Sessions to Republicans: GOP Elite View on Immigration Is 'Nonsense'

Senator Jeff Sessions argues that the GOP elite view on immigration--shared by President Barack Obama and Senator Chuck Schumer--is "nonsense.".....The Sessions memo begins, "The GOP needs to flip the immigration debate on its head. The same set of GOP strategists, lobbyists, and donors who have always favored a proposal like the Gang of Eight immigration bill argue that the great lesson of the 2012 election is that the GOP needs to push for immediate amnesty and a drastic surge in low-skill immigration.."....

"The senator from Alabama goes on to argue that Republicans will win big elections if they can appeal to "working Americans of all backgrounds." And he says that if this immigration bill becomes law, "Low-income Americans will be hardest hit"....Sessions's advice to his fellow Republicans is clear: Don't help Obama hurt America. The Republican-led House is currently working on the Senate-approved immigration bill.

"Like Obamacare, this 1,200-page immigration bill is a legislative monstrosity inimical to the interests of our country and the American people. Polls show again and again that the American people want security accomplished first, that they do not support a large increase in net immigration levels, and that they do not trust the government to deliver on enforcement. The GOP should insist on an approach to immigration that both restores constitutional order and serves the interests of the American worker and taxpayer. But only by refusing any attempt at rescue or reprieve for the Senate bill is there a hope of accomplishing these goals,"....

Sessions is on the mark.

Furthermore, Republicans, if they are to be viable nationally, and I don’t think they will, need to stand FOR something. I have moderate friends and we all agree, when you elect a Republican, you just don’t know what you’re going to get.

With a Democrat, you know what they stand for, even if it sucks.

Sessions is absolutely right, talk of amnesty is far from compassionate, its elitist in the worst sense.

The right side of the field is wide open, yet the idiots in the GOP prefer to run the ball straight at the democrat's strong side.

I was recently asked to write a letter of recommendation for a young man who had entered the US on a student visa, completed his PhD (in my technical field), and wanted a green card. I was appalled at the hoops he had to jump through to get his green card. He's the kind of immigrant we want, yet he had to hire an immigration lawyer, get recommendations, and sweat out a hearing.

By contrast, those clowns in Washington want to grant citizenship to people who sneaked across the border and will become welfare leeches. Kafka himself couldn't have written anything more absurd.

He’s almost correct, the fact is we don’t need any bill, so the house should stop working on a damned immigration bill and concentrate on forcing the feds to enforce the laws we have in effect now. Our immigration laws are good, we just need to enforce them. We certainly don’t need amnesty. Any house bill will be transformed when it hits the senate and we will wind up with amnesty.

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