What will Napolitano bring to the table as Department of Homeland Security? Michelle Malkin answers that question for us. From Malkin’s blog:
The buzz has Barack Obama tapping Arizona Democrat Gov. Janet Napolitano for DHS Secretary.
On the surface, it may seem a promising pick. Napolitano made a few pro-immigration enforcement moves in her state — including declaring a border security emergency and backing some employer sanctions. She riled the open-borders lobby by signing a bill banning public funding of day labor centers.
But Napolitano’s heart lies with the shamnesty crowd. She vetoed a bill cracking down on phony matricula consular cards for illegal aliens and rejected efforts allowing more cooperation between local law enforcement and the feds. She opposes assimilationist measures on English language and ID requirements to prevent voter fraud; she supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal aliens.
In short, she’s a double-talker and double-doer who will ensure the immigration chaos status quo.
My guess is she won’t be any help on cracking down on illegal immigration any time soon. And I for one want illegal immigrants gone. I don’t support any type of amnesty for them or any road to citizenship. My friends who were “legal immigrants” went as family and became citizens.
My biased opinion comes from the area of Massachusetts I grew up in. It had a very large Portuguese population and they were all legal. And that is how my family arrived in this country. All people should arrive that way.
Filed under: Constitution of the United States, Democrats, Immigration, Obamabots, President Elect Obama, United States of America | Tagged: Arizona, Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano
