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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Has Jeff Landry resigned yet?

Can't imagine anyone would have the nerve to keep showing up and claiming to be the top law enforcement agent in the state in light of this sort of thing.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who has railed against loose borders and lax immigration policies during his four years as the state’s top lawman, went into business in 2017 with a Houston labor broker named Marco Pesquera, who had become rich by helping his clients defraud the immigration system to import more than 1,000 Mexican laborers to the Gulf South.

They set out to make millions by winning federal approval to bring in hundreds of skilled Mexican construction workers to help build a massive liquefied natural gas terminal in Cameron Parish.

The Cameron LNG plant is subsidized by one of the largest Industrial Tax Exemptions in the state, by the way.  Landry isn't just profiting from a scheme to traffic exploited Mexican workers and drive down wages in Louisiana. He's also indirectly helping Cameron rip off the state in the process.

Anyway this story broke almost a week ago now. At the time it seemed pretty obvious what ought to happen next
Labor unions that have been left out of major construction projects in southwest Louisiana are blasting Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry after The Times-Picayune |The Advocate reported Friday that companies owned by Landry or his brother brought in hundreds of Mexican workers to handle the jobs instead.

He needs to resign,” said Dennis Miller, who represents Laborers Local 99 in Louisiana and Mississippi. “You have a guy who represents Louisiana, supposed to represent the people to uplift our state, and doing something like this … It’s just unacceptable.”
I know time kind of feels stopped right now in the middle of Mardi Gras and all but there should have been enough time for this to have gotten done by now. 

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