Adrift On Border Security -- A Commentary

Photo: Janet Napolitano

From The Washington Times:

Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano seems to be floundering on immigration and national security issues.

Not only is she continuing her quixotic campaign against Real ID, the main federal law safeguarding the integrity of drivers' licenses and keeping them out of the hands of terrorists, but she has also been weak and apologetic about the efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do its job - removing illegal aliens from the United States. By contrast, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who had turned his state into a sanctuary for Illegal aliens, has reversed himself regarding drivers' licenses for illegals and complying with Real ID.

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My Comment: Janet Napolitano is of the philosophy (within the Democratic Party) of open borders and immigration. Open immigration does not only provide an electoral base for the Party at election time, but they are also an important component for what some political leaders visualize a future multicultural America should look like it.

But reality is diferent. U.S. Federal prisons now hold tens of thousands of convicted illegal immigrants who have committed violent crimes. Mexico's drug and cartel war is now spilling into border states .... including into Janet Napolitan's state of Arizona.

The media .... which has been compliant in the past .... are now reporting on the carnage that is occuring in Mexico, and the impact that it is having on the U.S. U.S. Security Agencies within her own department are now not only voicing their fears of a crime wave swamping the U.S., but the possibility of terror cells now having an easy avenue to move in.

If 9/11 thought us anything, it is that immigration and security walk hand in hand. But it appears that this Secretary has a different point of view.