The disinterested Homeland Security Chief Napolitano

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The disinterested Homeland Security Chief

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Washington Times Editorial:

Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano seems to be floundering on immigration and national security issues.

Not only is she continuing her quixotic campaign against Real ID, the main federal law safeguarding the integrity of drivers' licenses and keeping them out of the hands of terrorists, but she has also been weak and apologetic about the efforts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do its job - removing illegal aliens from the United States. By contrast, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who had turned his state into a sanctuary for Illegal aliens, has reversed himself regarding drivers' licenses for illegals and complying with Real ID.

At the national level, Napolitano is headed in the wrong direction.

As governor, Napolitano pledged not to cooperate with the program, and in June she signed a law forbidding her state from cooperating with Real ID. Last year, as chairwoman of the National Governors Association, she denounced Real ID as an unfunded mandate that states could not afford. According to the association, Real ID will cost $11 billion over five years to implement. The NGA and Napolitano gloss over or ignore the financial benefits that result from having more secure drivers' licenses - which include giving law enforcement a vital tool to combat organized crime and identity-fraud rings that can easily steal millions of dollars from unsuspecting persons.

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Late last month, Napolitano ordered a review of a Feb. 24 raid on an engine plant in Washington State in which 28 persons suspected of being illegal immigrants were arrested. Senior DHS officials said Napolitano had not been informed about the raid (the first worksite raid since Napolitano took charge at DHS), and one told the New York Times that "she was not happy about it because it's inconsistent with her position, and the president's position on these matters."

The political pandering has begun.

We are going back to an unserious enforcement of immigration laws under the Democrats. Perhaps at best she is just incompetent. It is the job of ICE to find people who are in the country illegally and deport them. Raids like the one she criticize not only accomplish that mission but also spur self deportations which makes the job of enforcement more effective.

Napolitano needs to either start doing her job or be replaced.

http://www.chron.com/BlogBurst/BBpost2.htm...uqsGDd77YMEYIY6

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You can't throw illegals out, you need to them to do all the Stimulus jobs Obama saved and created for them, LOL