The Latest: Sessions says goal is lawful immigration system
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' trip to the border in New Mexico (all times local):
2:30 p.m.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the U.S.-Mexico border must be secured if the nation is going to have a lawful immigration system.
In a speech Wednesday in New Mexico, Sessions ticked off stories about drugs being smuggled across the border and illegal crossings that have taxed law enforcement, prosecutors and the court system.
The attorney general spoke in Las Cruces to a group of sheriffs whose departments patrol areas north of the U.S.-Mexico border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.