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Offline thundley4

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Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« on: June 25, 2010, 03:12:43 PM »
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An animated Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today said the need to intensify efforts to secure the southwest border should not be a precondition for progress on comprehensive immigration reform.

She made the comments after at least one Senate Republican suggested the White House was holding off on implementing stronger enforcement measures so that they could be a bargaining chip to lure Republicans to the table.

"The notion that you’re going to somehow seal the border and only at that point will you discuss immigration reform – that is not an answer to the problem,” she said.

“The border is as secure now as it’s ever been, but we know we can always do more and that will always be the case,” she said. “It’s a big border. It is 1,960 miles across that southwest border. It’s some of the roughest toughest geographical terrain in the world across that border… You’re never going to totally seal the border.”

Napolitano strongly defended the administration’s record on policing the border, saying the agency has “attacked” immigration and crime challenges there and in the interior in an “unprecedented” way.  But she said enforcement alone will not solve the system’s problems.
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The GOP needs to hammer the Dems on this issue.  Comprehensive Immigration Reform is their code words for amnesty for illegals. That point needs to be hammered in , in every election race where the issue comes up.
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Re: Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2010, 03:16:55 PM »
And they need to use a very BIG hammer.
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Re: Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2010, 03:30:37 PM »
So WTF is 'Comprehensive' about 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' if it doesn't necessarily entail a secure and enforced border?  This is total bullshit!

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Re: Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2010, 04:10:52 PM »
'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' ....didn't we have that back in the mid 80's...gave 'em all U.S. citizenship....and it only made matters worse.

Oh yeah :whatever: lets do it again...maybe it'll work this time. :whatever:
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Re: Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2010, 04:34:49 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 25, 2010, 04:10:52 PM
'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' ....didn't we have that back in the mid 80's...gave 'em all U.S. citizenship....and it only made matters worse.

Oh yeah :whatever: lets do it again...maybe it'll work this time. :whatever:
THEY ARE NOT GOING TO STOP UNTIL THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT!!! Rumor has it he wants to do a EO to get "amnesty=votes"  JUST WRONG
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Re: Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2010, 04:47:56 PM »
Quote from: cavegal on June 25, 2010, 04:34:49 PM
THEY ARE NOT GOING TO STOP UNTIL THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT!!! (...which is another block of government dependent democrat voters) Rumor has it he wants to do a EO to get "amnesty=votes"  JUST WRONG(...but will the Black Panthers let'em vote?)

EO....Any of y'all get the feeling that the The Big Zero has a secret death wish?
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Re: Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2010, 05:03:47 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 25, 2010, 04:47:56 PM
EO....Any of y'all get the feeling that the The Big Zero has a secret death wish?
I do not think it is a secret death wish.. He is drunk from power!!! They have no fear now they must get votes to keep the power!
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Re: Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2010, 08:33:24 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 25, 2010, 04:47:56 PM
EO....Any of y'all get the feeling that the The Big Zero has a secret death wish?

It's a brilliant political move...
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Re: Napolitano Rejects 'Secure Border' Precondition for Progress on Immigration Refo
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2010, 12:15:32 AM »
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You’re never going to totally seal the border.”

President Wilson placed over 100,000 National Guardsmen and US soldiers on the border from El Paso to Brownsville. The Mexican Revolution limped along for a few more years, but there were no more raids into Texas.

Give it a try, Nappy.

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