Jeff Sessions actually said...

"Mr. Chairman, fundamentally, I believe that it would not end the lawlessness, and it would grant amnesty."

"Any changes would need to be carefully done, and thought out in a principled and honorable way."

"The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress."

"Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of cases and, in effect, eliminate a statute."