In an op-ed in The Washington Post Sen. Jeff Sessions affirmed that America must cut its “excessive level” of legal immigration. “Each year,” he noted, “the United States adds another million mostly low-wage permanent legal immigrants who can work, draw benefits, and become voting citizens.” As this has happened, wage levels and opportunities for American workers have declined.
“But high immigration rates,” said Sessions, “help the financial elite (and the political elite who receive their contributions) by keeping wages down and profits up. For them, what’s not to like? That is why they have tried to enforce silence in the face of public desire for immigration reductions. They have sought to intimidate good and decent Americans into avoiding honest discussion of how uncontrolled immigration impacts their lives.
“But the dam is breaking. The elite consensus is crumbling — and the enforced silence on this critical issue will end.”
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