VIDEO: Senator Jeff Sessions Gets Schooled on Immigration’s Realities

Mar 19, 2013
6:49 PM

Watch this and learn. Amazing what happens actual people who know about immigration get to speak with neo-nativist senators who don’t.

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Senator Jeff Sessions gets schooled.

As the original Think Progress post says:

Two-thirds of legal immigration is family-based, and a majority of immigrants are now women, thanks to the emphasis on family visas since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Today, 70 percent of immigrant women gain permanent residence through family-based visas, compared to 61 percent of men. With 4 million people caught in the backlogs and country-specific quotas, it can take two decades for a sibling to immigrate.