When liberal actress Gina Rodriguez told President Obama in an interview last week that illegal immigrants are fearful of voting, he didn’t correct her statement. Instead, he gave an answer that has been described as ambiguous toward the law, and Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions says that it’s a problem that needs immediate clarification.

“Dreamers, undocumented citizens – and I call them citizens because they contribute to this country – are fearful of voting,” Rodriguez said. She then went on to ask if they could be deported for doing so.

Instead of rebuffing the notion that the law would permit an undocumented immigrant from voting at all, President Obama told Rodriguez that “when you vote, you are a citizen yourself.”

“There is not a situation where the voting rolls somehow are transferred over and people start investigating, etc. The sanctity of the vote is strictly confidential in terms of who you voted for,” he said. “If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.”

Senator Sessions, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, said that the President’s lack of clarity sets a dangerous tone ahead of the election.

“I am shocked that the president of the United States, who is the chief law enforcement officer for the nation and to whom all federal law enforcement officers report, failed to strongly and immediately object to a statement by an interviewer that unlawful immigrants can and should vote in U.S. elections,” Sessions said in a statement. “The interviewer proposed a radical and illegal action, which the president had a duty to condemn.”

Sessions called on Obama to issue a statement to make “crystal clear” that only legal U.S. citizens are allowed to cast a ballot on Tuesday.

“The failure to clarify this statement will only add further credibility to the public’s concerns about the integrity of this election,” he added.