Jeff Sessions: “I just hope that as we discuss it you'll recognize first that Congress has made the decision, it's not yours to make.”

It hasn't been good, and the American people don't like the idea that we're separating families. We never really intended to do that.

We need to take away children.

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 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…