Sessions to tour US-Mexico border
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to visit the U.S.-Mexico border next Tuesday, Phoenix’s KTAR News reported.
Sessions will visit the Port of Nogales in Arizona on Tuesday morning, followed by a trip to an International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, according to the report.
Sessions is expected to deliver a speech at the conference and address service members at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix.
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His visit on Tuesday will be his first official tour of the U.S.-Mexico border since his confirmation in February.
Sessions has been a staunch opponent of illegal immigration, with the Trump administration focusing on enhanced enforcement of immigration laws.
“People who come here unlawfully who commit crimes are going to be out of here,” Sessions said in late February.
The attorney general also argued that state authorities should be turning undocumented immigrants over to the federal government.
“It’s just to me a shocking thing that we don’t have universal respect between law enforcement agencies where one has charges, the other turns over the offender so the next jurisdiction can carry out the just punishments,” he said.
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