Sessions: Senate Democrats Abandoning Their Constituents

Press Release

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, today commented on the Senate Democrats' filibuster of Homeland Security funding:

"Once again, Senate Democrats have filibustered legislation to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security. They have done so for the sole purpose of protecting an unconstitutional action that many of these same lawmakers previously said they oppose. They continue to form a defensive wall around the President's order instead of acting to defend the interests of their own constituents.

The President's decree provides 5 million illegal immigrants with work permits, Social Security, Medicare, free tax credits, and even avenues for chain migration and citizenship--taking jobs, benefits, and opportunities directly from struggling Americans.

As our immigration officers have warned, President Obama's executive amnesty gravely threatens national security--suspending the very immigration laws designed to shield the nation from harm. President Obama shut down immigration enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security the day he ordered our nation's loyal immigration officers to defy the very laws they swore to uphold. Only a Democrat filibuster now prevents these immigration officers from carrying out their sacred oaths.

The House is exactly correct. It has funded the Department of Homeland Security but refused to fund an illegal act. No Congress should ever fund a Presidential edict which is unlawful, unconstitutional and which demolishes its own powers.

Sooner or later, Americans will be heard. The just demands of a great majority cannot forever be denied by a small few. Those filibustering the funding of immigration enforcement would do well to remember that."

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