I’m sure everyone recalls Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano — Big Sis — saying that the border is secure, and that border security is better than ever. A rather declarative sentence, really.
Exclusive: Illegal Border Crossings Double, Border Becomes Less Secure as Beltway Gets Close to Deal on Immigration Reform
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
As the immigration reform Gang of Eight inside the Beltway prepares to announce a deal later this week, claiming border security will come before a path to citizenship for millions of illegals, Border Patrol agents have seen illegal border crossings double and warn the cutting of agent work hours will only result in less border security, not more.
“We’ve seen the number of illegal aliens double, maybe even triple since amnesty talk started happening,” an agent told Townhall, who asked to remain unnamed due to fears of retaliation within Customs and Border Protection [CBP], something he said is common. “A lot of these people, although not the majority, are criminals or aggravated felons. This is a direct danger to our communities.”
Imagine that! You even begin to speak about amnesty and crossings double! Who would ever have thought that the remotest of possibilities?
In response she now says:
Janet Napolitano: We shouldn’t wait until the border is secure to legalize illegals
posted at 10:41 am on March 27, 2013 by Allahpundit
No worries. She says the border’s already “as secure as it’s ever been,” even though her department has given up trying to measure that. Marco Rubio recently claimed that 10 million new illegals would cross the border over the next decade if there’s no new guest-worker program in place. Maybe Napolitano could quantify border control that way. Are things secure enough now to ensure that only nine million of them would make it? Eight million?
“I think that once people really look at the whole system and how it works, relying on one thing as a so-called ‘trigger’ is not the way to go,” she said at a Christian Science Monitor event. “There needs to be some kind of certainty in the bill so that people can know when they can legalize and then when the pathway to citizenship, earned citizenship, will open up.”
Says she.
So, to Janet Napolitano: were you lying then, or are you lying now? Because you are lying to the American public.
BZ
