May 23, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing a harsher line on immigration offences and drug offences, imprisoning more people for violating immigration laws and seeking longer sentences for those convicted of drug crimes.
"All these things link together rhetorically [for Sessions]," Mona Lynch, a professor of criminology, law and society, told the Marshall Project. It’s part of "a triad of concerns he constructed around a renewed war on street crimes, gangs, and immigration."
But focusing on gangs, drugs and immigration could leave fewer resources to prosecute other crimes.
"White-collar and child porn and financial crime is likely to take a back seat if Sessions has his way in directing priorities," Lynch said.