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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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 20, 2018 in 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 in a tweet:

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

By PolitiFact Staff • September 10, 2017
Charles Schumer
stated on May 18, 2017 in 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

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