Attorney General Jeff Sessions criticized Portland, Oregon, and other sanctuary cities for “believing they are above the law.” By their refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities to remove illegal alien criminals, said Sessions, police in these cities “may be forced to release pedophiles, rapists, murderers, drug dealers and arsonists back into communities where they had no right to be in the first place. He added that “They should, according to law and common sense, be processed and deported.” The attorney general also defended the Trump Administration’s proposal to cut selected federal grants to sanctuary cities.
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