Wants to delay pullout of National Guard troops on the border
Saying the new “virtual fence” in Southern Arizona is flawed, Gov. Janet Napolitano is asking the nation’s security chief to delay the pullout of National Guard troops from the area, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the governor said the 28-mile experimental segment near Sasabe has had “continuing problems.” The result, she said, is that plans to expand the network of cameras and sensors is now being pushed back to 2011.
Napolitano said that makes plans to withdraw the remaining Guard soldiers from the border by July 15 ill advised. But Russ Knocke, Chertoff’s press aide, said while adjustments have had to be made, the virtual fence is working.
And, if you believe that, Knocke has a bridge to sell you.
March 13, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Will wonders never cease? What a surprise! Of course, she very likely desires to embarrass Bush and Chertoff, but that’s fine with me–a lifelong Republican. They have been equally pathetic on anything relating to border security. I wonder whose side they’re on. It doesn’t seem as though Anerican interests are their priority.
March 13, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Hey, let’s put a proposition to Knocke - we’ll design a “virtual bridge,” and if he’ll walk across it, we’ll accept the “virtual fence.”
March 13, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Knocke sounds like a virtual mouthpiece for a virtual Homeland Security Secretary.
March 13, 2008 at 2:26 pm
We need an actual fence. We need a moat with alligators. We need George Amnesty Bush out of the White House. The only problem is the three choices facing us are all as bad.
McCain actually authored the last amnesty legislation that (Thank God!) failed–due to the good, and finally, fed-up citizens of this country who have had enough. He wasn’t alone–AZ Sen. Jon Kyl and Ted Kennedy were his partners in crime. What a betrayal of America.