The Washington Times Op-Ed

Give Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, credit for trying to link the issues of illegal immigration and the minimum wage on the Senate floor. The two issues are in truth intimately connected -- a fact the pro-illegal political establishment almost always ignores. But in forcing Democrats to reject an amendment to drastically increase fines on companies that hire illegal aliens to the Senate minimum-wage bill, Mr. Sessions has at least put the 110th Congress on record declining a politically difficult but almost certainly effective step toward helping workers on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.

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