REPORTS: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Is Resigning Today

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United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will resign on Friday, according to reports in Reuters and the Los Angeles Times' Larry Gordon. She will become the next president of the University of California system, Gordon reports.

Napolitano has served as the leader of President Barack Obama's homeland security division since his first inauguration in 2009.

Her resignation comes at a time when Washington is in the midst of a furious debate over reshaping and reforming the nation's immigration laws. Napolitano has been an outspoken proponent of the recently passed Senate bill that is considered a non-starter in the Republican controlled House of Representatives.

Napolitano, a Democrat, was the governor of Arizona from 2003-09.


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