Sessions: I’ve Not Taken a Position that Would Support Citizenship for Those Who Have Entered Illegally

‘If people are here unlawfully, it strikes me as the last thing you would want to do is subsidize that unlawfulness’

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CRUZ: "So my understanding is, as of September of 2017, there are 689,800 individuals currently with the DACA registration. There have been estimates done that there are nearly 2 million potentially eligible DACA recipients in the country. In your personal judgment, should those nearly 2 million people here illegally in this country be eligible for United States citizenship?"
SESSIONS: "My best judgment that I’ve expressed over the years that someone who enters a country unlawfully, if they’re given some sort of legal status, a normal legal status, should not get everything that would flow to people who properly wait their time and enter lawfully. So I’ve not taken a position that would support citizenship for those who have entered illegally."

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