{"id":489,"date":"2018-04-17T20:39:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ielrblog.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2018-04-17T20:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T20:39:39","slug":"attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a coalition of sheriffs from border states in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on April 11th to deliver a set of highly politicized remarks that illustrated the Trump administration\u2019s hardline, fear-based approach to illegal immigration. Sessions wasted no time in portraying the immigration situation as a black and white, us versus them issue.\u00a0 He thanked the sheriffs present for acting as \u201cthe thin blue line that stands between law-abiding people and criminals\u201d, and praised them for protecting the country \u201cfrom drugs and violence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general appeared to echo remarks made by President Trump on the campaign trail regarding immigrants from Mexico by describing the types of people who come across the border as drug traffickers, gang members, and \u201cother criminals who bring drugs, guns, and gang violence into our communities.\u201d He also made the claim that most of the drugs currently in the U.S., specifically heroin, cocaine, meth, and fentanyl, come from over the border. This is false, as the majority of these drugs are actually smuggled in through ports of entry, which a border wall would not fix. For more on Sessions\u2019 attempts to blame the drug crisis on illegal immigrants, click <a href=\"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/sessions-declares-ms-13-priority-target-links-opioid-crisis\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Sessions also used the speech as an opportunity to promote one of the administration\u2019s most controversial and as yet unrealized promises, the border wall. Sessions blamed Congress for failing to take action on the wall and for providing illegal immigrants with an open invitation to cross the border. He criticized the Obama administration for allowing immigrants to exploit the \u201ccredible fear\u201d policy, which allows immigrants to remain in the country legally if they can prove that they were endangered in their home countries. The Trump administration, with Sessions at the helm, is already doing everything in their power to limit the number of asylum seekers allowed to remain in the country. One strategy, which the attorney general mentioned briefly in his speech, is to put quotas on federal immigration judges to complete a certain number of immigration cases a year. For more on Sessions\u2019 attempts to expel illegal immigrants, click <a href=\"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/08\/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-eliminates-requirement-on-full-hearings-for-asylum-seekers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To read Sessions\u2019 full speech, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/speech\/attorney-general-sessions-delivers-remarks-immigration-enforcement\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the International Enforcement Law Report for more in-depth analysis on the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to suppress immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a coalition of sheriffs from border states in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on April 11th to deliver a set of highly politicized remarks that illustrated the Trump administration\u2019s hardline, fear-based approach to illegal immigration. Sessions wasted no time in portraying the immigration situation as a black and white, us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-counterterrorism-and-international-human-rights","7":"category-immigration-enforcement","8":"category-transnational-organized-crime-cybercrime-narcotics","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs | IELR Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs | IELR Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a coalition of sheriffs from border states in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on April 11th to deliver a set of highly politicized remarks that illustrated the Trump administration\u2019s hardline, fear-based approach to illegal immigration. Sessions wasted no time in portraying the immigration situation as a black and white, us [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IELR Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/intlenforcementlawreporter\/?ref=bookmarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-17T20:39:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Madeline Henshaw-Greene\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ielr\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ielr\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Madeline Henshaw-Greene\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Madeline Henshaw-Greene\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2c0d510a39a531d8d7dffb64b902e5f5\"},\"headline\":\"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-17T20:39:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":393,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Counterterrorism &amp; International Human Rights\",\"Immigration Enforcement\",\"Transnat'l Organized Crime, Cybercrime, Narcotics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/\",\"name\":\"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs | IELR Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-17T20:39:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2c0d510a39a531d8d7dffb64b902e5f5\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/17\\\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"IELR Blog\",\"description\":\"Official Blog of the International Enforcement Law Reporter\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2c0d510a39a531d8d7dffb64b902e5f5\",\"name\":\"Madeline Henshaw-Greene\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2031c947aecf218845504afb127ca33992cf8a0fdb0ef3eaf3bb950da6dc5e76?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2031c947aecf218845504afb127ca33992cf8a0fdb0ef3eaf3bb950da6dc5e76?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/2031c947aecf218845504afb127ca33992cf8a0fdb0ef3eaf3bb950da6dc5e76?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Madeline Henshaw-Greene\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ielrblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/mhenshawgreene\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs | IELR Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs | IELR Blog","og_description":"Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a coalition of sheriffs from border states in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on April 11th to deliver a set of highly politicized remarks that illustrated the Trump administration\u2019s hardline, fear-based approach to illegal immigration. Sessions wasted no time in portraying the immigration situation as a black and white, us [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/","og_site_name":"IELR Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/intlenforcementlawreporter\/?ref=bookmarks","article_published_time":"2018-04-17T20:39:39+00:00","author":"Madeline Henshaw-Greene","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ielr","twitter_site":"@ielr","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Madeline Henshaw-Greene","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/"},"author":{"name":"Madeline Henshaw-Greene","@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c0d510a39a531d8d7dffb64b902e5f5"},"headline":"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs","datePublished":"2018-04-17T20:39:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/"},"wordCount":393,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["Counterterrorism &amp; International Human Rights","Immigration Enforcement","Transnat'l Organized Crime, Cybercrime, Narcotics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/","url":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/","name":"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs | IELR Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-04-17T20:39:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c0d510a39a531d8d7dffb64b902e5f5"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/attorney-general-delivers-remarks-on-immigration-enforcement-to-border-state-sheriffs\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Attorney General Delivers Remarks on Immigration Enforcement to Border State Sheriffs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/","name":"IELR Blog","description":"Official Blog of the International Enforcement Law Reporter","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c0d510a39a531d8d7dffb64b902e5f5","name":"Madeline Henshaw-Greene","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2031c947aecf218845504afb127ca33992cf8a0fdb0ef3eaf3bb950da6dc5e76?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2031c947aecf218845504afb127ca33992cf8a0fdb0ef3eaf3bb950da6dc5e76?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2031c947aecf218845504afb127ca33992cf8a0fdb0ef3eaf3bb950da6dc5e76?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","caption":"Madeline Henshaw-Greene"},"url":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/author\/mhenshawgreene\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pas6ng-7T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ielrblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}