Napolitano: ‘Our Borders Have Never Been Stronger’
Even a Republican involved in drafting the bipartisan framework for immigration reform took umbrage with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s assertion today that the southern border is more secure than ever.
“Now, I often hear the argument that before reform can move forward, we must first secure our borders. But too often, the border-security-first refrain simply serves as an excuse for failing to address the underlying problems,” Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee today at a hearing on immigration.
“It also ignores the significant progress and efforts that we have undertaken over the past four years. Our borders have, in fact, never been stronger.”
Securing the border before providing a path to citizenship is the main sticking point between the Obama administration and the Senate agreement. President Obama’s plan has no such requirement.
Napolitano argued that the best way to slow border traffic “is through common sense immigration reform that strengthens employers accountability and that updates our legal immigration system.”
“Now, I’ve also heard the refrain that any attempt to provide legal status to the undocumented immigrants already in our country would simply reward law breaking and constitute amnesty,” she said. “Deporting 11 million people is not just impractical and cost prohibitive, it runs counter to our values. It would break apart families, hurt our economy and create labor shortages in critical industries.”
Napolitano further argued that a comprehensive immigration bill is essential for law enforcement, because “having a large group of illegal, undocumented immigrants creates many problems for law enforcement and for our communities.”
She said the results of 1986 amnesty wouldn’t happen again because “immigration enforcement now is light years away from what it was.”
“I think in 1986 there were a couple of miles of fence along the entire southern border and it was basically chain-link fence,” the secretary said. “In 1986, the then INS removed I think about 25,000 individuals from the country. Last year, we removed 409,000.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) told Napolitano that the American people saw the administration’s position as “we’re not going to have enforcement, but we’ve got to have amnesty first.”
“It sounds so much like before, where a group of special interests meet at the White House and you had some of the big businesspeople and you had the agro people and you had the immigration activist people,” Sessions said. “But I didn’t see the Border Patrol there. I didn’t see the ICE representative, the law enforcement officers there. And I didn’t see the American people’s real interests being represented there.”
He noted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement now ranks 279th out of 291 in federal surveys of employee morale.
The president of the ICE union, Chris Crane, told a House panel last week that agents there believe “death or serious injury to ICE officers and agents appears more acceptable to ICE, DHS and administration leadership than the public complaints that would be lodged by special interest groups representing illegal aliens.” The union has also filed suit against the government alleging that the administration is blocking agents’ ability to enforce the law.
“They get criticized because we’re deporting too many people,” Napolitano said. “…Then they get criticized for not deporting everyone who is here illegally. It doesn’t surprise me that their morale is low.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) noted a 2011 Government Accountability Office report estimating the government catches about 61 percent of those who cross illegally.
“Do you consider that a record to be proud of?” Cornyn asked.
“I would characterize it as one of the many numbers that float around when the term border security is used,” Napolitano responded. “…It’s GAO so you have to presume it’s going to be negative because that’s their job is to find out things that are wrong.”
What a liar Napolitano is. The idea that our “borders” are places on a map is a fantasy. Our “borders” are identification, places where illegal aliens brush up against the system. Those places are emergency rooms, traffic stops, cable and electric bills – a wide variety of ways. Add to that the resolve to kick out illegals by our fed and local gov’ts, of which there is none.
This is a farce.
Solution:
Mandate that all e-verify applications must be done at central locations (the applicant must go in person). Have ICE Agents stationed there to arrest any illegals on the spot. Do the same with government benefits offices and emergency rooms. Anyone knowingly employing some who has no valid e-Verify check suffers serious fines and/or jail time.
I think we’d see the bulk of them self-deport.
Napolitano would have done better if she/he/it has said it was better enforced under Clinton than Bush. Under Obama the border is nothing but a joke.
Napolitano gave the game away right after being named as DHS Chief: “If we build a 50-foot fence, they’ll bring a 51-foot ladder.” Meaning, of course, that she was not interested in any type of border security.
She’s never been serious about enforcing our immigration laws, even as Gov. of Arizona, AZ AG, or US Attorney.
Napolitano is a real joke! You are right about her worthless record in Arizona, but I think it should be pointed out that there are many, many ranchers and farmers in Arizona who have lost their property because she gave it all away to the illegals, just because the illegals would whine and cry about the Americans protesting them crossing over posted land, destruction of crops, fences, and theft or destruction of equipment, as well as the killing or theft of livestock! Also, she is responsible for the death of a number of Arizonans! She has to be brought to justice, and quickly!
As an afterthought, don’t forget the real estate debacle she got into over the Mercado in Phoenix!
She lies.
Napolitano: ‘Our Borders Have Never Been Stronger’
And our leaders have never been dumber. You can add the MSM to that since they never call the ‘leader-idiots’ out on their lies. And 51% of voters praised ‘Don’ Napolitano for her work in securing our borders – and 51% sat there listening to the incredulous claims made by her – and wondered when the madness will end. Four more years I hear! I hope we survive.
The COMMMUNIST MUSLIM IDIOT referred to them as illegal undocumented immigrants when they are INVADERS just like Hitlers invaders of France in WW2 and they do as much damage to America as Hitler did to France, She should be shot.
No offense, but nobody in here seems to be capable of translating the words Obama and his sycophants use.
Typical example, ” Our borders have never been stronger.”
It’s a typical example of deceptive syntax that says Janet Incompetent hasn’t improved our border security one iota.
If border security were improved, the Napi she devil would use words like, “Our borders are more secure than every before.”
The fact that homeland’s head Nappy-haired-ho uses the positive form of the adjective, “strong” I’ll ignore, and save for another day of explaining the uses of obfuscating language.
Obama’s speech was full of deceptive words and thoughts. Of course, the reporters, whose job it is to pick up on those things, were too busy writing about Rubio’s thirst. For their bias, they should be waterboarded and forced to spend a weekend in a room with a Northwestern Mutual life insurance salesman.
Even if true, the statement “Our border have never been stronger” is irrelevant if it’s still not adequate. What is the criteria for determining it is strong enough? Perhaps not having 11-20 million illegal immigrants– maybe it’s strong enough if we get that number down to and can maintain it at 1 million? 500,000? or 250,000?
Can’t think of a good analogy.
‘Our students have never been better prepared’ but 90% failed the test.
‘Our attendance has never been better’ but 70% drop out prior to completing 4 years.
‘The range of our electric car has never been better’ but it will only go 20 miles.
The only places on the southern border that are secure are at the border crossing stations, the rest is wide open. Janet Napolitano is either lying or does not have any idea of what she is talking about. Has she explained all those warning signs along the border saying danger drug smuggling in area. It’s no wonder the country is in the shape it’s in, an inept administration filled with inept people tasked with national security.
WHAT border crossing stations? I heard Obama had shut all of them down!
Why is it we never hear our generous and compassionate President suggest to wealthy Mexicans that they need to spread it around a bit more?
How is it that we as Americans are obligated to subsidize the economies of countries that are far more stratified socially than our own while all the while enduring the whining about terrible inequities this side of the border?
We can’t be the beacon of hope for the entire Western Hemisphere without prosperity, but these morons are against that too!
Napolitano says… Napolitano isn’t conversant with the truth, so it doesn’t matter what she says. I suppose you could take what she says, assume the opposite, and at least approximate the truth, but an honest source would be better.
Mrs. Baghdad Bob Napolitano.
“Deporting 11 million people is not just impractical and cost prohibitive, it runs counter to our values. It would break apart families, hurt our economy and create labor shortages in critical industries.”
What a farce and a red herring. All of her statement are so wrong on so many levels, it could fill volumes. We are talking about protecting the border and putting criminals in jail. If we used this lame excuse above, the same could be said about the Mafia, Crypts, Bloods, and any gang/criminal organization, because enforcing the law would “…break apart families, hurt our economy and create a labor shortage…”
It’s a sad day when politicians side with foreigners who commit crimes at the expense of its citizens. I guess she feels safe on the border, only as long as she has her assault-weapon toting guards in tow.
Two words – La Raza.
La Raza have been given access to Obama; they have lobbied and now it’s producing results. For those of you who expect anyone to be held accountable; don’t hold your breath. According to La Raza; U.S. citizens are in the western U.S. illegally; so Obama’s gonna make things right.
And we know what it means: ‘Sons of Anarchy’ biker chicks will start trading Russian guns with the help of the Irish in SoCal.
But lordy: pray-tell those fences are tight (‘tight’ as in big happy family). Halleluiah.
…..”Will no one rid us of this woman?”
“You lie!……I said that!”
Might as well have talked to a doorknob.
that was a good one ! , I could not stop laughing !!!!!!!
Amnesty (definition) :
Rewarding criminals for their behavior
Synonyms :
Immigration Reform
Broken Immigration System
And she is looking into running for President in ’16.
Ask anyone who lives within 50 miles of the boarder, especially those who don’t live in a town, they will tell you the United States does not control our side of the boarder. The Federal government has put up signs at the entrances to the Sauguaro National Park to the effect that it is not safe to drive there. How is that for a stronger boarder?
Napolitano was a disaster as a Govenor and she is worse as Homeland Security. Now she wants to be President.
Uh, “Madam” Napolitano? It’s not that the borders are stronger, but that there is no reason for the illegals to come here. Our economy is as bad, or worse, than Mexico’s. At least they can get their food supplies 365 there. So why would they want to come here?
Look on the bright side.
If our economy gets any worse, there will be Americans trying to sneak south across the border to find work in Mexico.
The last time I saw Big Sis here in Arizona, we were standing next to each other in the men’s room using the urinals talking about the border problem. As a all too typical lawyer, Big Sis could not find the word truth in the dictionary if you spotted her the first five letters. She has totally graduated to the Democrat party. She actually broke her nose last year when the Campaigner in Chief turn to the right very quickly. Okay, sorry for being so veiled in my opinion of Nopalitano, or is it Neopolitan like the ice cream. She personifies the rainbow sherbert. We do share one thing in common…we both like women. Wish I could share her polical leanings, buit then I use rational judgement and we know that’s where Big Sis and others like myself differ.
Janet Napolitano is not only one of the most idiotic females(?), but also one of the ugliest!
About this Napolitano guy wearing skirts: J. Edgar Hoover, whom Napolitano resembles, had the good sense to wear dresses and skirts only on the sly on his own time. Napolitano wears them on the job. If this were any other administration, he would be called on his violation of common sense and the dress code.
According to a report in the Daily Rash, during his appearance on CBS This Morning, Joe Biden said the Department of Homeland Security is “crawling with lesbians.” http://www.thedailyrash.com/biden-says-department-of-homeland-security-crawling-with-lesbians
Hey, Incompetano.
Why don’t you pay a visit, sans bodyguards, to that lovely strip of land in Arizona that has been invaded / commandeered / occupied by the Mexican drug cartels?
Then come back, if you can, and continue to spew this nonsense, if you still believe it.
maybe Janet Incompetano can marry Janet Reno
and here I thought she was rehersing for “comedy central ” !!!!!!!
Janet was talking about the strong odor of all those unwashed bodies after they have hiked across the desert.