{"id":1374231,"date":"2022-03-13T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1374231"},"modified":"2022-03-13T10:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:50:53","slug":"exclusive-gubernatorial-candidate-lou-barletta-illegal-immigration-ends-when-im-governor-of-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-gubernatorial-candidate-lou-barletta-illegal-immigration-ends-when-im-governor-of-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Gubernatorial Candidate Lou Barletta: Illegal Immigration &#039;Ends When I\u2019m Governor of Pennsylvania&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-gubernatorial-candidate-lou-barletta-illegal-immigration-ends-when-im-governor-of-pennsylvania%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1374231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Former congressman and leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Lou Barletta (R-PA) told <em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em> that as governor, he will use all powers available to him to stop illegal immigration, noting that many in the GOP do not have the backbone to stand against the radical left\u2019s illegal immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>Recent polls show the Republican primary race as very much a two-man battle between himself and State Sen. Doug Mastriano. But with Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf (D) leaving office, Republicans have a clear chance to flip the governor\u2019s mansion. Recent polls, Barletta said, are a \u201creflection on what we\u2019re seeing on the ground,\u201d as he has a \u201chuge grassroots campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPeople know who I am,\u201d he said, noting that they can look at his record. Many remember the actions he took as the mayor of Hazleton, where he was essentially the first mayor to \u201cstand up and fight against illegal immigration,\u201d and he believes that is the kind of fighter they are looking for again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see so many politicians making campaign promises, and they get in and become part of the problem and disappoint people,\u201d Barletta said. \u201cThey want a fighter. They saw me on the national stage as a mayor of a small town and do something that nobody else in the country had the courage to do, and I really do believe that\u2019s part of why we\u2019re in front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As mayor, he prioritized fighting sanctuary city policies and the drugs pouring into his city.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t talk about it. I actually did something about it,\u201d he said, noting that he was elected in 2000 and watched as the town was \u201covercome by illegal immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur population grew by 50 percent, but our tax revenue stayed the same,\u201d he said, describing gangs moving in and recruiting children. Emergency times also increased as illegal aliens used emergency rooms as primary health care. Barletta, at the time, asked for help as violent crime went up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5478812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2016\/11\/GettyImages-2193565.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">YURI CORTEZ\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t find an elected official anywhere in Pennsylvania,\u201d he said, ultimately going to Washington, DC, and meeting with the Department of Justice in 2005. He \u201cbegged them for help\u201d but realized \u201cno one there was going to help, either.\u201d Ultimately, Barletta took matters into his own hands and moved to suspend the license of \u201cany business that knowingly hired an illegal alien because it is illegal to hire unlawful workers.\u201d He added, \u201cI would also suspend the license of any landlord who knowingly harbored or rented to illegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, illegals represented by ACLU sued him, and he fought it to the Supreme Court. But many cities across the country followed what he did in Hazleton, and he battled for it in Congress as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately for us, I found out that even on our own side, people don\u2019t like to talk about it, but they didn\u2019t have the backbone or courage to do something about it, and look at the mess we have today,\u201d he said, explaining that\u00a0most politicians do not want to tackle issues regarding immigration because they will be called a racist or bigot. But he said as governor, he will have a lot more power to do something about the issue. Barletta added that he recently called out President\u00a0Joe Biden, Gov. Tom Wolf (D), and State Attorney General Josh Shapiro over the \u201cghost flights\u201d of illegals coming in the dead of the night, \u201cdumping them all over Pennsylvania\u201d without any knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that fentanyl\u00a0deaths have hit a record high and \u201cwe know the fentanyl is coming from the southern border.\u201d Yet Pennsylvania officials are continuing to allow Biden to dump illegal aliens in the Keystone State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat ends when I\u2019m governor of Pennsylvania. I will go after anyone who aids \u2014 what I think is human trafficking here into Pennsylvania \u2014 dumping people without our knowledge into our communities,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll go after the buses or anybody that helps relocate people who are illegally being brought into Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Barletta also said he will go after every sanctuary city \u201cwith every resource that [he has] in [his] power to protect the citizens of Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former congressman also vowed to unleash energy in Pennsylvania as governor, noting that the Russian invasion of Ukraine \u201chighlights Biden\u2019s failure on our energy policy\u201d \u2014 a major national security issue, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Pennsylvania is the answer to that. We have more energy in Pennsylvania than countries around the world, in the Middle East. We can be a global leader, and we will be when I become governor,\u201d Barletta said, vowing to drop the state out of the\u00a0Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to greenlight pipelines when I\u2019m governor. We\u2019re going to reform DEP [Department of Environmental Protection],\u201d which, he said, they used as a weapon to stop natural gas companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPennsylvania is the answer to our national security issues, and when I\u2019m governor, we\u2019ll be a global leader again,\u201d he promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former congressman and leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Lou Barletta (R-PA) told Breitbart News Saturday that as governor, he will use all powers available to him to stop illegal immigration, noting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}