Eric Flores, a Republican Army veteran and lawyer from Mission, announced Monday he is running for Texas’ 34th Congressional District, targeting Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen in a swing seat carried by President Donald Trump last year.

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Eric Flores is an Army veteran and lawyer.

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- Aims to lower the cost of living.
- Wants to protect seniors' benefits.

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- Seeks to defend water resources.
- Supports U.S. energy independence.

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There, he prosecuted transnational human smuggling along the border — an issue he hopes to raise in the election. “I was prosecuting at a time when there were thousands and thousands of undocumented aliens coming into the U.S.,” Flores said in an interview. “They're here unlawfully, and [we were] just, quite frankly, letting them in. It's policies like that that I want to go to D.C. and change.”

But Flores is not as hardline as some members of his party. He said he wants to push for immigration policy that makes sense for a region that has struggled with labor shortages, especially as the Trump administration’s immigration raids targeting undocumented workers have ramped up. “Something that I'm going to be championing in D.C. is to ensure — especially [for] our farmers, for our boat manufacturers, for our steel mills that we have down here — that they have the workers that they need, having an efficient legal process for that,” he said.

Calls for changing policies he says allow undocumented immigrants to enter the U.S. unlawfully.

Calls for decreasing the amount of undocumented immigrants entering the U.S.

Advocates for an efficient legal immigration process to help South Texas employers obtain needed workers.

- Calls for decreasing the amount of undocumented immigrants entering the U.S.
- Advocates for an efficient legal immigration process to help South Texas employers obtain needed workers.
- Wants to advocate for veterans.

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Eric Flores is from the Rio Grande Valley. He has a bachelor 27s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He and his wife, Victoria, have two children. 

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