Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has been a staunch supporter of American workers and against amnesty, argued that Republicans can frame Democrats as the party that favors elites at the expense of working Americans only if they make a clean break from amnesty legislation that lowers Americans’ wages and threatens their jobs.
In an op-ed at National Review, Sessions wrote that after Mitt Romney “lost lower and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin,” the GOP’s “brilliant consultant class” decided they would promote an amnesty agenda that would hurt these voters even more.
“And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat?” Sessions asked. “They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a ‘comprehensive immigration reform’ that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.”
He wrote that as immigration has quadrupled while blue-collar jobs have been shuttered over the last four decades, “the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem.”
“A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred,” he wrote.
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