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Janet Napolitano Removes Immigration Enforcement Success Stories From Homeland Security Website

Jul. 20, 2012 7:06am Mytheos Holt

It’s no secret that the White House has a complicated relationship with its responsibility to enforce immigration laws. This is especially true of the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department, which has been often criticized by the Right for being overly lax, and by the Left for being overzealous. Faced with this political Catch-22, it would seem that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has a rather sticky choice – either emphasize her department’s effectiveness (siding with the Right), or explain why particular laws shouldn’t be enforced as stringently as they could be (siding with the Left).

Janet Napolitano

Until recently, the department was siding with the Right by posting success stories about its agreements with states known as 287(g) agreements, named for section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which provides for state or local entities to receive authority to carry out actions as arms of the ICE, on its website. However, Napolitano is an outspoken critic of this variety of agreement, and when she went before Congress today to testify against them, one particular Republican Congressman brought up her department’s policy of trumpeting its success stories to counteract her statements.

What happened next? The Washington Times reports:

But after Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, pointed out the contradiction during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday,Ms. Napolitano wasted little time in removing it.

“I would tell the people who are working on the website, take it down,” she said during the hearing. And even before the hearing gaveled to a close, the page was gone.

The 287(g) program has two parts: task-force agreements, which empower state and local police to process suspects for immigration violations, and the jail model, which only gets local authorities involved after someone has been booked into a jail or prison.

Ms. Napolitano said the task-force model costs 10 times as much per deportation as the jail model or as Secure Communities, another program designed to check jails and prisons for potentially deportable immigrants.[...]

At Thursday’s hearing Mr. Goodlatte tried to find out why — and pointed to the list of success stories on ICE’s website.

“Why are you touting them if they’re success stories in a program that you think is otherwise flawed?” he said, adding that the program has proved to be popular with departments in his own state of Virginia.

“There may be some success stories,” Ms. Napolitano replied, but she said they were switching to the more cost-effective models.

“It doesn’t work. The program is expensive, and it doesn’t work the way Congress intended,” she said.

Now, setting aside the question of whether this program works (which at least in some cases, it does), isn’t this a bit of a troubling policy on Napolitano’s part? Redacting information from a government website for what seems like one’s own political agenda sets a troubling precedent, and not one that most Americans would likely support. Napolitano might prefer that we remained at war with Eastasia, in the words of George Orwell, but at least in theory, Americans should expect the truth from their government agencies, no matter the politics of any given situation.

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Comments (63)

YourVoiceMatters
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 12:54pm
Ahhhhh yes we want the TRUTH from our government…
but don’t hold your breath with this administration!!!!
They do not know the meaning of the word !
Truth to them is situational at best
at its worst blatant lies…
This administration is consistent in the fact
they cannot be trusted
The peoples sacred trust has been violated
more times than it has ever been upheld…..by them
lieing liars should never be trusted and their actions everyone
should be scrutinized intensely by those
other than in the media
a citizens watch group with a keen understanding of the Constitution
would be a wonderful start to get to the bottom of all the lies
put forth by this administration!
I think this sort of corruption should be meted out with staunch prison terms!
and loss of pensions and all perks associated with their office!
You shold never get a pension from the govt you ripped off …
to be sure there are plenty of Chicago style crooks in this body of govt workers!
What a day to be living, to see such corruption in the highest positions of the land!
Scandalous!

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- ICEDRAGON
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 5:00pm
  That’s because BO is a pathological liar. And you know the slogan, ” birds of a feather.”
  
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- dianna9490
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:29am
  This woman is as much a terriorist to our country as the Muslim Brotherhood! She is a LIAR! AMERICANS NEED TO DEMAND THAT SHE BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE – BUT I FORGET WE ALREADY DEMANDED THAT ERIC HOLDER BE REMOVED AND OF COURSE THEY DON’T LISTEN – All of this crap they are doing is just sickening and AMERICA’S NATIONAL SECURITY IS AT RISK THANKS TO THESE EGGHEADS!
  
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mule creek ridge
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 12:46pm
Why(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) should/would anyone listen to the moron that says the border is as secure as it has ever been?????????????????????????????????????????????????? IMHO she is not qualified to represent the U.S.A. legal citizens about ,or for , ANYTHING………………PERIOD………….

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- Kelly Henderson
  Posted on July 21, 2012 at 11:30pm
  I hope that homely man-cow is brought up on charges if obama is voted out.She should have a cell reserved for her lard arse at gitmo.
  
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BlasberryStrat
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 12:40pm
OOHHHH….it’s just too expensive. But it’s not too expensive to have multiple ‘watch dog’ websites up 24/7 in order to further Oby’s agenda of opening the borders!?

I wonder if they are going to call the ‘new’ America “Americo” or “Obama World” (“The Park is closed”. “The Moose outside should have told ya…”)
(You know, Michelle does kinda resemble a moose…but it’s obvious that Janet strongly resembles the mighty “Bull Seal”)

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- MAMMY_NUNN
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 3:43pm
  Got to have priorities now who’s a bigger threat to your job.
  
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zoro51
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 11:59am
this INEPT bitch who is a SOCIALIST suck up PUPPET has NOT given home land security a SINGLE THOUGH shes IN EPT it was a FAAAAAAVOR cause she supported the MARXIST obnama .. MORE CRONIES.. LEFTIES in the WH offices who are INEPT to run depts.. success stories ******** firs remove her THAT WILL BE A SUCCESS STORY IN ITS SELF.. then replace her wiht one who KNOWS security n show it all around n TAKES responsibility for THIER inept actions… THIS HEFFER IS A WASTE

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- garylee123
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 1:33pm
  You’ve been drinking with Sargent Garcia again, haven’t you.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 2:23pm
  If you read Obnama Sr.’s paper on socialism in Africa, he was for putting Africans in offices they weren’t qualified for, just to have Africans in government. Obnama Jr. has done the same thing with Marxists. Put them in anywhere, just so they’re in there.
  
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scrudge
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 11:27am
Ah Yes….. now do you see why AMERICA will destroy itself from within ??

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dgonzalez01
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 10:25am
No, what is too expensive is your fraud and abuse to provide unessential government employees with lavish pensions and benefits while you deliberately refuse to protect us and do your job. It has become a system of no accountability!

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GrayPanther
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 10:21am
We are 3 and 1/2 years into this Marxist administration. Napolitano set back Arizona’s recovery years by her blind spending and socialist push. And as a lesbian she has set back gay rights by 10 years. Bo-ho! Throw the whole bunch out on November 6th with your vote.

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 10:20am
Not only is Neopolitano an obamanite and her actions are unconstitutional,….the old slut is ugly too.

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- Glock31
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 10:57am
  man, is she ever!
  
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- majahn
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 2:34pm
  You mean “sluty bull ****”
  
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aceboogie
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 10:19am
A most vile and repugnant beast, if there ever was, vulgarity personified. On rare occasion have I experienced such pure disgust as when I gaze upon such a ghastly creature. It violates the law as it speaks, it mocks the very existence of The Constitution of The United States of America. Oh what foul malignancy has poisoned The Republic, standing against her citizens and undermining her founding. Lest we be overcome with nausea and hurl out this mass of vomit, we shall drown and perish in its sour iniquity.

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1956
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:57am
Napolitano is an embarrassment to the nation.

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TonyFox
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:37am
You know if we would become a Communist State like our Dear Pres. The Great Impostor wants along with his gang including Eric Holder just mention a few oh, and all those left wingers we have(the sheep) that might not be a bad idea. Stop and think of it, our borders would then be secure and enforced and for those Mexicans and others who would be able to sneak across they would just DIS-APPEAR. Try that in North Korea, Russia,Iran thats what happens there. Don’t you just love it !

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- JRook
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:43am
  “It’s no secret that the White House has a complicated relationship with its responsibility to enforce immigration laws.” Mytheos, how’s about you take a break from your “truth telling” and do some research regarding immigration enforcement under Bush. Seems to me his Texas buddies benefit a lot from illegal workers and of course the gun shops along the boarder are an interesting aspect of Texas’s economic recovery.
  
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NathanHale2
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:22am
She is such a handsome man.

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- gperky
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:41am
  What would a child look like between Napolitano and Reno?
  
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- myway
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 10:42am
  This is what obama’s son would look like! More canon fodder for Mitt.
  
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cassandra
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:39am
janit napolintano thinks she is above the law, she feeks she dosen’t have to answer questions why she allows a muslim brotherhood that was caught feeding sensitive information to the BH she sais she would look into it, WOW that was LAST APRIL don’t you feel safer with her at the helm ?I can’t wait until she is out of a job she should be in jail for treason , she is a danger to American security

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- lovenfl3
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:19am
  This woman has been such a disappointment, especially to her home state. She was all gung ho on enforcing the borders when she was the Governor of Arizona, now she’s just another radical member of the hope and change gang. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-39KDRACJyE
  
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The Realist
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:11am
“…which has been often criticized by the Right for being overly lax, and by the Left for being overzealous.”

–Translation: The so-called right (which in reality there is no such thing-the right is actually the CENTER and only look RIGHT to the looney left) are ticked off over the countless examples of catch-and-release and numerous other examples of scaling back our “enforcement,” the LEFT is ticked off, because we’ve yet to disband completely the DHS and roll out red carpets on all borders.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:20am
  instead of cutting funding for military cut homeland security funding by 75% since they don’t do anything………….
  
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- drbage
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:49am
  I’d cut the entire Homeland Security budget and transfer it over to the military and have them secure the borders. They could also take the money from Sec. Vilsak’s budget that is being used to work with the Mexican government to provide information and training to potential unlawfully present persons in the US about how to get food stamps and aid from the government.
  
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- MAMMY_NUNN
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 3:46pm
  @ oldguy49
  Got to understand who belongs to unions.
  
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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:50am
Obama needs to be sent packing for failure to do his Constitutional duty to enforce the laws of the land.

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- johnjamison
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:18am
  Well then we should do away with all Gov. agencies that don’t works as well, ATF,DEA,HLS,DOE,DOE,USDA,EPA,ICE,FBI,GSA,…ECT
  Think of the billions that would be saved on these useless agencies.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:40am
One more link in the treasonous crimes carried out daily by the administration; this web page was probably brought down due to the state-fed agreements now placed in catch 22 after the Obamaite decision to slap AZ across the face in regards to suspected illegal immigrants being inquired of. It probably went down on orders of Obama, who is desperate for the latino votes; and in the growing insanity of the narcissist in chief, cannot accept any reminders of things contrary to his delusion of the utopian madness he wishes upon us all.

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RayOne
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:38am
The WH pardon list will have many pages.

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- johnjamison
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 9:12am
  And the NEW DOJ INDICTMENT LIST WILL HAVE MORE
  
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HKS
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:32am
Why would we have laws that no one wants to enforce? Put it on the ballot, enforce it or kill it. This shouldn’t be a subjective thing, that’s communism.

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sawbuck
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:31am
I see that pic… and all I that keeps running through my mind is…
Lipstick on a pig..

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 8:34am
  And arrogance run amuck.
  
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M24
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:29am
Abolish HomeLand security We Can’t Afford it And Don’t Need It !! It’s Just More Big Government Waste !

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RepubliCorp
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:26am
ICE should be shut down if they refuse to do their job…..why have them at all? Defund them!

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Mess23
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:23am
Where are the good Americans in all the departments that are run by the Obama Comrades?

Is there a private whistles blower venue they can use?

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:41am
  Given the threats and intimidation conducted against those of Fast and Furious I can say there is only one way that a whistleblower with the integrity and guts to do so would succeed: Direct access to a member of the House or Senate.
  
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KURT1010
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:18am
How can this women be in charge of HomeLand Security…what are her qualifactions?

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- Epic Fail
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 1:21pm
  Qualifications? Obama admin don’t need no stinkin’ qualifications!
  
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- scrudge
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 4:15pm
  must be UGLY and have no idea of what her job is
  
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historyguy48
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:15am
Comrades, so what else is new? Our Communist leaders are doing whatever they wish to do and, since they control our criminal government, they can do exactly that!
An election is going to fix this just how?

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loveoursoldiers
Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:12am
What a disgusting puppet. She needs to go to jail with all the others

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- historyguy48
  Posted on July 20, 2012 at 7:49am
  Comrade the saddest thing of all is that none of these people will ever be charged with treason or any other crimes against the American people. But when they win, they will charge us with those crimes! That is the way this works!
  
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