Boner on Univision: Current healthcare system should be improved, not replaced.

Boner was interview last weekend. English version...

The minority leader in the House, John Boehner, reiterated the questions to the health reform plan promoted by President Barack Obama and said the current system should be improved, not replaced.

In an interview Sunday with journalist Jorge Ramos during the program 'Al Punto', which airs on the Univision Network, the legislator added that the president lacks the votes needed for passage of the controversial initiative that, in his view, would greater interference by the government in the lives of estadounidesnes.

Boner on immigration:

Are you in favor of legalizing 12 million illegal immigrants? Is it part of your plan? Or what is your plan?
Well, listen ..

His idea, what do you think?
Well, look: All these people are here and many of them are actually working, but we are a nation of laws and law enforcement should be the first step in this process, and there is a way of letting them continue working in the United States temporarily, and if citizens want to have to do what everyone else in the world do, and apply from their countries of origin.

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What happened to the Republican Party with Hispanics? The Republicans had 44 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004 and then fell to 31 percent in the last election. Why, what happened?

Well, there are many things that influence the elections, eh. candidates, eh. have, uh. eh. much to do with it, some are more attractive than others, eh. and policy impacts the. the figures. But I think the Republican Party is a great home for Hispanics. We believe in family values, limiting the government, and I think parents should have the right to send their children to good schools. And having parents without resources in poor schools is not correct. So those are the things he believes the Republican Party and I think as it feels like the Hispanic community.

All senators who voted against Sonia Sotomayor to become judge of the Supreme Court were Republicans. As you know, Judge Sotomayor is considered a hero among many Latinos. Do you think Hispanics are going to remember this in the next election?

Maybe. But look, that it was not ethnicity, was not discussed was the fact that a woman was his judicial philosophy which he used on stage, so I understand that voting against it had nothing to do with the fact that she was Hispanic or female. If I were a middle-aged man, a white man, the vote had been equal to the type of legal history she has.

Let me return to the topic of health. Do you match what you said former President Jimmy Carter that the opposition to President Barack Obama is because he is African American?

I reject that notion completely. Listen, I said right after the presidential election was a defining moment for the United States of America have chosen an African-American president.

Americans nor the world ever thought that would happen, so it was a defining moment. But this issue of the American people's opposition has nothing to do with race issues, but with the policies he proposes. When one sees a deficit of a trillion, a stimulus, a stimulus plan that is supposed to create jobs, not create them and when we see this ambiguous proposal to tax energy and fuel and now we see that costs $ 1,700 per household, All this together with the effort to nationalize our health care system, the American people said "No!" Enough! " and that the opposition is based, so we're in the midst of a very interesting political dynamic in the United States of America.

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