Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions wants to hold the line on legal immigration, too
WASHINGTON _ Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is the hardest of Capitol Hill's hard-core conservatives, a former prosecutor and failed judicial nominee whose sternly worded views on immigration, drugs, gun rights and more would distinctly stamp the Justice Department if he's confirmed as attorney general.
The first sitting U.S. senator to publicly endorse then-candidate Donald Trump, last February, Sessions has spent years advocating on Capitol Hill for the kind of immigration crackdown and border-security strengthening that Trump called for on the campaign trail.
Moreover, Sessions has fought to restrain legal as well as illegal immigration and has opposed special visa programs sought by California's high-tech industry.
"At this point in time our economy cannot sustain the current lawful rate of immigration, much less the illegal flow," Sessions declared in March, further contending that "for decades, the Washington elites, the corporatists, and the globalist open-borders advocates have lobbied for even higher levels of immigration."
_McClatchy Washington Bureau
