I don't want to hear how President Obama is not tough on illegal immigration. Don't want to hear it.

Lady Gaga, a chihuahua mix, sits with his trainer, a detainee at the Etowah County Jail, Tuesday, December 4, 2012 in Gadsden, Ala. Detainees train dogs from the animal shelter as part of their education program. (Eric Schultz / eschultz@al.com)

Here we go, damned if you do and damned if you don't. It is the Republican strategy for their political ambitions.

Sessions is among the crankiest whiner among Republicans. His voice is shrill and gets the electorate's attention. He is a very good barometer to know what the political focus is for the GOP.

President Obama has no control over the disposition of any of the debt cuts, but, yet Sessions is crying he is the evil doer.

By Brian Lawson | blawson@al.com 
on February 26, 2013 at 1:39 PM, updated February 26, 2013 at 3:38 PM

..."Priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders (click here) and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety."

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, blasted the moves in a news release this afternoon, saying the Obama Administration was using the sequester as an excuse "to bow to political pressure" from amnesty groups.

"The Administration's forced release of those in ICE custody further reduces the chances of reaching a bipartisan immigration accord," Sessions said. "There is no logical or rational reason why the 5.3 percent cut to ICE's operating budget would have to result in forcing law officers to immediately release already-apprehended illegal aliens and fugitives in federal detention.

"The last thing you would do to meet a budget cut of this size would be to voluntarily undertake actions that undermine the rule of law and endanger the public safety."...