
GOP Lawmakers Unveil Plan to Defund Refugee Program, ‘Keep Terrorists Out’
A group of Republican House members have introduced legislation that would temporarily suspend the refugee resettlement program by blocking its funding.

A group of Republican House members have introduced legislation that would temporarily suspend the refugee resettlement program by blocking its funding.

“Every day it seems there is more disturbing news about holes in our immigration system. There is no question that illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes should be entered into the Sex Offender Registry, but in reality they should be deported,” Barletta said in a statement to Breitbart News.

Barletta’s bill, the Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Act, would strip federal funding for a minimum of one year to any state or locality that has laws or policies in place obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration law. The jurisdiction would only regain their federal funding once the attorney general verifies full compliance.

“My heart breaks for the family and friends of Kate Steinle, as they have seen a promising young life ended too soon, and the suspect is a criminal who should never have been in this country in the first place” Barletta said in a statement Monday. “That her accused killer is a seven-time felon, was deported five times, and was prevented from being deported a sixth by San Francisco policies, is as maddening as it is inexplicable.”

A Pennsylvania district court’s ruling that President Obama’s actions are “unconstitutional” is a positive development and likely the first of many court rebukes, according to Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA). “Though this is the first of presumably many court rulings

On Thursday, Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) said that President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty will only encourage employers to replace American workers with illegal immigrants who will be exempt from Obamacare mandates. On the House floor, Barletta, who has introduced the Defense

With President Barack Obama poised to move on executive amnesty, a Republican House member is looking to block any illegal immigrant beneficiaries from obtaining work permits. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) introduced legislation Thursday — the day Obama is set to

The government solicitation for contractors that can provide material for millions of green cards and work permits is proof that the wheels of President Obama’s executive amnesty are already in motion, according to Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA). “The president has

The Obama administration claimed Sunday that illegal immigrants flooding across the border from Central America are not dangerous, despite numerous reports of gangsters and criminals being apprehended at the border. On ABC’s This Week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) believes the border crisis is not a national security threat, despite gangsters having already been apprehended along the United States-Mexico border. In fact, Jackson Lee waved a bag of lollipops during a Thursday House Homeland

The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance mandate requires any employer with more than 50 employees to offer health insurance to its workers. While the negative impact on small businesses is well known, a more sinister side effect of the implemented

No law enforcement officials or representatives spoke to endorse the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill on Thursday at the group’s Capitol Hill press conference announcing it. Instead, at the “Gang of Eight” press conference, as USA Today reported they would

Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) said at a Thursday press conference that the concept of a “path to citizenship” being promoted by those pushing immigration reform is a sign to him that they are not actually trying to solve the problems