Sessions: ‘We don’t have enough jobs for Americans,’ much less 5 million amnestied illegals

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December 8, 2014

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(Video above: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) interviewed on America’s News HQ on Fox News)

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) over the weekend continued his relentless assault on the President’s executive actions on immigration, asserting that they are an attack on American workers.

“We don’t have enough jobs for Americans,” Sessions said on Fox News, decrying the 5 million new immigrant workers Obama just added to the workforce through executive order. “We’ve got the lowest percentage of (working-age) Americans actually working in America since the 1970s before women fully came into the workplace. So we have a difficult problem, especially for low-skilled workers. We need them working — not on welfare, not unemployed, not working just a few hours a week — but we need their wages up, which are down $3,000 per family since 2007… This is a harmful attack on working Americans.”

Sessions was also critical of a funding bill being pushed by House Speaker John Boehner that would fund the government through next September, but readdress in March funding for the Dept. of Homeland Security, which is in charge of implementing the president’s immigration plan.

Sessions and other House and Senate conservatives are pushing for a bill to fund the government in the short term, which would allow Republicans to block funding for President Obama’s immigration executive order now, rather than later. They also argue it would allow Republicans to pass a longterm spending bill in January with a GOP-controlled Senate, rather than doing it in December with Democrats still in control during the lame duck session.

“What we do know [about the House bill] is that it will allow the President to move money around to fund his executive amnesty program,” said Sessions. “We just discovered last week that [DHS] is renting a building across the river in Crystal City, hiring 1,000 people to process these identifications of illegal people. They will be given a photo ID, a Social Security number, allowed to participate in Social Security and Medicare, and be able to work anywhere in America, taking any job in America. We don’t have enough jobs today and this will be 5 million people. What I was hoping, and still hope, is that the House will put real language in the bill [to block executive amnesty.]”

Check out the video above for Sessions’ full appearance on Fox News.