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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 that many in the GOP do not have the backbone to stand against the radical lefts illegal immigration policies.

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 governors mansion. Recent polls, Barletta said, are a reflection on what were seeing on the ground, as he has a huge grassroots campaign.

People know who I am, 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 stand up and fight against illegal immigration, and he believes that is the kind of fighter they are looking for again.

We see so many politicians making campaign promises, and they get in and become part of the problem and disappoint people, Barletta said. They 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 thats part of why were in front.

As mayor, he prioritized fighting sanctuary city policies and the drugs pouring into his city.

I didnt talk about it. I actually did something about it, he said, noting that he was elected in 2000 and watched as the town was overcome by illegal immigrants.

Our population grew by 50 percent, but our tax revenue stayed the same, 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.

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I couldnt find an elected official anywhere in Pennsylvania, he said, ultimately going to Washington, DC, and meeting with the Department of Justice in 2005. He begged them for help but realized no one there was going to help, either. Ultimately, Barletta took matters into his own hands and moved to suspend the license of any business that knowingly hired an illegal alien because it is illegal to hire unlawful workers. He added, I would also suspend the license of any landlord who knowingly harbored or rented to illegal aliens.

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.

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Unfortunately for us, I found out that even on our own side, people dont like to talk about it, but they didnt have the backbone or courage to do something about it, and look at the mess we have today, he said, explaining thatmost 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 PresidentJoe Biden, Gov. Tom Wolf (D), and State Attorney General Josh Shapiro over the ghost flights of illegals coming in the dead of the night, dumping them all over Pennsylvania without any knowledge.

He also noted that fentanyldeaths have hit a record high and we know the fentanyl is coming from the southern border. Yet Pennsylvania officials are continuing to allow Biden to dump illegal aliens in the Keystone State.

That ends when Im governor of Pennsylvania. I will go after anyone who aids what I think is human trafficking here into Pennsylvania dumping people without our knowledge into our communities, he said. Ill go after the buses or anybody that helps relocate people who are illegally being brought into Pennsylvania.

Barletta also said he will go after every sanctuary city with every resource that [he has] in [his] power to protect the citizens of Pennsylvania.

The former congressman also vowed to unleash energy in Pennsylvania as governor, noting that the Russian invasion of Ukraine highlights Bidens failure on our energy policy a major national security issue, he said.

And 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, Barletta said, vowing to drop the state out of theRegional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Were going to greenlight pipelines when Im governor. Were going to reform DEP [Department of Environmental Protection], which, he said, they used as a weapon to stop natural gas companies.

Pennsylvania is the answer to our national security issues, and when Im governor, well be a global leader again, he promised.

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(The Center Square) Florida joined a multi-state coalition led by Texas suing the Biden administration for reinstating an Obama-era program that allows illegal immigrants to enter and remain in the U.S., bypassing laws established by Congress.

In addition to Texas and Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Alaska joined the lawsuit over the Biden administration's reinstating a 2014-era Central America Minors (CAM) Program that was halted by the Trump administration in 2017.

The lawsuit announcement came after attorneys general from 12 states, all Republicans, participated in a border summit in the McAllen, Texas, area hosted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody attended the summit and met with law enforcement officials about the dramatic overrun of the border brought on by President Joe Bidens reckless immigration policies the impact of which is resulting in public safety ramifications for citizens and taxpayers far beyond U.S. states that border Mexico, she said.

After seeing the chaos in person, it is even more clear to me now that Biden and [Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas are building their own illegal organization to transport illegal immigrants into and around our country thumbing their noses at federal laws. I will not only work aggressively to stop these illegal acts, but I will continue to inform Floridians about what their federal government is actually doing, and the dangers associated with those decisions, she added.

This was the second time Moody has been to the border with Paxton, after having attended a border summit in Del Rio last year about the joint efforts between Florida and Texas in Operation Lone Star. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott discussed the border security initiative. At the time, DeSantis said he was astonished to learn of how many illegal immigrants being apprehended said their final destination, after coming through the southern border, was Florida.

Florida, like Texas, sued the administration over its immigration policies last year, as well as over vaccine mandates.

Of this latest lawsuit, DeSantis said he was glad AG Moody was helping to block the reckless immigration policies of the Biden administration.

The Biden administration continues to disregard the laws of this country and allow massive numbers of illegal aliens across the border, without regard to possible criminal backgrounds or connections to illicit activity, DeSantis said. Not only are these illegal aliens allowed free reign in this country, but the administration also pushes the burden and costs onto the states and ignores the consequences of its policies.

The CAM program provides certain minors who entered the U.S. illegally the ability to secure protected status instead of being deported. The status then enables them to petition the government to bring in extended family members, including adult caregivers, from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, without going through the proper legal channels, Moody said. CAM applies to illegal immigrants with a pending claim for asylum, though many may not be granted asylum or show up to their hearings, she added.

There is no authority in federal law for this sort of program, the AGs who sued argue, as Congress never authorized it.

The Biden administration reinstating CAM, the lawsuit argues, usurps the power of Congress to dictate a national scheme of immigration laws and is contrary to the Immigration Naturalization Act.

The Biden administration launched the program last March and expanded and revised it last June. It announced it would first begin processing eligible applications that were closed when CAM was terminated in 2017, and then begin accepting new applications with new guidance.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Mayorkas said reinstating CAM was responsible and another component of the Presidents multi-pronged approach to address the challenges of irregular migration throughout North and Central America. Blinken and Mayorkas said they were proud to expand access to the program to a greater number of qualifying individuals.

Those eligible for the program, they said, include legal guardians and parents who are in the U.S. illegally under withholding of removal status, deferred enforced departure status, deferred action, on parole, have temporary protected status or lawful permanent residence.

The changes will dramatically expand access to the CAM program, Blinken and Mayorkas said, adding that they were firmly committed to welcoming people to the United States with humanity and respect, as well as providing a legal alternative to irregular migration. We are delivering on our promise to promote safe, orderly, and humane migration from Central America through this expansion of legal pathways to seek humanitarian protection in the United States.

The AGs argues that most individuals in the program dont qualify as refugees and instead of the program being used on a case-by-case basis, depending on urgent humanitarian-related circumstances or significant public benefit, its being applied on a broad scale. Its arbitrary and capricious, the AGs argue, and violates the presidents duty to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed.

The complaint highlights the harm the program is causing Floridians by unlawfully admitting illegal immigrants into Florida, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

Florida spends more than $100 million every year incarcerating people who are in the U.S. illegally and commit crimes, the complaint states. This is in addition to the untold number of public benefits illegal immigrants receive, regardless of their immigration status, including education, emergency medical services and victims services.

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Houston, Texas, is one of the rare, nice big cities left in this country. A little hot in the summer, but great people, very pretty neighborhoods and a lot going on. Thanks to the energy sector, biotech and aerospace, Houston has an enormous and still robust economy. It is hardly some dying mill town in the Northeast or the Upper Midwest. Your kids might want to move to Houston someday, maybe after college. It's not Baltimore.

But all of a sudden Houston, Texas is starting to look a little more like Baltimore. Crime in Houston has gotten scary. The murder rate there has risen by more than 50% in just the last year. It's bad. Here's a local news report:

MATTHEW SEEDORFF, KRIV REPORTER: A deadly start to the year across Houston. Police investing at least 41 homicides through 24 days. So far this year Houston has more murders than New York City, Los Angeles, even Chicago.

DOUGLAS GRIFFITH, HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION PRESIDENT: Its one of those things where Im fearful just for my family to go out of the house.

MATTHEW SEEDORFF, KRIV REPORTER: The president of the Houston Police Officers union frustrated.

DOUGLAS GRIFFITH, HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION PRESIDENT: If it keeps up this pace we are going to be well over 500 murders this year.

I'm fearful just for my family to go outside the house. As you heard, that was the president of the police union in Houston, so he would know. It's amazing this is happening in all places in Houston, and what's so telling about this crime wave is how recently it began.

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Murders in Houston started to spike in a big way after Joe Biden became president. Why is that exactly? Very simple answer: Joe Biden opened the southern border. Texas shares more than 1,200 miles of border with Mexico. There is a brutal cartel war underway in Mexico right now. It's been going on for a long time. Many of the combatants in that war have now moved north into Texas. They brought drugs with them. They've also brought machine guns.

Migrants are seen at the Rio Grande near the Del Rio-Acuna Port of Entry in Del Rio, Texas. (nternational Bridge, whPhoto by Charlie C. Peebles/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

This fall, a felon opened fire on Houston police officers with a fully automatic rifle. You hear a lot about assault weapons. But the truth is authorities don't see fully automatic weapon weapons very often. They are heavily regulated, and typically they're owned by collectors.

But automatic weapons are very common in war zones, and there is a war in Mexico. So, with no border in place, the cartels are bringing their armaments here. There are firefights in Houston.

POLICE OFFICER:It's Houston police. Let's do this the easy (gunshots in the background).

That's automatic weapons, fire. It sounds like Syria or Mexico, but it's an apartment complex in Houston, Texas. We could go on if you know anybody who lives in Houston. Call and ask, How has your city changed recently? And they'll tell you. Open borders did this, Houston didn't do it to itself, this was done to Houston and not just to Houston, to so many places across this country where millions of illegal aliens have flooded in during Joe Biden's presidency.

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On Monday, for example, more than 100 illegal Haitian migrants landed in the Florida Keys in a single boat. Instances like this are no longer uncommon in the state of Florida. The world is coming to America's shores. Why? Because they're fully aware that the Biden administration is rewarding foreign nationals for violating our federal immigration law. It is an invasion.

Huge numbers of Americans are dying as a result of that invasion. 100,000 dead last year of drug addicts. Most were killed by fentanyl that is trucked in from Mexico across open borders. Long term, there are massive labor market disruptions, there is evaporating social cohesion and so on. The costs of this have been beyond calculating, and this is exactly why no sane country opens its borders ever, ever, anywhere.

What Joe Biden is doing right now has never been done, and it's about to get much worse. We're not guessing. Currently, a Trump era regulation called Title 42 allows the Border Patrol to turn illegal migrants back to Mexico on the grounds that there's a pandemic in progress, so we probably shouldn't let millions of people infected with COVID move here without permission. Seems sensible. But according to Democrats, this rule is racist because it might slow the human wave of migration. So for months, they've been demanding that the Biden administration suspend this rule.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER: Iurge President Biden and Secretary Mallorca's to immediately put a stop to these expulsions and to end this Title 42 policy at our southern border. We cannot continue these hateful and xenophobic Trump policies.

REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE: In addition, a relic, Title 42, exists. It is a relic of the Trump administration. It was created to be mean-spirited. Title 42, I ask for a suspension of it.

SEN. ALEX PADILLA: I urge the Biden administration and my colleagues to remember the refugees who are waiting at our border, kept out by the cruel and unnecessary Title 42 policy.

SEN. BOB MENENDEZ: Look, Title 42 is being used in a way that I think is indiscriminate and that violates the basic essence of our law. But this process that the Biden administration has continued from the Trump administration in my mind is really inexcusable.

So, your kid has to wear a mask in school, but illegal aliens get to come here with no restrictions at all, despite the fact they may be infected with COVID because otherwise you're a racist.

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That's the case they were making, and so finally, inevitably, the Biden administration has caved. Turns out even trying to maintain basic public health standards is unacceptable if it gets in the way of increasing mass immigration. Title 42 is being nullified.

A similar rule you should know will still apply to you. American citizens are not exempt to this day. You as a citizen are not allowed to return to the United States without permission from the CDC. Rochelle Walensky will sign off on that. So coming back to the country you were born in is no longer your birthright. But illegal aliens now face no barriers at all. And of course, they know it. Everyone knows it. It's not their fault. It's our president's fault.

Migrants, many from Haiti, are seen at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

According to Axios, "U.S. intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive influx of more than 170,000 migrants at the Mexico border" now that Title 42 is ending.

So the wave grows, the total transformation of this country accelerates. So we've been very passive in the face of this, people make grumpy noises about it, no one's done anything. How should we respond?

Well, the same way we respond to any other invasion. With the U.S. military. That's why countries have militaries to stop invasions, and this would not be a hard invasion to stop. Our military could seal the border with Mexico in days. That would save American lives. It would restore order. And it would end the invasion.

Does that sound crazy like a misuse of the U.S. military? Well, keep in mind that Nancy Pelosi called in the US.. military to protect her from Trump voters at the U.S. Capitol. She treated our soldiers like her personal security detail.

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And then, of course, at this very moment, we are sending thousands of American troops and billions in military American military hardware to Eastern Europe to help Ukrainians restore their borders. So the obvious question is: Why not here? Why not take America's safety, your family's safety, as seriously as Nancy Pelosi takes her own safety?

That seems like a fair question. Probably not Russian disinformation. Probably an honest question. We spoke to Rep. Maria Salazar in Miami last night, and we asked that question of her. She refused to answer.

TUCKER: I just can't help notice the contrast between your desire to send MiGs to Ukraine to preserve its borders, but not here. Should we send the U.S. military to the Mexican border, since you have admitted that tens of millions of people have come here illegally, that our borders are porous? They're not defended, they're open. Should we send the U.S. military to the Mexican border?

SALAZAR: That is why I have created a whole plan, so we can really seal the border, because you know what? My community, the ones that I represent

TUCKER: Would you call for sending

SALAZAR: Let me finish. Let me finish

TUCKER: Do you represent America, if I could say?

TUCKER: I'm asking question of borders. All of us are appalled by the violation of Ukraine's borders. You don't seem as appalled by the violation of our borders by tens of millions of people. So let me ask you for the third time.

SALAZAR: Sure, I do. That's a misrepresentation.

TUCKER: You support military equipment -- okay, then, would you support the U.S. military securing the United States border tonight or on the same timetable as sending MiGs to Ukraine? How about that?

SALAZAR: That's hypothetical again.

Oh, it's hypothetical. I've got a plan, right? How many plans have you heard about from Republicans for, say, the past twenty-five years? Many, many, many.

To restate this is a highly dangerous situation that the Biden administration has placed our country in. Mexico, whatever its merits, is in the middle of a war, not a new war, a war that has raged on for more than a decade, a war that has likely killed more than 100,000 people so far.

There are videos of trucks burning in the town of Nuevo Laredo. That's just feet from the U.S. border in the state of Texas. The video is the aftermath with three hour gun battle between cartels and government forces. The situation there is so chaotic that the trucks just burn in the middle of the road. No one comes to put out the fires to restore order to arrest anyone.

So that's not a law enforcement action. That's a war. That's what wars are like. A few years ago, the Sinaloa cartel used heavy machine guns and armored vehicles to win a pitched battle against the Mexican military. That's a war, a civil war. Feet from our border. That's the country Joe Biden opened our border to. It's insanity.

And yet somehow our Congress cannot be bothered to notice this, any of it, even as millions stream across. Murder victims in Houston, apparently don't have influential social media accounts, so Kevin McCarthy doesn't know that they exist. And that's a shame because when he sees that on Tik Tok, he acts.

Here's McCarthy demanding we send military equipment across the world to stop the invasion of another country:

KEVIN MCCARTHY:We think about what President Biden should do. I think there's a bipartisan movement right here. Provide them the MiGs, provide them the planes where they can create a no-fly zone, provide them the armament that they need to continue to fight a war that they did not create.

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So McCarthy says of the Ukrainians, it's a war they didn't create, and that is certainly true. The Ukrainians did not create that war. The Ukrainians did not invade their own country. But we didnt either. We didn't invade our own country. Very few Americans wanted to open our border to a narco state in the middle of a drug war. Joe Biden did that to us.

And no one cares. So maybe we need our own Zelensky to get the world's attention and stop the invasion of America. Who will that be?

This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the March 17, 2022 edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

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The number of migrants caught crossing the southern border illegally rose in February as single adult Mexicans poured into the country at their highest rate in years, according to new Homeland Security data released Tuesday.

All told, Customs and Border Protection tallied 164,973 encounters with unauthorized migrants last month, up about 7% compared to January.

CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus called the increase which works out to more than 10,000 additional people in February, a shortened month a slight uptick.

Of those caught, 71,210 were Mexican. Thats up more than 40% compared to just a couple of months ago.

Mr. Magnus said the majority of people caught at the border were quickly expelled under the pandemic health emergency order that the Trump administration implemented and which the Biden administration has kept largely in place.

Among the worrying signs in the data was the number of migrant children traveling without parents. The Border Patrol reported catching 11,810, a 37% increase over January, reversing what had been one of the few bright spots on the border.

Agents caught about 25,000 parents and children traveling as families, down about half compared to December.

Other yardsticks of border security also trended in the wrong direction, with heroin seizures spiking 173% in February. Cocaine seizures were up 83%, and methamphetamine seizures rose 97%. But fentanyl, which has been shattering records, actually dropped 21%.

Authorities say increases in people and drugs being seized means more people and drugs are getting through.

Sen. Rob Portman, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he was alarmed by the trend line.

He was worried by the surge in drugtrafficking, which is costing a record number of lives.

This crisis is a direct result of the Biden administrations policy choices, Mr. Portman said.

The Border Patrol has tallied nearly 2.2 million arrests at the southern border since President Biden took office.

By contrast, during the same 13-month period in President Trumps term, agents recorded only about 272,000 arrests.

And before Mr. Biden, it had been 15 years since the U.S. last recorded even a single month with more than 150,000 apprehensions. February marked the 12th straight month of CBP encounters exceeding 150,000.

RJ Hauman, head of government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said the Biden administration has made mass illegal migration the new normal.

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Progressive House Democrats are calling on President Biden to take a number of executive actions relating to immigration, including expanding protections from deportation, ending the Title 42 public health order, and limiting detention for those who come into the country illegally.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus issued a list of recommendations for executive actions for Biden to take on everything from healthcare to student loans, as much of their agenda has been stalled with a slim House majority and a 50-50 Senate that frequently requires 60 votes to pass legislation.

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Democrats made multiple attempts last year to pass sweeping immigration measures, including amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants already in the country. Those efforts failed last year, and activists and progressives are instead turning their focus to the executive branch.

The agenda gives a list of 18 countries that it recommends for either Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) -- which grants protection from deportation to nationals from countries hit by either armed ongoing conflict, environmental disasters or "extraordinary and temporary conditions.

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Many of those are already listed for TPS, but the recommendations would add Mexico and Guatemala -- El Salvador and Honduras are already designated -- meaning that nationals from some of the top sources of illegal immigration across the southern border would be protected from deportation. It would also add Ethiopia, Mauritania and Cameroon.

The caucus also calls for the removal of "nonpriority cases" from the immigration court backlog, additional government-funded legal counsel, and the end of expedited removal proceedings.

The Democrats also urge the White House to stop further use of private detention facilities, and instead focus on "alternatives to detention" run by "non-profit community-based organizations."

They also call for the end of Title 42 public health protections which have been used by both the Trump and Biden administrations to remove illegal immigrants at the border due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top Democrats including Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, have also called for such a move -- despite fears it will lead to a new surge in migrants at the border.

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The progressives also call for the end of the Trump-era "Remain-in-Mexico" policy which keeps migrants in Mexico for their hearings. The Biden administration ended the program, but was forced to restore it by court order until it can end it via a different route. However, only a relatively small number of border crossers have been enrolled in the program so far.

The list also includes measures to "redress the harms" of the Trump-era travel restrictions on high-risk countries by allowing those rejected under the restrictions -- dubbed a "Muslim ban" by critics -- to "secure status, obtain lost green cards, and secure other basic services without additional burdens."

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Separately, the lawmakers urge Biden to issue regulations to raise wage standards and labor safeguards for the H-2B seasonal worker and H-1B skilled worker programs. Both Democrats and Republicans have raised concerns that those programs are often abused by companies to bring in foreign nationals, so they can be underpaid and exploited.

The calls by the progressive caucus come as the administration is gearing up for a potential surge in migrants at the southern border, particularly if it does end Title 42 as it is reported to be considering. DHS this week put out a call for volunteers as officials say they are dealing with "large numbers" of migrants at the border.

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