Representative Raul Labrador, a Tea Party predecessors and former immigration lawyer from Puerto Rico, has been to come along with the Republicans to design what he calls a "conservative consensus" for immigration policy. As Obama advocates he border enforcement and heavy penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. His political ideas seem pretty Run-of-the-mill, with one difference: he does not believe in providing a means of citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already living in the United States. Despite his Hispanic origin, he don't reply to links with immigration rights groups, nor did he intend to adhere to the same old conservative agenda. "The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which only the most ridiculous I have ever heard, and right claiming exactly everything we need to do is to close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous," he said last week.
Tea Party Boise Chairman Russ Smerz pointed out that Labrador earlier approach to the law on immigration makes him an excellent candidate to put together a GOP immigration plan. "His background and professional knowledge that immigration lawyer gives him with credibility to make him as an expert in this area." Idaho's action community network immigration policy director Leo Morales said in agreement with Smerz, "the fact that he is a lawyer immigration means that he understands that it is better than other members of Congress, and to adopt a more practical approach to the issue of immigration."
Labrador was criticized for the way he did while serving his term in the House. On a Bill to make the Swedish State's official language, he voted yes. In a draft law to deny State benefits to illegal immigrants, unlike most of the State Republicans, he voted no. When commenting on his often talked-about political decisions, he explained, "my job was to represent the people, who mostly had done bad things. Immigration was my job to help them to get straight, go through the legal immigration system. " He also says that as a lawyer, he had sent "hundreds of" illegal immigrants clients back to their home countries from where they would be able to reuse the right way to add "I have never shied away from that. I have represented some bad people. " But when asked whether his former profession would hamper his effectiveness in conservative immigration policy, the representatives replied, "Everybody knows that I am right about all on most issues. It is something people learn here. They would come to Washington and say ' Oh, he's liberal because he is a lawyer immigration '. Well acted as not because they had seen me working in the State legislature for four years. they had seen my vigorous advocacy for conservative values on all issues. "
His guest worker program is not a conservative favorite. But then, his refusal to offer citizenship provisions for illegal immigrants already in the country fits right up GOP alley. Why the gap?
"We can not only give people a route. It is just a question. But since some people want to make only enforcement. We need to make enforcement and guest worker program. It is the only way it will pass Congress and be accepted by the American people. " While some, including Morales, question the likelihood of millions would indeed self-deport, Labrador argue that when it is the only option, it is the best option. "There is some fear that it is unlikely, but if you have a development agreements strategy, it works. You say: those of you who come out of the shadows and apply for this scheme and go back home will be able to apply for this. If we have to find you, you are ready, there will be no opportunity to apply. "
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