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Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) grilled attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch on immigration during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee January 28, 2015 in Washington, DC.

Jeff Sessions, Ron Johnson Introduce ‘Protecting American Lives Act’ To Stop Sanctuary Cities, Illegal Re-Entry

Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has teamed with Senate Homeland Security committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) to roll out a new bill aimed at ending sanctuary cities in America and severely punishing any illegal aliens who illegally re-enter the United States after previous deportation.

Francisco Sanchez (R) enters court for an arraignment with San Francisco public defender Jeff Adachi (L) on July 7, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Francisco Sanchez pleaded not guilty to charges that he shot and killed 32 year-old Kathryn Steinle as she walked on Pier 14 in San Francisco with her father last week.

Sessions: If Not For Sanctuary Cities And Obama Admin. Immigration Policies Kate Steinle ‘Would Be Alive Today’

“If not for sanctuary cities and the Obama administration’s continued destruction in other areas of immigration enforcement, Kate and others surely would be alive today,” Sen. Jeff Sessions said on the Senate floor. “Her death could have been prevented. But the extreme open borders ideology that rejects even the deportation of criminals — that is, people who commit other crimes than the crime of entering the country illegally — has led to her death, as it has led to the death of many others.”

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Senate Judiciary Republicans: Obama Program To Release More Criminal Immigrants; Sessions: Immigration Enforcement Should Not Be ‘Russian Roulette’

The administration announced the elimination of the highly successful Secure Communities program and put PEP in its place last year in conjunction with the executive amnesty programs President Obama offered up in November. “Under PEP, countless criminal aliens who have managed to evade conviction will be released, endangering our communities. More crimes will be committed, and precious resources will be spent to re-apprehend these individuals, a process that significantly endangers the safety of your officers and agents,” a group of Senators wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson Tuesday.

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Sessions: Paul Ryan Claim TPA Limits Obama ‘Ridiculous’

On Thursday’s broadcast of Laura Ingraham’s radio show, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), an outspoken opponent of the so-called fast-track Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) being currently being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives, took on his fellow Republican Rep. Paul Ryan

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5 Reasons Free Traders Should Oppose Obamatrade

The debate over whether Congress should grant President Obama fast track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreements has now been reduced down to a false choice between free trade and protectionism.