Sessions: Shield Illegals, Lose $4 Billion

The Trump administration is moving forward with cutting off federal law enforcement grants to local governments that shield illegal aliens, especially violent felons, from federal immigration authorities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said yesterday.

The attorney general’s announcement came as local officials and open-borders advocates from across America met in Manhattan to devise new ways to frustrate immigration enforcement. The two-day conference, sponsored by the George Soros-funded website Think Progress, was organized by the unhinged leftist, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (D). Earlier this month she accused President Trump of “ethnic cleansing” for wanting to remove illegal aliens from the country.

The so-called sanctuary movement is a key component of today’s left-wing activist repertoire. Its supporters are the soft-headed souls who carry protest signs emblazoned with the red-herring of a slogan “no human being is illegal” and who apply all the usual smear-adjectives – including racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic – to anyone who supports having secure borders. The movement gave illegal aliens permission to rob, rape, and murder Americans by, among other things, stigmatizing immigration enforcement...

But public sentiment appears to be turning against sanctuary cities in light of the rape of a 14-year-old girl by two of her illegal-alien classmates at Rockville High School in the suburbs of the nation’s capital...

Sessions is hoping that with more than $4.1 billion in Department of Justice grants at stake in the current fiscal year, sanctuary jurisdictions won’t be able to afford to continue flaunting federal immigration law. The government is also willing to “claw back” monies already granted.

“The American people are justifiably angry” about sanctuary cities, said Sessions who showed up at the White House for press secretary Sean Spicer’s daily press briefing.

Federal laws “require us to promptly remove aliens when they are convicted of certain crimes,” he said. One recent poll indicated “80 percent of Americans believe that cities that arrest illegal immigrants for crimes should be required to turn them over to immigration authorities.”...