Lousiana's anti immigrant atty General in business with shady labor importer

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https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_00a569d8-4f64-11ea-992d-372e997b3103.html

As Louisiana’s top prosecutor, Attorney General Jeff Landry ought to be able to sniff out a criminal from across the room.

As an elected official, Landry ought to find his $110,000-a-year job sufficiently lucrative and challenging that he doesn’t need a side gig.

As an attorney, Landry ought to know whether a construction business is supposed to register with the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors.

Friday’s deeply reported story by Bryn Stole and John Simerman suggests that Landry has failed those tests.

Landry and his brother Benjamin went into business in 2017 with a Houston labor broker named Marco Pesquera, who was being investigated at the time and later admitted he helped his clients defraud the immigration system to import more than 1,000 Mexican skilled laborers to the Gulf South. Landry and Pesquera set out to make millions by winning federal visas to bring in Mexican workers to help build a natural gas export plant in Cameron Parish.


Landry is not charged in the visa scheme, and there is no evidence he knew the feds had their eyes on Pesquera. The federal visa program is designed to overcome temporary labor shortages, and the visas Landry’s business secured were legal, if they were obtained truthfully.

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1. What that story left out...

The word “Republican.”

Because Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry IS A REPUBLICAN!