Those might have seemed familiar words in the vocabulary of fear generated by Europe's unresolved debate over immigration — the common strand linking such disparate phenomena as the expulsion of Roma from France or Britain's resistance to the undocumented arrival of fugitives from Afghanistan or Iraq.
Fine weather and calm seas in recent days have meant an increase in arrivals of undocumented migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
Obama has had major successes: He leaves behind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, DACA, which shields hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children from deportation.
She militates against the "Islamization" of France, advocates France's withdrawal from the European Union's open-borders policy, favors tight border controls to prevent the arrival of undocumented immigrants, and advocates a vigorous policy of deportation.
But nearly 40percentt said the arrival of undocumented immigrants from Central America would lead to an increase in crime in their community, and 25percentt said they would take jobs away from Mexicans.
He referred of course to Trump's endorsement of the scheme to build a wall on the southern border of the U.S. with an eye to halting the arrival of undocumented workers.
In 2014, he leaked details about the arrival of a bus of undocumented children from Central America and rounded up protesters to create a scene.
Like many Republicans, including Trump, Sessions has criticized the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which shields children of undocumented immigrants from deportation for a two-year renewable period and offers them work eligibility.
Any new proposals are not expected to include changes for agricultural workers, or parents of undocumented immigrants who qualified for Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Some perceived the statement as a swipe at Dreamers, the children of undocumented immigrants who were previously protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
