Napolitano says U.S., Mexico see border violence as shared problem
12:11 PM | August 11, 2009

One day after President Obama concluded a summit in Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today that creating a secure southwestern border required addressing several issues at the same time: illegal immigration, drug trafficking and violence in Mexico.

“For the past eight years or so, the federal government’s approach to the southwest border was to … treat it as something to be dealt with separate from our nation’s broader challenges,â€