What Part of "illegal" don't you Understand?

That question "What part of illegal don't you understand" is a debate ender.  The question shows that the speaker hasn't done any real thinking on the complexities of illegal immigration and makes it clear that a debate would be a waste of time. 

However, even those of us who find the question to be offensive understand one thing...illegal immigration really is illegal. 

That is everyone except Janet Napolitano--who happens to run the agency that enforces immigration law.

I'm going to have to abandon the "shot herself in the foot" metaphor because Janet doesn't have three feet.  First, she issued a report that portrayed returning vets as potential terrorists targeted for recruitment by right wing extremists.  Then she demonstrated her ignorance by referring to the myth that some of the 9/11 terrorists came to the US via Canada.

The first self-inflicted wound led to calls for her resignation.  The second, led Canadian papers to wonder how someone so unqualified to get the appointment.

Then, last Sunday, Janet appeared on CNN and made the bizarre statement that illegal immigration isn't actually, you know, illegal.

Michelle Malkin has the full story including the transcript and the appropriate reference to federal law that shows Janet is clueless. 

Who would have thought that Napolitano would have gone to Washington and embarrassed Arizona so badly?  Pretty soon the nation is going to think that we are just a backward state populated by unsophisticated rubes.

Of course, if she keeps this up, she's going to be in the private sector soon...(to the extent that you can call a big D.C. law firm the "private sector.")  One thing's for sure, she's never coming back to Arizona.

Comments

[Kelli]

Greg wrote:
"I'm going to have to abandon the "shot herself in the foot" metaphor because Janet doesn't have three feet."

Hilarious.

[Jim Torgeson]

I see open borders in Obama's plans...

[ron]

You think the nation is only one who is going to think that we are unsophisticated rubes? Unfortunately I think the world already does. See The National Post (a national newspaper in Canada) and what it thinks of Janet.

[todd]

i think this should be "she issued a report that portrayed returning vets as potential terrorists targeted for recruitment by right wing extremists" based on an FBI report of successful recruitment of vets by right wing extremists.

[Ron Horiuchi]

And the FBI never lied or fabricated evidence before? You know, like leaking information that Richard Jewell bombed the '96 Olympics. Or the March 2007 report by the Inspector General, which described the FBI's "widespread and serious misuse" of national security letters, where between 2003 and 2005 the FBI had issued more than 140,000 national security letters, many involving people with no obvious connections to terrorism.

Nah, let's just put blind faith in an agency that generally has its head up its ass regarding counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.

[blank]

http://www.firenapolitano.com/

[Dan]

"an FBI report of successful recruitment of vets by right wing extremists"

If a few veterans joining nutjob groups is worthy of eyebrow-waggling, what should we make of the "successful recruitment of vets" by the FBI?

[Scorekeeper]

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[John Keegan]

It is interesting that she considers vets as potential terrorists but if foreign Islamic radicals attack America they are not committing acts of terrorism but of "human-caused disasters." Why does this administration only use the term ‘terrorism’ with respect to Americans and not to foreign forces sworn to the murder and destruction of our country?

[todd]

Ron Horiuchi - of Course the FBI has lied, I would advocate doing away with the agency entirely, but I think it is at least worthy to note that this is what the main law enforcement agency of the federal government thinks and claims to have evidence to support.

[Paul West]

Janet's doing a great job.

She fumbled some words in the interview that set off the flap over protecting our border with Canada. A terrorist with a bomb in the trunk of his car entered our country in December of 1999 by ferry from Victoria, British Columbia, to Port Angeles, Washington, where he was arrested. His intended target was the Los Angeles International Airport, as part of what is called the "Millenium Plot." None of the 9-11 hijackers crossed the border from Canada. Just some innocent dude with a bomb in his car planning to blow up an airport.

It is not a myth that terrorists have entered our country via the border with Canada. Do you want this border left unprotected? McCain, Palin, and George W. Bush never fumbled their words even once?

United States Army veteran Timothy McVeigh and United States Army veteran Terry Nichols bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 168 dead, over 800 injured. United States Army veteran Eric Rudolph set off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics that would have killed at least 100 people if he'd been any good at bomb making. He killed one man and maimed a nurse in the bombing of an abortion clinic and also bombed a gay bar in Atlanta. What were the political issues that drove these disgruntled military veterans to terrorism and murder?

Disgruntled military veterans are NOT capable of becoming domestic terrorists? Our Homeland Security Department and the FBI shouldn't be watching right wing extremists groups because they are not capable acts of terrorism?

Go Janet. She'll be back in 2012 to take out John Kyl.

[Richard]

Yeah, right, Paul. Janet taking out Jon Kyl in 2012. And Simcox taking out McCain! Napolitano wouldn't win a Democratic primary for dogcatcher as many people as she has betrayed in Arizona.

[EVRep]

You need to keep up, Greg. The day before this post, she started another controversy by telling the ADL that we need to get rid of Real ID, which was recommended by the 9/11 commission, passed with bipartisan support and has actually worked. Perhaps you could go with "shooting herself in the toe."
With regard to her coming back and running for the Senate, she at least is smart enough to know that on election night she is not going to be within 8 points of either McCain or Kyl. She will eventually be eased out of this job and set up shop as a lobbyist in D.C. at a Patton Boggs type law firm, waiting for McCain or Kyl to retire.

[ron]

If Janet runs for any elected office, all an opponent has to do is to run her comments about the Canadian border as his or her ads.

[Carl Hay]

Janet has been drinking Obama's kool aid.

Now she's babbling insanities.

"Those whom the gods destroy, they first make mad."