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Sessions is unparalleled in his knowledge of the proper role of the Department of Justice, the legislative process, and the rule of law, all of which will be critical in restoring much-needed accountability and responsibility to the nations immigration policies, said a statement from Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

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An able Senator and sincere advocate for fairness, Senator Sessions fully understands the dangers posed by the 300 jurisdictions around the nation that have adopted policies that impede federal immigration enforcement and protect criminal aliens, Stein said.

Under Sessionsleadership, the Department of Justice will likely take action against jurisdictions that embrace dangerous policies that shockingly defy federal law. These policies have been directly responsible for periodic crimes committed against innocent citizens, whom our laws are meant to protect

The days of turning a blind eye to illegal immigration, pushing for the adoption of mass amnesty policies, and allowing tens of thousands of criminal aliens to dodge deportation are over, Stein added.

During his contentious confirmation hearing, Sessions vowed to end the cycle of mass immigration, mass amnesty, and ever-larger waves of migrants enticed by the promise of legalization.

Im going to follow the laws passed by Congress, Sessions said. I do believe that if you continually go through a cycle of amnesty that you undermine the respect for the law and encourage more illegal immigration into America. I believe the American people spoke clearly in this election. I believe they agreed with my basic view.

The Senate confirmed Sessions 52-47 Wednesday evening.

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At his daily briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not rule out the possibility that President Trump could have federal officials begin proactively deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records.

Trump gave a speech earlier in the day in which he asked local law enforcement officials to assist with deportations by alerting the Department of Homeland Security about who the illegal immigrant gang members are. In light of the presidents remarks, Yahoo News asked Spicer whether the president would consider having the DHS or Customs and Border Control agents proactively begin deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records, if he doesnt get the cooperation he wants from local police.

Spicer did not directly address the possibility of federal agents stepping up deportation efforts. He suggested instead that Trumps priorities are the construction of a wall on the United States southern border and the implementation of his executive orders on immigration.

Look, when you talk about immigration and what hes doing whether its the wall or enforcing existing regulations or visa reform I dont think anybody questions the presidents commitment to border security and immigration reform. In fact, its usually quite the opposite, Spicer said.

So, when it comes to the steps that hes going to take, I think Ive addressed this multiple times what his priorities are going to be, he continued. Youve seen [Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly] talk about construction of the wall, his implementation of the executive order to keep people out.

Both the DHS and CBP have the authority to operate within 100 miles of any of the countrys external boundaries. This includes land borders as well as populous coastline areas, encompassing an area that the American Civil Liberties Union claims includes roughly twothirds of the population.

Last month, Trump signed executive orders withdramatic measures to curb illegal immigration. They included a request for the immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border and measuresdesigned to push local authorities to assist with deportations.He took steps to empower local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws, and called for the defunding of so-called sanctuary cities, which have opted to refuse to hand over some undocumented immigrants for deportation.

Yahoo News pressed Spicer about whether defunding is the only tool the president might use to encourage stricter immigration enforcement in cities where local officials are not cooperating. Spicer declined to answer.

Im not going to get ahead of it, he said.

Press secretary Sean Spicer takes a question at a press briefing at the White House. (Photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Spicer went on to point to positive feedback that he said Trump had received at the event where he made his call upon local law enforcement to do more to assist with deportations. Trump was addressing the winter conference of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, a gathering of urban sheriffs and police chiefs. On Tuesday, he met with sheriffs who support his immigration plans, and they gave him a letter of thanks.

The support that theyve issued on behalf of his executive actions and his agenda as a whole, these are the folks on the front lines in many cases that are on the border that see what some of this does and how it affects families and businesses, Spicer said.

He went on to argue that illegal immigration is costly both in terms of the money spent on enforcement efforts and the cost that it has on our economy and our jobs.

So, youre going to continue to see a flurry of activity over and over and over again to make sure that this president continues to show the importance that he puts on both border security and immigration reform, Spicer said.

He also discussed Trumps efforts to deter local officials from adopting sanctuary city policies when a journalist from Cincinnati, Ohio, Courtis Fuller, asked him if Cincinnati would face economic or other sanctions over its recent decision to become a sanctuary city.

The presidents going to do everything he can within the scope of the executive order to make sure that cities who dont comply with it counties and other institutions that remain sanctuary cities dont get federal government funding, in compliance with the executive order, he said.

Spicer noted thatafter Trump issued the order, Miamis mayor, Carlos Gimnez, a Republican who backed Hillary Clinton, asked local officials to help with federal immigration detention requests. The press secretary suggested that other jurisdictions should follow this example.

I think more areas like Miami-Dade down in Florida understand the importance of this order, he said. We hope cities like Cincinnati and other communities around the country follow their lead and comply with that.

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Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) will discuss the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE Act),an America First immigration reform plan he co-sponsored with Senator David Perdue (R-GA).

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Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy will discuss the increasing threats from Iran and the tensions its causing the international community. Hell also offer his thoughtson Trumps recent comments about Putin.

Breitbart Legal Editor Ken Klukowski will discuss the arguments made before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the lawsuit over Trumps executive order temporarily barring immigration from seven countries while a review of the vetting process is completed.

Breitbarts Dr. Susan Berry will discuss the confirmation of Trumps Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

Breitbart Financial Editor John Carney will rundown the latest business headlines.

Live from London, Rome, and Jerusalem, Breitbart correspondents will provide updates on the latest international news.

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The White Houses Jan. 27 immigration reform threatens companies ability to attract talent, business, and investment to the United States, says the legal brief by the companies, who include many Silicon Valley firms. The signers include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Paypal, Netflix, Lyft, and TaskRabbit, which helps wealthier people hire other people to do household chores.

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The 53-page, green-eyeshade demand for economic benefits was submitted Feb. 5 to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as part of the legal battle to block the popular reform.

The new reform follows the presidents campaign promises by curbing the annual inflow of taxpayer-supported refugees, and setting rules to exclude migrants with hostile attitudes, such as an ideological willingness to use violence.

The companies legal brief is focused on their claim that they will lose their ability to hire foreign workers for some of white-collar jobs sought by American graduates.

Each year, roughly 800,000 young Americans graduate from college with skilled degrees in business, science, medicine and technology. But many of the graduates are not working in jobs that match their technical skills. For example, from 2009 to 2013, about one-fifth of underemployed recent college graduatesroughly 9 percent of all recent graduatesdid work in a low-skilled service job, says a 2016 report by two federal economic researchers.

The federal government annually imports 1 million legal immigrants, and allows companies to hire roughly 1 million foreigncontract-workers.The inflow of white-collar contract workers is so large that roughly 1 million are now legally employed in white-collar jobs in the United States, including 100,000 H-1B contract-workers holding prestigious jobs at universities.

Many companies want to preserve the inflow of cheaper white-collar workers. For example, executives at Comcast organized a demonstration against the immigration and refugee reform.

According to the courtroom brief by the technology companies:

The [reform]effects a sudden shift in the rules governing entry into the UnitedStates, and is inflicting substantial harm on U.S. companies. It hinders the abilityof American companies to attract great talent; increases costs imposed on business;makes it more difficult for American firms to compete in the international marketplace;and gives global enterprises a new, significant incentive to build operationsandhire new employeesoutside the United States

This instability and uncertainty will make it far more difficult and expensivefor U.S. companies to hire some of the worlds best talentand impede them fromcompeting in the global marketplace. Businesses and employees have little incentiveto go through the laborious process of sponsoring or obtaining a visa, and relocatingto the United States, if an employee may be unexpectedly halted at the border.

Skilled individuals will not wish to immigrate to the country if they may becut off without warning from their spouses, grandparents, relatives, and friendsthey will not pull up roots, incur significant economic risk, and subject their family to considerable uncertainty to immigrate to the United States in the face of this instability.

The companies legal brief largely ignores the effort by Americans to win higher salaries, more secure employment and it also ignores the gains to civic cohesion from reduced social confusion and uncertainty. Instead, the brief claims there is bedrock guarantee of benefits for immigrants and employers:

Immigrants, family members, andbusinesses deserve much betterand Congress and the Constitution entitle them toan immigration system that is administered reasonably, non-arbitrarily, and in accordwith statutory requirements. The Order contravenes that bedrock guarantee.

Roughly 86 percent of people living in the United States are native-born Americans.But the legal brief also excluded ordinary Americans from their own nation, saying that the country is a nation of immigrants, not of native-born Americans.

America proudly describes itself as a nation of immigrants We are: in 1910, 14.7% of the population wasforeign born; in 2010, 12.9%.2 A quarter of us have at least one parent who wasborn outside the country. Close to half of us have a grandparent born somewhereelse. Nearly all of us trace our lineage to another country.

Each year, 4 million American youths enter the workforce to seek jobs that pay enough to afford a house and a family.

The federal governments policy of importing a huge number of legal immigrants and contract workers lowers Americans salaries by roughly $500 billion a year, according to a Harvard professor, Nearly all of $500 billion is scooped up in greater profits for companies and investors. If the worker inflow is reduced, Americans wages will rise and investors stock prices will temporarily fall, according to a June 2016 report by a stock-market firm.

ManyAmericans are unemployed or have given up looking for work. Roughly 10 percent of American prime age men, or 7 million men aged 25 to 54, have dropped out of the nations workforce, at enormous cost to themselves, their communities and to the nations economic health. Many other Americans are stuck in low-wage work in the heartland of the nation, while investors create jobs for immigrants along the two coasts.

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President Donald Trump says those against his travel ban are putting the country in danger. About 100 technology giants, including Microsoft , Google , Facebook and Apple , have signed onto a legal action against the ban. Newslook

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SAN FRANCISCONearly three dozen more tech companies late Monday joined a court brief against President Trump's executive order on immigration, swelling the ranks of those seeking a hold on the refugee ban to 127.

Newcomers included Tesla and SpaceX, joining tech heavyweights Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, and a list of both start-ups and more established Silicon Valley stalwarts.

The amicus brief, filed Sunday evening in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, began with 96 companies, though initial reports were 97, as one company was listed twice.

Monday afternoon those 96 mostly tech companies were joined by 31 more when an addendum was filed.

The brief lauded the drive and creativity of the USA's immigrantsand said that while protecting the nation through increased background checks was important, maintaining America's fundamental commitment to welcoming immigrants was also critical.

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"The beneficiaries are not just the new immigrants who chose to come to our shores, but American businesses, workers, and consumers, who gain immense advantages from immigrants infusion of talents, energy, and opportunity," the case states.

The brief is in support of a lawsuit filed in federal court last Monday by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson thatasked that key provisions of the executive order be declared unconstitutional.

Trump's order, signed a week after he took office, halted entry of all refugees for 120 days, banned admission of refugees from Syria indefinitely, and barred entry for three months of citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations.

In response to that suit, Senior Judge James Robart of U.S. District Court in Seattle on Friday issued a nationwide restraining order on the immigration order.On Sunday,the 9th Circuit appeals court, considered the nation's most liberal,declined to reinstatethe restrictions.

Trump has sharply criticized the court decisions, and his Administration says the ban is necessary to weed out immigrants with intentions of terrorism. Late Monday, Justice Department officials urged the appeals court judge to reinstate the ban on grounds that not doing so endangered national security

Eventually, the Supreme Court may decide. Courts do take note of who files friends-of-the-court briefs.

Tech firms have complained that Trump's order has created havoc in an industry that is global and has a large number of foreign-born engineers in others working in the U.S. and abroad. Google has said nearly 200 of its staff would be impacted by the ban, while Microsoft said it would affect more than 75.

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The list of companies that signed the amicus brief include mostly West Coast tech companies, including Adobe, Airbnb, Box, Dropbox, Etsy, Github, Glassdoor, HP Inc., Kickstarter, LinkedIn, Medium, Mozilla, Netflix, Pandora, Pinterest, Reddit, Salesforce, Slack, Square, Twilo, Yelp and Zynga.

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A few non-tech companies also signed, including yogurt company Chobani, snack maker KIND and Levi Strauss & Co.

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Uber, whose CEO Travis Kalanick resigned from a Trump advisory council late last week after the ride-hailing company came under pressure from both customers and drivers, signed the brief.

SpaceX and Teslacompanies run by Elon Musk, were among the second-day additions to the list. Musk stayed on the advisory council, despite some backlash from others in the tech industry, saying it was the best chance to influence the administration to make changes to an order he has conceded treats some immigrants unfairly.

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The brief marks one of a few recent moments in which the industry has come together around specific issues.

In 2013, more than 20 tech leaders helped create FWD.us, an organization pushing for immigration reform. In 2014, nearly 150 Internet companies sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission supporting net neutrality. And in 2016, many technology companies issued statements supporting Apple in its struggle with the FBI over breaking the encryption on an iPhone used by a terrorist in San Bernardino.

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"The Order effects a sudden shift in the rules governing entry into the United States, and is inflicting substantial harm on U.S. companies," the brief states. "It hinders the ability of American companies to attract great talent; increases costs imposed on business; makes it more difficult for American firms to compete in the international marketplace; and gives global enterprises a new, significant incentive to build operationsand hire new employeesoutside the United States."

In the filing, the companies note that immigrants or their children founded more than 200 of the Fortune 500 companies that include Apple, Kraft, Ford, General Electric, AT&T, Google, McDonalds, Boeing, and Disney. Immigrants also make up 28% of Main Street business owners and 18% of business owners nationwide as well as 16% of the U.S. labor force, they say. "Immigrants do not take jobs away from U.S. citizens they create them," the filing states.

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A large group of lawyers from tech companies met last Tuesday to discuss possible actions they might collectively take to fight the executive order. The amicus brief appears to be the fruit of that meeting.

There was no immediate response from the administration. On Saturday, President Trump tweeted, "I have instructed Homeland Security to check people coming into our country VERY CAREFULLY. The courts are making the job very difficult!"

Friend of the court briefs often influential

Amicus briefsallow interested parties to give the court their own take on the issues involved, without actually being a part of the case. There are few limits on who can submit them and especially contentious or important cases can have dozens arguing of briefs submitted on each side, said Martin Flaherty, a professor of constitutional law at Fordham Law School in New York City.

Its not uncommon for parties with an interest (called amici, or friends in Latin) to come together to either divvy up what their briefs will cover or work together to craft a single brief as happened in the tech groups case, Flaherty said.

While all such briefs are equal before the law, courts often take note of who is filing them.

An example Flaherty gave was a Michigan affirmative action case that went to the Supreme Court in 2003. An influential amicus filingcame from a group of retired military leaders who argued that affirmative action was crucial for the nations military academies as it would be bad for the schools and the military as a whole were the officer corps not to reflect the diversity of themilitary as a whole.

I would think that perhaps for certain justices, the fact that all these tech companies are saying this would be terrible for the country is important, Flaherty said.

Contributing: Mike Snider in Tysons Corner, Va.

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