Rep. Labrador On Immigration Action: 'This Is Illegal'

One voice chiming in against President Obama's expected immigration announcement is Rep. Raul Labrador, a Republican from Idaho.

Labrador is backed by the Tea Party, part of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute, and a former immigration lawyer who represented undocumented residents fighting deportation.

He spoke with NPR's Melissa Block ahead of the president's speech, in which Obama is set to announce executive action granting temporary relief to some of the more than 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

The first thing we need to explain to the American people is that this is illegal. And the president has been saying for three years that he did not have the authority to do this and all of a sudden in the last year he decided that he did have the authority. So the question is, when did he change his opinion?

You know, I don't think too many people are bringing up the impeachment issue. I think there are other avenues we can take.

The question is, is the president willing to shut down the government so he can commit an illegal act? [We] don't want to shut down the government; there's no Republican that wants to do that in my opinion. Now we need to put everything on the table, and there's a lot of different avenues that we can take.

Well one of the things, I think, is Mitch McConnell should say first thing tomorrow morning that he will not allow any appointments that this administration has made. So there will be no hearings on the new attorney general, there will be no hearing on judges, there will be no hearing on anything this president wants and that he needs. I think that would be one action that we can take immediately.

I think we can look at funding, different agencies, different things, we could look at that. We can do something procedural. We can ask the president to have a comment a period before something like this major change happens. I think we can do that through asking for an administrative procedures act, put that in some sort of funding bill. That would have nothing to do with funding, that wouldn't shut down the government.

We would just be telling the president that before he takes an action like this, he has to go to the American people and ask them what they think about it just like we do with any other type of executive action.

Most everyone I met want to come here because they love this country, they think that there's better opportunities for themselves and their families. But the reality is the reason they're leaving the countries that they're leaving is because those countries are places where the rule of law is not supreme. Where they know that one prosecutor in one city or one sheriff in one city can interpret the same law a different way than somebody else does. That's exactly what's happening here. And that's what I think is the most shameful. We don't want to change the character of this nation, and I think actions like this, whether it's a Republican president or a Democratic president, actions like this make our country less strong.

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty.

OBAMA’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL AMNESTY TO MIGRANTS THAT ARE LIVING ILLEGALLY IN THE U.S.A.

After destroying the best health care system in the world, Obama is determined to grant wide amnesty to foreigners living illegally in U.S. If Obama wants to make the U.S. into another banana republic, it seems he is well underway to reaching his goal.

The Republicans must make it perfectly clear that Obama has declared a merciless war against the American workers and the middle class of America. There are 92 million of able Americans out of the work force because they cannot find employment and Obama wants to legalize and give work permits to over 11 million illegal aliens allowing them to bring here the rest of their families. In other words, another 25 or 30 million that either will compete with Americans and legal immigrants searching for scarce jobs or are going to be added to welfare, bankrupting Medicaid and the food stamp system as well as ruining even more the quality of the public schools with the massive infuse of hundreds of thousands of children without speaking English to already overburdened schools systems.

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Amnesty_Black_Employment_081114.html

Obama sold American sovereignty and jobs to illegal aliens for votes

The Wisdom of Cicero is Timeless (SEN. Cruz Senate Floor 11/20/14)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVYfPKzZY9Y&feature=youtu.be

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