Rhetorical Analysis Of Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions and his speech can be broken down to a sociological perspective with the elements of a moral panic. Sessions would a represent the Politico-Moral Entrepreneur element in a moral panic. He is a political figure with a lot of background knowledge of security. So when he speaks about undocumented immigrants committing these crimes, the audience will believe it. The "Linking behavior to a Dangerous element" element is also relevant Sessions links these crimes, drug trafficking, and sexual assaults to the undocumented population. Sessions state "Under the President's leadership and through his Executive Orders, we will secure this border and bring the full weight of both the immigration courts and federal criminal enforcement to combat

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