Jeff Sessions

Jeff Sessions is President Donald Trump's Attorney General. He was previously a U.S. Senator from Alabama.

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Jeff Sessions
stated on October 19, 2018 a speech

An agreement between the city of Chicago and the ACLU caused "virtually all of the rise in homicides" in 2016.

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 23, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 26, 2018 a speech

"One out of every 30 people in the Greater Boston area is an illegal alien."

By Miriam Valverde • July 31, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on June 25, 2018 a speech

"Our courts find that 80 percent of those who do file for asylum aren’t qualified for it, do not merit that relief."

By Miriam Valverde • July 2, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on May 8, 2018 remarks to a conference

A legal settlement that reined in Chicago police "resulted in approximately 236 additional victims killed and over 1,100 additional shootings in 2016 alone."

By Casey Toner • May 15, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on March 7, 2018 a speech in Sacramento

"California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for."

By Chris Nichols • March 7, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on January 4, 2018 a Justice Department memo

On rescinding Obama-era marijuana enforcement guidelines.

By Jon Greenberg • January 5, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on December 18, 2017 a news conference

In Milwaukee, "murder is up an astonishing 57 percent."

January 3, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on November 14, 2017 public testimony before Congress

"The violent crime rate has risen, and the homicide rate has risen by more than 20 percent in just two years, really after 30 years of decline in violent crime."

By Sophie Kaplan • December 4, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on October 12, 2017 a speech

In the U.S. asylum system, "claims of 'fear to return' have skyrocketed, and the percentage of claims that are genuinely meritorious are down."

By Miriam Valverde • October 19, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on September 5, 2017 remarks at the Justice Department

Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."

By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on August 7, 2017 a press release

Chicago city officials "have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents."

By Matt Dietrich • August 16, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 21, 2017 In a speech

Preliminary murder rates in Philadelphia "will put the murder rate at the highest of this decade in the city."

By Mark Dent • July 24, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 12, 2017 a speech

"According to a recent study from the University of California Riverside, (sanctuary) cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that don’t."

By Miriam Valverde • July 24, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on June 13, 2017 a congressional hearing

"It's a longstanding policy of the Department of Justice not to comment on conversations that the attorney general has had with the president of the United States."

By Lauren Carroll • June 14, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on April 28, 2017 remarks to law enforcement officers in New York

District attorneys "have advertised that they will charge a criminal alien with a lesser offense than presumably they would charge a United States citizen, so they won’t be deported."

By Miriam Valverde • May 10, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on April 23, 2017 an interview on ABC's This Week

Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."

By Miriam Valverde • April 27, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on March 27, 2017 a press briefing

"Just last May, the Department of Justice inspector general found that these (‘sanctuary city’) policies also violate federal law."

By Miriam Valverde • March 30, 2017

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention

"There are about 350,000 people who succeed in crossing our borders illegally each year."

By Miriam Valverde • July 19, 2016

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 the GOP convention in Cleveland

Says Hillary Clinton "has been a champion of globalist trade agreements. ... Worst of all, they are now pushing the disastrous 5,000-page Obamatrade — the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement."

By Linda Qiu • July 19, 2016

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland

"We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years."

By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2016

Latest Fact-Checks About Jeff Sessions

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 20, 2018 a tweet

"Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage."

By Dan Clark • April 25, 2018

Louise Slaughter
stated on September 5, 2017 a tweet

Rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program "will harm our economy."

September 10, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on May 18, 2017 a Senate floor speech

"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."

By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2017