Thread: Sessions to use "every effort" to slow immigration

Sessions to use "every effort" to slow immigration bill

Posted by News staff June 24, 2007 10:25 AM
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions this morning pledged to use "every effort" to slow the president's plan to reform immigration laws and enforcement during an interview on ABC News' This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

"A lot of people believe in a vision of comprehensive reform, which I share. My difficulty is this bill will not achieve vision. It will not work."

Alabama's junior senator, a member of the senate's judiciary committee, said the Senate needs to pull the bill, which he said verged on granting amnesty to the 12.5 million people in the country illegally.

Sessions' comments followed Stephanopoulos' interview with another Senate judiciary committee member, Sen. Ted Kennedy. In that interview, Kennedy criticized Sessions and other opponents of the plan for not providing an alternative to President Bush's plan.


Jeremy Gray


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In that interview, Kennedy criticized Sessions and other opponents of the plan for not providing an alternative to President Bush's plan.

What a lot of hot air! Kennedy made little sense and had no rational argument for his position when this debate started, and it's gone downhill from there.

I don't believe for a minute that Sessions does not have an alternative plan in mind .....it's just that Kennedy would refuse anything that was not a massive amnesty.

Sessions has probably spent more time than anyone in the Senate, other than drafters of the bill, going over the fine print and paying close attention to the details of this and other immigration legislation. Of course he knows by now what alternative plan he'd like to see.