Is DHS Secretary Napolitano Just an Ignoramus?

[thundley4]

Is DHS Secretary Napolitano Just an Ignoramus?  [Andy McCarthy]
Janet Napolitano — the Homeland Security Secretary who approved the moronic intelligence assessment that suggested right-wingers are terrorists waiting to happen and returning combat veterans from our armed forces are their likely aiders and abettors — has now tried her hand at immigration law. In an interview aired over the weekend, she told CNN's John King,

What we have to do is target the real evil-doers in this business, the employers who consistently hire illegal labor, the human traffickers who are exploiting human misery. And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil. But anyway, going after those as well.  [Emphasis added.]

Perhaps the folks at the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement can explain to their boss (whose mandate includes enforcing the immigration laws) that crossing the border illegally is a crime. As Julie Kirchner of FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform) explains, Section 1325 of the federal immigration laws (Title 8, U.S. Code), makes it a misdemeanor on a first offense and a felony thereafter. [H/T: Michelle Malkin.]

So the question is: Is Napolitano just a dimwit or is she willfully misrepresenting the law as a rationale for not enforcing it? In any event, this is quite the administration. The president has just turned the attorney general loose to prosecute political adversaries for actions that were not crimes and saved American lives, while the Homeland Security Secretary, fresh from slandering the the president's political adversaries, is either in ignorance or denial about the actual crimes it's her job to go after.

NRO

I don't think she's an ignoramus, she just a liberal trying to increase their voting base on the backs of hard working Americans.

[Chris_]

There's an editorial in the National Post that basically says she's a moron. If even the Canadians can see that, she needs to go. LOL. 

[JohnnyReb]

Just another liberal nappy-headed ho.........top that Imus.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

She just got done insulting Canada by suggesting it was their law enforcement agencies' fault the 9/11 hijackers got into the US.

Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.

In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that "suspected or known terrorists" have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack.

All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked.

Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: "I can't talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here's the future. The future is we have borders."

Just what does that mean, exactly?

Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Napolitano equated Canada's border to Mexico's, suggesting they deserved the same treatment. Mexico is engulfed in a drug war that left more than 5,000 dead last year, and which is spawning a spillover kidnapping epidemic in Arizona. So many Mexicans enter the United States illegally that a multi-billion-dollar barrier has been built from Texas to California to keep them out.

In Canada, on the other hand, the main problem is congestion resulting from cross-border trade. Not quite the same thing, is it?

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1520295

Half of this admin are cheats, the other half are idiots and they're all leftist babble-rabble.

[Mr Mannn]

Is DHS Secretary Napolitano Just an Ignoramus?
No she is a tool for evil. Her works will destroy this country.

[thundley4]

She just got done insulting Canada by suggesting it was their law enforcement agencies' fault the 9/11 hijackers got into the US.
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1520295

Half of this admin are cheats, the other half are idiots and they're all leftist babble-rabble.

WTF? How can she be so  stupid.  Within days after 911 it was determined that all of the hi-jackers had entered the US legally, but stayed illegally.  They didn't come through Canada, but that is irrelevant to the fact they entered legally.  0Bama hires more incompetent people than  any president ever has.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

WTF? How can she be so  stupid.  Within days after 911 it was determined that all of the hi-jackers had entered the US legally, but stayed illegally.  They didn't come through Canada, but that is irrelevant to the fact they entered legally.  0Bama hires more incompetent people than  any president ever has.

Stupid is as stupid hires.