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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:38 PM Jun 2018

Jeff Sessions: People on 'the other side' are immigration radicals

Source: CNN



By Eli Watkins, CNN

Updated 5:50 PM ET, Tue June 26, 2018

Washington (CNN) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions accused the Trump administration's critics on immigration of being radicals and hypocrites as he railed against his opponents in pointed remarks on Tuesday.

"The rhetoric we hear from the other side on this issue -- as on so many others -- has become radicalized," Sessions said.

He added, "These same people live in gated communities, many of them, and are featured at events where you have to have an ID to even come in and hear them speak. They like a little security around themselves, and if you try to scale the fence, believe me, they'll be even too happy to have you arrested and separated from your children."

Sessions was speaking before the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Los Angeles, and he devoted much of his remarks to immigration, along with recognizing the administration's victory at the Supreme Court on President Donald Trump's travel ban Tuesday morning.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/jeff-sessions-los-angeles-immigration/index.html

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Mr.Bill

(24,382 posts)
1. And they accused Obama of being divisive.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:41 PM
Jun 2018

Trump and his crew have this country about a half step away from shooting at each other in the streets.

riversedge

(70,488 posts)
2. WTF!! has Sessions been drinking??
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 07:42 PM
Jun 2018




....He added, "These same people live in gated communities, many of them, and are featured at events where you have to have an ID to even come in and hear them speak. They like a little security around themselves, and if you try to scale the fence, believe me, they'll be even too happy to have you arrested and separated from your children."

SWBTATTReg

(22,244 posts)
12. Hypocrite...I'm sure Sessions carefully picks his meeting forums so he won't have to ...
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 09:34 AM
Jun 2018

hear heckling and the like. He's too much of a coward (like Pruitt) to hear the truth about how people perceive this admin. and the shithole policies they've undertaken. Notice I used the same word that rump used to describe a lot of countries in Africa.

All of them (rump and cronies) belong in a padded room or worst (jail) for crimes against the American people (stealing an election for one thing, at the minimum).

Mc Mike

(9,118 posts)
7. Radicals and hypocrites. Sounds like standard repug projection.
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 08:18 PM
Jun 2018

I'm sure Jefferson has all his gun loving fans open carrying around him, at his events. I'm sure the 'Criminal Justice Legal Foundation' let the gun nuts right in the door, to hear that klannazi speak.

lark

(23,207 posts)
13. What a god-awful speech.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 09:43 AM
Jun 2018

He equataed putting babies in cages to what happens when a citizen breaks the law, ends up in jail and their child is put in foster care or sent to relative. What absolute lying gall, the actions are not the same, the results are not the same. No (to this point anyway, who knows what's to come) American children are being put in cages, zero, nada, zilch and to compare them is totally a nazi lying trick. The evil elf outdid himself, this should go down in infamy.

Stuart G

(38,458 posts)
14. According to another story during this speech, Sessions Joked about the Separation"
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 05:14 PM
Jun 2018

And got some laughs...........

here is a link to one story about his so called joking...from the NY Daily News..(yes, he got a few laughs)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-sessions-families-06272018-story.html

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