Jeff Sessions actually said...

It is a criminal offense to enter the United States illegally. It is not a civil matter.

Sessions asserts that illegal entry into the U.S. is a criminal offense.

10/18/2011

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the harm that we are now doing to our panoply of civil rights cases is completely undeserved and harms our entire society.

I do not think the American people are overreacting.

We agree on a number of things. On the matter of the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the 9/11 terrorists we do not agree.

I do not doubt that you can try people successfully in Federal court, but there are other issues that have been raised here about that.