The Obama holdovers in the Justice Department finally seem to be getting the message — it’s now OK to identify illegal immigrant drug dealers as illegal immigrant drug dealers.

You might say the Obama hacks are learning how to Make America Great Again — one press release at a time.

“That is good,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions told me Thursday on my radio show. “You should tell the truth about that, unless you’re trying to cover up something.”

Which is exactly what the PC mandarins during the Obama-Holder-Lynch years were trying to do.

Speaking of the criminals promoting the nation’s opioid epidemic, Sessions said, “People want to know what town they’re from, what country they’re from.”

The latter more than the former, because if you’re in the U.S. illegally, you’re not really a “Boston man,” despite what the Just-Us, I mean Justice Department insisted on telling us for the past eight years, for obvious reasons. They didn’t want the low-info Hillary-Obama voters to get the facts about the undocumented Democrats swarming across the border.

“You don’t get to come to a foreign country,” Sessions continued, “to commit crime and then they just let you stay here.”

Oh, but we have let them stay here. And at least since 2009, it appears that it was discouraged, if not officially verboten, for many U.S. attorneys to identify illegal immigrants as illegal. It just wasn’t Politically Correct.

For example, just two months ago, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston announced the arrest of 23 alleged heroin dealers. In the DEA’s own accompanying affidavit, they identified six as illegal immigrants, but in his press release the holdover acting U.S. attorney refused to acknowledge that any were Dominicans. I had to call Sessions’ office to pry the facts out of the Boston office — that at least 10 of the 23 were Dominicans.

But on Thursday, the feds in Providence announced the breakup of another three-state heroin ring, identifying the three brothers who ran it as “Dominican nationals … who allegedly reentered the country after having been previously convicted of felony drug crimes and deported.”

And for good measure, the acting U.S. attorney in Providence pointed out that the illegal immigrants were using “what are alleged to be stolen identities.” And as they were arresting the Dominicans, the cops “detained two individuals on administrative warrants for removal who they encountered.” In other words, they lugged two just run-of-the-mill illegal immigrants.

Still, after all these years, it’s difficult for some of the various U.S. attorneys to make the transition from PC cover-up to truth telling. Here’s an example from Portland, Maine, earlier this month headlined: “Portland Man Sentenced to 14 Months for Misusing a Social Security Number.”

Now, why would a “Portland man” need to commit identity theft, unless of course he wasn’t really a Portland man? In the second paragraph, we learned that the perp is in fact “a citizen of the Dominican Republic, (who) entered the United States without proper documentation.”

On the other hand, give the Maine feds credit for identifying the illegal immigrant as “aka ‘Kelvin Valle-Alicea.’ ” Nice touch, putting those quotation marks around the alias of so-called Portland man. Compare these small outbreaks of veracity to the arrests in 2015, at the height of the Obama regime, of a gang of heroin dealers in southern New Hampshire. One was recently convicted: “Lawrence Man Jailed for 57 Months on Heroin Conspiracy Charge.”

Lawrence Man. Even Bernie Bros know what that euphemism means. But the original 2015 press release from the U.S. attorney’s office in Concord, N.H., began: “Eight individuals were arrested …”

Five of the individuals seem to be Americans, the other three “Lawrence men.” The Americans got top billing, naturally. The obvious clue about the Lawrence men, if you just arrived on Earth from Mars yesterday, was that the second police agency listed was “Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Homeland Security Investigations.”

Of course, the involvement of ICE in the bust was only mentioned in the final paragraph of the release.

It’s going to be a long road back to law and order after eight years of chaos and crime. Even if the feds are in the early stages of recovery, many states are still enforcing the Obama-era PC regimen. Gov. Charlie “Tall Deval” Baker here in Massachusetts seems to have next to no interest in curtailing the crime wave.

And here’s the headline on a story Friday out of New Jersey: “2 Texas men indicted after N.J. cocaine bust.”

Where is Jeff Sessions when you really need him?

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