Jeff Sessions: “But with the deficit we are facing, I do not think we are likely to see any huge increases.”

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…

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

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.