WASHINGTON — According to sources in Washington, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is poised to become chairman of the influential Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, refugees, and border security.
The subcommittee chairmanship, while not as high profile as the Budget Committee slot for which Sessions had previously been in line, will nonetheless give him a prominent perch to continue advancing his staunchly conservative immigration policies.
Sessions has earned his reputation in recent years for being the most vocal opponent of so called “comprehensive immigration reform” and “executive amnesty,” even being hailed by Fox News as a “a brick wall of opposition” to Obama’s immigration agenda.
After Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Sessions slammed President Obama for his unwillingness to enforce existing immigration law and refusal to abide by the checks and balances laid out in the Constitution.
On immigration, the President remains wedded to a lawless policy that serves only the interest of an international elite while reducing jobs and benefits for everyday Americans. All net employment gains since the recession in 2007 have gone to foreign workers, and yet the President has violated federal law in order to provide work permits to 5 million illegal immigrants—allowing them to take any of the few good jobs that exist. In effect, the President delivered an address tonight to a Congress whose authority he does not recognize and to a public whose votes he has nullified with an imperial edict. Congress must use every tool at its disposal to stop this unlawful edict, end the immigration lawlessness, and reverse our slide towards congressional irrelevance.
Sessions’s office has yet to comment on the appointment, hinting that any formal announcement will come from the office of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.
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— Elizabeth BeShears (@LizEBeesh) January 21, 2015
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