So these children were put into a position of saying: If you disclose
your status and fill out all this paperwork, we will not send you back
to a country you don't even know, that speaks a language you don't even
know because you have grown up in America and you are going to
contribute to America, if we embrace you. And you will just be a lost
citizen--a citizen without a country--if you are sent out of the
country to somewhere that would be totally unfamiliar to you. In this position that our nominee took, that he thinks we should end
this program, it means that those children would now be eligible for
deportation. There is a substantial concern here because they were
promised that their information would not be used, would not be turned
over for their deportation when they signed up. They trusted that when
the United States of America
made this promise to them, that promise would be kept, but it appears
we have a nominee who wants to end that program and, therefore, place
all of these children at risk of deportation. The nominee had no answer for what to do with the 800,000 children
who have come out of the shadows because of that program. In December 2015, Senator Sessions voted against Senator Leahy's
sense-of-the-Senate resolution that affirmed that the United States
must not bar people from another country because of their religion.
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