(Littleton, CO) - Former Congressman Tom Tancredo today posted a message on YouTube calling on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to resign in the face of the deteriorating state of security on our southwest border.
Tancredo was visiting ranchers in Cochise County, Arizona, last Saturday when a local rancher, Rob Krentz, was shot and killed by a suspected drug smuggler. The Krentz family had for years been asking for improved Border Patrol protections and since his death, his family has called for active duty military to be placed on the border.
"Napolitano has misrepresented the true condition of our border security in order to advance a political agenda-amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Our nation can ill afford this level of incompetence and cavalier attitude toward national security," said Tancredo.
"Napolitano has been making speeches all over the country telling Americans that enough progress has been made on border security that we can now move forward on amnesty legislation. The exact opposite is true. Border security is deteriorating, not improving, violence in the region is escalating, yet the Obama administration is cutting back on Border Patrol resources and fencing on the border."
Tancredo cited the misrepresentation of border fencing on the official DHS map on the DHS web page. "We do not have 600 miles of border fencing as Napolitano claims. We have only 310 miles of actual fencing and then 330 miles of vehicle barriers that do not stop illegal entry into our country."
"Contrary to the map published by DHS - and accepted without verification by the mainstream media -- there is no fence on the border in the area of the Krentz ranch in southeastern Arizona. That is a brazen lie," said Tancredo.
Three border state governors (Arizona, New Mexico and Texas) have now called for Napolitano to send National Guard troops to the border, yet Napolitano has stonewalled their requests.
"The reason Napolitano cannot admit we have a border security problem is that such an admission would complicate Obama's political agenda," said Tancredo. "It is shameful that Obama is putting politics ahead of the safety of our communities and our nation."
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