With Senator Sessions as Attorney General, the Trump administration
would be encouraged in attempting to deport American citizens--who have
raised families and spent their entire lives here--from the only
country they have ever known. Senator Sessions declined my invitation at his nomination hearing to
exercise moral and legal leadership and demonstrate his resolve to
serve as the Nation's legal conscience. He refused to reject the
possibility of using information voluntarily provided by DACA
applicants to deport them and their families. As a matter of
fundamental fairness and due process, when a DREAMer has provided
information to our government after being invited to come out of the
shadows, this information should never be used to deport that person. With Senator Sessions as Attorney General, that sense of legal
conscience would be lacking.