'We Need to Take Away Children,' No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said

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Top department officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.

By Michael D. Shear, Katie Benner and Michael S. Schmidt

Updated Oct. 7, 2020, 8:21 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON — The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump, recoiled in May 2018 against an order to prosecute all undocumented immigrants even if it meant separating children from their parents. They told top Justice Department officials they were “deeply concerned” about the children’s welfare.

But the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions, made it clear what Mr. Trump wanted on a conference call later that afternoon, according to a two-year inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general into Mr. Trump’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy.

“We need to take away children,” Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants’ notes. One added in shorthand: “If care about kids, don’t bring them in. Won’t give amnesty to people with kids.”

Rod J. Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, went even further in a second call about a week later, telling the five prosecutors that it did not matter how young the children were. He said that government lawyers should not have refused to prosecute two cases simply because the children were barely more than infants.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/politics/family-separation-border-immigration-jeff-sessions-rod-rosenstein.html

[tinrobot]

1. Crimes against humanity. Sessions/Rosenstein need to be prosecuted for this.

[snowybirdie]

2. These men

Need to spend jail time over this abomination.

[lagomorph777]

4. Should spend the rest of their days sleeping on concrete, living on moldy bread and toilet water.

[yardwork]

3. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions comes from a long line of slavers.

People who made their fortunes by enslaving, torturing, and selling other human beings. That's who raised Jeff Sessions. Think about what that means about how Sessions feels about people of color.

This is the United States' biggest problem. Until we confront our culture of enslaving, oppressing, and mass murdering other humans, we will elect people like Trump over and over. It's woven into our culture.

[NCjack]

5. Sessions, and Rosenstein, and you there, and you: you get a Special Prosecutor.

[BeckyDem]

6. Fucking monsters.

[uponit7771]

7. Rosenstein and Sessions committed *TEXT BOOK* UN Article II Part E Genocide ... PERIOD (link)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214240245

[smirkymonkey]

8. They are beyond sick.

What evil bastards!