Defining Border SecurityIt is Time to Do So
Tom Tancredo -- WorldNetDaily.com -- February 5 The lie that will not stand A group of border-city mayors from Brownsville to San Diego have joined to issue a statement supporting the claim that our southwest border is secure. They say that since there is no crime wave in their cities, the violence in Mexico is not spilling over the border and Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano is doing a great job.
American Patrol Report Comment Three years ago American Border Patrol defined border security. It is Operation 20-20.
Now, with ABP's "Sonic Barrier" system, it will be possible to verify if the border is secure.
The ranchers and farmers of Cochise County, Ariz., are not impressed. Neither is the Arizona Cattle Growers Association or the city officials in Green Valley or dozens of other Arizona communities. The drug trafficking and human smuggling across the open borders continues at very high levels.
And yet, Napolitano persist in repeating the lie that "our borders are as secure as they have ever been." Why is the Obama administration so deeply committed to what every ordinary citizen of Arizona knows to be a lie?
The answer is that Napolitano's mission is not to help secure the border; her job is to lay the groundwork for the next amnesty bill. For any amnesty bill to have any chance of bipartisan support in Congress, the Obama team must find a handful of Republicans to agree to the claim that the border is now "secure enough" to proceed with another amnesty. So, the debate in Congress always comes down to the question, how much border security can we "reasonably expect" as a precondition for another amnesty?
Tom Tancredo -- WorldNetDaily.com -- February 5 The lie that will not stand A group of border-city mayors from Brownsville to San Diego have joined to issue a statement supporting the claim that our southwest border is secure. They say that since there is no crime wave in their cities, the violence in Mexico is not spilling over the border and Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano is doing a great job.
American Patrol Report Comment Three years ago American Border Patrol defined border security. It is Operation 20-20. Now, with ABP's "Sonic Barrier" system, it will be possible to verify if the border is secure.
The ranchers and farmers of Cochise County, Ariz., are not impressed. Neither is the Arizona Cattle Growers Association or the city officials in Green Valley or dozens of other Arizona communities. The drug trafficking and human smuggling across the open borders continues at very high levels.
And yet, Napolitano persist in repeating the lie that "our borders are as secure as they have ever been." Why is the Obama administration so deeply committed to what every ordinary citizen of Arizona knows to be a lie?
The answer is that Napolitano's mission is not to help secure the border; her job is to lay the groundwork for the next amnesty bill. For any amnesty bill to have any chance of bipartisan support in Congress, the Obama team must find a handful of Republicans to agree to the claim that the border is now "secure enough" to proceed with another amnesty. So, the debate in Congress always comes down to the question, how much border security can we "reasonably expect" as a precondition for another amnesty?
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~~~ From the Secure Fence Act of 2006 ~~~ |
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