Rep. Pete Sessions: “Look at France: That is the Exact Chaos Democrats are Courting”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a new op-ed for the Washington Examiner, Republican Study Committee Member Pete Sessions (TX-17) warns that a return to Democratic leadership would jeopardize recent border security gains and force a radical agenda shaped by the party’s Socialist wing onto the American people.

In 2024, the American people gave the Trump administration and Congressional Republicans a mandate to clean up the damage caused by the Biden-Harris administration's open-border policies. Without any Democrat support, Republicans delivered the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, which funds critical border security upgrades, and the Secure America Act which prevents Democrats from holding border security funding hostage, as they did during the two longest government shutdowns in American history.

Unrest in France serves as a warning of what lies ahead for America if Democrats regain power, especially as they increasingly embrace Socialist policies that threaten public safety, strain public resources, and waste taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens.

In the piece, Rep. Sessions writes, “The widespread violence in France is a direct result of a failed, out-of-touch government that has opened the country’s borders, undermined law enforcement, spent recklessly for endless bureaucratic expansion, and diverted government services away from its own citizens. Americans should pay close attention. What is happening in France foreshadows what can happen when a government loses sight of its most basic responsibility to serve and protect its own citizens.”

He continues, “Unfortunately, these warning signs are all too familiar. We have seen that chaos ensues when political ideology takes precedence over common sense, leaders undermine law enforcement, and taxpayers are robbed blind. Under the Biden-Harris administration, our southern border descended into a national crisis. Millions of illegal border crossings strained public services. Drug trafficking devastated families. Americans struggled with rising housing and rent prices linked to the influx of illegal aliens. People were left wondering whether the U.S. government actually worked for them.”

Rep. Sessions concludes, “Under the Trump administration, we have the most secure border in history, with 17 consecutive months of zero releases at the border. Without any Democrat support, Republicans passed the Working Families Tax Cuts Act to fund the completion of the border wall, modernize border security technology, and better support the immigration enforcement workforce…We stand to lose this progress if Democrats regain power. The party has only gotten more extreme since the days of the Biden-Harris administration, and they have increasingly embraced efforts to dismantle the very immigration enforcement system responsible for keeping the public safe.”

Read the full op-ed here.