Barletta calls for enforcing immigration laws

poconorecord.com
By MCT Information Services
November 23, 2011

WILKES-BARRE -- In the minds of U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta and Michael Cutler, successful immigration reform starts with a simple change: enforce the laws that are already on the books.

At a forum Tuesday night at the Wilkes University Henry Student Center, Barletta, R-Hazleton, and Cutler, a former Immigration and Naturalization Service agent, presented ideas on how to deal with the growing issue of illegal immigration across the nation.

“The problem is simply created because Washington has not enforced the laws,â€