{"id":185063,"date":"2024-10-20T22:11:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T03:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=185063"},"modified":"2024-10-21T19:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T00:25:17","slug":"latta-talks-about-border-concerns-am-radio-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/10\/20\/latta-talks-about-border-concerns-am-radio-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta talks about border, AM radio, more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Border security and the importance of AM radio were just two of the topics addressed by U.S. Congressman Bob Latta (R-5th<\/sup> District) during a recent visit to the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latta, from Bowling Green, was in Paulding County last Tuesday to present an overdue Bronze Star to a Vietnam veteran (see story here). He also visited Van Wert\u2019s new TekniPlex factory at Vision Industrial Park, and he made a stop at the studios of WSKD\/WERT radio stations and the office of the VW independent<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bob Latta<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During a brief interview, he addressed border concerns along the U.S.-Mexico line and noted he\u2019s been there four times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been out there with border patrol at night on the river and I\u2019m telling you \u2013 you couldn\u2019t pay me enough money to do that job,\u201d Latta stated. \u201cWith this administration (Biden-Harris), probably over 10 million people have come into this country illegally and so what we need to do is listen to border patrol. The first thing they told us on the first trip I was down there was \u2018let us erect barriers or a barrier\/wall.\u2019 They said they could stop 95 percent of all the traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf people are being politically persecuted in their own country, they should go the asylum route \u2013 go to the embassy and work their way through that, not just have 10 million people show up here,\u201d he continued. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know the second part of the story. We have 300,000 children that came here as unaccompanied minors and we have no idea where they are \u2013 we don\u2019t know if they\u2019ve been put in sweatshops by the cartels, they could be into prostitution, we don\u2019t know what happened to these poor kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Latta also said there\u2019s also the issue of drugs coming into the country through the southern border, specfically fentynal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat the cartels do is they\u2019ll run 100 illegals into a spot and border patrol all has to go to that one spot, then they bring the drugs in someplace else,\u201d Latta said. \u201cWhen you think that we had 74,000 people die from fentynal poisoning in this country back in 2022, this is why we have to control the border. We\u2019ve got to have an orderly process and if you want to become an American citizen, you go through the proper steps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a different note, last year, some electric vehicle car manufacturers said they would phase out AM radios in their cars, a decision that didn\u2019t sit well with Latta, who chairs the Congressional Communications and Technology Sub-Committee, and said he knows of five or six locally owned radio stations in his district, including WERT 1220AM in Van Wert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you think about AM radio, people always think \u2018I\u2019ll always have the internet\u2019 \u2013 no you won\u2019t,\u201d Latta stated. \u201cWe had two massive hurricanes move through Florida and I always told people the first thing you\u2019re going to lose is the internet. In Florida alone, there were 660 cell towers that went down, so they lost internet, but the one thing they didn\u2019t lose was AM radio.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important because if you could get in your car and if it was running, you could still get alerts and understand what was going on out there,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf we ever have other types of natural diasters or man-made diasters, how are we going to communicate in this country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also said some radio stations are equipped with generators with a 30 or 60-day supply of fuel to stay on the air and he said some are built to withstand eletro-magnetic pulses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen all else fails, you\u2019ll still be able to get communications from your AM radio dial,\u201d Latta said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the interview, Latta also addressed inflation and its effect on families, and money being sent to overseas wars. The full interview will be posted on the VW independent in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latta represents Ohio\u2019s Fifth Congressional District, which stretches from Van Wert, Paulding and Mercer counties all the way into Lorain County in northeastern Ohio. In all, the district is comprised of all or parts of 12 counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latta is seeking his ninth full two-year term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He\u2019s being challenged by Democrat Keith Mundy, a retiree from Parma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Border security and the importance of AM radio were just two of the topics addressed by U.S. Congressman Bob Latta (R-5th District) during a recent visit to the area. Latta, from Bowling Green, was in Paulding County last Tuesday to present an overdue Bronze Star to a Vietnam veteran (see story here). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 03:59:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185150,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185063\/revisions\/185150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}