Sessions vows to prosecute all illegal border crossers and separate children from their parents

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

By Sari Horwitz May 7 at 1:41 PM

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the Justice Department will begin prosecuting every person who illegally crosses into the United States along the Southwest border, a hard-line policy shift expected to focus in particular on migrants traveling with children.

In a speech to law enforcement officials in Scottsdale, Ariz., Sessions said the Department of Homeland Security will begin referring such cases to the Justice Department for prosecution and that federal prosecutors will “take on as many of those cases as humanly possible until we get to 100 percent.”

“If you cross the Southwest border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you,” Sessions said, according to a transcript of his remarks. “If you smuggle illegal aliens across our border, then we will prosecute you. If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.”

Senior immigration and border officials have urged Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to prosecute all parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally with their children, which could split up thousands of families. Most parents now caught crossing the border illegally with their children are quickly released to await civil deportation hearings.

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[dembotoz]

1. gop family values

[olegramps]

14. The next stage is when they are tried and executed as enemy combatants.

The kids will be sent to reeducation camps if lucky. Otherwise they will be shipped back across the border and dumped like garbage.

[olegramps]

17. Malania was on national TV with her project to assist children.

What a pack of bull crap.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Eventually the civilized world will be fed up with our new NAZI government and

we will be treated accordingly.

[bronxiteforever]

3. Kick and recommend for visibility of this evil.

[Scurrilous]

4. The Party of Family Values rears its ugly head.

[Soxfan58]

5. What a prick!!!!

[TygrBright]

6. Such spectacular evil... n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. This is why tRump keeps him, even though he bashes Sessions frequently about recusal. . . . nt

[sakabatou]

8. He has no soul

[not fooled]

9. Pandering

just like abortion, the thought of brown people crossing the border gets the crazies all riled up.

[HopeAgain]

10. This is Nazi style scapegoating

The current level of illegal immigration is not a real threat to us or our economy. Just as the Jews posed no threat to pre-Nazi Germany. This is simply using a "boogyman" to shore up power for a regime, by exploiting racist emotions and fears. It is nothing less.

[katmondoo]

11. What nice people run this country!!!!

Sarcasm

[S.E. TN Liberal]

12. Family Values, republican't style... nm

[turbinetree]

13. SO Sessions you really are a fucking prick and your also a LIAR

but your ultimate prickness is to separate children from parents................do you go home and just think how fucking vile you really are...................what is truly fucking astounding is that you still have a fucking taxpayer job, the media has normalize your LYING and trying there collective soul to normalize your criminal activity by speaking with a known spy, and "LYING about it in a CONGRESSIONAL HEARING" and not holding you and other fucking lackeys for speaking and LYING on your and their Form 85 security clearance , and you have the audacity to say that you will follow the "rule of law, YOU FUCKING DID NOT CALL THE FBI to report that a Russian SPY contacted you..........................



YOU FUCKING NEVER STARTED....................YOUR a FUCKING LIAR





November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[barbtries]

15. motherfuckers.

this country is bleeding, hemorrhaging. republicans will not stop until it's gone.

[lunamagica]

16. K&R. What an evil, evil man

[Cold War Spook]

18. Is this going to be after immigration judges

handle the 600,000 illegals that are still waiting for court dates? Doesn't he know that everyone in the US is protected by the Constitution not just citizens?

[Hortensis]

19. Good questions. I forgot the enormous, justice-denying backlogs.

Civil rights lawyers have been preparing for this. Let's hope they're able to get these family cases fast-tracked, and quickly.

This reminds, of course, of the WWII Japanese internments. I looked last night and, although children did get separated from parents then, it was not an atrocity deliberately perpetrated against the children.

In future, this will be one of the examples of things that happened under this administration. On our watch.