Jan 14, 2021

Alabama's Jeff Sessions: owner of the child separation policy?



Alabama's Jeff Sessions has a lot of support in Alabama, but with the release of the final report on the Trump Administration child-separation policy laying it at Sessions feet, that may change.

From The Washington Post


"The Trump administration and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions barreled forward with their “zero tolerance” border crackdown in 2018 knowing that the policy would separate migrant children from their parents and despite warnings that the government was ill-prepared to deal with the consequences, according to a long-awaited report issued Thursday by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General.

The report called the Justice Department and the attorney general’s office a “driving force” in making sure the Department of Homeland Security aggressively prosecuted adults arriving with children, findings that cast doubt on statements made by Sessions that the government “never really intended” to separate families."

 

FULL STORY HERE.

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