.

My friend swam the Rio Grande at age 9 with her 8 year old and 2 year old sister on a very cold Christmas Eve (the coyote thought the Border Patrol would take the night off).

Cold and exhausted, she and her little sisters marched across 20 miles of desert to the pickup point.

She is a citizen now, and you know what she says?

She says, “BUILD THE WALL. Without the Wall, immigrants will continue to attempt the dangerous crossing and many will die”.


41 posted on 04/14/2017 7:40:55 AM PDT by darth
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To: Sacajaweau

I like the way he talks. Like a sweet little old grandfather. And that enormously classy southern accent.


42 posted on 04/14/2017 7:46:20 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: reaganaut1

No one cares what the failed new York slimes reports. Real men are back in charge.


43 posted on 04/14/2017 7:59:19 AM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: bigbob; All

Absolutely...and so is his boss :)

TG


44 posted on 04/14/2017 8:01:45 AM PDT by Tobias Grimsley
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To: reaganaut1
less prone to crime than the native-born

Where do they get this nonsense?

45 posted on 04/14/2017 8:17:25 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: reaganaut1

When it comes to anything regarding illegal immigration across the border coming out of the New York Times - Pravda on the Hudson, just remember NYTimes translated = Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, it’s true owner.


46 posted on 04/14/2017 8:20:27 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: reaganaut1
At the bottom of the article they make a pitch for subscribing to their rag:


Discover the truth with us.

47 posted on 04/14/2017 8:20:32 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

When will Trump revisit this? We need a list of crimes committed by DACA demanders to tweet to Ivanka.


48 posted on 04/14/2017 8:23:19 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: reaganaut1
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.

Well, if that's the criteria to be used, then why prosecute check forgers and embezzlers and folks who rob newspaper racks in the middle of the night, and a long list of other non-violent offenses. Those don't fit any definition of "brutal criminal or threat to the homeland", either.

In a sane society, the lunatic nonsense printed by the Slimes would be universally condemned and sneered at.

49 posted on 04/14/2017 8:27:17 AM PDT by Will88
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To: darth
My friend swam the Rio Grande at age 9 with her 8 year old and 2 year old sister on a very cold Christmas Eve (the coyote thought the Border Patrol would take the night off).

And that fact puts lie to the claims that the Rio Grande is a natural barrier and no wall is needed along much of the river. I remember news reports going back many years about illegals wading across parts of the river, coming over in all sorts of boats and even coyotes bringing folks across with jet skis.

I don't know the terrain along the Rio Grande at all, but I'd bet there needs to be a wall on the US side along most of the river.

50 posted on 04/14/2017 8:48:02 AM PDT by Will88
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To: reaganaut1
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.

Made me laugh, worth repeating.

51 posted on 04/14/2017 8:57:16 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: reaganaut1; Liz
What's that?  A U.S. Attorney General serious about Law and Order?  Why that's no good for our drug and extortion business.

Boys, maybe it's time to go back to pillaging and plundering our old stomping grounds of Mexico and the Caribbean. 


52 posted on 04/14/2017 10:11:54 AM PDT by poconopundit
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To: Will88; Liz
Very good point, Will!

Yeah, using the NYT's logic, Hillary shouldn't be prosecuted for pillaging Haiti of hundreds of millions of dollars through the Clinton Foundation.  Why 10% of the money collected was used to fund businesses in that country. Hill, Bill, and their friends pocketed the remaining 90% of the money.  And she committed no violence!... /sarc

Thankfully Sessions and Trump will sink these pirates and put them in jail.  Lock her up!

53 posted on 04/14/2017 10:22:36 AM PDT by poconopundit
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To: Wonder Warthog

Precisely: the broken windows theory, an academic theory proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982 that used broken windows as a metaphor for disorder within neighborhoods.
Their theory links disorder and incivility within a community to subsequent occurrences of serious crime.

We saw two examples recently, the other day when Chicago said it would ignore parole violations. And before that, in Oregon when a judge associated with the `hispanic’ Bund helped an illegal alien charged with DUI evade ICE.
Public officials actions hurt citizens when they wink at “small things”.

Ignoring (and worse, abetting) small things like border jumping and ID fraud leads to aliens, like MS 13 tossed from El Salvador and others here illegally, regularly venturing from “the shadows” to demand citizenship so they can draw even more public benefits.
The small things are the cause of the big things: the siphoning-off by aliens of goods and services meant for and paid by citizens; violent crime and fraud crime and costs associated with them; and all the other costs to Americans of open borders.

This has Carlos Slim’s fingerprints all over it—acting on behalf of Mexico’s ruling `guero’ class—urging that lose Estados Unidos continue to allow itself to be used as a dumping ground for their unwanted, but revenue generating, indio and criminal citizens.
Ain’t gonna happen amigo. No mas.


54 posted on 04/14/2017 10:55:52 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: poconopundit
.....using the NYT's logic, Hillary shouldn't be prosecuted for pillaging Haiti of hundreds of millions of dollars through the Clinton Foundation.....Only 10% of the money collected was used to help Haitians. Hill, Bill, and their friends pocketed the remaining 90%. And she committed no violence!... /sarc

Others see pain and suffering in a natural disaster.

The opportunistic Clintons see dollar signs----to make themselves and their cronies get-rich-quick on the pain and suffering of others.

The Clintons are natural disaster predators.

55 posted on 04/14/2017 11:24:36 AM PDT by Liz
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To: tuffydoodle
No one cares what the failed new York slimes reports. Real men are back in charge.

Lovin' all that testosterone oozing out of DC.

56 posted on 04/14/2017 11:26:51 AM PDT by Liz
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To: reaganaut1

I feel the NYTimes pain.. and I LOVE it!


57 posted on 04/14/2017 3:19:35 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Liz

“Lovin’ all that testosterone oozing out of DC.”

You and me both. I never felt safe with the pussies and metrosexuals running the place. You just know they’d throw us all under the bus to save themselves.


58 posted on 04/14/2017 3:42:42 PM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: tuffydoodle

Heh.....true.

The metros and the not-yet-sex-assigned-Obama have no idea what testosterone is.


59 posted on 04/14/2017 3:47:16 PM PDT by Liz ( The shutting down of free speech IS a form of hate speech. samtheman)
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To: mrsmel

“whose members number in probably the dozens with a good percentage of those being undercover feds “

Takes me back to the 60’s. The Feds were easy to spot, they were the guys with the dry-cleaned jeans.


60 posted on 04/14/2017 6:15:25 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (So Long Obie)
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