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Arizona Governor turned
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Janet Napolitano


CNN -- April 15, 2009   
Napolitano defends inflammatory DHS report critical of concerned Americans   
The DHS will never monitor ideology or political beliefs, the head of the agency said Wednesday, responding to criticism of a recent report on right-wing extremist groups. -- "Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States," Janet Napolitano said in a written statement...

Michael Savage -- WorldNetDaily.com -- April 15, 2009   
Big Sister is watching you    
In George Orwell's book "1984" the slogan of the dictatorship was "Big Brother Is Watching You." In Obama's America, Janet Napolitano is in charge of homeland security, so the slogan could well be changed to "Big Sister Is Watching You."

Asbury Park (NJ) Press -- April 15, 2009   
Napolitano puts Monmouth County's illegal alien program on hold   
...Federal Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ordered a review of the 287(g) program -- which is used by 67 state and local agencies, but none in New Jersey -- shortly after she took office in January, department spokesman Matt Chandler said on Tuesday...

WorldNetDaily.com -- April 15, 2009   Audio Clip Included
DHS Report 'Un-American': Hedgecock seeks popular uprising   
Talk-radio host and WND columnist Roger Hedgecock says the Department of Homeland Security report he unveiled should cause more than alarm for Americans. -- "This kind of intimidation is so un-American," he said. "I'm hoping people will rise up against it."

Washington Times -- April 15, 2009  
Nappy's goons warn of radicals on right   
The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias... [ See report]

Department of Homeland Security -- April 14, 2009  
Napolitano to join B. Hussein Obama in Mexico   
Following an all-day tour of the Southwestern border that will take her and President Obama's Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan to El Paso, Texas, Columbus, N.M., and Nogales, Ariz., Secretary Napolitano will fly to Mexico City where she will join President Obama. The President will be in Mexico on Thursday...

We Get E-Mail -- April 12, 2009     
Dangerous feds release disturbing report concerning 'rightwing extremists'   
...If you thought the Missouri LE document [MIAC directive] was shocking, read this latest attack on freedom loving Americans out of Washington.  Looks like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU are now writing Federal Intelligence reports full of La Raza and Mexican lies and propaganda. [Related AP Feature]

CNSNews.com -- April 10, 2009  
DHS can't say if invaders will get stimulus money   
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday could not say whether $100-million in additional funding for a program that helps hungry and homeless people throughout the United States would be used to provide services to people who are in the country illegally...

La Prensa San Diego -- April 4, 2009   
Napolitano visits the border, 'community' express concerns   
It is not random that [DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano] decided to start her border tour in the Tijuana/San Diego region, as it isn't random that she is talking about very hot items such as border security, drug traffic and US tourism to Mexico. --

Associated Press -- April 4, 2009        
US, Mexico work together to fight drug cartels   
Cuernavaca, Mor., Mex. -- The U.S. and Mexico are creating a cross-border group to develop strategies for stopping the illegal flow of guns and drugs between the two countries, officials said Thursday. Emerging from a conference with U.S. officials, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora said...

OneNewsNow.com -- Tupelo, Miss. -- April 4, 2009   
Napolitano's border visit: To fence or not to fence?    
A Republican congressman says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano should be committed to stopping the flow of illegal drugs and illegal immigrants from Mexico, instead of worrying about intercepting American guns and drug money that illegally enter Mexico...

Associated Press -- April 4, 2009   
Napolitano claims cartels are under pressure   
Laredo, Tex. -- Beefed up vehicle inspections, more drug-sniffing dogs and improved surveillance should help curb the flow of guns and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday. -- Speaking at a border crossing facility near the Rio Grande River, Napolitano said...

Agence France-Presse -- April 4, 2009  
Mexico, US 'boost ties' on border, immigration   
Mexico, DF -- Mexico and the United States have increased ties on border security and immigration in the latest high-level meetings here, which ended ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama. -- A string of top US officials including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have passed through Mexico in recent weeks, promising to improve cooperation...

Seattle Times -- April 2, 2009        
Illegals go free; some even offered work permits    
The arrest of 28 illegal [aliens] at a small engine plant in Bellingham has ignited a national political firestorm over work-site raids carried out under the Obama administration. -- The ICE raid at Yamato Engine Specialists on Feb. 24 was the first of this presidential administration. Under massive pressure from [illegal alien] advocates, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano the next day ordered a probe... [Related item]

Los Angeles Times -- April 1, 2009        
Will Mexico's drug war lead to tighter gun control laws in U.S.?   
...The Arizona Republic today ran a story on Mexico's gun-control laws, among the strictest in the world, and quoted a Mexican gun shopper as saying, "If the United States had a system like ours, we wouldn't have so many problems here in Mexico." --- On Thursday, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be in Mexico City to discuss ways to prevent smuggling weapons into Mexico...

Imperial Valley News -- Holtville, Calif. -- April 1, 2009   
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to visit Southwest border, Mexico    
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to travel to the Southwest border and Mexico April 1-3 to meet with Mexican leaders to work together on ways to combat drug violence and tour U.S. ports of entry to observe border protection operations at the ground level. The trip will highlight Secretary Napolitano's recent announcements...

Imperial Valley News -- Holtville, Calif. -- March 31, 2009   
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to visit Southwest border, Mexico    
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to travel to the Southwest border and Mexico April 1-3 to meet with Mexican leaders to work together on ways to combat drug violence and tour U.S. ports of entry to observe border protection operations at the ground level. The trip will highlight Secretary Napolitano's recent announcements...

Bellingham (Washington) Herald -- March 31, 2009   
Insanity: Illegals nabbed at Bellingham company freed    
Many if not all workers detained in the Feb. 24 immigration raid at Yamato Engine Specialists have been released from the federal detention center in Tacoma. -- The unexpected move appears to be related to an ongoing federal investigation of Yamato...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix -- March 31, 2009          
Border Patrol union head pans Napolitano security plan   
The head of the National Border Control Council, the Border Control agents union, is sharply critical of the border security plan outlined Tuesday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. -- T.J. Bonner, the union's president, tells The Hill newspaper that he's "underwhelmed" by the announced steps to protect the Southwestern border ...

Los Angeles Times -- March 31, 2009   
Homeland Security shifts focus to employers   
Stepping into the political minefield of immigration reform, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano soon will direct federal agents to focus more on arresting and prosecuting American employers than the illegal laborers who sneak into the country to work for them, department officials said Monday...

William Campenni -- Human Events -- March 30, 2009    
Secure borders at last   
...With its Outward Enforcement policy, the new mission of the DHS is to protect the homeland security of – Mexico. Our far too few border agents will be checking people and contraband leaving the US! They will be checking for cash and guns going south, the latter one of our few American-made exports...

Daniel J. Kelley -- Chicago Observer -- March 30, 2009   
Punch drunk (illegal alien) love   
...Calling Napolitano "tough" on immigration is akin to chanting the party slogans from George Orwell's visionary novel, "1984," which proclaimed "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." What an absolute crock! Napolitano routinely opposed legislation aimed at stemming the influx of illegal aliens into Arizona from Mexico.

Washington Post -- March 30, 2009  
Napolitano now messing around with effective immigration enforcement   
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has delayed a series of proposed immigration raids and other enforcement actions at U.S. workplaces in recent weeks, asking agents in her department to apply more scrutiny to the selection and investigation of targets as well as the timing of raids, federal officials said...

American Patrol Report Feature -- March 29, 2009   
Being Led To Slaughter: "Nappy" fails to protect the homeland   
One day after Ernest Istook warned that the Obama Administration would be granting quiet amnesty, the Washington Post reports that DHS chief Napolitano has curtailed job-site immigration enforcement. -- This comes on the heels of a decision by Napolitano to move 450 federal agents to the border, without asking for funds to replace them. ..

Herb Denenberg -- Philadelphia Bulletin -- March 27, 2009   
More proof Obama regime has no will to fight terrorism   
I thought Janet Napolitano, the new Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Obama administration had reached the high-point of asinine liberal political correctness, when she said rather than refer to "terrorism" she preferred to call it "man-caused disasters." [See Obama Watch]

Rick Oltman -- Californians for Population Stabilization -- March 27, 2009   
Underwhelmed is an understatement   
The response from DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, Secretary of State Clinton and the entire U.S. government to the Mexican drug war is, to put it politely, underwhelming. -- Offered additional funds by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Napolitano said she thought that existing funds would cover the cost of policing the border with Mexico. [More from Rick Oltman]

MetroNews.ca -- Halifax, Nova Scotia -- March 26, 2009  
Napolitano says border security must remain tight   
A senior official in the Obama administration doused hopes on Wednesday that the Canadian border will be treated differently than the beefed-up Mexican boundary where drug violence is escalating and countless illegal [aliens]  flood into the United States every day...

CBS News -- March 14, 2009     
Napolitano claims that Mexico isn't a narco-state 'at this point'   
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says Mexico is “not at this point” in danger of becoming a failed narco-state. But she says the ongoing drug cartel related violence is a threat to both Mexico and the United States...

Wall Street Journal -- March 14, 2009   
Napolitano: Plan near for dealing with Mexican border chaos   
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the Obama administration would soon unveil a plan for dealing with rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, including more resources to stem the flow of dollars and guns to warring drug gangs, the Wall Street Journal reported....

Dave Gibson -- Capitol Hill Coffee House -- March 10, 2009   
Janet Napolitano is wrong    
Newly installed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently paid a visit to Capitol Hill to address the horrific violence plaguing Mexico, which now threatens this country. Incredibly, Napolitano downplayed the danger the drug cartels pose to the United States. -- She told legislators that the violence perpetrated by the cartels in Mexico has yet to make its way into this country

NorthJersey.com -- March 10, 2009   
U.S. urged to bar use of police as agents    
A statewide coalition of immigration advocacy and civil rights groups Monday urged the DHS to refuse Morristown final approval to deputize its police as immigration agents. -- In a letter sent to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the executive director of the New Jersey Immigration Policy Network said...

Arizona Republic -- Phoenix -- March 6, 2009   
Revisions could prompt Arpaio's ICE-program exit   
Homeland Security officials will make it clear in newly written guidelines that a federal program that lets local police enforce federal immigration laws is primarily for going after [illegal aliens] who commit serious crimes. -- But Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday that he would likely drop out of the program if immigration officials attempt to curtail his enforcement powers...

Politico -- March 5, 2009   
More patrols to U.S.-Mexico border?   
More personnel may soon be headed to the U.S.-Mexico border to help stem rising drug-fueled violence, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday. -- "We're looking at manpower that perhaps could be relocated for the time being on a temporary basis..."

Council on Foreign Relations -- March 4, 2009   
Napolitano up to no good?   
Without offering specifics, Napolitano [a memnber of the anti-US CFR] has said she will seek to overhaul President Bush's immigration policies, which focused on raids and criminal prosecutions. She has also criticized border protection measures under Bush, saying she favors tougher laws against employers who hire illegal [aliens]. "You cannot build a fence from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, and call that an immigration policy..."

Hannity's America -- Fox News -- March 3, 2009             sc         
Clueless Napolitano appears unqualified to head up DHS   
March 2 Show -- Sean Hannity, with KFYI host guest J. D. Hayworth, points out that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano is completely out of touch with what's going on on the border as far as crime and violence is concerned. Cluck here and click on the "Earth to Napolitano" video link.

We Get E-Mail -- March 2, 2009   
Has Napolitano appointed another Robert Bach type?   
US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has appointed Esther Olavarria as the new Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy. -- Olavarria was a senior advisor at the UN Refugee Agency. She is an immigration attorney who served as chief counsel to Senator Ted Kennedy (D) MA -  advocating  for comprehensive immigration reform...

KTAR -- Phoenix -- March 2, 2009   
Reconquista zealots hopeful about hearing Wednesday   
The federal program that allows Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's crackdown on illegal immigration will be the subject of a hearing Wednesday in Washington, D.C. -- Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano, former Arizona governor, will preside over the hearing...

Pittsburgh Tribune Editorial -- March 2, 2009   
Enforce laws equally   
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is sending the wrong message about her commitment to law enforcement. -- An agency official says Ms. Napolitano is "not happy" about a federal raid at a Washington state machine shop that netted 28 suspected illegal aliens. -- "(T)his is not her policy," the official added. -- Well, it damn well better be....

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson -- March 2, 2009 
Bad News: Mexico-born dual citizen takes vital border slot    
The biography of Marco Antonio López, who will be named chief of staff Friday for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, reads like that of a boy wonder. -- As a teen, López, who was raised in the border community of Nogales, Ariz., was following a television cameraman, learning about news... [This clown was appointed by Janet Napolitano]

Arizona Daily Star -- Tucson -- March 2, 2009   
Now, Ms. Napolitano, about that $500 million tab   
Former Gov. Janet Napolitano made a lot of noise back in 2005 by sending a "bill" to the U.S. Justice Department for costs Arizona bore by housing illegal immigrants. -- Needless to say, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales never put a check in the mail....

The Hill -- Washington -- February 25, 2009   
Napolitano confronted with "immigration reform"    
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will have her first private meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) on Thursday, a number of sources have confirmed. -- The meeting will be in the Capitol, and will be Napolitano's second straight day on Capitol Hill...

Associated Press -- February 25, 2009  
Here It Comes: Napolitano orders review of raid at Bellingham plant   
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered a review of a raid at a Washington manufacturing plant that ended with the arrests of 28 illegal [aliens]. --- President Barack Obama, who appointed Napolitano, has signaled for a shift in immigration policy that would rely less on work site enforcement...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- February 20, 2009  
The two faces of DHS Secretary Napolitano   
Illegal Immigration critics are complaining that Arizona's former governor, now Secretary of Homeland Security, played politics when she announced a state of emergency during the Bush Administration in response to illegal aliens and then she vetoed a new bill that would aid law enforcement in curtailing rampant illegal immigration...

Americas Program, Center for International Policy -- February 20, 2009   
Napolitano's hard echo of liberal 'immigration reform' strategy   
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano shows few signs of reining in the [illegal alien] crackdown launched by her predecessor Michael Chertoff. She recently called for "more boots on the ground" along the border and touted her determination to promote the "rule of law" in immigration enforcement...

Nogales (Arizona) International -- February 12, 2009   
Napolitano names former mayor to CBP post    
When reports began circulating last month that former Nogales Mayor Marco Antonio Lopez Jr. would go to Washington, D.C., to join Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's team, the local business community was abuzz....

ABC News -- February 12, 2009       
Kidnapping capital of the U. S. A..... (thanks, Nappy)  
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard... [See video courtesy StephenLoneWolf]

USA Today -- February 6, 2009  
Use of federal database for ID checks hits some bumps   
States are increasingly cracking down on illegal immigration by requiring companies to check their employees against a controversial Homeland Security Department database. -- The state effort has sparked protests from businesses, [illegal alien.... criminal] advocates and civil libertarians, which say the checks could inaccurately flag legal residents as illegal [aliens]...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- Family Security Matters -- February 3, 2009   
Napolitano's immigration, border security plan   
On Friday, January 30th, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano sent a copy of her immigration and border security directive to the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police. While her plan does not appear much different from the one formulated and promulgated by the previous DHS Secretary...

Washington Times -- January 25, 2009   
Napolitano lists Canadian border a top security priority   
Vulnerabilities along the Canadian border are one of more than a half-dozen priorities identified by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano during her first week, along with cybersecurity and ensuring that federal officials are properly communicating with state and local officials...

Nextgov.com -- January 24, 2009   
Napolitano asks for reports on cybersecurity, border protection   
The newly appointed secretary of the Homeland Security Department asked specific offices in the agency on Friday to submit reports outlining the state of cybersecurity in government and the private sector as well as the security along the U.S. border with Canada...

Marc Rotterman -- Raleigh (North Carolina) News & Observer -- January 24, 2009   
Now, back to the illegal aliens   
...The open border anti-fence activists are emboldened because Arizona's Gov. Janet Napolitano -- recently confirmed as Obama's choice for secretary of Homeland Security -- is perceived to be one of them and may try to halt or further delay construction of the $2 billion border barrier.

USA Today -- January 23, 2009    
Feds to 'rethink' license mandate   
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday afternoon that she will "rethink" a program that requires every state to issue more secure driver's licenses by the end of the year. -- The new licenses, required under a 2005 federal law, aim to prevent criminals and potential terrorists from getting fake IDs...

Phil Kent -- Atlanta Journal Constitution -- January 23, 2009 
Immigration still a minefield   
Illegal immigration again emerges as a major issue now that Barack Obama is president. The new administration is veering toward a more-open borders policy as underscored by Obama's choices of Janet Napolitano as Department of Homeland Security chief and Hilda Solis as U.S. Labor secretary....

Pam Meister -- Family Security Matters -- January 19, 2009  
The immaculate perception   
...Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security Director – She may have governed the southern border state of Arizona, but Napolitano is anything but tough on illegal immigration: she opposed the building of a border fence; tried to defeat a 2004 ballot initiative that would deny most non-essential services and benefits to illegals, and signed into law legislation barring Arizona from taking part in the Real ID program.


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