Jeff Sessions: “Senator Sessions' approach to civil rights is consistent, is legally sound, intellectually honest, and has an…”

Do you believe that you would come under political pressure from leading Democrats on this committee who want you to arrest 500 more people?

I think that's where we are. It can help us in determining a number of issues, particularly in our Civil Rights Division.

I see that the fact that no one was being prosecuted for this as a factor in a five-fold increase in four years in this kind of illegal immigration so, yes, hopefully people will get the message and come through the border at the port of…

I think we ought to clarify it one way or the other so the public is out there not breaking Federal law.