In an interview on MSNBC's All In, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) fretted about the employment future of DREAMers if they are not given legal status in the upcoming budget bill deal. She also denounced the "deportation cloud" over 800,000 DREAMers, that "on a whim," the president can just say, "done, you are out of here."



"If these people don't have legal status, then how is it they're going to work in the United States? How are they going to support themselves? How are they going to support their families?" the Senator asked.



"We built a country based on the notion that you come, you're here," she said.











In the interview with guest host Ali Velshi, Warren also said that Jeff Sessions has taken the Justice Department and driven it in exactly the wrong direction.





SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA): There are some good things in this budget and some troubling things in this budget. The good part, it looks like that we can make it to double the federal support for child care, maybe I’m going to get something I’m going to be pushing for on student loans, some other pieces that are important, funding the Social Security Administration.



But we've all known what we need to know in Congress. And we've known it ever since the president of the United States broke the promise to Dreamers. You know, we had a promise to 800,000 young people that if they would come out of the shadows, if they would get vetted, that they could have jobs, that they could go to school, that they could join the military, that they could be part of the great American dream. We made that promise to them, and that's what they did. They did their part.



And then when President Trump said he was breaking that promise, he put the ball in Congress' court and he said, fix this.



Well, time is running out for those Dreamers.



So, for me, what this is about is how we negotiate our budget and we talk about the top lines and how to keep the pieces together, a very important thing to do. But we have a responsibility to 800,000 young people who counted on us and who are facing deportation. And I think we need to meet that responsibility as a Congress. And I think we need it do it right now.



ALI VELSHI, MSNBC HOST: Senator, the -- you know, the administration, the White House has been saying, look, it's not a problem if this goes beyond the March 5th deadline for the Dreamers. John Kelly said they're not going to be high on the list for deportation. Well, the bottom line is we've seen deportation in the last few weeks of people --



WARREN: Yes.



VELSHI: -- who you wouldn't have thought would have been on the list. They’re not the bad hombres that the president talked about. These are people who’ve been 20, 25, 30 years, fully employed, no criminal convictions.



But more than that, beyond March 5th, if these Dreamers are out of legal status, I’m worried that their employers are going to let them go.



WARREN: Exactly right. You know, you can’t do this to people’s lives. So, at that point, I don’t understand what the president and Kelly are talking about. If these people don't have legal status, then how is it they're going to work in the United States? How are they going to support themselves? How are they going to support their families? You know?



And the whole notion that we're going to put this giant deportation cloud over 800,000 young people and say to them, you know, right this minute it may be OK, but on a whim, the president of the United States, somebody in the immigration area can just say, done, you are out of here. No rights, we're just pushing you out of the country.



We're human beings.



VELSHI: Yes.



WARREN: We built a country based on the notion that you come, you're here. They've done what we asked them to do and we made a promise to them. We've got to follow through on that promise.



This is what the American people want us to do. It's only here in Washington that we can't this done.