Anonymous ID: 11befc May 7, 2018, 9:57 a.m. No.1327856   🗄️.is 🔗kun

we will prosecute you.

 

If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law. If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.

 

If you make false statements to an immigration officer or commit fraud in our system to obtain an immigration benefit, that’s a felony. We will put you in jail.

 

If you help others to do so, that’s a felony, too.

 

In order to carry out these important new enforcement policies, I have sent 35 prosecutors to the Southwest and moved 18 immigration judges to the border. These are supervisory judges that don’t have existing caseloads and will be able to function full time on moving these cases. That will be about a 50 percent increase in the number of immigration judges who will be handling the asylum claims.

 

Everything we do at the Department of Justice is dedicated to reducing crime in America. Perhaps the most important thing we can do toward that end is to improve our relationships with state and local partners like you.

 

We want to be a force-multiplier for you. We can help you—because we can reach defendants across state lines, across national borders, and even across oceans.

 

The work that you do – that you have dedicated your lives to – is essential. I believe it. The Department of Justice believes it. And President Trump believes it.

 

And so I want to close by thanking each of you once again for your service.

 

You can be certain about this: we have your back and you have our thanks.