Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) on Friday slammed President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE's choice of Sen. Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE (R-Ala.) as attorney general.

Gutiérrez, a member of the Judiciary Committee and co-chairman of the Immigration Task Force of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said in a statemen t that Sessions would "erase 50 years of progress."

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“If you have nostalgia for the days when blacks kept quiet, gays were in the closet, immigrants were invisible and women stayed in the kitchen, Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is your man," Gutiérrez said in a statement.

"No senator has fought harder against the hopes and aspirations of Latinos, immigrants, and people of color than Sen. Sessions," he said

The lawmaker also raised confirmation hearings from the 1980s in which Senate's nomination to a U.S. District court post was rejected.

"He is a staunch opponent of legal immigration and someone who has blocked every effort to improve, modernize, and humanize our immigration system, which is two or three decades out-of-date," he said.

"He ran for the Senate because he was deemed by the Senate Judiciary Committee as too racist to serve as a federal judge. He is the kind of person who will set back law enforcement, civil rights, the courts, and increase America’s mass incarceration industry and erase 50 years of progress,” Gutiérrez said.