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1/22/15, "Jeff Sessions Named Chairman Of Senate Immigration Panel, Renames Panel," Breitbart, Matthew Boyle
"Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is now chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, his office announced in a
Thursday release. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)...will serve as that subcommittee’s deputy chairman....
As chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee, Sessions said his focus
“will be to advance the core interests of the nation and its people”
over the interests of lobbyists, special interests and illegal aliens.
“On no issue have special interests had a tighter grip than on the
issue of immigration,” Sessions said, noting his first action as
chairman will be renaming the subcommittee to a much more fitting name.
"That is why I am renaming the subcommittee “Immigration
and the National Interest,” as a declaration to the American people that
this subcommittee belongs to them. Senator Vitter, a strong voice for
the national interest, will be serving as Republican Deputy Chairman.
The financial and political elite have been controlling this debate for
years; this subcommittee will give voice to those whose voice has been
shut out: the voice of the dedicated immigration officers who have been
blocked from doing their jobs; the voice of the working families whose
wages have been reduced by years of record immigration; the voice of the
American IT workers who are being replaced with guest workers; the
voice of the parents who are worried about their schools and hospitals;
and the voice of all Americans who believe we must have a lawful system
of immigration they can be proud of and that puts their interests first."...
“Border security enforcement will be my top priority on the Judiciary
Committee – and specifically as Deputy Chair of the immigration
subcommittee,” Vitter said. “Living in the U.S. illegally will become
more difficult and less satisfying over time when the government – at
all levels – enforces the laws already on the books. I’m looking forward
to working on legislation to secure our border and stop our
self-inflicted illegal immigration crisis.”
Other members of the Sessions subcommittee will be: Sens. David
Perdue (R-GA)—who signed the Federation for American Immigration Reform
(FAIR) pledge against amnesty on the campaign trail—full Judiciary
Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee
(R-UT) and Thom Tillis (R-NC). Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Texas
Republican, will also serve on the subcommittee under Sessions.
Sessions said the “first urgent task" for the subcommittee in standing up to speical interests on immigration “is for the Senate GOP
to rally the nation behind an effort to halt the President’s unlawful
amnesty.”
"Additionally, there is a great deal of misinformation
about what actions must actually be taken to create a sound immigration
system. Our subcommittee will seek to serve all members, and the public,
as a hub for the facts, data, statistics, and evidence they can rely
upon for honest information. I became a prosecutor believing that there
is a truth, and that a proper analysis of the facts will lead us to that
truth. The challenge is large but the task is just, and rests on the
solid moral foundation of our citizens’ legitimate demands. I look
forward to working with my colleagues towards this end."
Sessions has already challenged a border bill from House Homeland
Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)—which McCaul
frames as the “strongest” border security bill in the history of the
U.S. Congress ever—as feckless. Rep. David Brat (R-VA) backed Sessions
up, and called McCaul’s bill a “Trojan Horse” for an eventual amnesty in
a radio interview on Thursday."...via Lucianne
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