My office has received nearly 23,000 calls and emails opposing this
nomination. Many of them I cannot read today on the floor for fear of
violating the Senate rules. But it is clear from these comments that
young Coloradans who came to the United States and know no other
country but this country, who arrived here illegally, but, through no
fault of their own, fear they will be deported back to a country they
don't know--it is clear to me from the comments that I have received in
these letters that Coloradans in the LGBTQ community fear that an
Attorney General Sessions would turn a blind eye toward discrimination. It is clear from these comments that Senator Sessions has not earned
the confidence of many Coloradans who may soon rely on him to protect
their rights and to identify abuses of constitutional power. And
Coloradans, many of whom I know, fought for equality and justice during
the civil rights movement, and fear that it will turn back much of the
progress we have made. We have a disagreement about Senator Sessions' role before he came to
the Senate, but the fundamental reason I object to his nomination as
Attorney General is that he led the fight in 2013 against our
bipartisan effort to reform the broken immigration system in the United
States. And I sat here on this Senate floor night after night after
night listening to the Senator use fear and inaccuracies to derail our
best chance in years to fix this broken immigration system. Now, in time, I have come to understand that people come to this
floor and they don't always--they are not always accurate in what they
say. Sometimes they don't mean to be accurate; sometimes they are just
mistaken.
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