Pentagon contradicts Napolitano's Mexican border assessment

April 18th, 2011 2:03 pm ET

Jim Kouri
Law Enforcement Examiner


Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s recent description of a U.S.-Mexico border that’s “as secure as it has ever been" appears to be in direct opposition to a Pentagon assessment.

For months the nation’s Homeland Security Secretary has repeatedly insisted that everything is safe and secure on the southwest border, even as violence escalates and overwhelmed federal agents are increasingly attacked by heavily armed drug smugglers.

Just last month Napolitano declared that violence along the Mexican border is merely a mistaken “perceptionâ€