Posted on 06/28/2010 9:17:29 AM PDT by Nachum
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, whose agency is charged with securing America’s borders, told an audience in Washington, D.C., in reference to the U.S.-Mexico border, “You’re never going to totally seal that border.” Napolitano spoke and answered questions at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on “Securing the Border: A Smarter Law Enforcement Approach,” on Wednesday. When asked if she could give a timeline on when the border would be secured, Napolitano said, “The border is as secure now as it has ever been” but that the border will never be totally sealed.
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We don’t have to totally seal the border.
Creating an environment where illegals will self-deport is the answer.
With less traffic comes easier enforcement....
Yep. Especially if you never try....
Well. Sounds like she speaks the truth. It is more secure than ever and it will never be secure.
They will never try.
We need to stop the freebies for illegals.
That will help a lot.
You’re never going to totally eliminate murder either but that doesn’t mean we stop enforcing the laws against murder. You do whatever is possible to legally minimize the crime at issue.
Let’s do what Americans are capable of doing Janet dear....
YEAH, WELL WE CAN SEAL YOU SIS! ! !
That is funny......San Diego sealed THEIR border.
TRAITOR
She’s right, you will never completely seal off the border. But for God’s sake give it a try! Our children suffer because of the massive amounts of drugs coming across. California has an outbreak of Whooping cough, guess what group it started in?
No, you’re not. Nothing is 100% effective. But you could do a whole lot better job of sealing it than you are currently.
Maybe not, but it is the duty of the Obama administration to try.
You will never seal the border.......until you start. They know that full well. These fools in Washington don’t care about the rest of the country. Republicans and Independents need to hammer at this and keep hammering until it is brought up on the floor of the House and Senate and keep it on the floot until something is done. If they don’t, people will start getting hurt, in a serious way.
I don't care if the border is not 100% sealed. Just start making an effort. Sheesh!
A reasonable attempt would be a good start.
Considering that a reasonable attempt to seal the border has never been tried, but is required by law.
First obey the Constitution and enforce the laws, folks, and then later we can talk about the remaining cleanup required.
Yo, Janet, the times and crimes have changed since the 1800s.
Sure, but we can make life a living hell for illegals, then they’ll go home on their own.
The list, ping
Seal the border the best that can be done (especially since many illegals cross legally on tourist visas and then just stay), make it uncomfortable to stay here illegally and every expensive to hire illegals and the number of illegals will be reduced. Do that for ten years and we might even be willing to discuss the terms of amnesty for the couple of million still here after that... maybe.
Then how is it that the border wih Canada is totally sealed. AND I MEAN TOTALLY.If a Canadian termite crosses the border into the USA, alarms go off.
From the head of “Homeland Security”...
Janet - Change your letterhead!!
True as long as we have globalist, progressive communists in power!
CLEAN HOUSE IN NOVEMBER!
I trust President Palin to totally seal the border. (I don’t trust her not to let in amnesty after she does so, but I trust her to seal the border.)
With her in charge I’m sure she’s right.
Yep. It's almost like they know the Mayan doomsday prophecy is real and they're all trying to grab as much as they can before the big event.
If they don’t, people will start getting hurt, in a serious way.
I live in a rural area of SE Tennessee. I've seen illegals with MS-13 tattoos several times over the past year or so in my area. It's only a matter of time before this explodes. People who live around me won't put up with chaos created by a bunch of illegal thugs.....
It sounds like she’s saying that it will not occur under this or any other like minded administration because they’re not going to attempt to seal the border.
If the Israelis can damn near secure their country with their walls, we can sure as hell give it a go. Or as others pointed out, make life here a living hell for the illegals so they return on their own.
It take balls and a spine to do something many weak-kneed liberals disagree with. We need someone with balls (or not depending on the gender) and/or a spine of steel to do something about this attempt to overrun our country and turn it into a 4th world cesspool.
The bitch is useless and sending an invitation, terrorist loving lesbo.
We can’t do something the Chinese did thousands of years ago, but we can manage every aspect of health care for 300+ million people.
Interesting how you picked up on her semantic use of *YOU and THAT border*
A patriot would have at least said: “WE may not be able to fully secure OUR borders, but we will make every effort”.
What do Arizonans think of their former Governor?
Isn’t Napolitano making the case in public for the State to Seize the Assets of Federal Agencies and Federal Employees.??
There was a recent decision upholding the right of the State to use Civil Asset forfeiture against a citizen because he “might” use the money for something illegal.
seems to me Napolitano is Openly admitting that she and other Federal Employees and Agencies will use their Paycheck for Illegal Activities, Open Defiance of the LAW is an Illegal Act in and of itself. Begin CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE of All Federal Employees in the State, beginning with Janet Napolitano.
A totally stupid argument used by people who have no intention of even trying the thing the say can never be totally accomplished. But since Napolitano and the Dims like this one so much, here are a few others
We're never going to cure all the sick people.
We're never going to catch all the criminals.
We're never going to convict all the criminals in court.
So don't even make the effort in any of those areas, either. The list is endless, and the general argument one for morons and people who have no intention of even trying to any extent at all.
That is the crux of the issue. The reason she said 'seal' is that she knows it cannot be done, and it isn't what we want. We don't want the borders CLOSED.
What we want is border SECURITY.
That is what she is responsible for, and she is failing at it. She is just trying to dodge the issue by using a strawman argument.
As with many other issues the West has the means but not the will to effectively take care of a problem.
In far eastern calif, when illegals are caught in desert crossings, they go 2 jail for two weeks. Here, crossings are EXTREMELY RARE. Meanwhile, in parts of Arizona where they don’t feature the two week jail hold, crossings abound —they’re completely off the hook.
The bare minimum they could have done starting years ago would have been to also have the 2 week hold.
They weren’t even doing that —it was more or less a ride back the same day, or the next day. Sorta like a drop-off at school for kids.
This is not some logistical difficulty —UAV’s now present hyperEfficient ways of surveilling HUGE tracts of desert, day or night. In fact, at night the task made considerably more easy.
When she said “as secure as ever”, she was using lawyerly weasel words; the border is insecure today, and it was insecure 10 years ago.
See? She was being HONEST. It’s the “non-lie LIE”.
Border security is TECHNICALLY easier than at ANY point in world history.
IF the Mayan’s were right, it won’t do them a dam bit of good. They are still fools.
Sounds a lot like Biden’s, “A lot of jobs aren’t coming back”.
Then President Zero can concentrate on more important matters - like figuring out how to break his pledge on middle-class taxes without looking like a total phoney.
Problem is, sealing the border is more than just a wish, it's become a national security issue. Unless the citizens are supposed to ignore rapes, robberies, home invasions, disease epidemics, drug smuggling, terrorist infiltration, and all the costs incurred by allowing millions of undocumented workers to make the USA their 'home away from home'.
“The border is as secure now as it has ever been”
Napolitano will have to live with those words the rest of her tenure (may it be a short one).
For that matter, we'll never be able to totally eliminate the people who'd attempt a terrorist attack. So what the hell are we paying Napoitano for?
That makes as much sense as leaving the kitchen faucet on all the way because it still drips a little when you shut it off.
You’ll run out of room in your sink and money to pay the water bill long before you run out of water.
I could be wrong, but I think Congress has appropriated money for the wall. They just won't build it. Without federal permits, it's not going forward. I also seem to recall that at least one section was built. It was quite short, and I think the cost was $3000 per linear foot.
The US government will not permit border security. They want the situation we have right now.
Yep, and no further evidence of that fact is needed, either, but they just keep offering up more and more to prove just how big of fools they all really are. What a mess....
Career Democrats are such a bunch of losers. The only way they win major elections is through fraud and lawsuits.
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