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 From the Office
of
Congressman Tom Tancredo
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June
26, 2004
50 Congressional
Members Call on Border Undersecretary to Stay Course on Legal
Raids
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Tom Tancredo (CO-06) today
along with 49 Congressmen applauded Border Patrol enforcement in
California and urged Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson to resist
pressure to halt arrests in the southern California by Democrat
members of congress.
Fifty Members of Congress including House Majority Leader Tom
Delay, Chairman of Homeland Security Appropriations Harold Rogers,
Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner and California
Representatives Richard Pombo, Dana Rohrabacher and Darrel Issa have
praised the U.S. Border Patrol for its new enforcement actions in
southern California. In a joint letter on Friday, the lawmakers
asked Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson to "resist
outside pressure to curtail it."
"We believe that this kind of interior enforcement is desperately
needed across the country, not only in the San Diego Sector," the
lawmakers said in their letter to Hutchinson. The letter noted that
none of the enforcement actions have involved homes or schools or
churches, only public places like shops and bus terminals.
Recent reports have suggested that a new initiative is underway
by the U.S. Border Patrol to use a "Mobile Patrol Group" to
apprehend illegals further in from the border in an effort to better
enforce U.S. immigration law. The efforts have yielded positive
results. Since the operation first began on June 4, 2004, the
"Mobile Patrol Group" has already successfully arrested 492 illegals
through June 23rd.
"The success of the unit operating from the Temecula Station is
ample evidence of the need for this activity nationwide," said the
lawmakers.
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to Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson Page 1 of 4
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