Former attorney general Jeff Sessions and other senior justice department officials impeded an internal departmental investigation into their role in implementing the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy that separated thousands of children from their parents on the border, according to interviews and government records. Sessions declined to be interviewed by investigators for the department’s inspector general, who conducted an.
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Jeff Sessions was one of the most senior officials in the Trump administration who devised and implemented the family separation policy. Photograph: Dan Anderson/EPA
Jeff Sessions was one of the most senior officials in the Trump administration who devised and implemented the family separation policy. Photograph: Dan Anderson/EPA
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Fri 22 Jan 2021 04.30 EST
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Former attorney general Jeff Sessions and other senior justice department officials impeded an internal departmental investigation into their role in implementing the Trump administrationâs hardline immigration policy that separated thousands of children from their parents on the border, according to interviews and government records.