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Attorney General Jeff Sessions toured the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday and unveiled what he described as a new get-tough approach to immigration prosecutions under President Donald Trump. The nation's top law enforcement official outlined a series of changes that he said mark the start of a new push to rid American cities and the border of what he described as "filth" brought on by drug cartels and criminal organizations.
In an unusual move for the head of the U.S. Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to speak with Department of Homeland Security personnel on Tuesday to make the case for increased prosecutions of migrants. Sessions, a long-time proponent of tougher immigration enforcement during his time in the U.S. Senate, told U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Port of Nogales in Arizona that more illegal immigrants should be prosecuted as criminals.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is pictured with Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., right, during a mock swearing-in ceremony for Strange in the Capitol's Old Senate Chamber, February 9, 2017. Strange filled Sessions' senate seat.
"Last month, we saw a 64 percent reduction in illegal immigration on our southern border." - President Trump, weekly address, April 7, 2017 "My administration is - just a matter of weeks, literally, a short period of time - has brought record reductions to illegal immigration.
A trio of motions aimed at protecting undocumented immigrants and others threatened with deportation, including putting $1 million into a legal defense fund, are scheduled to be voted on Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. City and county officials first proposed the ideas late last year in response to President Donald Trump's pre-election remarks about deporting people who live in the country illegally.
The reports aimed to publicly shame local police for not cooperating with immigration authorities, but were suspended after three weeks because of numerous errors. Errors prompt Trump to halt reports shaming 'sanctuary cities' The reports aimed to publicly shame local police for not cooperating with immigration authorities, but were suspended after three weeks because of numerous errors.
Independent Democratic Conference members David Valesky, D-Syracuse, Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, Sen. David Carlucci, D-Nanuet, Sen. Tony Avella, D-Queens, and Sen. Diane Savino, D-Staten Island. Not shown are Sen. Jesse Hamilton, D-Brooklyn, Jose Peralta,D-Queens, and Marisol Alcantara, D-Manhattan.
JURIST Guest Columnist Ali Khan discusses the potential deportation of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, and international documents' and treaties' prohibition on state actions like deportation. Here is the conclusion: "President Trump's policy decision to deport undocumented immigrants is a crime against humanity , particularly with respect to families who have settled in the US for long periods of time, have established homes, or have minor children.
CON JOB: Julian Burnside says the population has been misled into accepting the deliberate mistreatment of human beings on Manus Island and wants it closed. He said refugees have not broken any law by coming to Australia without proper paperwork and calling them Illegal immigrants was wrong.
Within days of Donald Trump's election as U.S. president last November, New York City Mayor and Democrat Bill de Blasio drew a line in the sand. He said the city would not share personal data, collected through a program designed to help illegal immigrants, with the federal government.
Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones, of the First Unitarian Church of San Jose, speaks during a press conference with public officials and faith leaders with the grassroots organization PACT at City Hall in San Jose, Calif., Friday, April 6, 2017. PACT will launch a county-wide "solidarity network" aimed at protecting and defending "immigrants who are living in fear under the threat of deportation."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrest Jose Artica, 19, of El Salvador, during a recent raid in Alexandria, Va. Officers and agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have, for years, worn jackets and vests bearing the words "POLICE ICE."
Host Bill Maher of "Real Time" on HBO upset some members of his panel when the discussion turned to the terrorist attack in London last week. Some panel members tried to dismiss the Muslim angle to the attack, insisting it had nothing to do with Islam.
It's time to push Leftist ideas and antics back to the fringes of American political life. These ideas, preached and practiced with righteous tyranny, have not only bullied their way into the public discourse but into our churches, our government, our businesses, our schools, and our lives.
On the morning of March 16, a 14-year old girl was allegedly raped by two illegal aliens in a high school bathroom in Rockville, Maryland. One of the alleged rapists, Henry Sanchez-Milian, is an adult, 18 years old, while the other suspect, Jose O. Montano, is 17-years old.
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lee Johnson asks questions during oral arguments in this March 16, 2017, file photo. A school custodian in Olathe must be paid worker's compensation benefits despite being in the country illegally, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 800 congregations in 30 American cities have joined the New Sanctuary Movement . An interfaith effort organized by Christian activist Alexia Salvatierra, NSM religious institutions have pledged to open their doors to undocumented immigrants worried that authorities may arrest them or separate their families.
Fifty years ago, give or take a few weeks, subscribers to the quarterly Leftist journal Partisan Review were just settling down with the Winter 1967 edition - accompanied, one imagines, by a nice dry martini and a freshly-opened pack of Chesterfields . That edition of Partisan Review featured a symposium in which sixteen luminaries of the period offered their answers to the question: "What's happening to America?" Among those luminaries was Lefty activist, writer, and lesbian Susan Sontag.