Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s hatred of black and brown people has no bottom, which is why the Department of Justice is now prepared to bribe local police departments to turn over undocumented immigrants to federal immigration agents. There’s evil, and then there’s this fucking guy:
The Justice Department announced on Monday it will award more than $98 million to local police departments, giving preferential treatment to 80% of the recipients because they'd agreed to let federal immigration officers inside local jails and notify federal authorities about undocumented immigrants in local custody.
The grants are part of a broader effort by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reward cities that cooperate with the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, while threatening to block standard-issue crime-fighting grants from dozens of jurisdictions that may have adopted sanctuary policies.
The overwhelming majority of local police departments were picked because they indicated in their applications that they’d be willing to collude with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and at the expense of public safety. Research has shown that so-called “sanctuary city” policies make communities safer, because immigrants are less afraid to report crime to police:
By contrast, the same grant program under the Obama administration gave a leg up to police departments in 2016 that were “building trust” within their communities, based on standards set out in Obama’s 21st Century Policing plan, which sought to promote transparency and diversity among police, and switch to a “guardian” culture instead of “warrior culture of policing.” Applicants in 2016 also earned points for engaging in school-based policing, homicide or violent crime, and homeland security.
Hmm, that sounds like engaging in public dialogue with brown and black communities, and America’s most racist Keebler elf can’t have that shit.
ICE has already been targeting “sanctuary cities” in order to sweep up mothers and fathers, many with no criminal record. For Sessions, it’s never been about public safety: it’s been about making life for immigrants as hellish as possible. Now he’s prepared to bribe his way into even more deportations.