By Sergio Arellano-Oros
Last week Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that that the border is more secure. Napolitano made the announcement after she conducted a 2-day visit to the border areas of Douglas and Tucson “…to get ground truth.”
Now, Border Patrol members are questioning the director, “Huh? Is this her new comedy routine? Is she auditioning for a spot on the Tonight Show? She is surrounded by yes men, she did not visit with rank-and-file agents, and during her tenure as DHS secretary she has not reached out to the Border Patrol agents’ union once. As in, never. But it’s only been 4+ years, so we’re certain she is getting around to it. Now that we know she wants “ground truth” we will be watching our phones very closely.”
The reality is that arrests are up 13 percent when compared with the same time last year. According to agents, the number was 170,223 in 2012, and is 192,298 this year.
According to Fox News, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, “There is no statistic, metric or evidence that the border is more secure than ever. I went out there for a couple days and found multiple spots where you can see trails of people coming in. They were still apprehending massive amounts of drugs out there, this is a very porous border.”
In Texas, arrests in the last six months are up 53 percent in the Rio Grande Valley; up 22 percent in Laredo; and up 24 percent in El Paso, according to Fox News.
The agents say on their website, that they “wish, for once, that she would just call a spade a spade and admit that she came here to lie to the American people about how “secure” the border is and to push a shamnesty program to reward illegal aliens. Period. She does not want “ground truth” because it would get in the way of her political agenda.”
The truth seems to be that despite increased technology the border is just as insecure as ever, according to statistics and boots on the ground.
Agents says that the “drone being used by CBP to detect activity at the border has shown that gotaways exceed what Janet Napolitano wants to admit.”
A Government Accountability Office report noted that while up to 40 percent of those who make it over the southwest border never get caught, tests on the new radar drone, called “VADER,” showed during a three-month test in Arizona that agents are catching fewer than 50 percent of those who successfully cross the border.
According to Fox News, Administration sources say, however, the system is still in a testing phase, the 50 percent figure is inaccurate and VADER alone offers an incomplete picture.
“There has been disbelief at times amongst agents that people like Napolitano can even keep a straight face when making statements that are patently false,” agents write. “Naplitano likes to say things like “the numbers are the numbers”, unless of course those “numbers” don’t line up with her agenda. Then the numbers are hidden and ignored.
Napolitano pressers about how “secure” the border is should be treated with the same amount of skepticism as Foghorn Leghorn lecturing a young chicken hawk on your TV screen on Saturday mornings. What you are seeing and hearing does not add up to reality.”