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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday. Napolitano, designated by President Barack Obama to lead the administration's immigration reform efforts, said many members of Congress had said they could support immigration reform, but only after border security improved, Napolitano said. "Fast forward to today, and many of the benchmarks these members of Congress set in 2007 have been met," she said in a speech to the Center for...

DHS Secretary To Change ‘Rightwing Extremism’ Comments While Lawsuit Against Her Department Moves Forward Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has once again revised her explanation on how a memo declaring veterans potential terrorists and targeting conservative activists came to be published. The revision comes as a lawsuit against Ms. Napolitano that charges constitutional violations progresses. On May 12, Ms. Napolitano told a House subcommittee the controversial memorandum, titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” “was not authorized to be distributed.” The DHS Secretary said the report was removed from the DHS Web site...

Is Janet Napolitano qualified to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States Sources familiar with the Obama administration have stated that Napolitano is one of 6 people on the short list to replace retired Justice David Souter. Is she qualified? Yes, she is qualified, but not the right choice. No, she is not qualified. Why is she even on the list? Yes, she would be a good choice. This one could use a few good hits. We hammered them once before. They say they're going to report this on their newscast tonight.

To the Editor: I recently read that Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, urged Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during public hearings in Washington on April 29 to do more to prevent flu carriers from entering the United States at ports of entry. Collins reportedly told Napolitano: “I am not advocating closing the borders, but I am advocating for a stepped-up medical presence at the borders … the use of technology, perhaps these scanners that six other countries are using.” Senator Collins is apparently unaware that undocumented aliens avoid ports of entry, choosing instead to trek across mountains and desert, trespass ranches...