Pictured: Wetumpka Tea Party with Senator Jeff Sessions at March for Jobs Rally in Washington, D.C.
Alabama’s Junior U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions today continued his fight against the “Gang of Eight’s” immigration bill in a speech in Washington, D.C. at the March for Jobs Rally. The march was organized by The Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA) “along with community leaders of all races from around the country,” according to the group’s website.
“We come here today with a message for Congress: we need an immigration policy that serves the American worker and taxpayer,” Sessions said to loud applause. “We need an immigration policy that creates higher wages — not lower wages. We need an immigration policy that helps promotes upward mobility and financial independence. We need an immigration policy that helps our struggling citizens find good-paying jobs that can support their families and lift up their communities.”
Sessions encouraged House members to scrap the Gang of Eight’s plan entirely. “The House must not negotiate with the Senate bill,” Sessions quipped.
He also took a shot at Republican lightning rod Karl Rove, who has in recent years become a target for grassroots conservatives who view him as a symbol of everything that is wrong with the “Washington establishment.”
“With all due respect to my good friend Karl Rove,” Sessions said as the crowed booed the mention of Rove, “There’s no shortage of workers in America, there’s a shortage of jobs in America.”
The BALA agreed with Sessions’ assessment of the current jobs situation.
“If passed in its current form, the Senate Immigration Bill would give virtually all of the millions of illegal immigrants in the country the ability to work and compete with citizens of all races for scarce employment opportunities,” the group said in a statement.
Several Alabama Tea Party Groups, including the Rainy Day Patriots and the Wetumpka Tea Party, among others, joined together and bussed a group to the D.C. rally. Donning shirts that said, “Protect American Jobs. No Amnesty,” the group joined thousands of conservative activists from around the country in trying to stop a bill that Sessions’ Senate Colleague Richard Shelby called “the mother of all amnesties.”
Other speakers at the event included Sen. Ted Cruz and Col. Allen West and Alabamians, Congressman Mo Brooks and activist K Carl Smith.
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