Jeff Sessions Issues Huge Warning: Marco Rubio’s Gang of Eight
Is Planning another Push for Illegal Aliens
(Breitbart) –
Sen. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) of Alabama is warning that the 2016
election could determine whether the Gang of Eight, a group of senators who
pushed for allowing greater immigration, runs the White House.
Presidential
contender Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was a key member of the Gang.
Sessions is emphasizing that powerful forces behind the Gang of Eight are only
getting started, and the same special interest coalition is already planning
its next push for open borders.
Sessions began his
remarks with an effort to correct the record on claims from Senator Rubio about
Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
“Every step of the way
Ted Cruz was on my side and fought this legislation all the way through,”
Sessions declared. “People need to remember this because this election is going
to decide– did the crowd who pushed that bill, are they in the White House? And
will they be able to continue their agenda? Or will somebody else be there who
will say, ‘No.’”
Sessions explained
that despite the American people’s clear repudiation of their plan, the Gang of
Eight remains determined to implement their border-opening immigration agenda
as soon as they have another chance. “I will say one more time,” Sessions
proclaimed, “They are not through.
They are determined.
They’ve got money, interest groups, power, media that support this agenda
and the next president who gets elected is going to determine what kind of
immigration system we have.” The remarks came during a Ted Cruz rally in
Alabama. Watch the complete speech:
Indeed, just this year
Marco Rubio introduced a new bill, known as the I-Squared bill, which
would have allowed for virtually unlimited Muslim migration.
As conservative icon
Phyllis Schlafly told Breitbart News exclusively, “The Gang of
Eight was dangerous.”
In an exclusive
statement to Breitbart, Cruz’s national spokesman, Rick Tyler
said, “Jeff Sessions is the gold standard on immigration and national security.
Grateful for him setting the record straight.”
During the rally,
Sessions told briefly delved into the history of the Gang of Eight fight in
Congress. Sessions explained that after the American people rejected the
2007 immigration expansion push, the same group of immigration expansionists
got back together to form the Gang of Eight and begin their efforts again:
In 2013, the same
group again, they spent a $1.5 billion to promote this legislation, they hired
political consultants, they had pollsters hired and polling to try to spin the
numbers in any way possible to advance this agenda, they had special interest
groups they met for months– The Gang of Eight. And they were determined, they
were going to move this bill to passage. And it was a near-run thing; it was a
worse bill everybody would acknowledge… than the 2007 bill. It gave amnesty
first and then a promise over a period of years, even decades, of enforcement,
that if history follows the path, would never have occurred.
Reports during that
time confirm that the same group behind the 2007 push reunited for the 2013
immigration expansion fight. As National Review’s May 2013
magazine cover story explained: The same senators who pushed such a bill
in 2007, prominently including Republicans Sen. John McCain
(R-AZ) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Democrat Chuck
Schumer, are at it again. They have devised a plan that would ease the path to
legality for illegal immigrants while making some gestures toward enforcement.
But a new element this time around is Marco Rubio. A tea-party favorite (and
a favorite of this magazine) Rubio became part of the ‘Gang of Eight,’ four
Democrats and four Republicans negotiating a deal that sought to placate a
dizzying array of interests, all seeking de facto unlimited immigration but
each with a different set of specific concerns… The Schumer-Rubio bill
simply seeks to placate every interest group at the table by handing out more
visas.
“The Gang of Eight met
every day,” Session said in his Saturday remarks. They also had been
meeting for months with special interest groups, the activist groups, the La
Raza groups… and the business groups who wanted lower, more and more cheap
labor. And as they met they had a
scheme– a plan. And the plan was that they would vote down every amendment no
matter what the amendment was. And they wanted to do that because they said that
they had achieved, through the secret meetings, a delicate balance between
enforcement– and they had the ‘perfect bill’– and they couldn’t alter it in any
way. And every amendment that came up in the Senate Judiciary Committee was
voted down by this bipartisan [group] every Democrat and a number of
Republicans– voting with it. So I’ve got to tell you. It was a tense, tough
battle.
Sessions continued: The
toughest, most exiting exchange I think that occurred was Ted Cruz and Chuck
Schumer over citizenship. It’s one of the few times I’ve ever seen Schumer, who
is very talented, actually be flummoxed a bit– he almost got to the point of
accusing Ted of being anti-Hispanic. I kid you not. But it was clear,
that was a central, determining essence– one of the things they wanted was
citizenship for people who came illegally.
Sessions explained,
“It makes no sense– you cannot provide to somebody who enters the country…
illegally every benefit you give to someone who comes legally. Surely
citizenship– the capstone of what America gives– ought not to be given who
enter the country in violation of our very laws. Give me a break.”
While Ted Cruz has
opposed citizenship for illegals, Marco Rubio– as recently as the last
presidential debate– has expressed his support for giving illegal immigrants
the right to become voting citizens. Sessions has
previously said that supporting citizenship for illegal should be
disqualifying for any Republican candidate for president:
Supporting citizenship
for illegal immigrants should be disqualifying. Just like we can’t have a GOP
nominee who supports Obamacare, we can’t have a GOP nominee who supports
amnesty. Our priority needs to be helping get unemployed Americans back to
work, not replacing them with lower-wage labor from abroad.
Sessions concluded by
saying that the American people ought to thank Cruz for helping stop Marco
Rubio’s immigration agenda. “Without the vigorous opposition of Ted Cruz this
bill likely would have passed, so we need to thank him for that,” Sessions
said.
“Ted Cruz was with me,
and Rep. Steve King (R-IA)and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and others
who opposed this bill. And don’t let anyone tell you differently,” Sessions
said. “It was critical to the success that we had.”
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