After
graduation, she volunteered at San Francisco General Hospital. Denisse
dreamed of going to medical school, driven in part by a family member's
early death from cancer. The disease was diagnosed at a late stage
because the family's immigration status made it impossible to afford
health insurance. Today, Rojas is enrolled in New York's Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai, where she is on track to earn her degree in 2019. She
intends to specialize in emergency medicine and work in low-income
communities to provide health care to families, like her own, who would
otherwise go without necessary treatment. This is the perfect case for discretion. This is the perfect case for
the exercise of a just humanity. But Senator Sessions is lobbying to
overturn DACA. The consequences of such a draconian and inhumane action
would be devastating to thousands of people in my State, and I find it
deeply disturbing that Senator Sessions would advocate for the
deportation of children who have known no other country but the United
States. If he doesn't believe these youth deserve some sort of prosecutorial
discretion when it comes to deportation, how is he going to act as our
Nation's leading Federal criminal prosecutor? It is no secret that he believes in an aggressive use of executive
enforcement power in the area of immigration. He testified in response
to Senator Flake that he favors ``a zero tolerance'' policy for
immigration crimes. Immigration offenses already make up about a third
of all Federal prosecutions each year. So does it make sense to
increase that substantially? There certainly are more troubling crimes
at the border and across the country that require the attention and
resources of the Department of Justice: human trafficking, smugglers,
organized crime, gangs, drug trafficking, hate crimes, white-collar
crimes, civil rights, and voting rights, just to name a few.
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