Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the Senate’s leading defender of immigration limitation and opponent of President Obama’s open borders policies, has been named chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, it was announced on Thursday. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), a strong ally of Sessions and Middle America, was named that subcommittee’s deputy chairman.
As chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee, Sessions said his focus “will be to advance the core interests of the nation and its people” over the interests of lobbyists, special interests and illegal aliens. “On no issue have special interests had a tighter grip than on the issue of immigration,” he said, noting that his first action was to rename the subcommittee:
“That is why I am renaming the subcommittee “Immigration and the National Interest,” as a declaration to the American people that this subcommittee belongs to them.”
Posted 1/24/15 by Andrew Lewis