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NewsNow: Barletta proposes measure on immigrant children - News - Standard Speaker

U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-11, said today that he will introduce a bill that will give municipalities and states a say in whether the federal government can house immigrant children in their communities through programs that have brought at least 456 young people to five centers in Pennsylvania and four teenagers to the Hazleton Area School District.

As upwards of 60,000 children and teenagers streamed across the southern border this year.

(The bill is called the Unaccompanied Alien Children Transparency Act. that Barletta said he will introduce next week would require The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would be required to disclose to states and localities any contracts which would bring immigrant children to their communities. the children must also have health screenings and vaccinations.)  For more information visit:

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Congressman Barletta Reacts to Border Crisis

 

WASHINGTON – Congressman Lou Barletta, PA-11, today successfully amended legislation that reauthorizes the Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) to require a report on unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border to include information on the impact on CBP.  Barletta’s amendment, which was approved and incorporated into H.R. 3846, expands a required CBP report to include information on Border Patrol resources spent to care for unaccompanied alien children in their custody, including any operational or policy challenges impacting the Border Patrol.  Barletta made the change during a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security, of which he is a member.

 

“As a father and grandfather, I would not wish upon anyone the anguish that must come from sending an unaccompanied alien minor to another country.  Sending minors on a path to be dumped on the border exposes them to human traffickers, who must notice this new crop of potential candidates for the sex trade or slavery.  Likewise, these minors are prime recruitment candidates for violent gangs,” Barletta said.  “U.S. Border Patrol is having a difficult time just keeping their heads above water in this flood of unaccompanied alien children, and this amendment would seek detailed information on the level of effort and amount of resources expended by CBP to manage this crisis.”

 

In recent days, thousands of unaccompanied children have been amassing at the border between the United States and Mexico, largely from Central American countries, including Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.  Overflowing holding centers have been opened to accommodate the influx, and Border Patrol agents have been pressed into duties outside their normal responsibilities.  Some of the refugees report that news broadcasts in their home countries have told them they could enter America with impunity, even though they lack appropriate legal documentation for entering the country.  

 

“In large part, the Administration’s immigration policies are enticing alarming levels of unaccompanied alien children to enter the United States illegally, and this influx has completely overwhelmed Federal resources, turning U.S. Border Patrol offices into day care centers,” Barletta said.  “Our agents should not be babysitters.  They should be doing the job they are trained to do-- protect our borders. Asking them to do otherwise is an operational flaw.”

 

Barletta has been warning that the conditions surrounding illegal immigration have been encouraging people from other countries to illegally cross the border.  He believes a spike in illegal immigration was foreseeable. 

 

“Three things have been contributing to the crisis we now face with those unaccompanied children at the border,” Barletta said.  “First, we haven’t secured and don’t enforce our borders.  Second, we have a president who openly refuses to enforce the law and enacts the DREAM Act without Congressional approval.  And third, Congress has dangled the possibility of amnesty for illegal immigrants for so long that there might as well be a big welcome mat at the border

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Statement of Rep. Lou Barletta Regarding Release of Illegal Aliens

From:    Tim.Murtaugh@mail.house.gov

 Statement of Rep. Lou Barletta Regarding Release of Illegal Aliens

WASHINGTON – Congressman Lou Barletta, PA-11, today released the following statement regarding the release of illegal immigrants in advance of sequestration:

“This reminds me of Fidel Castro’s release of criminals in the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. 

 “We learned today that the Obama Administration summarily released untold numbers of inmates, in what was defended as a cost-savings in advance of the sequestration deadline.  This is unacceptable, irresponsible and reckless.

 “If this is the best cost-savings that Secretary Napolitano can do, then we have to begin to seriously question her judgment.

“We also are expected to believe that the White House had no knowledge of this.  How many times will the administration claim to know nothing about what goes on within its own walls? 

 “How many criminals have now been released on our streets?  And the president shrugs his shoulders and pretends that someone else is responsible.  At a certain point, President Obama must take ownership of what goes on in his own administration.”

 FROM:  Tim.Murtaugh@mail.house.gov

 Rep. Barletta Bill to Protect DHS Agents Who Do Their Jobs

WASHINGTON – Congressman Lou Barletta, PA-11, today reintroduced legislation (H.R. 692) to protect agents of the Department of Homeland Security who attempt to perform their duties in light of the infamous memorandum from Secretary Janet Napolitano.  Under the edicts of the memorandum, dated June 15, 2012, DHS agents were directed to ignore duly passed laws designed to enforce immigration laws.  Rep. Barletta had previously introduced the bill in 2012. 

“As someone who has been a mayor and had to deal with the problem of illegal immigration, this memo really makes me irate,” Rep. Barletta said.  “There are good men and women in the service of this country who are simply attempting to do their jobs and enforce our immigration laws.  For the federal government to tell them that they shouldn’t do so should cause outrage in every corner of this nation.” 

Under the legislation, DHS employees who enforce federal immigration law and ignore Secretary Napolitano’s memorandum could not lose their job, federal benefits, be denied a promotion, or other similar benefit. 

In today’s Washington Times, Chris Crane, the head of the ICE employees union, said, “ICE recently proposed a three-day suspension for an ICE agent who arrested an illegal alien with multiple convictions for driving without a license and who was attempting to operate a vehicle in the agent’s presence.  While seeking disciplinary action against the agent, ICE simply released the alien without charge, putting yet another unlicensed driver behind the wheel.” 

It is Rep. Barletta’s position that federal agents should not be prevented from or punished for doing their jobs.“These people are sworn to protect us as Americans,” Barletta said.  “Does it make sense to anyone that they should be punished for doing so?”-30-

Federal appeals court vacates ruling on Hazleton case - News - Standard Speaker

Federal appeals court vacates ruling on Hazleton case - News - Standard Speaker: "The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a mandate that declares Hazleton's immigration ordinance unconstitutional, the mayor confirmed Tuesday.

The development comes after the U.S. Supreme Court in June ordered the federal appeals court in Philadelphia to take another look at Hazleton'"

BBC News - Aztecas gang boss Gallegos 'admits Mexico murders'

"Mexican police have arrested an alleged leader of the Aztecas street gang that is blamed for much of the violence in Ciudad Juarez on the US-Mexico border.

Arturo Gallegos Castrellon was captured at the weekend in Juarez, which has seen some 2,700 murders this year." Visit: BBC News - Aztecas gang boss Gallegos 'admits Mexico murders':

AFP: Three Americans killed in Mexico's murder capital

"WASHINGTON — Three Americans were fatally shot over the weekend in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's notorious murder capital and a focal point of its brutal drug violence, US officials said.
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GOPUSA » Commentary » Sowell: The Multicultural Cult

We kidded ourselves for a while," Chancellor Merkel said, but now it was clear that the attempt to build a society where people of very different languages and cultures could "live side-by-side" and "enjoy each other" has "failed, utterly failed."

This is not a lesson for Germany alone. Read more: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2010/10/sowell-the-multicultural-cult.php#ixzz12qE5rXxFGOPUSA » Commentary » Sowell: The Multicultural Cult