US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Senator Jeff Sessions, has been grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee after laying out a sharply conservative vision about illegal immigration and serious crimes.
On Tuesday, Sessions was the first among key Trump cabinet nominees to face his Republican and Democratic peers for confirmation hearing.
While testifying, the senator from Alabama pledged to crack down on illegal immigration and favored to keep open the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, distancing himself from some of the Trump campaign pledges including a registry of Muslims.
Sessions claimed that the US has every right to deport people who enter the country illegally and commit serious crimes but the system is failing due to a lack of cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security and local authorities.
“You’ve got the sanctuary cities that refuse to tell Homeland Security that they’ve got somebody…