President-Elect Trump Selects Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) as Next Attorney General
CNN reports that President-elect Donald Trump has selected Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) to be his nominee for the next Attorney General. It was unclear as of Friday morning whether Sessions had accepted.
Sessions was a leading opponent of the 2007 amnesty bill and 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill. The Gang of Eight bill eviscerated immigration enforcement, opened up welfare and citizenship to millions of illegals aliens, issued an astonishing 33 million green cards in a single decade, and doubled the annual flow of temporary workers to fill jobs at lower wages.
Sessions has also been a leading opponent of President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesties, which gives jobs and benefits to illegal workers at the expense of struggling families.
A former Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Sessions now serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, where he promotes an immigration policy that prioritizes the jobs, wages, and security of the American people.”
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As well as being the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, the Attorney General, who heads the Department of Justice, has important immigration functions. The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which includes the Board of Immigration Appeals and the immigration courts, is housed in the Department of Justice. The Office of the Solicitor General, which handles cases for the U.S. government before the Supreme Court, also is housed in the Department of Justice.
Sessions’ nomination can be expected to provoke controversy — it already has.
KJ