Raul Labrador: GOP Can't Pass Immigration Reform

Malign0n · 10-16-2013, 10:46 PM

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As Congress works toward a final deal that reopens the government and narrowly averts the debt ceiling crisis, President Obama has made clear he intends to redouble efforts on immigration reform. Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID), once a key Republican in immigration talks, does not intend on making that easy. Declaring immigration reform is dead, Labrador told the Huffington Post that the House cannot pass any bill, comprehensive or piecemeal, because that would let Obama win again after he came out on top over the debt ceiling.
“For us to go to a negotiation, to the negotiating table with President Obama after what he has done over the last two and a half weeks, I think would be probably a very big mistake,” he said, according to the Huffington Post. Even if the House were to pass a piecemeal bill based on GOP demands, Labrador said “it would be crazy” to go to conference with the Senate’s passed version because Senate Majority Leader Harry Read negotiates in a take-no prisoners style.
His theory why Obama will pivot to immigration reform is to deliver a final blow to Republicans reeling from the latest fiscal crises:
“I think what he has done over the past two and a half weeks — he’s trying to destroy the Republican party. I think that anything we do right now with this president on immigration will be with that same goal in mind, which is to destroy the Republican party and not to get good policies.”
Labrador abandoned the House Gang of Eight on immigration in early June, under a similar premise that negotiations brought him nowhere. As a former immigration attorney, he also promised to have immigration reform done “by the end of this year.” Before that, he flatly rejected a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, even though it has broad support from his own party.
Far from destroying the GOP, comprehensive immigration reform with citizenship would help lawmakers reach nonwhite voters that count as a growing share of the voter population. Recent polls in predominantly Hispanic districts confirm that roughly 70 percent of voters would like to see the Senate plan adopted.
However, Labrador maintains that fixing the immigration system is “not worth it” if House Republicans must compromise.

Source: ThinkProgress http://thinkprogress.org/immigration...obama-destroy/

VeryNicePerson1 · 10-16-2013, 10:52 PM

What a fucking cry baby repube...

Malign0n · 10-16-2013, 11:01 PM

It's kind of a revelation about how they [GOP] truly feel towards CIR

VeryNicePerson1 · 10-16-2013, 11:17 PM

I think its kind of a revelation about how they truly feel towards Obama. (Sure everyone knows how they feel, but articles like this is revealing outright they're hateful thinking)

They really really don't like him, and they clearly stated in this article they don't want him "winning"...they think this is a game, they're going to treat this like a game, until they are voted out and finally stop seeing their $100,000 salary coming in for doing nothing but stalling, crying, obstructing, and hating on the POTUS.

zone2oo0 · 10-16-2013, 11:44 PM

We've all known this, just because obama is not on their side, they will try to do whatever it takes to not pass CIR. ITS OK PEOPLE! they're showing us how they really care about us. It'll come back and bite them in the ass. Mark these words, it'll come back and bite them in the ass.

Demise · 10-17-2013, 07:42 AM

They take Obamacare hostage and act like crybabies because Dems just bitchslapped them over their faces.

Imagine democrats demanding immigration or they'll crash the economy into the ground?

DreamBig09 · 10-17-2013, 08:01 AM

no hope to the repubs lol

Happyman0607 · 10-17-2013, 10:58 AM

The repubic hairs will lose the house next election, I would be stupefied if they don't tbh

CIR_DREAM2009 · 10-17-2013, 11:22 AM

The highlighted in red quote makes Rep. Labrador sound delusional. This guy is a representative of Congress?

bertdude7 · 10-17-2013, 11:48 AM

Hes not the first person to mention that Obama's goal is to destroy the GOP, but from the looks of it the GOP are doing a fine job destroying themselves.

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