Sessions: IRS Checks To Illegal Immigrants Part Of Larger Border Problem

“The United States’ Treasury Department’s own Inspector General reported that in 2010, the IRS paid illegal aliens a staggering $4.2 billion in child tax credits for dependents that don’t even live in this country…

“Under new guidelines, if the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t consider someone a ‘priority,’ that individual’s deportation proceedings are closed and they are allowed to remain in the country. So far, the Administration has granted this form of backdoor amnesty to almost 17,000 illegal aliens, some of whom have been convicted of a crime…

“The way forward for our country, the right way to end the bitterness and develop common solutions for all residents, is to first secure the border as Americans have asked us to do year after year. And this Congress and this administration [have] failed to do so. We must rebuild that trust…”