According to those close to the transition team, President-elect Donald Trump has selected Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be the new Attorney General of the United States. Sen. Sessions has a long history of fighting for the American worker and was the loudest opponent of the Gang of Eight bill.
Roy Beck, President of NumbersUSA, released this statement about Sen. Sessions being selected as the new attorney general:
"The 7 million members of NumbersUSA's advocacy network are sure to be as thrilled with Jeff Sessions as Attorney General as they have with his role as the Senate's great champion for immigration policies that favor America's working women and men. In our many years of working with him, he has always astonished us with his hard work and dedication to that cause.
Our members tend to call him "America's Senator." During the Primaries, one of the most common pleas from our members was that we on staff persuade Sen. Sessions to become a candidate for President himself.
Sen. Sessions will bring to the Department of Justice a fierce independence from privileged special interests, as revealed in his nearly two decades of leadership on immigration policy.
Above all others in Congress, Sen. Sessions took up the pulpit of the late Civil Rights icon Barbara Jordan and her bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform by both boldly and carefully championing the interests of the often-forgotten Americans of all races and ethnicities who have been left behind by major shifts in our economy. "
Sen. Sessions’ relentless fight to reduce illegal and legal immigration has earned him the highest grade in the Senate for this current Congress on our NumbersUSA grade cards and the second highest career grade in the Senate as well.
You can view Sen. Sessions’ NumbersUSA grade card here:
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/6/gradescoresheet/
Sessions has served as Chairman of the Immigration and the National Interest Subcommittee, where he held several hearings to show how high immigration levels negatively impact American workers and he has written a number of bills and op-eds against Pres. Obama’s executive amnesties and increasing the refugee resettlement program.
“To the American people, millions of whom are hurting and neglected, I give you this message on behalf of every Republican pushing to end this amnesty: we are going to fight for you, and I am asking you to share your concerns with members of the Senate,” Sessions said last year on the Senate floor in an effort to block funding for Pres. Obama’s executive amnesties.
In a recent op-ed Sen. Session wrote, “Perhaps the least discussed but most important feature of the Gang of Eight’s immigration plan is its arrangement with certain business groups to provide them with multiple avenues to avoid hiring U.S. workers by bringing in record numbers of workers from abroad.”
“The statistics make clear that there is simply not a shortage of American workers. Rather, there is a shortage of Americans who are working,” Sessions said during a Senate hearing.
As attorney general Sen. Sessions will have the authority to hold sanctuary jurisdictions accountable for violating federal law. Sen. Sessions has introduced several pieces of legislation to end funding to sanctuary cities and to end the release of criminal aliens into American communities.
Read more on Sen. Sessions at The Washington Post.
