Donald Trump’s Picks For the Justice Department Could Influence Immigration

Trump campaigned extensively on the subject of sanctuary cities, mentioning San Francisco murder victim Kate Steinle in many speeches.

Sessions will need a simple majority, or 51 people, in the Senate to be confirmed as attorney general, so the moderate Democrat’s vote would nearly certainly help ensure the confirmation. Sen. In 2002, Sessions said, “There must be a consideration of balance” in the cases the Justice Department brings, and he expressed concerns over several lawsuits from the Clinton era, including a case out of the senator’s home state of Alabama.

Alabama’s sole Democratic rep in Congress, Terri Sewell, reached across the aisle on Wednesday and offered her Republican colleague, Sen. Jeff Sessions, encouraging words following President-Elect Donald Trump’s Friday selection of Sessions as his nominee for attorney general. Sessions asserted that “Shelby County has never had a history of denying voters” – willfully discounting the Alabama county’s recent history of discriminatory voting changes. They are right to do so, and not simply because he made offensive racial remarks in conversations more than three decades ago, comments which cost him confirmation to a federal judgeship during the Reagan administration.

“For 40 years, no president and no attorney general has given a high priority to enforcing our immigration laws”, Sessions said in 2007. Also, that he has called the NAACP “un-American”, and “Communist inspired”.

Collins says she’ll handle the Sessions nomination just as she would any other.

In hearings before his Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, Senator Sessions was the first to detail how Obama’s extra-legal amnesty for illegal aliens hurt American workers, and how amnesty violated the clear language of the law and congressional intent. Sessions later released a statement, calling the Standard’s characterization of his comments “inaccurate”. Few Republicans are going to break ranks with Trump over pot if he decides to go rogue on the issue.

Senator Sessions has been the leading anti-immigrant senator for almost two decades.

Sessions spent his time in the Senate opposing any kind of immigration reform and supporting anti-immigrant extremist groups. All Trump needs to do is nothing.

For Sen. Singleton, the issue of Greenetrack should be on the economic impact the area has on some of the state’s poorest counties.

“It’s going to go back to the ’50s and ’60s”, Rideout said.

Martha Roby represents Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District. He and all the signers of the letters are Democrats.

“The organization which he led has said such things as the alt-Right … is a smarter version of old-school racist skinheads”, Heck said. Even Delaware Democrat Senator Chris Coons noted “I do think that this meeting sends the wrong signal and I don’t think it sends the right signal”.

“Look”, she added, “I think he’s thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States and things that sound like the campaign aren’t among them”.

Elaine Walton, an African-American resident of New Orleans, said she had deep concerns.

The pro-life movement has good reason to be excited about the appointment.

“We write today to demand the Department of Justice (DOJ) immediately cease its ongoing use of law enforcement resources to stifle private debate on one of the most controversial public issues of our time-climate change”, they wrote.

The letter continues to note that under Bannon’s leadership at Breitbart News, the online publication promoted anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racism.

“The scariest part of his potential administration will be how his political debts to the alt-right will manifest itself in his administration and policies”, Bolden said.

Still, Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (West Virginia) and moderate Republicans Susan Collins (Maine) and Jeff Flake (Arizona) have also endorsed the Alabamian for the AG job.