Obama’s Former Homeland Security Boss: “You Can’t Seal a Border.”

2008-06-01AFPNapolitanoObama

You can’t seal a border. Or let people keep their doctor. Or save Americans under fire. Especially if you don’t really want to.

Remember when Republicans start selling illegal alien amnesty in a border security wrapper, these are the types of people who will be enforcing it. And no they don’t believe in border security. They believe border security gets in the way of illegal alien amnesty.

Political calls for more walls and policing at the U.S.-Mexico border are a “straw man” designed to defeat immigration reform, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.

Napolitano said in an interview with The Associated Press that U.S. money would be better spent on easing border-crossing bottlenecks that affect trade rather than on adding more barriers and agents.

“You cannot seal a border, that’s an unrealistic expectation,” she added. “And I think that unfortunately it has become a straw-man argument to prevent immigration reform from passing.”

Actually border security is a straw buyer for illegal alien amnesty. You think you’re getting border security, but you’re just getting amnesty.

Can Obama Inc. be trusted to enforce a policy it doesn’t believe in? Sure. Like Defense of Marriage. Or not unilaterally legalizing large numbers of illegal alien “DREAMERS”.

Napolitano is gone, but the mindset has no changed.

  • Webb Cook

    We’d better send a high dollar delegation of our betters off to huff over to Israel to learn how to build a wall that’ll definitely seal any border from murderous miscreants.

  • Webb Cook

    Concrete, very high, guard towers with machine guns and American flags, no-approach zone. Thanks Israel!

  • tagalog

    No, you can’t seal a border until it’s entirely proof against illegal crossing. The most determined and clever will always find a way across. But you can patrol it and tighten security up acceptably instead of throwing it wide open and shout “come on, y’all!”

  • http://oddhammer.com/tutorials/debt_clock/US_debt_clock_dynamic.swf John Barleycorn
  • seewithyourowneyes

    Disneyworld does a fine job of protecting its border.

  • Drakken

    Hmmm we have between 20-40 million illegals in the US, put picks and shovels in their hands and make them dig the worst deepest ditch along the border, problem solved.

  • cxt

    Depends on how you define “seal.”

    If you use to mean “100%–nobody ever getting in” then that is likely correct.

    If you use it to mean “we have a pretty good handle on it–very few people are getting in” then that is quite possible.

  • USARetired

    I am here to tell everyone who will listen! This ‘Wind Bag’ no account idiot does not know ‘Beans from Applebutter’! I nick named her ‘Dume as a Rope’ when she was in Arizona!

  • http://oddhammer.com/tutorials/debt_clock/US_debt_clock_dynamic.swf John Barleycorn
  • carl johnson

    Just put up mini shockwave cannons, they’ll feel the pain and run the other way! Start a kickstarter program for each state and do it our selves.

  • Ironweeds

    Militarize the border with orders to shoot to kill.