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February 27, 2015|8:35 am

Union members and supporters march to the Michigan State Capitol building to protest against right-to-work legislation in Lansing, Michigan December 11, 2012.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Certain labor unions are among the strongest opponents of comprehensive immigration reform, according to experts at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

A Thursday panel called"Immigration: Can Conservatives Reach a Consensus," panel featured U.S. Congressman Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, Mario Lopez of the Hispanic Leadership Fund, and Alfonso Aguilar of the American Principles Project.

In his remarks, held at a meeting room at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Aguilar talked about the opposition unions had to certain immigration reform ideas.

"We have Democrats who don't want to see a guest worker program, because the unions don't want to see a guest worker program," said Aguilar.

Aguilar has long been critical those fellow Republicanswho have blocked reforms to the immigration system. Democrats also have anti-reform voices in their ranks, he pointed out in his Thursday remarks.

Aguilar cited the Bracero Program, which brought large numbers of Mexican guest workers to the United States that Aguilar said liberals opposed "because of the unions."

The reasoning given in part was that unions worked for the interests of their membership and saw the influx of new workers into the system as a threat.

(Photo: The Christian Post)

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Are Labor Unions an Enemy of Immigration Reform?