Jeff Sessions pens immigration manifesto

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Washington Examiner:

Susan Ferrechio

January 13, 2015

 

The Senate’s staunchest opponent to comprehensive immigration reform has authored a 25-page memo for the new GOP majority, that urges his party to reject “an extreme policy of sustained mass immigration” and called on lawmakers to instead focus on the needs of the American worker.

 

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., delivered the memo to his fellow Republicans in the Senate and he is hoping the document will be a central part of the immigration discussion expected during this week’s House-Senate GOP retreat in Hershey, Pa.

 

The memo is comprised of polling data and other factors that Sessions said the GOP can use “to fight the most well-funded and powerful network of special interests you will ever confront.”

 

It delves into the issue of weakened border enforcement, citing a 23 percent reduction in deportations of illegal immigrants from the U.S. interior, for example.

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