By Josh Price

Chairman Obama’s strategy on immigration reform is bound to fool some into believing is more hawkish on illegal immigration than previously thought. Don’t be deceived.

“We are expanding enforcement, but I think in the right way,” Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, said in an interview.

Ms. Napolitano and other administration officials argue that no-nonsense immigration enforcement is necessary to persuade American voters to accept legislation that would give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, a measure they say Mr. Obama still hopes to advance late this year or early next.

Let me cut through that nonsense for you. The Obama administration wants those of us who are opposed to illegal immigration to believe he’s cracking down on it so he can then force amnesty for the 12-20 million illegals currently in this country down our throats. They’re trying to make the pill easier to swallow, so to speak

Don’t fall for it.

By Josh Price

From the Wall Street Journal:

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it was revising a program that authorized local police to enforce federal immigration law — a controversial aspect of U.S. border policy.

Opponents said the program, known as 287g, was intended to identify criminal aliens but instead has led to racial profiling; it allowed local police to identify and arrest illegal immigrants for such minor infractions as a broken tail light. Program supporters said it has been an effective tool for combating illegal immigration.

The new guidelines sharply reduce the ability of local law enforcement to arrest and screen suspected illegal immigrants. They are intended to prevent sheriff and police departments from arresting people “for minor offenses as a guise to initiate removal proceedings,” according to Homeland Security. The program will instead focus on more serious criminals.

“In a world of limited resources, our view is that we need to focus first and foremost on people committing crimes in our community who should not be here,” said John Morton, Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

So according to this ICE stooge, John Morton, only the illegals committing crimes shouldn’t be here? What about all illegals??? No illegal alien has a right to be in this country, whether they commits crimes or not.

The 287g program has been tremendously effective:

In the past two years, more than 120,000 suspected illegal immigrants were identified through the program, and most ended up in deportation proceedings. By comparison, ICE removed 356,739 illegal immigrants from the U.S. during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2008 — a 23.5% increase over the 2007 total.

Why scale back a program that has clearly been effective in removing illegals from this country? Answer: to reduce the amount of illegals being deported so that Chairman Obama’s push for so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” yields amnesty for the highest possible number of illegals. In other words, Chairman Obama wants as many of the 12-20 million estimated illegals in this country to remain here so that he can grant amnesty to as many of them as possible. After all, in his calculus more illegals granted citizenship equates to more Democrat voters.

That’s the real story here.

By Josh Price

At least a few Republicans are finally speaking out against Janet Napolitano and the now infamous Department of Homeland Security report intended to silence dissent from conservatives.

Once again, Sen DeMint of South Carolina is one of the few willing to speak out for and defend conservatives:

“This document is absurd and offensive,” said Sen. DeMint. “It suggests that Secretary Napolitano believes our Navy SEALs could be an equal or greater threat than the pirates they took down. Does the President really agree that veterans and tea party soccer moms are terrorists-in-waiting?” 

Sen. DeMint, along with six other senators including David Vitter, James Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Sam Brownback, Richard Burr and Lisa Murkowski, sent a letter to Secretary Napolitano asking her to explain the methodology used in compiling the so-called assessment. (As an aside, Where is the Republican so-called leadership on this? Where is Mitch McConnell?–John Boehner?)

You can read the full letter here.

UPDATE: I owe John Boehner an apology. He indeed has spoken out against DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s report. In fact, he actually makes a wonderful point in his statement:

“To characterize men and women returning home after defending our country as potential terrorists is offensive and unacceptable.  The Department of Homeland Security owes our veterans an apology. 

“Furthermore, the Secretary of Homeland Security owes the American people an explanation for why she has abandoned using the term ‘terrorist’ to describe those, such as al Qaeda, who are plotting overseas to kill innocent Americans, while her own Department is using the same term to describe American citizens who disagree with the direction Washington Democrats are taking our nation.  Everyone agrees that the Department should be focused on protecting America, but using such broad-based generalizations about the American people is simply outrageous.”

He’s exactly right. It is entirely and blatantly hypocritical to refuse to call the Islamofascists “terrorists” but unflinchingly refer to conservatives and veterans as “terrorists.” 

I applaud Boehner for his stance, but he should have gone further; He should have called for her resignation or removal from office.

By Josh Price

So in the wake of the offensive and frightening Department of Homeland Security report classifying conservatives as “rightwing extremists, I decided to go back and do some research on DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s Senate confirmation vote.

I wanted to find out which Republicans voted to confirm her nomination and the ones who voted against it. Well I ran into a slight problem. Her confirmation vote wasn’t conducted individually, it was done en bloc. In other words, it was a package vote on several of Obama’s cabinet nominees, including Napolitano. Fair enough. I should’ve still be able to see the vote results for the package deal, right? Wrong.

It turns out the her nomination was confirmed through a process known as “voice vote.” Here’s the Senate’s definition of voice vote:

A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say “Yea” or “Nay,” respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of Senators voting on each side are not recorded.

That’s interesting. The last sentence is quite shocking to me. I didn’t realize senators could cast votes and not have their names or party attached to those votes.  Now that’s some real accountability huh? That’s a story in and of itself, but the questions here are:

Why was the voice vote used for the confirmation of Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security Secretary and; Why was her nomination packaged with others?

Where were the Republicans while this was going on? 

Waiting for answers…

The Barack Hussein Obama and the Mainstream Media are trying to pass Homeland Security nominee Janet Napolitano off as some kind of a hawk on illegal immigration.

Surprise, surprise. She’s not.

American Spectator’s Rachel Alexander has written a great article illuminating the truth about her overall record, but specifically on illegal immigration:

Although Arizona has the highest rate of illegal immigration in the country, and the highest number of illegal immigrants proportionate to the general population of any state, Napolitano vetoed seven bills as governor that would have cracked down on illegal immigration. She supported drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants, and took away funding from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that he was using to enforce illegal immigration laws. She opposes a border fence, laughingly dismissing it, “you show me a 50 foot fence, I’ll show you a 51 foot ladder.”

Napolitano has made only two symbolic efforts to combat illegal immigration, repeatedly touted by her proponents as evidence she is tough on illegal immigration. The first was sending the National Guard to the border, which she was forced into doing after first vetoing a bill ordering her to. She initially tried to get out of it by claiming it was the federal government’s responsibility to fund the National Guard at the border. Ultimately she sabotaged the effort by limiting the role of the National Guard to administrative functions, not illegal immigration law enforcement.

Napolitano’s second symbolic measure against illegal immigration involved Arizona’s employer sanctions law. When it was first passed by the legislature in 2006, Napolitano vetoed it, claiming it wasn’t tough enough. At the time, everyone knew it was unlikely because she had vetoed every other law against illegal immigration. So the legislature called her bluff. The next year, it passed a tougher version of the bill, and anti-illegal immigration activists circulated an even tougher ballot measure in case she vetoed it. Considering Arizona voters passed four anti-illegal immigration measures with over 70% approval in 2006, Napolitano was trapped and forced to sign it, giving Arizona the toughest employer sanctions law in the nation.

Don’t believe the misinformation put out by Obama and the media. This woman will do absolutely nothing to help quell illegal immigration.  The thought of how much damage this woman can do at Homeland Security is utterly frightening. She’ll make current Secretary Michael Chertoff seem like an anti-illegal immigration stalwart.