Jeff Sessions: “I would hope you would stand solidly against it.”

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 believe that we are involved in a crisis in this country. We have been through one. I think January 6 was a very difficult time and a crisis.

What he decides to do over at the Justice Department will be independent of political considerations over at the White House.

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…