Yesterday, Joe Guzzardi of VDare.com posted the full text of Jeff Sessions' extraordinary Friday Senate floor speech.

Sessions is the Alabama Republican responsible for outing S.2611's little discussed legal immigration provisions. In the speech, which is both passionate and thoroughly informed, Sessions explodes the myth that there are jobs Americans won't do, exposes the consequences of mass immigration for American wages, lauds French and Australian efforts to screen out poorly educated immigrants in favor of more qualified ones, and takes his colleagues to task for their dishonesty and apparent indifference to the legislation's probable consequences.

This is the great Senate of the United States of America, and we are not here just to do something, anything. We are here to do the right thing. We are here to confront one of the big issues of our time, and to do it in a way that is consistent with our laws and our values and the values of the American people. That is what we should do. That is our responsibility to our constituents, to our posterity, to the heritage we have been given. That is absolutely our responsibility.

I will tell you, and I will say it plainly, and others may not, but this legislation fails miserably in that regard. It is unworthy of the Senate. It should never pass, it should never become the law of the United States of America. It does not meet our highest ideals. It does not create a system that is consistent with the national interests of the United States.

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In terms of lawfulness, decency, morality, and the national interest, the American people are head and shoulders above the Members of Congress who are asserting and pushing this flawed legislation. A huge majority of the American people have been right on this issue for decades. It is the executive branch and the Congress that have been derelict in their most solemn duties. Had the American people been listened to and not been stiff-armed by an arrogant elitist bureaucracy and political class, we wouldn't have 11 million to 20 million people in our country illegally today.

Read the full speech here. And then call your elected representatives in Washington and tell them what you think.

There are still patriots in the US Senate. It is not too late to kill this legislation.