older. shannon. shannon: trace gallagher on the west coast, thank you very much. there you have it, creative new tactic in the trump s efforts to enforce already existing immigration laws. talk it over with a couple civil rights attorneys, robert pattillo and harmeet dhillon, thank you for being with us tonight. thanks, shannon. shannon: i m going to read a little bit of the way this is described today, the plan for the president, says the policy would require states to immigrants to draw if the sponsor doesn t pay the bill, i notice will be sent to the treasury department and the amount will be withheld from a sponsor s tax return. this bill was already on the books, a law, and apparently it has not been enforced. i am a big fan of enforcing the laws, this is a really good common sense law, it is puzzling why it hasn t been. my concern i want to add is that this still leaves a huge
justice because it might reveal an asset that is more important than any criminal charges. you should know that having worked in the white house. shannon: my understanding of the memo, it says, in accordance to the restrictions you may have, you are not supposed to dump files of classified information out there. this is going to be a much longer, much more patient-inducing process than a lot of people think so i think we should alter our judgment a little bit and wait to see. it is a distraction, too. the inspector general has jurisdiction, and clearly here there are issues that involve the state department. the ig has no jurisdiction over them, that is what you need the attorneys of prosecutors under the ag to ask questions to cia and state. ag doesn t go that far. this is the first investigation that is actually thorough and can include other government agencies that were involved. shannon: we will come back
the street. shannon: what would be justice for you and your family in this case? justice would ve been a life sentence for john walker lindh 18 years ago. that didn t happen. justice now, what happened with john walker lindh, being used as a test dummy for what we are going to do in the future. we have 400, 500 terrorists who are said to be released in the next five years. what are we going to do going forward? what legislation, what policy are we going to push or to prevent this from happening again? john walker lindh was released early for good behavior. his good behavior sending letters to the media proclaiming support for isis? is good behavior promoting global jihad while still in jail, or did they see good behavior as not getting aggressive with the guards? because if it is the latter we
what can we expect from him while he is free on the streets? yes, there are going to be restrictions on him but he is being monitored 24 hours a day in prison. is that even possible on the outside? i feel like the things he has done while in prison are grounds, in some cases here, for the fbi, cia to investigate people who proclaim these things who aren t even in prison, so eye is and lindh being investigated? at the very least before we release them into the streets? shannon: are you worried that other people will be in danger because of him? absolutely, absolutely. someone who sends a letter, has no qualms about writing isis is doing a spectacular job as a danger to anybody. anyone who thinks the slaughter of men, women, and children is a spectacular thing is not something anybody should want on
disgraceful to say that. shannon: but if there was no political motivation i think that will be very reassuring to a lot of americans that we should be happy about it. keep it away from political people like the attorney general, who has really shown himself shannon: if he is putting things out there that actually happened, that is not manufacturing, that is exposing. let me jump in, he is the one who set political interference. you did. i said the obama administration, though surveillance decisions were made during the obama administration because they panicked and they reacted with bad judgment. i didn t think or say it was political. let s see what the justice department finds. we know it is extraordinarily unusual to use state powers to spy on an opposing campaign. you should only do it if you ve got the goods.