Deformed reform

The Washington Times
January 1, 2010
By Michael Scott

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been spending lots of time lately as an unquestioningly loyal cheerleader who enthusiastically supports the administration's comprehensive immigration reform programs.

Meanwhile, other activities that threaten U.S. security were unfolding around her.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan (the accused Army officer in the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas) was regularly communicating with a radical Muslim cleric in Yemen.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was receiving al Qaeda crash-course instructions on how to hide a bomb in his underwear and destroy a fully loaded American jetliner.

Homegrown American terrorists were leaving the United States for Pakistan and Somalia to receive instructions on how to kill Americans.

Other homegrown American terrorists were plotting to blow up New York subways.

Ms. Napolitano recently stated her immigration-enforcement activities were so successful that now was the time to implement comprehensive immigration reform, with amnesty for over 12 million illegal immigrants.

However, Ms. Napolitano failed to mention to the American public that between 250,000 and 400,000 illegal immigrants still make successful border crossings annually.

How can Americans call themselves safe when they don't know who is and continues to illegally enter their country?

If hundreds of thousands of penniless illegal immigrants can effortlessly walk across our borders annually, why can't well-trained and well-financed terrorists do the same?

It requires only a few terrorists to slip through to wreak havoc on our country.

Nine years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, both the Obama administration and Congress continue to snooze to the sounds of this ticking time bomb.

I once heard such mindless amnesia described as the "Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act."

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