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    MATT.ORG Email on Napolitano DHS secretary

    Dear friends

    In the past few weeks, President-elect Barack Obama has accelerated the pace and force of his decision-making on personnel and policy. Senator Obama aims to fill his cabinet before Christmas, far ahead of any recent transition. When it comes to immigration, the appointment of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano for secretary of Homeland Security is of particular importance, as Napolitano is a prominent and dependable supporter of immigration reform.

    Napolitano was raised in Albuquerque, where her father was dean of the University of New Mexico medical school and her mother stayed home. She attended college in Santa Clara, California, and law school at the University of Virginia, before moving to Phoenix in 1983. She clerked for a federal judge and then worked as a commercial lawyer for a well-heeled firm.
    In 1993, Napolitano had made enough of a name for herself in legal and political circles that President Bill Clinton appointed her U.S. attorney for Arizona. In 1998, she decided to run for state attorney general.

    Napolitano won that election handily and soon she was diagnosed with breast cancer. "I had great healthcare because I was the AG of Arizona, so they caught it early. If I had not been so fortunate, I would have been in really bad shape. It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention." The experience has driven her as governor: In the past five years, she has opened a new medical school, recruited 50 percent more nurses, and handed seniors one of the nation's first free prescription-drug discount cards.

    She was elected governor in 2002 and reelected in 2006 with a margin of 27 percentage points in a Republican state.

    Napolitano is a prominent and dependable supporter of immigration reform, although her record is more mixed on border security issues. She was the first governor to call for the National Guard to be stationed at the southern border and signed a law making Arizona the second state to require employers to verify the employment status of new hires. Signing the bill put Napolitano is the cross hairs of progressives and business leaders.

    "If I had vetoed that bill, the wrath of God would have descended," Napolitano counters. "The immigration debate is red-hot here." She says she was caught in a bind: Congress failed to enact immigration reform; the state's schools, prisons, and hospitals are bursting at the seams; and 85 percent of Arizonans support sanctions.

    She added, "You need to deal with visa reform so that we have more people crossing legally through the ports, and you need to deal firmly and realistically with the 12-million already in our country through heavy fines, sanctions, learning to speak English."

    In February 2007, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano addressed the National Press Club on immigration reform. Saying that "the current immigration system is broken," Napolitano explained that she has walked, flown by helicopter, and ridden horseback over the border. "I have been in the drug tunnels, . . .and the sewers where children . . .sleep at night. I have seen the campsites strewn with abandoned clothing, human waste and refuse."

    Napolitano wants the U.S. to substantially reform the visa system, by allowing more foreign graduates in engineering and the sciences to come here. She also wants to expand the number of visas allowed to Mexicans. Napolitano notes that although the Dominican Republic has only 8 million people to Mexico's over 100 million, the Dominican Republic receives more visas per capita than does Mexico. This means that a Mexican has to wait more than ten years to obtain a visa. Fixing this, she says, should be part of a long-term immigration policy that would "widen the legal labor pool and match the evolving labor needs of the United States."

    She also supports a temporary worker program. Napolitano believes that we must "create a strict, stringent pathway to citizenship." Such a pathway would include "a substantial fine, learning English, having no criminal record, keeping a job, paying taxes, and getting in the back of the line and waiting your turn." She strongly opposed those sections of the 2007 Senate legislation that required a touchback and required that temporary workers spend two months a year outside of the United States.

    Appearing on Lou Dobbs in July, Napolitano argued that immigration reform is the key to securing the border. "As someone who has worked that border area for a number of years, I will tell you a fence in and of itself is just a slogan, it's not an answer. A real answer means you've got to deal with the underlying labor issues, impact of immigration, visa reform, the workers already here."

    As the new administration takes shape and we look forward to upcoming legislative sessions, MATT.org will keep you updated on what's happening on immigration in Washington and across the country.

    To find out more, check out our Immigration Highlights. Please continue to help us build the network of immigration reform supporters so that we can make sure our leaders know that immigration reform is a priority.

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    More open borders insanity in store for us compliments of soon to be appointed open borders czar Napolitano.
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    the state's schools, prisons, and hospitals are bursting at the seams; and 85 percent of Arizonans support sanctions.
    Any why does she think this is?! And related to this, why does she think 85% of Arizonians support sanctions?! And despite this, she still pushes amnesty.

    Ms. Napolitano: this is not leadership, this is pandering.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Populist
    Ms. Napolitano: this is not leadership, this is pandering.
    I don't call it pandering, I call it political whoring.
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