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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano
should be grateful that the last two weeks of news have been dominated
by stories of activist attacks on the Chick-fil-A franchise, the
Olympics, Mitt Romney’s trip abroad, and a stalled economy. It allowed
one of the more outrageous statements ever made by the woman tasked with
maintaining a substantial portion of America’s national security to go
largely unnoticed. Yet what she said was chilling: at a July 25 hearing
of the House Homeland Security Committee, Napolitano admitted that suspected terrorists enter the U.S. from Mexico “from time to time.”
Rep. Ron Barber (D-AZ) asked the revealing question. “As you know,
Madam Secretary, there have been anecdotal reports about material
evidence of the presence of terrorists along our southern border. My
question is, is there any credible evidence that these reports are
accurate and that terrorists are, in fact, crossing our southern border
with the intent to do harm to the American people?”
“With respect, there have been…from time to time, and we are
constantly working against different and evolving threats involving
various terrorist groups and various ways they may seek to enter the
country,” she answered.
To put it bluntly, Napolitano is lying. A thoroughly alarming 2010 Judicial Watch Report revealed the
U.S Border Patrol “has captured thousands of people who have been
classified as OTM (Other Than Mexican) along the 2,000-mile southern
border and many are from terrorist nations like Yemen, Iran, Sudan,
Somalia and Afghanistan. The feds call them SIAs (Special
Interest Aliens) and the government doesn’t want Americans to know about
them.” The report further noted that the “Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
revealed that Islamic terrorists and violent Mexican drug gangs have
teamed up to successfully penetrate the U.S. as well as finance terror
networks in the Middle East.”
Napolitano remains willfully oblivious: “What I can tell you,
however, is that that southern border–the U.S.-Mexico border–is heavily,
heavily staffed at record amounts of manpower, materiel, infrastructure
and the like, and we are constantly making sure we’re doing all we can
to make that border as safe as possible,” she contended.
The key word here is “border.” Two weeks before her congressional appearance, the Obama administration announced it was closing
nine Border Patrol stations across four states. The six affected
stations in Texas are located in Lubbock, Amarillo, Dallas, San Angelo,
Abilene and San Antonio. The other three are in Billings, Montana, Twin
Falls, Idaho, and Riverside, California. U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) claims it is closing the stations in order to reassign
agents to high-priority areas closer to the border. “These deactivations
are consistent with the strategic goal of securing America’s borders,
and our objective of increasing and sustaining the certainty of arrest
of those trying to enter our country illegally,” said CBP spokesman Bill
Brooks in a statement. “By redeploying and reallocating resources at or
near the border, CBP will maximize the effectiveness of its enforcement
mandate and align our investments with our mission.”
The agents on the ground weren’t buying it. “It could impact us
tremendously since we’ve only got two agents up here now for 26
counties,” Potter County, TX Sheriff Brian Thomas told FoxNews.com. ”I
can’t hold a carload of people out there on I-40 for eight hours while
somebody comes from El Paso. I mean, that’s just crazy,” he added. The
targeted station in Amarillo, TX is right in the middle of the
Interstate-40 corridor, which is a major pathway for illegals. Robert
Green, the Border Patrol’s resident agent in charge in Amarillo, echoed
that concern. “As a former deputy I found myself on the other end of the
radio hoping to contact USBP to assist me with a vehicle full of
undocumented foreign nationals on the side of the road.”
A letter sent by several members of Congress to Border Patrol Chief
Michael Fisher asked him to reconsider the plan, further noting that the
Amarillo and Lubbock stations alone accounted for 638 apprehensions of
illegal immigrants just this year.
Bob Dane, communications director with the Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR), cut to the chase. “It’s part of the
systematic dismantling of both border and interior enforcement,” he
said. “It complements the non-enforcement policy of this
administration.”
That policy is nothing more than an executive order issued by the president, effectively instituting the
DREAM Act he couldn’t get though Congress. Illegal aliens who entered
the country under the age of 16 and those who are now less than 30 years
of age will not be deported, and will receive works visas as
well–provided they meet certain criteria.
Or so the public has been told. Two days after Napolitano’s
appearance before Congress, Chris Crane, president of the union
representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, hammered the
administration, saying the policy is forcing immigration officials to
ignore the law, and allowing illegals to exploit the system.
“Prosecutorial discretion for dreamers is solely based on the
individual’s claims,” said Crane at a press conference. “Our orders are
if an alien says they went to high school, then let them go. Officers
have been told that there is no burden for the alien to prove
anything…At this point we don’t even know why DHS has criteria at all,
as there is no requirement or burden to prove anything on the part of
the alien.” George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol
Council union confirmed Crane’s allegation, contending that the DHS has
made it impossible for agents to do their jobs.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is demanding answers from ICE. “Federal law
enforcement should certainly not be giving illegal aliens more
preferential treatment than is afforded American citizens,” Sessions
wrote. “Your agency’s apparent treatment of the criminal alien sends the
troubling message that the demands of public safety are trumped by the
desire for reduced deportations of those deemed ‘not presidential
priorities.’”
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For an Obama administration determined to ram de facto amnesty down
the throats of the American public, “getting in trouble” is rapidly
becoming a largely meaningless term as well. If such laxity results in
another domestic terror attack, every proponent of this agenda should be
held fully accountable.
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