11-02-2018, 10:10 AM
I trust our defense officials to assess national security threats. That's their job and they're damn good at it. Their assessments are not based on clairvoyance. Their assessments are based on experience, trends and intelligence.
And, I trust that our Justice Department and Law Enforcement leaders fully understand the laws of our country. Both Jeff Sessions (Attorney General of the United States), and Kirstjen Nielsen (Director of Homeland Security) have authority over immigration policing agencies, Border Patrol and ICE.
Sessions and Nielsen told the nation just a couple months back that caravan migrants who cross the U.S. border illegally (outside of authorized border ports) will be criminally prosecuted when they introduced the 'zero tolerance' policy.
They both advised migrants to instead do it the right way, the legal way, by applying for asylum at authorized ports of entry (though there was a long queue and some of the ports were closed). Migrants who apply for asylum legally are detained for processing/screening, not sent to criminal facilities for prosecution.
And, I trust that our Justice Department and Law Enforcement leaders fully understand the laws of our country. Both Jeff Sessions (Attorney General of the United States), and Kirstjen Nielsen (Director of Homeland Security) have authority over immigration policing agencies, Border Patrol and ICE.
Sessions and Nielsen told the nation just a couple months back that caravan migrants who cross the U.S. border illegally (outside of authorized border ports) will be criminally prosecuted when they introduced the 'zero tolerance' policy.
They both advised migrants to instead do it the right way, the legal way, by applying for asylum at authorized ports of entry (though there was a long queue and some of the ports were closed). Migrants who apply for asylum legally are detained for processing/screening, not sent to criminal facilities for prosecution.