Sessions also said undocumented immigrants who enter the country illegally after previously being removed will be "referred for felony prosecution". "The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our immigration laws, and the catch-and-release practices of old are over".
Sessions said the MS-13 and cartels had turned cities and suburbs into warzones, raped and killed innocent citizens, and smuggled poison and human beings across the border. He added, according to reports, "It is here on this very sliver of land-on this border-that we take our stand". The proposal also calls for adding $1.5 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's budget to find, detain and deport immigrants living in the US illegally, along with more than $300 million to hire 500 new Border Patrol agents and 1,000 immigration agents.
"Under the President's leadership and through his executive orders, we will secure this border and bring the full weight of both the immigration courts and federal criminal enforcement to combat this attack on our national security and sovereignty", the attorney general said in prepared remarks.
Sessions also urged federal prosecutors to intensify their focus on other immigration crimes such as smuggling others into the U.S. Such prosecutions are already happening, however.
"I'm an admirer of Steve Bannon and the Trump family, and they've been supportive of what we're doing", he said.
US Attorneys are also directed to make prosecutions of assaults on federal law enforcement officers a top priority. "It is a direct threat to our legal system and to our peace and prosperity".
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Instead, the eighth continued with Sale being taken out for Heath Hembree , who had the pleasure of facing Miguel Cabrera . Sale walked the former and took on the latter. "So with two outs, he's kind of pitching around (Kinsler)".
Sessions is visiting the once-busiest area for illegal border crossings and drug smuggling in the country.
He also ordered prosecutors to jail people who transport and harbor illegal immigrants; to lodge felony charges against people caught a second time sneaking into the country; and to charge anyone caught using false papers with fraud and identity theft, which brings a minimum two-year jail sentence.
If civil rights enforcement was the signature issue of the Obama Justice Department, the Trump Justice Department's issue so far seems to be immigration. They tell me that and I know they've told you that in the past.
Sessions laid out several policy priorities in a memo to all federal prosecutors, titled "Renewed Commitment to Criminal Immigration Enforcement". Sessions has said a failure to deport aliens convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk.
Former prosecutors said they didn't expect the memo to dramatically affect US attorneys offices along the southern border, which already bring thousands of such cases each year. He also mysteriously side-stepped a fear-mongering line about criminal "filth" supposedly plaguing the U.S. -Mexico border that was included in his prepared remarks on his new plans.
"While dramatic progress has been made at the border in recent months, much remains to be done", Sessions told prosecutors in the memo.
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