Sessions says bill would increase U.S. population by 30 million in ten years

TownHall.com reports:

According to Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions [actually he’s a U.S. Senator from Alabama] passing the McCain/Kennedy immigration plan will result in 30 million new illegal immigrants entering the U.S. over the next ten years. Today on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sessions said McCain/Kennedy “would immediately legalize the 12 million who are here…it would give them green cards in a short period of time…it would put them on a path to citizenship.”

“This bill would add 30 million people to our nation in the next ten years. We ought to be spending some time talking about that. It’s a big, big deal.”

Sessions pointed out that this bill is also in opposition to what the President has said he wanted: a bill that did not put illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. “This bill puts the people who came here illegally on an automatic path to citizenship,” said Sessions. “If that is not amnesty I don’t know what is!”

Sessions pleaded with his colleagues to consider only a border enforcement approach at this time. Sessions thinks the enormous question of what to do about the 12 million illegal immigrants who are already here is too big to handle quickly.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 30, 2006 02:01 AM | Send