Napolitano asserts commitment to interior checkpoints
By Daniel Newhauser, Special to the Green Valley News
Published: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 3:28 PM MST


WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday that the agency will continue using interior checkpoints as part of its border enforcement plan.

“My view is that they are and should be part of a border strategy so we have some means, off the geographical border, to see what is coming over,â€