11/01/2011
HARRISBURG —Pennsylvania House State Government Committee Majority Chairman Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) commended the decisive majority of committee members who voted with him today in bipartisan fashion to advance two more essential reforms from the National Security Begins at Home package (House Bill 856 and Senate Bill 637) to the House floor for consideration.
09/19/2011
HARRISBURG—Pennsylvania State Representative and State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI)
Founder, Daryl Metcalfe, announced today the filing of an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of the controversial Ninth Circuit Court ruling in favor of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice federal lawsuit that struck down several key provisions of Arizona’s illegal alien apprehension and deportation law (Senate Bill 1070).
09/13/2011
PA House State Government Committee Majority Chairman and State Legislators for Legal Immigration founder, Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), will testify before the Michigan House Commerce Committee in support of House Bill 4024, which would require certain employers who contract or subcontract with public agencies to verify the employment eligibility of new employees through the federal government’s free E-Verify system.
08/29/2011
HARRISBURG – State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), founded by Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe, denounced the recent executive order of the Obama administration to reprioritize and individually review more than 300,000 illegal alien deportation cases.
06/17/2011
State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), founded by Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe, has announced its opposition to Congressman Lamar Smith’s (R-Texas) recently introduced H.R. 2164, titled the Legal Workforce Act, which would ironically halt state legislative efforts to mandate the use of E-Verify by employers.
05/27/2011
State Senator Steve Oroho, Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, and Assemblyman Gary Chiusano (R-24) praised a United States Supreme Court ruling today sustaining an Arizona law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally. In its ruling, the Court rejected arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.
05/26/2011
Phoenix, State Capitol) ---The U.S. Supreme Court this morning upheld an Arizona law that penalizes companies for knowingly hiring illegal aliens and requires firms to use the E-verify system.
04/29/2011
STATEHOUSE (April 29, 2011) - State Sen. Mike Delph (R-Carmel) has successfully negotiated a compromise on his legislation cracking down on illegal immigration in Indiana.
03/01/2011
Pennsylvania State Representative and State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) founder Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler County) joined with several other state lawmakers today to officially introduce the National Security Begins at Home illegal immigration reform package for the 2011-12 legislative session.
01/05/2011
Pennsylvania State Representative and State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) founder Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler County), state lawmakers and Constitutional scholars from across the nation convened in Washington D.C. today to unveil historic model legislation to correct the monumental misapplication of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This historic press conference was held on the same day as the swearing-in of the 112th Congress; encouraging that one of the first actions should be to uphold their oath and defend the Constitution to protect the states from the illegal alien invasion.
10/19/2010
State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) founder and Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe hosted a press conference in a coordinated effort with state legislators across the nation to announce the formation of a nationwide task force that will develop model state legislation to eliminate the misapplication of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which is currently being utilized to secure citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and their families. As a result, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are crossing U.S. borders to give birth and use their child, or “anchor baby,” as a means to obtain residency, access taxpayer-funded benefits and steal American jobs for themselves and for their families.
09/28/2010
Calling today’s surprising Pennsylvania House State Government Committee 13-9 vote to advance his immigration reform legislation to the House floor one small victory for Pennsylvania citizens, State Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) also warned that House Democrat Leadership still has no intention of following through on the will of people by calling up House Bill 2479 for consideration. If enacted, House Bill 2479 would provide state and local law enforcement with full authority to apprehend Pennsylvania’s estimated 140,000 illegal alien invaders for deportation.
09/20/2010
Much as he did to bring about the successful repeal of the 2005 state government pay raise, State Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) today introduced another discharge resolution to bring his Arizona-modeled legislation (House Bill 2479) before the state House for consideration. House Bill 2479 would provide state and local law enforcement with full authority to apprehend Pennsylvania’s estimated 140,000 illegal alien invaders for deportation.
09/13/2010
Pennsylvania State Representative and State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) founder Daryl Metcalfe announced today that this nationwide coalition of state lawmakers has filed an amicus brief with the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals against the Obama administration’s legal challenge to Arizona’s newly enacted illegal alien apprehension and deportation law (Senate Bill 1070).