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It is less clear what long-term benefit the pipeline will bring to the US. While Republicans have touted it as a major job producer, a US State Department report found that the pipeline would create 3,900 full-time construction jobs for one or two years while the pipeline is built. After that work dries up, 35 jobs would remain.
“Once the proposed Project enters service, operations would require an estimated 50 total employees: 35 permanent employees and 15 temporary contractors,” the State Department wrote back in 2014, before Obama denied TransCanada its permit.

"We intend to use all the lawful authorities we have to make sure our state and local officials … are in sync with the federal government," Sessions said.

"Moreover, the Department of Justice will require that jurisdictions seeking or applying for Department of Justice grants to certify compliance with [relevant laws] as a condition of receiving those awards," he added.

In the current fiscal year, Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is slated to award $4.1 billion in grants.

"I strongly urge our nation's states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws and to rethink these policies. Such policies make their cities and states less safe — public safety as well as national security are at stake — and put them at risk of losing federal dollars," he said.

The Obama administration said that cities that don't honor the detainer laws put forth by ICE could lose federal funds, so Sessions is not the first to make this threat.

“We’ve got to be nice and cool, nice and calm. All right, stay on point Donald, stay on point,” Trump said at a rally in Pensacola, as the crowd of thousands broke out in laughter.

“No sidetracks, Donald. Nice and easy,” Trump went on. “Because I’ve been watching Hillary in the last few days and she’s totally unhinged.”