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On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
the idea that there are rights that might attach to someone who is here unlawfully to take jobs from Americans under difficult working conditions, as we are today, is antithetical to common sense.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions argues that allowing undocumented immigrants to work undermines American workers' rights.

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