GOP Senators Isakson and Sessions Duel Over TPP “Trade” Scheme

The promise of more jobs and more dollars is generally waved in front of U.S. legislators to entice them to vote for so-called free-trade pacts, which, in reality, could better be described as managed or corporatist trade. Their chief beneficiaries are generally multinational corporations and actual job growth rarely materializes, partially because U.S. corporations ship job overseas, and also because liberalized immigration policies bring more immigrants to America to take jobs here.

 

As Curtis Ellis, executive director of the American Jobs Alliance, noted in a recent post for The Hill: “The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes an entire chapter on immigration. It is a Trojan horse for Obama’s immigration agenda. House members who were ready to defund the Department of Homeland Security to stop President Obama’s executive action on immigration must not give him TPA, which he will use to ensure his immigration actions are locked in when he leaves office.”

 

Sessions, who is one of the Senate’s most outspoken opponents of unrestricted immigration, generally because of the impact of such immigration on U.S. workers, listed immigration among his five cautionary warnings concerning TPA.

 

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