Jeff Sessions, then-Attorney General of the United States, told prosecutors in May of 2018 to go after the children. We need to take away children, Sessions said, according to notes of a meeting obtained by The New York Times, If [you] care about kids, don't bring them in. Won't give amnesty to people with kids. The policy provoked a colossal public backlash, doing immense damage to the perception of the federal deportation machine, a bipartisan edifice erected by immigration hawks from both parties. (p 152 Not the Right Way)
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Jeff Sessions was a contemporary American politician and attorney. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve as attorney general in the first administration of President Donald Trump. Read more on Wikipedia →