[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“The Gang of 8 bill passed the Senate 68-32 with 14 Reps voting for it. Cruz didn’t stop anything.”

His resistance helped encourage patriotism in the House.

[kabar]

I am a grassroots immigration activist who lobbies on the Hill on immigration issues. I have been doing it for 9 years. Jeff Sessions was the leader on this issue.

When the Senate took up a sweeping immigration overhaul from the Gang of Eight in 2013, Sessions methodically went about trying to kill the bill with amendments viewed as poison pills and by driving up public opposition with a drumbeat of floor speeches and statements. The legislation passed the Senate but went nowhere in the House, where Sessions worked to gin up opposition among Republican hard-liners.

More recently, he strategized with House conservatives to devise a response to last summer’s border crisis, when unaccompanied migrant children from Central America were being apprehended at the southern border in record numbers. And this year, he lobbied against a border-security bill written by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas). That legislation was pulled from the House floor and has not been back since.