Breaking: Sessions Incendiary On Immigration, Linked To White Nationalist

America's Voice Blog

Posted 05/07/09 at 11:07am

Huffpo Politics Sam Stein reports, in the top story on Huffington Post Politics today:

Since becoming the top ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions' record has been almost solely analyzed for tealeaves on how he will approach Barack Obama's forthcoming Supreme Court nomination.

The Judiciary Committee, however, has a far broader purview than simply the consideration of judiciary picks, all of which Sessions will hold heavy influence over. On Thursday, the Alabama Republican's resume in regards to one of those other fields -- immigration reform -- was placed under the microscope by the immigration reform group America's Voice.

Read the full report that places Senator Sessions squarely within John Tanton's network of anti-immigrant organizations and individuals with ties to white nationalism. Below's a brief snapshot:

A history of hate:

The leading GOP Senator on the Judiciary Committee has aligned himself with people and entities that bash immigrants and make hate a priority.

What Sessions has said:

Sessions has used the Senate as a bully pulpit from which to spew anti-immigrant rhetoric. His voting record is solidly anti-immigrant, but his speeches truly give him away. In a June 27, 2007 floor statement on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, Sessions played the “terrorist” card. In that same floor statement on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, Sessions also called the bill the “Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act of 2007.”

Sessions’ courtship of anti-immigrant extremism:

Last year, NumbersUSA named Sessions its “2008 Defender of the Rule of Law.” On May 5, 2009, NumbersUSA issued a press release welcoming Sessions’ ascension to his new role on the Senate Judiciary, claiming the Alabama Senator is the “the No. 1 champion for the American workers on immigration issues.” NumbersUSA's claim is clearly not consistent with Sessions’ anti-labor voting record.

Why Sessions' relationship with CIS, NumbersUSA, and FAIR matters:

The Center for Immigration Studies and NumbersUSA were started with Tanton's help and he founded FAIR. So Tanton, who has long-standing and well-established ties to white nationalist groups, had a role in the creation all three groups -- and all of three groups' leaders worked for Tanton.

FAIR, which regularly praised Sessions, has been designated an anti-immigrant hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. That might make some members of Congress think twice about developing a relationship with the group, but clearly not Jeff Sessions.

In Conclusion...

It's disturbing that the new Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee has very close ties to hate groups and white nationalists. More disturbing is that his colleagues in the Senate minority find nothing wrong with that.

When the debate on comprehensive immigration reform comes before the Judiciary Committee, Senator Sessions and his colleagues in the minority will have the choice of whether to stand with these extreme groups and obstruct solutions to our broken immigration system or to move America forward.

Given Senator Sessions' history, Americans will need to watch closely to make sure hate is no longer given a megaphone in this critical policy debate.

By Jackie Mahendra
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Does anyone realize that Jeff Sessions is sticking up for American CITIZENS? American citizens who don’t have, jobs, housing, and many are homeless.

TAKE A LOOK at Bellingham Washington.

GOOD JOB JEFF SESSONS. Please bat for AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO ARE FOOTING THE BILL for ILLEGALS housing, health care, food stamps, prison space.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!

05-07-09 By NOAMNESTY(Bellingham Washington)

NoAmnesty, far as I know, no immigrant owns a bank or an insurance giant. These are the guys who are responsible for our economic crisis and for the loss of jobs and homes we are experiencing.

05-07-09 By Mary-Lee Lutz(Delaware)

Mary-Lee, do you have any idea HOW MUCH ILLEGALS are costing us?

Try reading the report from The Heritage Foundation. You’ll then realize that any sort of AMNESTY will cost US TAX PAYERS 70 times the amount that what it would cost to DEPORT THESE PEOPLE!!!

Take a look at OBAMA’S ILLEGAL AUNT. We have US CITIZENS who are homeless including our VETS and kids.

The banking system collapsed because of the Clinton admin. And as far as insurance companies, AIG NEEDED TO TANK!!!

AND FRANKLY, the NEW rhetoric happens to be if YOU’RE AGAINST IMMIGRANTION YOU ARE A RACISTS. Sorry, I’M AGAINST all IMMIGRATION NOW its called have the common sense to take care of you’re own first.

I don’t care who calls me what.

05-08-09 By NOAMNESTY(Bellingham Washington)

“if YOU�RE AGAINST IMMIGRANTION YOU ARE A RACISTS”
That is not the case at all. It just so happens that most people who are against immigration reform actually get their facts from hate groups. In all the times I have read or heard anything anti immigrant, very little of it is original any more. It always the same old and tired reasons, but they never hold up.
If you see the KKK always wearing white robes and white head covers, you’re going to assume anyone dressed like the KKK is KKK.

05-10-09 By Missingxtension

One more time, do you have any idea how much the banks and insurance companies are costing us in bailouts?

I agree that there are entirely too many homeless and poor in this country. They certainly deserve our attention and our financial assistance. Still, the question before us is not “us or them.” The question is: how can we assist both impoverished legal citizens and impoverished illegal immigrants at the same time?

If you ask the right questions, you will get the right answers.

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