Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. How much longer are the American people going to put up with this madness from the so-called Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and our other elected officials?
Please understand that the DHS is NOT acting alone.
"Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been leading the charge for amnesty since the beginning of the year, is doing everything possible to avoid his constituents.
The reason for this is obvious: Senator Graham already knows where his constituents stand on amnesty. They don't want it. And he doesn't care.
The Senate's Gang of 8, which also includes Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio, has not actually introduced a bill yet. They set a self-imposed deadline of March 21st to get a bill written and introduced.
March 21st falls on a Thursday. For the two full weeks after that date, Congress will be on recess. This means two full weeks of town hall meetings, Congress on your Corners, and constituent meetings. [....]"
Those who can not or will not control their national borders will not long survive.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified to Congress last month that the border “has never been stronger.” What she doesn't’t say is that the department no longer measures illegal immigrants who get away -- only those it catches.
“For two years, Secretary Napolitano has claimed our southern border is secure without having any metrics in place to make that determination,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Fox News on Monday. “Such statements demonstrate her lack of leadership and unwillingness to solve the problem."
[....] “There are areas of the border that have never been worse and never been more dangerous,” said Arizona rancher Dan Bell. “Every time someone mentions immigration reform we see a spike. We see more people coming through. And that is the case now.”
Bell operates a 50-square-mile ranch along the U.S.- Mexico border. He says illegal immigrant traffic on his ranch is worse, not better, than before the arrival of thousands of border agents in nearby Nogales.
“The canyons, the valleys, the mountains of Santa Cruz County, that is where the activity is now,” admits Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada. “The activity has shifted from urban to rural areas.”
[....] In the six prior years, no fewer than 800,000 illegal immigrants "got away," according to a 2012 GAO analysis of CBP data, though the Border Patrol did reduce the number of ‘"got aways" from 33 percent to 13 percent from 2006 to 2011. [....]
