Thread: Sessions Rallies Opposition To Obama’s Back-Door Plan To Import More Foreign College-

Sessions Rallies Opposition To Obama’s Back-Door Plan To Import More Foreign College-Grads

by NEIL MUNRO
4 Jan 2016

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) blasted the White House’s latest effort to increase the inflow of foreign white-collar professionals into the already swamped market for U.S. college-grads.

“The President has announced another brazen, illegal executive action… In a proposed federal rule published on New Year’s Eve, President Obama decreed that hundreds of thousands of additional foreign workers will be licensed to replace American workers at lower pay,” said the Jan. 4 statement.

“Congress must act with urgency to stop him,” said the statement, which criticized features of the new open-door plan that was first described by Breitbart on Dec. 30.

Here is how the scheme works: under current law, there is a statutory cap on the number of aliens who can receive green cards based on sponsorship from their employers, and thus a cap on the number who can receive the all-purpose work authorization those green cards provide. Under this new rule, the administration can bypass those caps with two easy steps. First, it would simply approve as many aliens as it wishes to seek green cards in excess of the cap. Then, it would give those workers – and their spouses and children – a renewable all-purpose work permit while they wait for their green cards to become available, nullifying Americans’ statutory protections against job-threatening flows of excess foreign labor….

Brazenly, the proposed rule would also result in the automatic renewal of work permits for aliens who, among other things, merely file applications to have their deportations cancelled or asylum granted. It is as if these policies were designed to create chaos and disorder.

This lawless action comes at a time when immigration is already at an all-time high. The total foreign-born population is at record-breaking 42.4 million, having more than quadrupled since immigration caps were raised five decades ago. Excess labor supply has already helped drive down today’s median household income more than $4,000 beneath levels at the turn of the century.

Sessions, however, also noted that GOP leaders — including House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — want to import more low-wage workers for GOP donors.

"Instead of answering the public’s demand to curb the intake of foreign workers, Congress has worked with the President to expand it – most recently in the omnibus spending bill. In fact, provisions I offered that would have helped to prevent this and other executive actions were rejected by those crafting the omnibus legislation. Instead, the omnibus dramatically expanded the supply of H-2B foreign workers to fill positions in construction, hospitality, truck driving, and many other blue collar jobs."

Sessions also hinted that the increased flow of foreign workers is powering Donald Trump’s primary drive.

"Voters want immigration growth halted. The more the governing class ignores these demands the more they lose their authority to govern."

In 2013, Obama used his executive power to add 2 million foreign workers to the U.S. labor market — roughly 1 million legal immigrants and provisional immigrants, plus 700,000 guest-workers and and several hundred thousand illegal migrants — even as 4 million young Americans began looking for work. Predictably, Americans’ wages flatlined, company profits soared and Wall Street spiked.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...college-grads/

He speaks truth but nothing gets done - he needs more partners to bring fruition for his efforts on our behalf. Sickening that he does not have an actual majority of elected officials standing with him. How do they swallow this stuff day after day and do nothing about it?

Sessions also hinted that the increased flow of foreign workers is powering Donald Trump’s primary drive.

Whoa Jeff. There's a helluva lot more powering Donald Trump's primary drive than your abject failure to curb immigration. The Congress is responsible for this whole disaster, failure to curb years ago, failure to halt now, failure to pass a Moratorium on All Immigration, failure to defund these massive immigration costs, failure all the way around.

Yes, Jeff, we love you, but there is no member of Congress exempt from Trump's statement that you're all talk, no action. After all, you've been in the US Senate since 1997 and look where we are? In a mess, a disaster, a crisis of historical proportions. Your Poison Pill crap doesn't work. There's only one person in the United States who will stop this mess and that's Donald Trump, who will stop these trade fiascos sucking our jobs, investments and technology out of the country to the immigration nightmare that allows millions of unneeded unwanted immigrants to enter the US and steal jobs and benefits that belong to American citizens to the budget failures that have pushed our national debt to the unbelievable number of $19 Trillion and so much more.

Trump is the only person who can fix it because he's the only person who knows what the problems are and has the common sense, intelligence, experience and unwavering loyalty to the American People to actually solve them.

Originally Posted by Judy

Whoa Jeff. There's a helluva lot more powering Donald Trump's primary drive than your abject failure to curb immigration. The Congress is responsible for this whole disaster, failure to curb years ago, failure to halt now, failure to pass a Moratorium on All Immigration, failure to defund these massive immigration costs, failure all the way around.

Yes, Jeff, we love you, but there is no member of Congress exempt from Trump's statement that you're all talk, no action. After all, you've been in the US Senate since 1997 and look where we are? In a mess, a disaster, a crisis of historical proportions. Your Poison Pill crap doesn't work. There's only one person in the United States who will stop this mess and that's Donald Trump, who will stop these trade fiascos sucking our jobs, investments and technology out of the country to the immigration nightmare that allows millions of unneeded unwanted immigrants to enter the US and steal jobs and benefits that belong to American citizens to the budget failures that have pushed our national debt to the unbelievable number of $19 Trillion and so much more.

Trump is the only person who can fix it because he's the only person who knows what the problems are and has the common sense, intelligence, experience and unwavering loyalty to the American People to actually solve them.

Insinuating that Sen. Sessions is part of the problem is just ludicrous! No man in this country has attempted to do more to correct the problems we're having on immigration and border security! Unfortunately no one man in the U.S. Congress can fix our problems. If that was possible, Sen. Sessions would have fixed our border and immigration problems long ago.

In 2015, over 3,000,000 immigrants were legally admitted into the United States.

Congress is responsible for that. All talk, no action. Not just Sessions, but every member of Congress is responsible for that. Part of being in Congress is building coalitions to fix problems. We need a moratorium on all immigration. Is there a bill anywhere to do that? Are coalitions being constructed to pass it?

I'm not aware of any.

Originally Posted by Judy

In 2015, over 3,000,000 immigrants were legally admitted into the United States.

Congress is responsible for that. All talk, no action. Not just Sessions, but every member of Congress is responsible for that. Part of being in Congress is building coalitions to fix problems. We need a moratorium on all immigration. Is there a bill anywhere to do that? Are coalitions being constructed to pass it?

I'm not aware of any.

Yes, but it's not because Sen. Sessions hasn't tried. Like I said, no "one" man in the U.S. Congress has done more or could have done more.