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Obama Revenge Against Sen. Jeff Sessions By Sending 1000’s Of Illegals To His Home State
The White House is considering a plan to relocate thousands of illegal immigrant children to the home state of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, causing some to question whether presidential politics is at play.
Sessions has for years has led the opposition to immigration policies supported by President Barack Obama. The plan would send the children to Baldwin County, across the bay from Sessions’ home in Mobile County.
Sessions has also emerged among Donald Trump’s fiercest supporters and was the first senator to endorse the GOP presidential nominee. Trump’s hardline immigration approach – which includes deportation of all undocumented immigrants and a wall built along the U.S.-Mexican border — has been embraced by Sessions.
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“It’s highly probable that this is more political than practical,” said Baldwin County Commissioner Chris Elliott.
Said Baldwin County Sheriff Huey “Hoss” Mack: “I hope that is not the case. The polls I’ve seen is Alabama is very conservative on the immigration issue. The federal government is not.”
‘Nothing to lose’
Sessions has been quiet on the administration’s proposal to investigate the capability of two rural and underutilized Naval air fields near Silverhill and Orange Beach to house an overflow of unaccompanied children under age 17 who entered the United States without authorization.
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A spokesman for Sessions this week referred to the senator’s opposing statements in January on a similar proposal to house illegal minor children at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery. The statement, signed by both Alabama senators, Sessions and Sen. Richard Shelby, criticized Obama for refusing to enforce immigration laws and urged him to deport the children to their home countries. The same spokesman said that Sessions was likely too busy this week to comment on latest proposal.
Shelby and U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Fairhope, have been among the most vocal in criticizing the plan. Said Byrne: “It is troubling additional facilities are needed at all.”
Sessions, though, has emerged as a national figure. He’s considered as a longshot vice-presidential candidate. The senator has served as Trump’s national security advisor and is considered the Obama Administration’s toughest critic on immigration reform.
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“There is no political penalty for President Obama, or for Hillary Clinton, for putting immigrants in Alabama,” said Larry Powell, professor of communication studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “It will make Republicans mad, but Alabama isn’t going to vote Democratic anyone. Why not take a stab at irritating Jeff Sessions? There’s nothing to lose on the part of the president.”
Said William Stewart, a professor emeritus of political sciences at the University of Alabama: “You can’t take politics out of politics. At the highest levels of government, staffers are paid to be aware of the political implications of what they propose. They are aware of the places their critics call home.”
Not everyone believes presidential politics is at the heart of the resettlement consideration. Bryne is one of them: “No. I think it is the combination of a totally misguided policy being implemented by an incompetent part of the federal government.” source
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