Thread: Tancredo Calls for Napolitano to Resign

Tancredo calls for Napolitano to resign following recent incidents at border.

Agents ordered to use bean bags against smugglers with automatic weapons:

Posted on March 22, 2011

Tom Tancredo has been outspoken about current administration policy along the Mexican border. He has called for the resignation of Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, following an armed fight along the border where agents were ordered to use bean bags against AK-47’s.

Border Patrol agents were attacked with automatic gunfire while tracking armed drug smugglers in December. The area, 15 miles northwest of Nogales, Arizona, is a known drug-smuggling corridor. During the fight, Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed.

Border Patrol agents have reportedly been under standing orders to always use non-lethal bean bag rounds before using live ammunition. Tancredo told the Gazette it is outrageous that Border Patrol agents are under standing orders to use non-lethal ammunition before using live ammunition against drug smugglers who have no such restrictions.

Tancredo told the Gazette that as bad as that policy was, he feels the real scandal is the ATF’s “Project Gunwalker.’ “Project Gunwalkerâ€

By John Tomasic | 04.01.10 | 1:51 pm

Former Congressman and anti-illegal immigration hawk Tom Tancredo today posted a YouTube ratcheting up his criticism of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, calling on her to resign. Tancredo is fresh from a Tea Party appearance in Southern Arizona this weekend that took a turn when borderland rancher and Tancredo acquaintance Robert Krentz was killed by smugglers. Tancredo called on Napolitano to send troops to the border Sunday.

His YouTube today turns up the heat on Napolitano and keeps attention focused on the dangerous conditions on the Arizona border that lead to the death of Krentz.

“Napolitano has misrepresented the true condition of our border security in order to advance a political agenda-amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Our nation can afford this level of incompetence and cavalier attitude toward national security,â€

go get em, Mr. Tancredo