Immigration Crimes
On April 11, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a policy memorandum prioritizing cases involving immigration-related offenses. The memorandum “directs Federal prosecutors to focus on particular offenses that, if aggressively charged and prosecuted, can help prevent and deter illegal immigration.” The memoradum asks prosecutors to pursue cases against individuals accused of harboring undocumented immigrants, and against undocumented immigrants who have been caught crossing the border multiple times. It also requires prosecutors to seek, as often as possible, deportation orders against defendants in immigration-related cases. The attorney general announced the new guidelines during a tour of the Arizona–Mexico border, and said the…
