Senator Sessions – Concerned Over Spineless RINO Republicans Looking For A Way To Sellout On Amnesty

12/7/2014
by Rick Wells

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), one of the handful of true Congressional patriots challenging the illegal amnesty that the socialist Obama regime is attempting to implement dictatorially, in blatant violation of our Constitution and the rule of law, is concerned. He and his fellow statesmen are fighting not only the criminals within the Obama executive branch, but similar forces at work within the Republican Party in Congress.

He issued a statement on Tuesday, expressing his uneasiness with the way the issue of Obama’s amnesty and the protection of the United States system of representative government is being cavalierly downplayed within the scope of the House response the White House.

The following post appeared on Senator Sessions’ official Senate website:

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee and a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following comments today in response to the current plan being floated in the House of Representatives regarding the President’s unconstitutional amnesty:

“The Chairman of the Republican Party made a promise to America on executive amnesty: ‘We can’t allow it to happen and we won’t let it happen… everything we can do to stop it we will.’

Unfortunately, the plan now being circulated in the House fails to meet that test. The executive amnesty language is substantially weaker than the language the House adopted this summer, and does not reject the central tenets of the President’s plan: work permits, Social Security, and Medicare to 5 million illegal immigrants—reducing wages, jobs, and benefits for Americans.

Congress considered and rejected these changes to immigration law in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2014. The President’s action erases the laws Congress has passed in order to implement laws Congress has refused to pass.

Now the President demands Congress fund his imperial decree and declare its own irrelevance.

That is why Congress must respond to the President’s unlawful action by funding the government but not funding illegal amnesty. This is a perfectly sound and routine application of congressional authority. In fact, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service reports that last year’s omnibus spending bill included 16 such funding restrictions on fee-based programs.

Such a plan would put the focus where it belongs: on Senate Democrats. They are the ones who should be made to choose sides—save Obama’s amnesty or save Americans’ jobs and borders.

Polling shows voters believe that Americans should get preference for available jobs by almost a 10-1 margin. Republicans should not be timid or apologetic, but mount a bold defense of struggling Americans.

Billions of dollars and countless hours have been spent advocating immigration policies that help everyone but the actual citizens of this country. Who will be their voice, if not us?”

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