1999-2000: Cosponsored immigration moratorium bill to end chain migration(Stump).
Rep. Sessions cosponsored H.R. 41, bill that called for deep reductions in all categories of immigration. This would include categories such as parents of adult children and siblings of adults. H.R.41 would reduce immigration by almost 5.5 million over a ten-year period.

1999-2000: Cosponsored immigration moratorium bill to eliminate the visa lottery (Stump).
Rep. Sessions cosponsored H.R. 41, bill that called for deep reductions in all categories of immigration. H.R.41 would not allot any visas to the lottery category. Overall, H.R.41 would have reduced immigration by almost 5.5 million over a ten-year period.

1999-2000: Cosponsored immigration moratorium bill to reduce worker importation (Stump).
Rep. Sessions cosponsored H.R. 41, bill that called for deep reductions in all categories of immigration. This includes a reduction in the category of skilled workers to 5,000 per year from its current ceiling of 120,060 per year. H.R.41 would have reduced immigration by almost 5.5 million over a ten-year period.

1999-2000: Cosponsored immigration moratorium bill to reduce refugee/asylum fraud (Stump).
Rep. Sessions cosponsored H.R. 41, bill that called for deep reductions in all categories of immigration. It would limit refugee admissions and asylee adjustments to a total of 25,000 annually and require that refugees and asylees reside legally in the United States for five years before they could apply for adjustment to permanent resident status. Overall, H.R.41 would have reduced immigration by almost 5.5 million over a ten-year period.

2000: Signed a letter opposing a massive illegal alien amnesty. Representative Sessions, with 52 other Republican Representatives, signed a letter to Speaker of the House, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), expressing opposition to an effort to attach an illegal-alien amnesty to an end-of-session appropriations bill.

1999-2000: Cosponsored a bill to stop rewarding illegal alien mothers by giving citizenship to their babies (Bilbray).
Rep. Sessions co-soponsored H.R. 73, which would have denied U.S. citizenship to more than 200,000 *anchor babies* born in the United States each year to illegal immigrants. Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) (R-Calif.) was the main sponsor of this bill.

1999-2000: Voted for the Traficant Amendment to authorize the use of the military on the border.
Rep. Sessions voted to authorize the Secretary of Defense, under certain circumstances, to assign members of the military to assit the Border Patrol in their efforts. The Traficant Amendment to H.R. 1401, sponsored by Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio), passed by a vote of 242-181.