Dana Milbank profiles Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama in the WAPO. We know he isn’t in favor of immigration legislation that Senate is expected to approve tomorrow but read this excerpt:
Forecasting a mass immigration of 73 million to 92 million over the next 20 years, Sessions described the process in extraordinary detail: “The nuclear family that we bring in after five years, they become citizens, they bring in their parents. . . . The parents can bring in their parents if they’re still alive. They really can. Maybe they’re 90. They can bring in others — their brothers and sisters. The uncles, all the uncles can come in with this through the parents here. And the wife can bring in brothers and sisters and then the wife brings in her brother, who brings in his wife and two children and she brings in her parents. And it just goes on.”
Where are the graphics, Senator? That would have been really cool.
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Interesting..I am watching keenly the debate and its implications on legal immigration
I have waited patiently since 4 years ( I have applied ) and waiting continues….
Immigration is how everyone execpt the African-Americans GOT here! Have any of these idiots ever been out of the south? I’m origionally from NYC, a true melting pot. Yes, there are neighborhoods that are mostly- inset nationality- but they will tell you they are americans first. And you learn tolerance and respect for other cultures because you’re living side by side. SO even if you’re not jewish you know what Hanukkah is. If someone says somebody has chutzpah, you know what they mean. I know what REAL pizza is and it’s NOT that disgusting mess from Dominoes. Someone needs to drop all these jerks in the middle of Times Square. Then they’d see what America really is.
A blazing display of Disneyfied commercialism?
In seriousness, I am glad that you’re appalled by “nativists” (a label which is somewhat charitable in my mind). However, I don’t think that this is a problem that is somehow exclusive to areas that are outside “liberal” parts of the United States and I don’t think it helps matters to stoke regional tensions in the name of immigrants, who have enough of a hard time getting by as it is. Especially when New York isn’t exactly free of labor exploitation and police abuse of immigrants. See here for just one example.
Trust me–I’m connected to immigrant rights activists in New York and have met and assisted some people who were going through deportation or other problems.
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