Immigrants and their supporters will certainly eep no tears over the long expected departure of Jeff Session as attorney general as part of Trump's efforts to place himself above the law and protect himself from investigation into matters which are not directly related to immigration and therefore beyond the scope of this comment.
It is difficult to imagine how any attorney general could have carried out Trump's war on brown immigrants with greater brutality, authoritarianism or disregard for basic human rights.
One commentator sums up Sessions' agenda of inflicting as much suffering as possible on as many non-white immigrants as possible as follows:
"Sessions' attack on immigrants was equally ruthless. He compelled immigration judges to order the deportation of more unauthorized immigrants and punished them when they did not. He barred most victims of domestic violence from seeking asylum in the United States, deporting survivors back to their persecutors. He attempted to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, subjecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants to deportation...He tried to prevent states and cities from protecting immigrants within their borders.And he implemented the 'xero tolerance'separation policy, imprisoning thousands of individuals at the border for the misdemeanor of unlawful entry, then sizing their children and locking them up in cages. (Hunfreds of these kids are still separated from their parents.)
The above commentator continues:
Meanwhile Sessions mobilized the DOJ's attorney's to torture immigrant minors in other ways. He fought in court to keep undocumented immigrant minors pregnant against their will...And when the American Civil Liberties Union defeated this position in court his DOJ launched a failed legal assault on individual ACLU lawyers fir daring to defend their clients.:
See, Slate Magazine November 7::
Jeff Sessions made America a cruel, more brutal, place. Good Riddance
https://slate.com/news-and -politics/2018/11/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-resign-disgrace.html
Of course, as mentioned above, Sessions' inhuman on assault on the basic human tights of immigrants who dared to come to or remain in the US despite not having Donald Trump's preferred white skin color was not the reason for his humiliating firing by Trump, who fully supported Sessions' cruelty until Sessions himself became an obstacle to Trump's drive for absolute power.
At the same time that Trump kicked Sessions out, Trump also vowed to defy any attempt by the new House Docrati majority to investigate any aspect of his administration. This, of course, would include the long list of actions that Trump has taken sow fear an terror in immigrant communities and drastically reduce immigration from non-white pats of the world.
Sessions,arguably, did more than any other single individual to put Trump in power by formulating a coherent, though extreme, anti-immigrant agenda for Trump to run on. and to put into effect after taking power. Now that Sessions has become in the way of Trumps imperial ambitions, rather rgan a help, he has been shoved aside, in the manner of authoritarian regimes throughout history.
But he will not be missed.
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As America lurches toward dictatorship, Trump ousts Sessions, who inflicted extreme cruelly on brown immigrants. Trump also vows to defy any investigation by House Democrats into his immigration or other agendas. By Roger Algase
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As America lurches toward dictatorship, Trump ousts Sessions, who inflicted extreme cruelly on brown immigrants. Trump also vows to defy any investigation by House Democrats into his immigration or other agendas. By Roger Algase
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I worked for the Justice Department for more than 20 years. My appointment certificate said that I served "at the pleasure of the Attorney General." If he had wanted to fire me, he could have sent me an email saying that my presence in the department no longer pleased him and had someone remove me from the premises. And the same relationship existed between Sessions and Trump. He served at Trump's pleasure. When Trump decided that he was no longer pleased having Sessions around, he let him go, and no one has a right to question his decision. No one. Not even Roger.
Nolan Rappaport
The issue is: why did Trump fire Sessions?. The answer is that Sessions was only partly loyal to Trump. Sessions was loyal in terms of carrying out Trump's goal of inflicting as much cruelty and suffering on immigrants who had the "wrong" skin color as possible
But Sessions refused to put personal loyalty to Trump ahead of his loyalty to the United States of America and to its laws requiring him to recuse himself from overseeing an investigation into matters in which he was personally involved. In other words, he refused to put Trump above the law and help him become an American Fuehrer.
Roger Algase
Attorney at Law
Nolan Rappaport