WI GOP Lawmakers: Don’t bring undocumented children to state
Watch Dog – Adam Tobias – 7/25/2014
MADISON, Wis. —
Republican State Rep. David Craig is worried about the potential for a
public health crisis coming to Wisconsin.
NOT IN WISCONSIN: State Rep.
David Craig and three other Republican state lawmakers have asked the federal
government not to bring undocumented children to Wisconsin.
That’s one of the reasons he
and three other state GOP lawmakers wrote a letter Thursday asking the Department of
Homeland Security to withdraw its request for Wisconsin to shelter hundreds of
undocumented children who have crossed the Mexican border illegally.
“What are we bringing into
our state when we have so many diseases internationally that used to be dormant
and are now on the resurgence with some strain?” Craig, R-Vernon, told Wisconsin Reporter on
Friday. “Is the federal government going through any review whatsoever of the
health condition of the children, given the sheer volume of children that we
are talking about?”
But the health implications
are unclear to some parties because the federal government is “neglecting
its obligation to uphold the law while failing to provide adequate information
to state officials,” according to the letter, which was also penned by Assembly
Speaker Robin Vos, R-Burlington; and state Reps. Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc,
and John Nygren, R-Marinette.
Craig said interaction
between the feds and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the state
Department of Children and Families has been minimal.
“From what we can tell, the
relationship between the federal authorities and the state authorities is
basically nothing,” Craig told Wisconsin Reporter. “So, the federal government
is being very secretive about all of these things.”
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We are rewarding these illegals for unacceptable behavior. This only encourages the parents in Mexico to keep sending their kids up here to suck up government freebies.
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