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Jeff Sessions Unswayed by Pope Francis on Immigration, Economy, Climate
Roll Call ^ | 23 September 2015 | Steven Dennis

Posted on 02/18/2016 8:43:39 PM PST by ChessExpert

He continued, "It's all right for him to call on us to establish an immigration law that serves the national interest and assists people, but how that's done, I think he probably is not sufficiently informed, and I would say that despite some of the biblical things, Nehemiah went back to Jerusalem and the Lord commanded him to build a wall.

"So, [there are] many references in the Old Testament about the legitimacy of nations or countries or tribal areas, deciding who goes in and through and who does not. So that's part of it."

Later in the conversation, Sessions suggested the pope go to his native Argentina instead.

"I would suggest on immigration, maybe he would want to go to Argentina and ask them to take more people from the Middle East. They take almost none."

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TOPICS: Activism; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: immigration
Apparently this was from September. It could have been yesterday. The best stuff is timeless.
1 posted on 02/18/2016 8:43:39 PM PST by ChessExpert
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The Pope is right about Trump and Trump is right about the Pope.


2 posted on 02/18/2016 8:55:33 PM PST by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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The Pope is right about Trump

What'd he say about Trump?

3 posted on 02/18/2016 9:21:13 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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4 posted on 02/19/2016 6:56:22 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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