During a speech to a conservative criminal justice organization in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called critics of the Trump administration’s family separations “the lunatic fringe” and joked about the policy to laughter and applause, according to a Tuesday Hill report.
“The rhetoric we hear from the other side on this issue, as on many others, has become radicalized,” Sessions said. “We hear views on television today that are on the lunatic fringe, frankly.”
“And what is perhaps more galling is the hypocrisy,” he continued. “These same people live in gated communities, many of them, and are featured at events where you have to have an ID to even come in and hear them speak. They like a little security around themselves.”
“And if you try to scale the fence, believe me, they’d be even too happy to have you arrested and separated from your children,” he said. The room erupted into laughter and cheers.
“They want borders in their lives, but not in yours,” he concluded.
Watch below:
Jeff Sessions cracks joke about family separation to laughter and applause at speech in Los Angeles. https://t.co/319jARULTx pic.twitter.com/FT3zwOBIzy
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 27, 2018
Every time I think these vile bastards can sink no lower - they do. The fact that this bitter, old racist is our Attorney General is an insult to us all.
We’re all immigrants now, if Republicans keep power too much longer. This doesn’t end with big raises for American labor, but with people living with their parents until they’re 40 because they can’t afford an $800 apartment on 8 bucks an hour. Family values of the Grand Old Politburo.
Hopefully there is video… it should be played in every congressional race across the country.
Coretta Scott King warned us…
Sessions’ worldview (including his racism) is firmly set in the 1950’s. Calling the opposition to his family separation policy the “radical fringe” is akin to senior citizens in the '60’s and '70’s complaining about the “hippie radicals”. How did we ever get to the point where someone like this is the Attorney General in 2018?