American Patrol Report Feature Continued

November 24, 2008

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The double-layered fence in San Diego produced the best results with apprehensions falling more than 95% after the fence was installed.

American Border Patrol has reported a strong correlation between improved border security and the Mexican drug wars. "While it is a dismal correlation, the increase in violence in Mexico took off in 2005, just as the U.S. started getting serious about the border," said Glenn Spencer of ABP. Spencer believes the drug cartels began fighting over rapidly disappearing drug routes into the U.S.

Napolitano has now suggested putting the National Guard back on the border. This would be a waste of resources.

President Bush sent the National Guard to the border in 2006. Following an initial surge that included lining up lookout posts along the Colorado River in March of 2007, Guard presence declined rapidly and, by January 2008, ABP found that all outposts between El Paso and the Pacific Ocean had been abandoned.

"The National Guard did very little to cut illegal immigration by their physical presence," Spencer observes. "Their most important contribution was the construction of fences and barriers." Spencer says he doubts that Napolitano, who is commander-in-chief of the Arizona National Guard, understands how the Guard was used and to what effect.

In October, Napolitano named Douglas Mayor Ray Borane as her advisor on immigration and border issues.

Borane once said the Minutemen are not welcome in his town, because they are "white supremacists, racists and very dangerous people." He went on to warn that the Minutemen would create an "international incident." They didn't.

The appointment of a man who attacked loyal Americans concerned with their nation's sovereignty as her advisor on immigration and border issues is evidence enough to disqualify Janet Napolitano as head of DHS.

Napolitano opposed Arizona's Proposition 200 and was resisting its enforcement, leading to a lawsuit against her. "She's the one that marched in the streets in Tucson against Prop. 200," he said. He called the governor's limited interpretation of the initiative "a back-door veto."

Napolitano has also pushed the development of the Mexican port of Guymas as a major link to international trade for Arizona.

Her extensive discussions regarding an alliance between Mexico and Arizona come close to violating Section 10 Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution. e.g., "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation."

Janet Napolitano is a champion of open borders and integration with Mexico. She does not understand the role of her own National Guard on the border. She has been proven wrong about the effectiveness of the border fence, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it works. Her selection as Secretary of Homeland Security would put the security of the United States in jeopardy.

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