Posted on 05/10/2011 5:52:35 PM PDT by jazusamo
Administration wants credit for halting theoretical illegals
President Obama made a run for the border yesterday to shore up his credentials on the immigration issue. Speaking from Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso, Mr. Obama defended his strategy as if it were working. “They’ll never be satisfied,” he said, lashing out at critics. “The truth is, the measures we’ve put in place are getting results.”
The Obama administration has cooked up a novel way to calculate what a great job his Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been doing in stemming the flow of aliens flooding over the border from Mexico. In March, Ms. Napolitano stood on a bridge connecting El Paso to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and proclaimed border security to be “better than ever.” In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week, Ms. Napolitano claimed that the meaning of “operational control” of the border is “archaic” and that she intends to devise a “more quantitative and qualitative way to reflect what actually is occurring at the border.” She said she wants an index that would include a measure of how many persons have been deterred from even attempting to jump the border.
By counting these theoretical illegals - as opposed to real ones - Ms. Napolitano’s border-security mission becomes much easier. While hundreds of thousands actually cross over annually, compared to, say, Mexico’s entire population of 112 million, they represent a tiny fraction. Preventing border crossing in a computer model or a spreadsheet allows Ms. Napolitano to proclaim “mission accomplished” without having to actually crack down in a way that would offend left-wing open-border advocacy groups.
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True Clintonianspeak.
He IS getting results and the results he wants because of the measures "We've" put into place.
They're getting the desired results ... invasion from the South.
He lies and no one brings him to task.
That’s exactly what he wants, amnesty and open borders.
What a shot. LOL!
My wife saw that.
I told her Obama thinks his “rear” is a diamond mine.
I dare that punk@ss lawn jockey to spend a week in the Arizona coyote highway .... without the dam secret service!
Glad to hear the leaks in the border have been all semanted up.
Good one. Yeah, I’ll bet all the ranchers living along the Mexican border are feeling so much safer tonight. :)
“she wants an index that would include a measure of how many persons have been deterred from even attempting to jump the border. “
This reminds me of the Regime’s “Jobs created or saved”. Now it’s “Border crossings intercepted or deterred”.
carry on.
Novel? Same ol' thing - Lie.
Unemployment rate of 10% means 90% of the jobs have been saved. That’s the way liberals count.
“That’s exactly what he wants, amnesty and open borders.”
And so does Gary Johnson.
Gary Johnson should be no where near the Oval Office but he opposed amnesty. No citizenship offered period. He was very clear in the debate. What he suggested was a documented guest worker program only.
A friend told me that Johnson wants Open Borders. I wish I had an excerpt of Johnson’s words in the debate, so I can judge for myself.
I also read that he wants “undocumented workers” to be legal.
Didn’t see this posted on FR.
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