EXCLUSIVE--Sessions: House Leadership Immigration Push
Could Imperil GOP in 2014
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said
Sunday evening during an exclusive appearance on Breitbart News Sunday with
Stephen K. Bannon that House GOP leadership’s push to grant amnesty to America’s
illegal aliens this year could jeopardize Republicans in the 2014 elections.
“A poll just showed that just 3
percent of Americans consider immigration a top priority," Sessions said.
"So now we’re going to take an issue that divides the Republicans, that is
not good for working Americans, and we’re going to alter the definition of this
election from an overreaching central government and Obamacare and taxes and
regulations to a controversial issue like [immigration]?
I think it would be, from a purely political point of view, wrong.”
Sessions said the Chamber of Commerce wing of the
Republican party had lost all bearing on what the American people actually
want.
“They’re using rhetoric and logic
from groups that are not in touch with reality,” Sessions said. “They’re not
talking to average working Americans who we are elected to serve. We’re not
here elected to serve just big business. We’re here to serve all Americans, and
there’s no doubt about it that consistently data shows this immigration plan
that would grant amnesty to 11 million and double the annual flow of workers
into the country would hammer working Americans so we’re going to try to get
out some information again this week on that."
"But it’s so important that
you cannot deny that a surge in supply of any product, including labor, pulls
down the value of that product," he explained. "It just goes against
all logic, unless our libertarian friends want to deny the free market."
The Alabama Senator has been
focusing his criticisms on the deleterious economic impacts of increased
immigration, especially how it could depress wages for low-income workers. The
issue, Sessions said, is a simple matter of supply and demand, estimating that
as many as 40 million additional people could enter the workforce following a
bill like the Senate “Gang of Eight” proposal.
“It’s real easy to understand,”
Sessions said. “11 million people would be given legal status under the
[Senate] bill. They say ‘don’t worry about them because they’re already working
in America.’
Not so, really. Many of them may be working part time helping their
brother-in-law in a restaurant or on a subcontracting basis, but once given
legal status and a Social Security card—which would happen immediately—they’ll
be able to compete for the jobs like truck driving and forklift operators,
Wal-Mart, government jobs too."
"So that’ll be 11 million.
Then you got 4 million in a backlog. That makes 15, as it would advance
them," he continued. "Then It would increase 50 percent over the next
10 years to instead of 1 million a year to 1.5 million a year. That would be
another 15 million, so that’s 30. Then there’s a guest worker program.”
Sessions said right now,
Republicans’ negotiations with Democrats have focused on trading amnesty for an
increased labor supply that Chamber of Commerce clients and other business
interests want.”And let me tell you what, it really shocks me and it’s why I’m
so worried about what the House is doing this week with their ‘principles,’”
Sessions said. “Good Republicans in the House seem to believe that if they go
into negotiations with Democrats, their [the Republicans’] goal is to increase
the guest worker program even more. If they can get the guest worker
immigration status and increase it even more, they will give even more generous
amnesty. That’s been the state of a good bit of the negotiations, amazingly.”
Bannon asked Sessions if he
believes that an immigration plan being pushed by the establishment would
“throw the rule of law out the window and that we won’t ever be able to recover
that as a country,” to which Sessions replied he did.
“I do, I do, because do you
remember the first time in 1986?” Sessions said. “You’re too young, but I
remember it, and they promised it would never be done again. One time amnesty. So, if we do it a second time
now, do you hear anybody promising we will never have amnesty again for people
who enter the country illegally? We will have eviscerated any moral power, any
integrity in the law."
"We have the Secretary of Homeland Security who handles Border Patrol and ICE officers who I’ve
worked with in the past as a prosecutor—I was a US Attorney for 12 years, I
know how it works out in the real world," he continued. "So he says
the people who came here illegally have earned their citizenship. My goodness,
what does that say to his officers who have taken an oath to enforce the laws
of the United States?”
Sessions said GOP proponents of
amnesty are suffering from one part elitism, one part misguided political
theory.
“I think part of it is an
elitism,” Sessions said. “There’s some very powerful financial sources out
there, business leaders who are very generous who are very committed to
expanding immigration. Hopefully that’s not a factor in people making a
decision."
"And then you’ve got this
really weird theory that somehow if we give up our principles, this is going to
gain Hispanic votes?" he stated. "We want to get Hispanic votes. We
want to gain their support. But think about if we reduced this illegal flow and
we did not expand the immigration flow, we would begin to see wages rise and
Hispanics that are here would be the ones to benefit the most."
"Well, it’s African Americans
who are being hammered the most by this actually," Sessions claimed.
"I hate to be that frank about it, but it’s absolutely hammering working
African Americans especially young men who desperately need jobs. Professor
[George] Borjas at Harvard said it’s a factor in the rising incarceration rate
of African Americans. I’m sure that it is. We’ve got to get real about this. We
don’t live in some theoretical world where we can do open borders.”
Sessions rounded out the interview
with a call for Americans to contact their congressmen and urge to oppose this
plan and with a warning about how serious a matter this is for the country
moving forward.
“The danger in the House is that
you’ve got overwhelming Democratic support,” Sessions said. “It’s virtually
unanimous. It won’t take many Republicans to have a majority. Then if it comes
to the Senate, you have a substantial Democratic majority in the Senate who you
know voted for it last time. We’ll just be in a very bad situation."
"What’s happening in the
House right now could well determine our future with regard to
immigration," he explained. "We believe in immigration. But we’re a
nation of laws and the system that we choose and the number of people we admit
should serve the legitimate interests of the American people, not special
businesses and not people who just like to come here when we’re not able to
accept them."
"That’s the challenge in the
House," Sessions stated. "This is a critical time in history. I just
hope they’ll rise to the challenge and give this a lot more thought rather than
rushing into it right now.”
Chamber of Commerce
Harold W. McGraw
III is the vice chairman for the International
Chamber of Commerce, and the chairman for McGraw Hill Financial Inc.
Note: Lois Dickson
Fitt was a director at the McGraw
Hill Financial Inc., a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and her daughter is Susan E. Rice.
Susan
E. Rice is Lois Dickson Fitt’s
daughter, the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and was a senior
fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and Amnesty
International.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
James
W. Cicconi is a director at the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and was a partner at Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), was a member of the Iraq Study
Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Lee
H. Hamilton is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a co-chair for the Independent Task Force on Immigration and
America's Future, a member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council, a director at BAE Systems Inc, a board member for the Global Green USA, and was a co-chair for the Iraq Study Group.
Michael Chertoff
is the chairman for BAE Systems Inc,
co-founder & chairman for the Chertoff
Group, and was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
Jayson P. Ahern
is a principal for the Chertoff Group,
and was the acting commissioner for the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection.
Global Green USA
is a US
affiliate for Green Cross International.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is the founder of Green Cross
International, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Robert S. Strauss
was the U.S.
ambassador for the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR), and is a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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