Sessions Proposes DNA Tests For Border Migrants to Prevent Human Trafficking

We can only hope that this is not just a government ploy to build a DNA database which starts the “normalization” of mass DNA collection while digital privacy rights and data security are woefully lacking.

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By ZeroHedge.com
DNA Tests For Migrants

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been talking to members of Congress about using DNA testing to verify whether children crossing the southern U.S. border are biologically related to adults they arrive with, or if they are being smuggled into the country by human traffickers, Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council. “Sessions is

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Survivors of Domestic and Gang Violence Will No Longer Qualify for Asylum

“In what world does the United States turn its back on people who have suffered persecution, trauma, and extreme distress from domestic or gang violence?”

Andrea Germanos
Jessica Corbett
By Andrea Germanos
And Jessica Corbett

In just the latest addition to the Trump administration's mounting collection of "cruel" policies aimed at closing off the nation to refugees and asylum-seekers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a new Justice Department guidance on Monday declaring that migrants will no longer automatically qualify for asylum if they present concerns of

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Perjury, Lying Deeply Ingrained into American Police Culture

Police lying is as old as policing itself, and like all culturally ingrained customs, it will not disappear without the sustained intervention of outside forces.

Kali Holloway
By Kali Holloway
Newly minted NYPD Officers attend the New York City Police Graduation Ceremony for the Graduating Class of December 2017 held at the Beacon Theater on December 28, 2017 in New York City. (Photo: Mpi43/MediaPunch/IPX)

Police officers lie under oath in court so often that they’ve even given the practice a nickname. “Behind closed doors, we call it testilying,” New York City police officer Pedro Serrano told the New York Times. “You take the truth and stretch it out a little bit.” The term, the Times notes, came into common usage among cops about 25 years ago,

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Jeff Sessions’ Dog Whistle to White Supremacy: Sheriffs Guard Our “Anglo-American Heritage”

Coming from a man who was literally kept off the judge’s bench for being too racist, serving an administration staffed with unrepentant ideological bigots and ‘white nationalists,’ there is no mistaking what Jeff Sessions’ message to the sheriffs really says.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Attorney General Jeff Sessions bows his head during a prayer session prior to addressing the National Sheriffs' Association Winter Conference in Washington, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP/Cliff Owen)

WASHINGTON – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressed a meeting of the National Sheriff’s Association on February 12 in Washington. As the nation’s chief law enforcer, Sessions was “among friends” and such an appearance should have been uneventful. What could possibly go wrong? Well … it appears that the Attorney General may have improvised a

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Coming for Nation’s Legalized Pot

Sessions is a long-time opponent of the nationwide push to legalize recreational and medicinal use of marijuana. Journalist and former lawyer Glenn Greenwald used the news to offer the analysis that “Conservatives’ self-professed belief in federalism was always a huge fraud.

Jessica Corbett
By Jessica Corbett
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a briefing on leaks of classified material one week after President Donald Trump complained that Sessions was weak on preventing such disclosures, Aug. 4, 2017.

On the heels of a California law legalizing recreational marijuana use, which took effect Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is planning to rescind the federal policy that has enabled Americans to grow, sell, and use cannabis in places where it has been legalized, without federal intervention, the Associated Press reported Thursday. "The

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Lawmakers Push For Terrorism Prosecutions For Environmentalists

Members of Congress signed a letter urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to prosecute environmental activists challenging pipelines as terrorists, citing a need to protect ‘energy infrastructure.’

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
A pipeline protester uses PVC pipes to attach himself to a piece of construction equipment along Highway 6 near Bismarck, N.D. (Photo: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News)

Several members of Congress signed on to a letter recommending Attorney General Jeff Sessions look into whether the Justice Department has the laws it needs to prosecute environmental activists challenging pipelines as if they are terrorists. The letter asks Sessions if the USA PATRIOT Act and Pipeline Safety Act contain enough provisions to

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