Jeff Sessions: “Some critics have said that this program amounts to the selling of a national birth right.”

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

Yes, hopefully people will get the message.

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…

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