Thread: Napolitano Accuses Critics of Politicizing Border Issues

By JULIA PRESTON
Published: January 31, 2011
Sharpening a confrontation with Republicans over Southwest border enforcement, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday that crime and illegal crossings had dropped sharply along the border, and she accused lawmakers who say violence is out of control there of trying to “score political points.â€

She was just on fox making threats to the drug cartels, what a joke!
"What is she gonna do, use BEAN BAG CHAIR CANNONS!" She must not want any competition, and their cutting into her blood money "What a Skank!"

These people have to read up on the 287(g) law. I was taught to understand a law is a law. 287(g) was never meant to apply to only "immigrants who commit the most serious felonies."

This policy BS was something dreamed up to placate open border advocates and amnesty supporters while giving pols cover as seemingly enforcing the law.

Who is a bigger idiot? Napolitano or Pelosi? That is the question.

Originally Posted by Dansk9

Who is a bigger idiot? Napolitano or Pelosi? That is the question.

Nappy by more than a few pounds!

Hey Napolitano, tell all that grade A pasteurized, homogenized, unadulterated crap to the families of murdered Border Patrol Agent Terry, other murdered Border Patrol Agents, rancher Rob Krenz, a 15 year old girl in Arizona shot in the head during a foiled carjacking who died in her mother's arms, a deported child molester who easily returned to the country and raped a 5 year old girl, the robbery of a 78 year old woman by an illegal alien with a criminal record who beat her with a pry bar nearly killing her but instead blinded her, 2 illegal aliens who stole an SUV, drove drunk and flew across a median killing an honors nursing student returning home from her night job to help pay for her education, another illegal alien who drove through a stop sign t-boning a car killing a 91 year old man and his 89 year old wife, then plowed into a Checker's Restaurant injuring several employees and countless rapes, murders, robberies, burglaries, home invasions, identity theft and other crimes committed by other illegal alien criminals along the border and interior of this country. And don't forget the signs erected by BLM 80 miles north of the Arizona/Mexico border warning Americans to stay away from parts of our own territory because of drug and human smuggling violence including smuggling of terrorists and god knows what else.
Instead of campaigning for open borders and amnesty how about doing the job that struggling taxpayers pay you to do which is enforce the 1986 IRCA, it's 5 revisions and secure the damned borders during a so called war on terror. We are tired of the meaningless rhetoric and platitudes while Americans continue being victimized by the never ending hordes illegally crossing our wide open joke of a border.
Because of your absolute refusal to do your job where a trained monkey would be a significant improvement, we soon will be a vanquished country because Mexico has been given carte blanche and is aided and abetted by you as head of Homeland Insecurity and Obama in allowing them to bankrupt, conquer and destroy this country, transforming the US into a lawless, corrupt, crime infested, bankrupt, impoverished third world sewer.
Any remorse, shame or guilt on your part because of the abject pain, suffering and misery you have inflicted on the American people would require a conscience which unfortunately you don't have......

And by the way have a good day or in the language of our conquerors, Buenos Dias........

"By contrast, in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, more than 70 percent of those detained had committed the most serious offenses".


Didn't you know they are the illegal alien casino and construction workers that corrupt Reid denies aren't employed who were bussed in by the mob owned SEIU after the SEIU sent emails to their supervisors telling workers to vote for Reid......many don't remember but a provision authored by Reid in the stimulus funded a mob history museum which is a depiction of Reid's life......

Most assuredly-- among many issues that should be "politicized" is the issue of the fact that one political party in America wished to open our borders and give away American birthright and largesse others in the world.

[quote]Sharpening a confrontation with Republicans over Southwest border enforcement, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday that crime and illegal crossings had dropped sharply along the border, and she accused lawmakers who say violence is out of control there of trying to “score political points.â€

Janet Napolitano urges officials to stop exaggerating violence on U.S. side of border

The Homeland Security secretary tries to make her case with FBI crime statistics, but public perceptions are hard to change

By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau

February 1, 2011

Reporting from Washington

Battling the widespread perception that U.S. border cities have become more dangerous, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday called on public officials to stop exaggerating the violence on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico and "be honest with the people we serve."

In a speech in El Paso, Napolitano cited FBI statistics showing that violent crime rates in Southwest border counties are down 30% over the last two decades and are "among the lowest in the nation."

Napolitano's effort to change the public perception of danger follows a heated campaign season last fall that saw candidates in border states frequently emphasizing the effects of illegal immigration on their communities.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, was criticized during the campaign for saying that headless bodies were being found in the Arizona desert, a statement she retracted after local coroners could not confirm her claim.

A few mayors in the region recently have said that the portrayal of their towns as dangerous has hurt them economically.

"Let's stick with the facts," Napolitano said. "We need to be up front and clear about what's really happening along our borders."

Even as the drug war has escalated just south of the border, crime rates in Arizona border towns have remained essentially flat, said Napolitano, citing the addition of personnel and technology in the region.

She added that the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border — an indication of illegal cross-border traffic — has decreased 36% over the last two years.

But Matthew Benson, a spokesman for Brewer, said: "The issue is there are tens of thousands of people being murdered immediately across the border in Mexico by the cartels. And the concern is that the violence by the cartels will begin spilling across the border."

For Arizona cattle ranchers, the day-to-day reality of drug and people smugglers traversing their property is "far more impacting" than Napolitano's comments indicate, said Rep. Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.).

"Statistics and averages might mean something to government bureaucrats and analysts in Washington, but try telling the people who deal with these realities every day that the violence along the border has subsided," said Quayle, who won his congressional seat in the Republican surge in November.

Angela Kelley, an immigration policy expert at the Center for American Progress in Washington, argued that there was a "pretty big disconnect" between the public perception about safety along the border and what the statistics showed.

"When you have politicians stirring the pot and turning up the heat on people's emotions and fear levels, you don't have a constructive debate on what to do," she said.

But she added: "Facts matter, but only to a point … because it is what citizens believe that defines the debate and sets the agenda in Washington. We can't be tone deaf to what the public believes."

Since 2004, the Border Patrol has doubled in size to more than 20,700 agents. Napolitano added that the Department of Homeland Security had increased the number of intelligence analysts focused on cartel violence.

With the help of a $600-million infusion of cash approved by Congress in 2010, the department will add 1,000 Border Patrol agents this year, 250 officers at ports of entry and 250 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Napolitano said.

The increase comes as 1,200 National Guard troops that President Obama deployed to the border last year plan to stand down by the end of the summer.

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