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Napolitano: Feds should take lead
Politico44 ^ | 05/08/11 | POLITICO STAFF

Posted on 05/08/2011 5:53:28 PM PDT by ColdOne

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To: ColdOne

Translation:
Gerrymandering on the biggest scale imaginable.


21 posted on 05/08/2011 6:15:11 PM PDT by labette ( Humble student of Thinkology)
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To: ColdOne
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Saturday that Congress should be responsible for tackling the nation’s illegal immigration problem, not the individual states.

It is the feds' duty to secure the border and they are best equipped to do so, even though they haven't. As to interior enforcement, the states and locals are far better equiped. The feds don't show up at traffic stops, crime scenes, etc. Locals do.

22 posted on 05/08/2011 6:16:58 PM PDT by umgud
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To: ColdOne

Bit of a credibility gap here, Grand Canyon sized.


23 posted on 05/08/2011 6:18:39 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: Signalman
it's mainly because of the poor economy.

Well said

an administration that added 17 million to the food stamp ranks has also cut illegal immigration

24 posted on 05/08/2011 6:19:02 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: umgud

Uncle Sam should be bowing to the will of the states, not vice versa.


25 posted on 05/08/2011 6:19:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: ColdOne

It’s down because there are no new jobs....haha...not because of Obama’s ‘enforcement’.


26 posted on 05/08/2011 6:25:07 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: mountainlion

I’m telling you she meant to say “falsies”...Nappy wears falsies!!!!


27 posted on 05/08/2011 6:30:36 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Where is the Great Santini NOW when we need him?)
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To: ColdOne

The only problem with Obama’s approach to reducing illegal immigration is that it requires destroying the economy first to reduce their incentive.


28 posted on 05/08/2011 6:34:23 PM PDT by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: ColdOne
Saying the illegal immigration is down by 36 percent under Obama, Napolitano said, "I think these efforts on a state by state level first of all have predicated a falsity...


And I suppose the Great Recession has nothing to do with the illegals returning home when the gravy train stopped...

29 posted on 05/08/2011 6:34:44 PM PDT by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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30 posted on 05/08/2011 6:37:44 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: musicman

Down 36% eh?
Border secured eh?

Hmmmmmm....sounds like an excuse for AMNESTY!!!!


31 posted on 05/08/2011 6:50:07 PM PDT by ak267
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To: ColdOne

The Democrats want as many Mexicans in the U.S. as possible.


32 posted on 05/08/2011 6:56:58 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: ColdOne

There are federal laws on the books that the federal government is not enforcing. There are sanctuary cities that have said, in effect, screw the law. If they want to secede from the Union, I’ll let them.

These laws were passed by the people’s representatives in Congress, in accordance with the Constitution.


33 posted on 05/08/2011 6:59:11 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Zactly! They are rushing into sanctuary cities.

LLS


34 posted on 05/08/2011 7:07:21 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!)
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To: ColdOne

Congress mandated building fence and limiting immigration. The executive branch has not lived up to their obligations.


35 posted on 05/08/2011 7:18:58 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: ColdOne

Does Napolitano keep frozen hotdogs in her icebox?


36 posted on 05/08/2011 7:29:18 PM PDT by MissMack99 (BO Stinks!)
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To: ColdOne
...illegal immigration is down by 36 percent under Obama,...

How do they know this? If they know who, then, they should be kicking them out of the country.

37 posted on 05/08/2011 7:29:27 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (Hope and change is share the poverty.)
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To: depressed in 06
...illegal immigration is down by 36 percent under Obama,...

If so only because people are thinking, "Holy crap, why waste time getting into a place with a president who's crashing and burning the economy? We can stay right where we are for third world dictards."
38 posted on 05/08/2011 7:34:39 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: ColdOne

“Saying the illegal immigration is down by 36 percent under Obama, Napolitano said ... “
See FR article where AZ sheriff says feds are up their old tricks `cooking the books’:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2716668/posts
They are trying to lay a foundation for saying `The border is secure, so now we can talk about `Comp. Immi. Reform’... ‘ (or, the system works).
No amnesty!


39 posted on 05/08/2011 7:48:54 PM PDT by tumblindice (AP Obama awarded himself the Medal of Honor this morning. In an unprecedented move, in the Rose Gard)
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To: ColdOne
Saying the illegal immigration is down by 36 percent under Obama...
Well, golly, Janet, did the thought ever enter your addlepated noggin that
high unemployment is the reason for the drop in illegal immigration?

It sure as hell isn't down because the border is secure, no matter how loud you squeal that it is.

40 posted on 05/08/2011 8:43:40 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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