DHS wants new yardstick for improvements

Thw Washington Times ^ | May 4, 2011 | Stephan Dinan

[jazusamo]

Napolitano wants new wording to impart ‘what’s actually occurring’

Saying the measure of “operational control” of U.S. borders is obsolete, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress on Wednesday that the Obama administration is trying to come up with a new yardstick to better reflect the improvements it says it has made.

With the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s chief watchdog, saying less than half of the southern border is under operational control, the Obama administration has been distancing itself from that measure for more than a year.

” ‘Operational control’ it’s an archaic term,” Miss Napolitano told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. “The fact of the matter is that we need a more quantitative and qualitative way to reflect what actually is occurring at the border.”

The wording is more than just a semantic game.

House Republicans, in their campaign Pledge to America last year, set operational control as their goal, and at least some of the triggers lawmakers have suggested for determining when to move to legalization of illegal immigrants already here require the government first to prove it has control of the border.

Congress itself defined operational control in a 2006 law as the ability to prevent all unlawful entries into the United States, but all sides now say that amounts to sealing the border, which they say is impossible.

“Everybody seems to agree it’s not feasible to achieve operational control as it’s defined there,” said committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent. “Either we have to come up with another definition or we have to set some sort of standards for getting closer to operational control.”

On Wednesday, Miss Napolitano said she has asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection to come up with another way to measure the true state of security along the border.

[jazusamo]

Nappy and her boss want to change the policies as well as the wording as to how well the border is controlled. If they apprehend fewer illegals it must mean that fewer are seeking entry so it seems they decided to apprehend fewer.

Arizona Sheriff Cites Flood of Border Agents Confirming Feds' No-Apprehension Policy

[Pecos]

What she is saying is that we do not have operational control of our borders, so she doesn't want to be judged by that standard. This is the DHS equivalent of giving all of the participants blue ribbons so everyone will feel better about themselves.

[pabianice]

That’s right, Janet. Getting an “F”? Eliminate grades! Works so well in inner city schools.

[Diogenesis]

Here are two standards:

" Let them hate us, as long as they fear us."
Caligula (Gaius Caesar) Roman emperor 037-041 (12 AD - 41 AD)

AND

"The IslamoNazi will be sickened by us,
the IslamoNazi will talk about us,
and the IslamoNazi will fear us. ..."

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[kcvl]

On Wednesday, Miss Napolitano said she has asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection to come up with another way to measure the true state of security along the border.

How about NONEXISTENT!

[jazusamo]

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[Iron Munro]

"Of the section of the border considered to be under the control
of DHS, I can state that almost 100% is actually under control."

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