Posted on 03/26/2011 8:21:38 AM PDT by yoe
Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday to ensure Americans that it's safe to travel and conduct business across the border, but Republicans from the Southwest suggested the Obama administration isn't doing enough to keep the region secure.
"There is a perception that the border is worse now than it ever has been," Napolitano said at the Bridge of The Americas border crossing in El Paso, Texas, the Associated Press reports. "That is wrong. The border is better now than it ever has been."
Napolitano met with the mayors of El Paso, Nogales, Arizona, and Yuma, Arizona yesterday, along with Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Francisco Sanchez and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin.
The perception that violent crime in Mexico is spilling across the border is false, Napolitano and other leaders said. Violent crime rates have remained flat or decreased in Southwest border communities, she said.
El Paso has been ranked the safest U.S. city of its size, even though it sits across from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which is plagued by drug cartel violence, Mayor John Cook said.
"The lie about border cities being dangerous has been told so many times that people are starting to believe it, but we as border communities have to speak out," Cook said.
The 1,200 National Guard troops President Obama deployed along the southern border last year are scheduled to leave in June, when they'll be replaced by 1,000 additional Border Patrol agents, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The federal legislation that funded those new agents also allocated funds for two new unmanned aircraft systems, the erection of two new forward operating bases, 250 Customs and Border Protection port offices and 250 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators.
Still, after touring the border in Arizona with other Republican lawmakers, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in Tucson Thursday that the administration was making a mistake by withdrawing the National Guard, according to the Star.
"The work that the National Guard has been doing is vital and it needs to be increased rather than decreased," McCain said. "When the secretary of Homeland Security withdraws the National Guard from the border after they've been doing such a good job, we don't know if they are really serious about securing our border."
Other Southwest Republicans also criticized federal efforts at border security while Napolitano was in town. Texas State Sen. Tommy Williams at a news conference on Thursday highlighted an incident last year in which bullets thought to have come from a Juarez shootout hit El Paso's City Hall.
"Napolitano is visiting there today," Williams said, the El Paso Times reports. "I hope she sees some of these bullet holes as I did when I was in El Paso."
Williams unveiled a resolution on Thursday calling for a bipartisan state delegation to go to Washington to meet with the executive branch over border security, as well as for a cost analysis of immigration enforcement needs.
Napolitano' propaganda does not fool those of us here in AZ who rarely visit the border town of Nogales or travel the back roads to picnic or paint or even visit tiny little border towns...it is too dangerous...you might get caught in the cross-fire of a drug deal. Janet and Obama have other reasons to remove even more of our National Guard this spring and summer from our Southern Border.....she is a deleterious liar and America is in Harms Way because of it.
Nappy lives on another planet. She is a totally clueless ditz.
“Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday to ensure Americans that it’s safe to travel and conduct business across the border [...]”
Also, Thursday was opposite day.
Who was that in the old Saturday night live that would always say, “ignorant slut”. Fits here.
ANYONE who props up any of the copious bullshit of anyone in this administration is a flat-out liar and a traitorous SOB, just like the leader of the pack. The whole lot of them need to be CHAINED to the Mexican border and left to further evaluate.
Add the letter "t" to the ignorant (flaming lesbian, in this case) slut's name and the image is perfect.
She sounds like the mayor from Jaws.
LOL, they were great!!!!
A nappy named ho.
That women is gross pure evil
I notice that CBS doesn’t show her security detail. What are the odds that she goes walking or riding in the country near the border, on someone’s ranch, without any protection?
I’ll bet she flew in with plenty of guards and decoys, rode to the hotel in a bullet-proof limo, part of a long procession, and then quickly left the same way. Helicopters, Marines, Secret Service, and all the rest of it.
Curious ?? was the nat’l park that was posted for Americans to stay clear of ??? Has it been reopened to US yet ?
“Napolitano: Border security better than ever”
What Napolitano is saying is “The policy is that we aren’t going to do a damned thing about the border, and we aren’t going to allow any State to inhibit the movement of the illegals helping us with our Socialist, open borders agenda.”
To my knowledge, Nogales is the only bordertown in Arizona to lose population over the last decade. Unemployment is about 20%. The mayor is under indictment, and the city limps along. The police chief is a hack, and the city judges are go-along get-along and treat illegals with kid gloves. Is Nogales safe? Depends on which Nogales. Nogales, Sonora is a cesspool that has been quietly taken over by drug gangs. Nogales, USA, is fine. But don’t bother to walk the streets at night. You won’t meet anyone. As for the borderlands east and west of Nogales, they are scarier than Hell, and now are rarely visited by local residents.
That was Dan Akroyd. “Jane you ignorant slut....’’
“She is a totally clueless ditz.”
She’s a freak show unto herself—trying to outdo hussein, I guess.
"There are no illegal invaders slipping into the border! It is the most secure it has ever been!"
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