AP FACT CHECK: Sessions tags wrong city for immigrant crimes

[Cryptoad]

Source: ap

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has highlighted the San Diego suburb of Escondido to illustrate how jurisdictions that limit cooperation with immigration authorities jeopardize public safety. Speaking at a news conference Friday along a border fence with Mexico, Sessions offered no evidence that 'sanctuary jurisdictions' or immigrants are responsible. And he failed to mention that the federal government has held up Escondido as a model for cooperation with immigration authorities.

SESSIONS: "As you know too well here, Escondido's gang violence has jumped recently between two violent gangs warring for turf - more shootings, more guns, more terrorized neighborhoods. Sanctuary jurisdictions have put known gang members back on the streets to join the Westside gang in Escondido."

THE FACTS: Since May 2010, the city has had an extraordinarily close relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, giving ICE officers desk space at police headquarters and working in tandem with them on everything from traffic stops to gang sweeps to remove people who have been previously deported and have criminal records. Critics say the unusual relationship has unnerved immigrants but supporters say it has improved public safety in the city of 150,000. In 2012, ICE bestowed Escondido with a "Partnerships for Public Safety" award.

Violent crime has held fairly steady in recent years, dropping 5 percent during the first half of 2016 compared to the same period last year, according to the FBI's latest figures. When asked about Sessions' characterization, Police Chief Craig Carter said, "We had nothing I'm seeing as a spike or increase."

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Sessions: doing to the Nation what he did to Alabama!

[Stuart G]

1. Sessions....Strike 2...you know...

if you get to Strike 3...your out!!!!.......................well...............

maybe he can stand in the corner for a few days...and read up on his facts......

[left-of-center2012]

3. He'll gave to caddy for Trump's next golf game. n/t

[TeamPooka]

2. Lying and stupid is no way to go through life Jeff Sessions.

[George II]

4. Is he from Greenbow Alabama?

[Zorro]

5. It's beyond outrageous that this perjurer is our Attorney General

The Republican Party is nothing more than a criminal conspiracy to defraud the country.

[notdarkyet]

8. I agree. Can't stand the cretin. Clinton was impeached for less. There is no way an

Attorney general should be a perjurer. He did it on camera in front of the congress and also had to go back and amend his statements about meeting with the Russians. He does not deserve this office.

[SunSeeker]

6. That idiot should be in jail for lying to Congress and colluding with Russia.

Alas, he runs our now ironically named Department of Justice.

[winstars]

7. Please remember: He was always very very very fucking stupid. Always. Every single time.

This is nothing new. In committee hearings, statements to the press, probably in just everyday conversation, the guy is and always was a fucking complete idiot.

Besides the fact that he has some pretty radical ideas and is in fact a racist, he is a fucking dope!!!

And now an old one too, like tRump.

And now he is the AG.

Thanks Susan Saradon, for NOTHING.

[Cryptoad]

9. He is not acting,,,,,

He really as stupid as he comes across. just one of the reason Alabama is tied with MS as the assHole of the Nation

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. When the Attorney General nominee literally perjures himself during confirmation before the people

He will certainly lie shamelessly and with impunity once installed.

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is a racist shitbag and a perjurer who belongs in federal prison.

[Achilleaze]

11. republican perjurers should be locked up

deplorable

[BumRushDaShow]

12. What's hilarious is that Escondido is majority-GOP governance

Mayor, most of their city council, their state reps and congress critter. Remarkable that whoever wrote his talking points didn't pick up on that.

They can't knee-jerk assume because there are a large % of Hispanics in an area that the place is automatically "blue" (or that the Hispanics have any power to make it "blue&quot . I.e., he just targeted one of the few "red" areas in deep blue California.

It must have been really bad to get AP to "fact check" something.

Yet another mouthpiece creating a fictional universe with false narratives.