U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke of immigration in terms of cracking down on Mexican drug gangs and building a border wall Friday at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock pushed back soon after.
Taking to Facebook, Hancock brought up a court opinion on the matter unflattering to the administration that this week that the attorney general didn’t mention in his 34-minute address to the conservative gathering.
“If we’re going to end the drug crisis, we need to secure the border. And if we’re going to secure the border, we’ve got to build a wall,” Sessions told the crowd in the Mile High Ballroom of the Colorado Convention Center. “Build that wall.”
Sessions criticized cities such as Denver and Boulder that don’t cooperate the way he thinks they should with federal agents doing immigration enforcement, so-called “sanctuary cities.”
“In the Trump administration, we know whose side we’re on; we’re on the side of the police, law and order and the American people. And we back the blue, not the criminals,” he said pausing long for applause.
He added, “We needed to tell these politicians, ‘What is it that’s in your mind? What do you think you’re doing when you refuse to allow the deportation of a criminal in your city?'”
