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| What if Trump Enforces The LAW?! |
| 2016-11-30 |
| h/t Instapundit If confirmed as Trump’s attorney general, the Alabama senator would instantly become one of the most powerful people overseeing the nation’s immigration policy, with wide latitude over the kinds of immigration violations to prosecute and who would be deported. As the nation’s top cop, Sessions would be able to direct limited department resources to pursuing immigration cases. He could launch federal investigations into what he perceives as discrimination against U.S. citizens caused by immigration. He would be in charge of drafting legal rationales for immigration policies under the Trump administration. And Sessions, as attorney general, could find ways to choke off funding for "sanctuary cities," where local officials decline to help federal officials identify undocumented immigrants so they can be deported. Doesn’t that sound great? And it’s not all, either. But first, this: Some immigrant advocates are alarmed by the idea of a Justice Department led by someone they see as far outside the mainstream. It can’t be "far outside the mainstream" to enforce existing federal law. On the contrary, it is the president’s most fundamental constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Barack Obama violated this duty, to his everlasting shame. It also can’t be "far outside the mainstream" for Trump and Sessions to carry out the policies on which Trump campaigned and was elected. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Progressives who can't see "illegal," Say Sessions is some sort of kleagle, And fear that he'll backwash Near eight years of blackwash, Unhooding the federal eagle. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-11-30 23:46 |
| #1 "Far outside the mainstream" is taken as 'not in alignment with my current feelings and hopes for change.' The other guy won; get over it. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-11-30 12:56 |