Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama on immigration and border security “We need to prioritize immigrants by what they bring to the country”.

Pretty radical stuff, ehh? More from the Decatur Daily newspaper ( Alabama)

“An Irishman with a master’s degree is second in line to an uneducated brother of somebody (from Mexico).

“Right now people who don’t have family connections — who are extraordinarily talented, who’ve studied English, who know advanced math and science — can’t get in. All because the chicken plant wants some people who work for $5 an hour.”

Immigrants who fail to meet standards designed to further U.S. interests become a drain on our economy, he said.

“An immigrant who comes here without a high school degree would take nearly $100,000 more out of the government than the he pays in,” Sessions said.

“There’s this myth that everybody’s going to come in and their grandson’s going to be the senator from Pennsylvania. But it’s not really so. People that came from developed nations like Japan tend to already have educations and are able more quickly to assimilate to the disciplines of United States. They do well.”

Sessions said any immigration policy should start with border control.

“We absolutely can secure the border,” Sessions said. “It’s not that hard. We’ll soon have twice as many border patrol agents. Fences are a very important part of it. If somebody’s going to be a temporary worker, the government needs to give them an ID with a fingerprint that can’t be easily forged. No business should hire a temporary worker that doesn’t have that card.”

Sessions blamed U.S. business and agricultural interests, along with the Bush administration, for reluctance on securing the border with Mexico.

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