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Senator Jeff Sessions (R) Alabama- Full statement on the "dis-immigration" bill (my words).
Weekly Standard ^ | 6/27/2013 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 06/27/2013 4:02:37 PM PDT by John S Mosby

Full Quote:

Senator Jeff Sessions, the chief opponent of the immigration bill, released this statement in response to the Senate passing the law by a vote of 68-32:

“Sponsors of this legislation—despite the array of financial, establishment and special interest support—failed to hit their target of 70 votes. The more people learned about the bill the more uneasy they became. Failure to reach 70 votes is significant, and ensures the House has plenty of space to chart an opposite course and reject this fatally flawed proposal.

"So while the bill passed the Senate, this is just the beginning.

"The legislation adopted today guarantees three things: immediate amnesty before security, permanent future illegal immigration, and a record surge in legal immigration that will reduce wages and increase unemployment.

"There will be no border fence, no border surge, nothing but the same tired illusory promises of future enforcement that will never occur. Americans have begged and pleaded time and again for Congress to end the lawlessness. But this amnesty-first bill is a surrender to lawlessness. As ICE and USCIS officers have warned, it will decimate immigration enforcement and erode the constitutional rule of law upon which our national greatness depends. And it remains unfair to the legal immigrants who put enormous time and expense into following the rules our nation has established.

"This legislation demonstrates that the governing body in Washington has become severed from the people it is supposed to represent. It is a broken promise 1,200 pages long.

"The Senate’s loyalty must be to the American people—immigrant and native-born alike—who work hard, pay their taxes, fight our wars, and obey our laws. 21 million Americans cannot find full-time work. Medium household income is almost ten percent lower today than it was in 1999. But this proposal would double the number of guest workers for businesses and provide permanent legal status to more than 30 million mostly-lower skill legal immigrants in the next ten years. This huge increase in the legal immigration flow will reduce wages and raise unemployment, and displace those who have suffered the most economically. As wise observers have said, we are a nation with an economy—not an economy with a nation.

"We can create a lawful immigration system that makes us proud. But for that to happen, this bill must never become law. We must return to the drawing board and produce legislation that serves the just and legitimate interests of the nation, its people, and all who wish to call America home.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; immigration
Jeff Sessions gets it precisely correct, factually and politically. This should NOT become law. The 5k penalty for hiring a citizen over an illegal is reason enough but there is many many more.
1 posted on 06/27/2013 4:02:37 PM PDT by John S Mosby
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To: John S Mosby

Michelle Bachman explained it. ANY House bill no matter if it promises all the border security in the world will be a trojan horse.NO bill at all must come out of the House because it will be merged with the Senate Amnesty and trojan horse bill. Call congress.

Tell them to stop all Amnesty or immigration bills.they are all trojan horse bills. some will promise border security that will never be enforced anyway.

Bachmann explained it . The House will write a border security bill only . then in conference the senate will add the virus and then bring it back to the house. then the conservatives won’t vote for it but democrats will all vote for it so then they only need 10% of republicans to pass Amnesty and the virus that will destroy America. so any bill at all will be added the virus . so best thing is for Boner to not let any immigration bill at all come out of the House. that is the only hope . call boner and the members of the House.

in the bill will be the virus:

at least 3 ways to destroy the USA

1. amnesty to 30 million illegals and chain migration.

2. Amnesty forever to ANY foreigner in the 3rd world. all he has to say is he’s seeking political asylum .there are 6 billion poor in the 3rd world . and this bill will allow any of them to come here , all they have to do is to get on a boat and come here.
3. many more work visas for many occupations


2 posted on 06/27/2013 4:05:47 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: Democrat_media

Please repost this— as a vanity if you have to. Freepers need to re-visit this. It will take everything to prevent boner from letting this be brought to the floor as you describe.


3 posted on 06/27/2013 5:56:21 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby; Democrat_media; tumblindice; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; EXCH54FE; ...
What's with the Weekly Standard? When GWB was pushing amnesty they thought it was a great idea. Here is one of their pro-amnesty editorials from April 2006:

This fall, there's no doubt Bush and Republicans will wage a strong negative campaign against Democrats. But they also must provide voters with a powerful reason--a striking positive achievement--for voting Republican. Passage of an immigration bill would do exactly that. Failure to pass a bill would bring on defeat.

Also remember 6 years ago on Fox, Brit Hume's Special Report was stacked with all pro-amnesty shills - Fred Barnes from Weekly Standard (the very same author of the above editorial), Kondracke, and Mara Liasson from NPR.

Now in 2013, not only did they print this scathing criticism from Jeff Sessions, but also Kristol is writing editorials opposing the 2013 senate amnesty bill. For example 'No Legislation is Better Than This Legislation'

Has the Weekly Standard come to its senses in 2013? I would like that to be true, but I doubt that Krystol really seriously objects to a path-to-citizenship. He seems to be saying it's a wasteful stinking mess, which it is.

4 posted on 06/27/2013 8:21:09 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

It’s the Democrat’s plan, therefore it’s evil.

A Republican plan with the exact same wording would be the greatest thing ever.

Yesterday I quipped that the Republicans could take one comma out of the Senate bill on page 176, call it their own plan, and push it with all their might.

That’s a stretch, but that’s about how bad it is these days.


5 posted on 06/27/2013 8:25:00 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama: Clear and present danger year five...)
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To: DoughtyOne

Thanks. It’s hard for me to believe they are the same people who say Obama is bad, while doing exactly what Obama wants.


6 posted on 06/27/2013 8:31:23 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I agree. They couldn’t be doing anything more in the Left’s favor.


7 posted on 06/27/2013 8:32:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama: Clear and present danger year five...)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; EXCH54FE
RE :”....but also Kristol is writing editorials opposing the 2013 senate amnesty bill. For example ‘No Legislation is Better Than This Legislation’

That was on my list to mention but I forgot to . I saw him on FNS ranting about how this Senate bill should get killed.

In 2006/2007 Kristol was as pro-amnesty as Rubio is now.

The difference? Back then Bush would have got credit for it. He loved GWB.

8 posted on 06/27/2013 8:40:30 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; EXCH54FE
RE :”The difference? Back then Bush would have got credit for it. He loved GWB.”

Actually I think Kristol loves McCain even more than he did GWB.

What is interesting is that Kristol, MCcain and Rubio are all neocons. Always itching to drop bombs and send troops. But Kristol I bet sees in this case Dems get the win.

9 posted on 06/27/2013 9:04:00 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: sickoflibs; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; EXCH54FE; Liz

” What is interesting is that Kristol, MCcain and Rubio are all neocons. Always itching to drop bombs and send troops.”

PUKENEOS

First in war, last in conservative practice.


10 posted on 06/28/2013 9:39:01 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The RINO/amnesty argument goes like this: 1) If we pander to Hispanics, we will save the GOP, at le)
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To: John S Mosby

Thanks I’ll try to repost it as much as I can

feel free to repost it or do something in your own words


11 posted on 06/28/2013 9:43:21 AM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: Democrat_media
The Gang of Eight's bill should be called the 'Christmas in July" bill----the gang was colluding and conspiring with Third World connivers to giveaway tax dollars like they were popcorn balls.

Rubio added FREE CELL PHONES for illegals.....you subsidize via your phone bills.

What else is hiding in this bill?

Accuracy in Media reports that the immigration “reform” bill includes two “slush funds” amounting to $150,000,000 that may be supplemented with additional taxpayer dollars for years to come. These funds would go to “public or private, non-profit organizations such as the blood-thirsty La Raza, Casa de Maryland, and the leftist American Immigration Lawyers Association!

These, and multiple latino organizations are devoted to helping illegals apply for legal status. The bill not only provides amnesty for illegal immigrants, but does so as well for their employers.

As the conservative Center for Immigration Studies points out, “Illegal aliens will be rewarded for breaking laws for which American citizens are routinely punished” such as the use of fraudulent Social Security cards, while imposing a $1,000 penalty that “in many cases would be waived. Then they would be issued a new Social Security number without any past bad credit or arrest records.”

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Immigration “reform” includes two “slush funds” amounting to $150,000,000 that may be supplemented with additional taxpayer dollars for years to come, earmarked for non-profit organizations such as the blood-thirsty La Raza.

LA RAZA TEACHING HATE-AMERICA WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS La Raza Studies do not even try to sugar-coat its anti-America agenda and its bloodthirsty plans to kill off Americans: Raza Studies textbook “Occupied America,” by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a violent and blood-curdling speech given by university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him,” (pg. 323).

The following is taken directly from La Raza's Occupied America (pg. 167): “.......execute all white males over age 16,” (AKA the Plan of San Diego).

America-hating Raza Studies teach (1) violence, (2) undermining US ntl security, and, (3) the need for Mexico to "re-take seven states in the Southwest...in order to make the SW a Chicano nation. "

SCHOOL BOARD NUT CASES Adelita Grijalva is the woman on the Arizona school board pimping La Raza indoctrination programs in Tuscon schools. Adelita is all up in arms about Raza Studies getting tossed via the AZ state legislature's action...she is the daughter of Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7) who was just narrowly re-elected to our US Congress. Cong Raul Grijalva is one of Mexico’s most productive and loyal Fifth Column in the US Congress....aiding and abetting the latino criminal underworld, colluding to take back the SW, and loot and pillage the US treasury.

Raul and friend.

12 posted on 06/28/2013 9:53:33 AM PDT by Liz
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Rubio hired a puke for his prez campaign.

The pukes gleefully kicked conservatives to the curb when they squatted in the Repub party.

Rove-puppet Bush had announced the “big tent” party....and installed them in the WH.


13 posted on 06/28/2013 10:00:12 AM PDT by Liz
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To: John S Mosby

He missed the part about employers being penalized ~$5000 per hear for hiring American citizens instead of amnestied aliens - thanks to Obamacare (from which the aliens are exempt).


14 posted on 06/28/2013 10:01:07 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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