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Posted: 2017-04-11T17:01:16Z | Updated: 2017-04-12T12:29:12Z

U.S. attorneys around the country will devote more resources to prosecuting immigration offenses, including illegal re-entry to the country, document fraud, identity theft and smuggling undocumented immigrants across the border, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday.

For those that continue to seek improper and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a new era, Sessions told Customs and Border Protection agents and officers in Nogales, Arizona, according to prepared remarks. This is the Trump era. The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our immigration laws, and the catch-and-release practices of old are over.

President Donald Trump vowed to stop unauthorized immigration and expel many undocumented people from the country, and he picked an ally in Sessions, who spent much of his Senate career advocating for tougher enforcement. Now hes getting his chance and is shaping the Department of Justices mission to expand its emphasis on prosecuting undocumented immigrants. Every U.S. attorneys office in the country even far from the border will now be required to have a person devoted to coordinating enforcement on immigration, Sessions announced.

The policies he laid out are almost exclusively focused on non-violent crimes, such as illegally re-entering the country, entering a fraudulent marriage, document fraud and identity theft. U.S. attorneys will now be required to consider prosecution for each. Every adult apprehended at the border will be detained.