Posted on 03/26/2011 10:31:29 AM PDT by jazusamo
The law enforcement-based union that represents all 17,500 non-supervisory U.S. Border Patrol agents says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comments this week reassuring Americans that the U.S. border is safe and open for business are “wrong and give citizens a false sense of security.”
“It is time for the political games to stop for fear of insulting the government of Mexico,” the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said in a statement. “U.S. citizens are being kidnapped and killed while our Border Patrol agents fight a war at home that no one will allow them to win.
“Not one more Border Patrol agent should fall or citizen be victimized because our government fails to act,” the NBPC said. “Mexico is hemorrhaging violence and we are being hit with the splatter.”
Ms. Napolitano told border-area mayors and business leaders in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday that the U.S.-Mexico border is safer than ever, adding that perceptions that the border area is at its most dangerous right now are false.
She said the Obama administration is dedicated to ensuring that the Southwest border remains open for business amidst drug cartel violence in Mexico and that increased security should not come at the price of trade, travel and tourism.
“The Obama Administration has dedicated historic levels of manpower, technology and infrastructure to the Southwest border to ensure the safety of border communities, and these resources have made a significant impact,” she said. “Some of America’s safest communities are in the Southwest border region, with border city crime rates staying steady or dropping over the past decade.”
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It can't get much clearer that Napolitano is lying about border safety when her own Border Patrol says she's untruthful.
Napolitano is an idiot.
This headline is incorrect in that she does not give even a false sense of security.
Rather, there is a strong sense of danger.
Yes, still.
If anyone is killed after her comments she should be held accountable and prosecuted for lying to the American people. Its high time these clowns pay for their lies.
Most appropriate:)
Napolitano is full of Obama
She is getting paid and the position on her resume for not doing anything, reciting the official story and not making waves. Other than that it is just a game of not getting caught in the sack with... whatever she gets in the sack with.
I don’t believe Janetalia Incompetano is fooling anyone.
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Hardly. Napolitano is doing exactly what her masters dictate that she do. They want a critical mass in this country of illegals to effect an overload of whatever systems they can in order to revamp or do away with those systems by administrative fiat. They also desire illegals because illegals are guaranteed leftist votes, regardless of whether those votes are legitimate or not. Finally, the left desires ultra-cheap labor who do not ask questions and who will do anything for a little green.
What they get, though, in addition to all of the above, is a gradual erosion of American values and culture. They get civil strife of which they can take advantage. They get "poster children" for their propaganda campaign against Americans.
“She said the Obama administration is dedicated to ensuring that the Southwest border remains open for business amidst drug cartel violence in Mexico and that increased security should not come at the price of trade, travel and tourism.”
RIIIIIIIIGHT, Obama’s a real Capitalist! /S
“The Obama Administration has dedicated historic levels of manpower, technology and infrastructure to the Southwest border to ensure the safety of border communities, and these resources have made a significant impact,”
If it weren’t for lyin’ Obama, nor his minions would have anything to say.
Yeah, and they’re all idiots. Useful idiots.
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