Pare Back Immigration

Sessions Comments Ahead of President’s Immigration Address

“Congressional leaders must forcefully reject the notion, evidently accepted by the President, that a small cadre of CEOs can tailor the nation’s entire immigration policy to suit their narrow interests… America is not an oligarchy.”

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement today as President Obama was set to deliver remarks on immigration:

“House leaders must lay out clearly to the American people the President’s dismal record on immigration. During his time in office, the President has systematically dismantled interior enforcement, handcuffing immigration officers and bypassing Congress. These facts—drawn from the testimony from immigration officers themselves—should be clearly documented before the whole nation. No agreement should be entered into while such lawlessness continues.

Secondly, the President must be asked—by media and lawmakers alike—how he can possibly justify a plan that will double the flow of immigrant workers at a time when 91.5 million Americans are outside the labor force? Indeed, as the President makes his immigration remarks he is preparing to hold a fundraiser with Silicon Valley executives, a group clamoring for more guest workers at a time when nearly half of recent college grads are underemployed. Wages are flat and falling for U.S. workers—the clearest evidence that there is not a labor shortage, but a jobs shortage.

America is not an oligarchy. Congressional leaders must forcefully reject the notion, evidently accepted by the President, that a small cadre of CEOs can tailor the nation’s entire immigration policy to suit their narrow interests. A Republic must answer to the people.”

Source: U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) serves on four Senate committees: Armed Services, Judiciary, Environment and Public Works, and as Ranking Member of the Budget Committee. Visit Sessions online at his website <http://sessions.senate.gov/public/> or via YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorSessions>, Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jeff-Sessions/23444159584?ref=search>, and Twitter<http://twitter.com/SenatorSessions>. Note: Please do not reply to this email. For further information, contact Sen. Sessions’ Press Office at (202) 224-4124. November 25, 2013, For Immediate Release Contact: Stephen Miller, 202.224.4124

Comments:

In addition to killing the amnesty and open borders actions, we need to pare back legal immigration drastically.  Otherwise, unemployment will continue to compound.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader