Sheep magazine Archive 3: issues 18-24

Session opposes ‘guest worker programs for immigrants in the country
illegally and visa programs for foreign workers in science, math and
high-tech. In 2007, Sessions got a bill passed essentially banning for 10
years federal contractors who hire [undocumented] immigrants.’
‘No Senator has fought harder against the hopes and aspirations of
Latinos, immigrants, and people of color than Sen. Sessions,’ said Rep.
Luis Gutiérrez, an Illinois Democrat, in a statement last week.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC reports that Sessions is closely
affiliated with anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant extremist groups who have
cultivated him to be their voice in Congress. The center notes that ‘John
Tanton, founder of the modern-day nativist movement, highlighted the
need for such a congressional champion as a key goal in strategy memos
he drafted in the 1980s. ‘Think how much different our prospects would
be if someone espousing our ideas had the chairmanship!’ Tanton wrote.’
The center further reports that Sessions is closely associated with and
attends meetings held by the Federation for American Immigration
Reform (FAIR), the mission of which is to severely limit immigration into
the United States:
Its leaders have longstanding ties to white supremacist groups and eugenicists
and have made many racist statements. Its advertisements have been rejected
because of racist content. Dan Stein, FAIR’s current president, told Tanton
[FAIR’s founder] in 1994 that those who supported the Immigration and
Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished the racist national origins quotas that
favored immigrants of European descent, wanted to ‘retaliate against Anglo-
Saxon dominance’ and that this ‘revengism’ against whites had created a
policy that is causing ‘chaos and will continue to create chaos.’
SHEEP IN THE ROAD : NUMBER 20