Jeff Sessions

Look, I can see this is a huge thing for the Government to somehow force a person who has loaned somebody a bunch of money, given it to them, on a promise it will be paid back.

Thank you. I appreciate the entire panel. I believe you have provided valuable information to us.

I think based on the suggestions at this hearing today, there are a lot of ways that we can make this program in the United States run more effectively

Canada, New Zealand and Australia have thought a lot about immigration policy and a more merit-based point system is what they use

I would just note that I am glad Senator Leahy is going to be on the conference committee and maybe he can--that is really critical.

Some critics have said that this program amounts to the selling of a national birth right.

So these provide incentives to make people be interested in the program.

I just know an example of a major international corporation and the individual wanted to be an American citizen and was hiring 4,000 Americans, Alabamians, to work in his plant and it took a while to get it.

Senator Sessions' support.

I believe that this EB-5 program should be part of our immigration mix.

But apparently, when they make their decision, they do not access this program.

I encouraged him to use the fingerprint.

That's how you catch criminals today, technologically, really.

I think, as you noted, 5 percent, people estimate, of workers in America are illegal, so this is not over-catching the people, apparently.

The reason is, I think it's pretty clear: lack of political will, political pressure on Members of Congress.

I think getting this right is so important and I hope that we can.

If the President doesn't want this to happen it's not going to happen.

I think you're raising some important questions. E-Verify is not strong enough.

I salute you for doing so.

The presumption came into place on July 20th of this year that these cases would be tried in Federal courts, and that inevitably requires a far more--a far larger increase in Miranda warnings than ever has been done in the history of this…

Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it's not law. In truth it's more akin to politics.

Mr. Kris, the MCA allows the United States to seek protective orders for information that the United States has supplied to the defense through discovery.

Mr. Kris, what practical problems arise when MCA judges do not allow such presentation to be made ex parte?

Mr. Kris, I understand that there is an ambiguity in the MCA as to whether it allows presentations in support of a motion to protect classified evidence to be presented ex parte.

Mr. Kris, the committee-reported NDAA requires that, before the government may seek protection for classified information...