Longtime Champion of Tough Immigration Laws Gets Post

By Elizabeth Llorente
Published January 07, 2011

Congressman Elton Gallegly (R-Simi Valley)

He wanted it in 1994, saying that the nation needed to get tough on illegal immigration.

But the chairmanship of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement went to someone else.

Now, 16 years later, Rep. Elton Gallegly, a California Republican who boasts on his congressional website that he is one of the top illegal "immigration hawks" in Congress, and that he was inducted into the “U.S. Border Control Hall of Fame,â€