Rep. Raul Labrador claims he is ‘close’ to securing votes to become the next Majority Leader

Washington Times ^ | 6-17-14 | By Seth McLaughlin

[grania]

I thought that what Labrador supports is a guest worker program. If it can be established that there are no US workers to do the work, if EVerify is the law of the land, if there’s no way for the workers to gain residency in the US beyond their contract, and if there’s no financial advantage for companies having to use guest workers, it’s not the problem. It’s actually part of the solution (ie: no excuse for invader labor)....but only with all of those conditions.

[AuH2ORepublican]

The author screwed up, and the editors missed it. But I just checked the link and they have since fixed it, with the sentence now reading: as follows:

Asked whether he is nearing the votes needed to win the job, Mr. Labrador said, “We’re close.”

[Kenny]

He wants a “guest worker program.”

Any legal program would beat the thousands of illegals currently pouring over the border. Hopefully there's ways to halt the flood in his plan.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Do you have sources for those “facts”? Some seem absurd on their face. 95% of murder warrants in L.A. are for illegal aliens? And 75% of L.A.’s most wanted are illegals? I had no idea that the crime rate among L.A.’s U.S.-born black population and U.S.-born Hispanic population had decreased so drastically over the past decade!

And it’s quite a coincidence that illegal aliens comprise 43% of all food stamp recipients, and 43% of all illegal aliens receive food stamps; is the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. really exactly equal to the number of food stamp recipients in the U.S.?

I think that we can stipulate that illegal aliens cause great damage to America’s social fabric without spouting “statistics” that can’t be confirmed and in many cases are easy to refute.

[zeestephen]

Re: “But unlike Rubio in the Senate, he walked away from the group last summer when he came to the realization that the President would never secure the border and only enforces the laws he chooses.”

Sorry, that's not correct.

Labrador walked away from the House Amnesty group because he said 11 million illegal immigrants should not get free health care after they get legal status.

I can't find a quote where he says the word “Medicaid,” but that is the only free health care I know about.

Labrador's public “concern” about Obama not enforcing the immigration laws came later, within the last six months.

He started talking about "enforcement" at exactly the same time Boehner, Cantor, and other House leaders began to say exactly the same thing.

In my opinion, Labrador's “free health care” issue was completely bogus.

No poor person in America - legal or illegal - has been legally denied medical care since Ronald Reagan was President!

[GOPJ]

“We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people,” he told reporters, according to U.S. News.

The over 300+ million of us who call this country 'home' are also 'people'...