Conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh praised Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions on Monday for his efforts to rally Americans against President Obama’s plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants by executive order.
“…Jeff Sessions – God bless Jeff Sessions – is begging everybody to call their congressmen and senators to stop what Obama is planning on doing just by the stroke of his pen… legalizing 5 to 6 million immigrants,” Limbaugh said. “Sessions claims Obama is going to effectively end immigration enforcement. He’s going to nullify immigration law — just wipe it out — and in the process fundamentally change the United States.”
Limbaugh was referring to comments Sessions made on Breitbart News Sunday, when he called for a “public refutation” of the president’s plan and said he hopes that “every patriot will engage… (to) win this fight.”
President Obama has repeatedly threatened to take executive action on immigration because Congress has thus far rejected legislation that would grant any form of amnesty to certain illegal aliens.
Sessions told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen Bannon that any immigration-related bill passed by Congress “should have in it language that bars any president from expending any money to carry out” executive action that would grant any form of amnesty.
“This goes to the very core of law,” Sessions said. “And if we allow that to occur and if the president does such a thing, there is no moral authority to enforce any law in the future and all of our laws will be weakened.”
But the current immigration package (the Granger package) being pushed by House Republican leaders does not include language preventing the president from acting unilaterally, leading Sessions to release a blistering statement on Tuesday declaring the legislation “unworthy of support.”
The full text of Sessions’ statement can be read below:
The Obama Administration has openly declared its plan to implement a unilateral executive amnesty for 5–6 million more illegal immigrants. This unlawful amnesty—urged on by congressional Democrats—would include work permits, taking jobs directly from millions of struggling American citizens.
Any action Congress might consider to address the current border crisis would be futile should the President go forward with these lawless actions. Congress must speak out and fight against them. It must use its spending power to stop the President’s executive amnesty.
That the House leaders’ border package includes no language on executive actions is surrender to a lawless President. And it is a submission to the subordination of congressional power.
After years of falling wages and rising joblessness, American workers are pleading for someone to hear them. How can it be that our President is brazenly advertising that he will nullify and strip away American workers’ immigration protections, and their own elected leaders will not rise to their defense? Or to the defense of our laws and our Constitutional order?
There are other grave concerns with the Granger package as well: because it does not fix our asylum rules and loopholes, the end result of the additional judges and hearings will be more illegal immigrants gaining asylum and access to U.S. welfare. It is a plan for expedited asylum, not expedited removal.
Nor will this package make our rogue President actively enforce anything, coming nowhere close to the kinds of reasonable enforcement activities needed to restore the interior application of our immigration laws.
And finally, a package that is silent on blocking amnesty creates an opportunity for Senate Democrats to add elements of their party’s open borders and mass immigration agenda.
This legislation is unworthy of support.
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