The Washington Times
President Obama made a run for the border yesterday to shore up his credentials on the immigration issue. Speaking from Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso,Mr. Obama defended his strategy as if it were working. “They’ll never be satisfied,” he said,lashing out at critics. “The truth is,the measures we’ve put in place are getting results.”
The Obama administration has cooked up a novel way to calculate what a great job his Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has been doing in stemming the flow of aliens flooding over the border from Mexico. In March,Ms. Napolitano stood on a bridge connecting El Paso to Ciudad Juarez,Mexico,and proclaimed border security to be “better than ever.” In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week,Ms. Napolitano claimed that the meaning of “operational control” of the border is “archaic” and that she intends to devise a “more quantitative and qualitative way to reflect what actually is occurring at the border.” She said she wants an index that would include a measure of how many persons have been deterred from even attempting to jump the border.
By counting these theoretical illegals –as opposed to real ones –Ms. Napolitano’s border-security mission becomes much easier. While hundreds of thousands actually cross over annually,compared to,say,Mexico’s entire population of 112 million,they represent a tiny fraction. Preventing border crossing in a computer model or a spreadsheet allows Ms. Napolitano to proclaim “mission accomplished” without having to actually crack down in a way that would offend left-wing open-border advocacy groups.
Ms. Napolitano’s attempt to redefine what it means to secure the U.S. border is a brilliant example of double-speak worthy of “Big Sis.” Real numbers are far less forgiving. In February,the Government Accountability Office reported that the Border Patrol has only 873 miles of the 2,000-mile southern border subject to “operational control.” The term means simply that the Border Patrol has the capacity to deter illegal crossers and pursue them when they’re spotted. The remaining length is mostly open for free passage. In remote regions of Arizona,cartels have established observation posts providing intelligence to ensure safe border transit for drug couriers.
Mr. Obama and his economic advisers do deserve some credit for discouraging illegals from crossing the southern border.
Obama and Janet Napolitano (Home land security) are aware La Raza,(Marxist Militants owned by George Soros) are LINKED to Muslim Terrorist crossing into America illegaly but have done nothing to stop it instead have prevented the enforcement of Federal Law in Arizona designed to stop this very thing while also forcing Americans to pay over 300 billion per yr to support illegal immigration…Why do we allow Obama and his criminal administration to continue. Obama belongs in prison for the thousand of rapes and murders of American citizens as a result of his refusal to enforce illegal immigration laws.
I am still after two years and more amazed that we are letting illegals come across the border. Didn't 9/11 teach us anything? We have al Quida in our prisons,American Al Quida. We are the only country in the WORLD that is being chastised because we don't let the illegals enter our country. Everywhere else you need a pass port…….Anyone that can't see this is a complete idiot….(and that's a nice word for it)
His measures are getting results allright,but only for him.