https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/acting-attorney-general-matthew-g-whitaker-delivers-remarks-national-sheriffs-association

Washington, DC ~ Monday, February 11, 2019

From 2014 to 2016, the violent crime rate went up by nearly seven percent nationwide. Robberies went up. Assaults went up by over 8 percent. Rape went up by nearly 13 percent. Murder went up by a shocking 21 percent.

According to a new study from our Bureau of Justice Statistics, a majority of federal arrests in Fiscal Year 2016 took place in districts along the U.S.-Mexico border—and 36 percent of defendants in federal district courts were illegal aliens.

In the last fiscal year, the Justice Department charged the greatest number of violent crime defendants since we started to track this category more than 25 years ago. We broke the previous record by nearly 15 percent.

We also charged more than 15,000 defendants with federal firearms offenses, which is a record. We broke that record by a margin of 17 percent.

Last year we charged more illegal aliens with illegal entry than ever before. In fact, we charged 85 percent more defendants with illegally entering America than we did in the previous year. And we increased the number of felony re-entry prosecutions by more than 38 percent.

In September, the FBI released final crime statistics for 2017. They showed that the violent crime rate and the homicide rate both went down after two years of increases under the previous administration.

In fiscal year 2018, the Department of Justice charged six percent more drug defendants than in the year before. We prosecuted 36 percent more opioid defendants than the previous four-year average. We increased heroin prosecutions by 15 percent and oxycontin prosecutions by 35 percent. We have broken records for fentanyl prosecutions two years in a row.

According to preliminary data from the CDC, fatal overdoses stopped rising in September 2017—and then decreased by two percent through April 2018.

As our efforts have shown over these last two years, law enforcement works.

These guys have been kicking ass !

Rule of Law = Promises Made, Promises Kept

This is what a President is supposed to do