is to enforce the law and secretary of homeland security janet napolitano's job is to enforce the law. because you disagree with the law means nothing. you enforce that law. you're a law enforcer. that's how our constitution is set up. that's the power invested in them. if our founding fathers had wanted them to be legislator, they woull have written it into the constitution. if the people in this country wanted them to be legislators, i can tell you what they would have done. they would have amended the constitution and handed the power to change federal law over to john morton, janet napolitano, or maybe the president of the united states. that's not who we are, that's not the way it is. . we must dwevend the rule of law. if -- we must defend the raleigh of law. if we are going to allow it to come from the american people. and from the president of the united states who taught constitutional law at the stellar university of chicago school of law to think that that's the case, that he doesn't understand any better and thinks he can get awwy with it, no, we can read our history and ou

janet napolitano misinformed the american peoe, she hadn't read the bill. eric holder had nt read the bill. i don't know if john morton read the bill, but he didn't want to enforce the bill. posner had no business sticking his nose in it whatsoever and carried it all the way to the chinese. i can't stand here on the floor of the house of represtatives without raising anssue of president calderon back behind where i'stanng now spoke to a joi session of congress and had to lecture us on how he strongly disagrees with arizona's immigration law. if he does, he also disagrees with the federal united states federal government's immigration law. it mirrors the feral immigratn law. and so we are in an era where the administration, the highest raing officials within the administration aren't compelled to check the facts before they misform the amerin people. they might cck a left-wing website, butar ecking the facts. and the amen people, who are they going to trust, shouldn't they tru the voicef the president of the united states? who's briefing him. who is telling

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janet napolitano when she was governor as for that.hey have watched an action by a rancher, who would help people the needed water, get murdered. so when you look at the arizona people waiting patiently for the federal government to act, they cannot sit back and ignore the problem that they are having three baby disperse a great debate and we need to have a debate, but a state cannot sit back when they have the murder capital, they have the right to protect their citizens. it is only enforcing the laws that are already on the federal books, and the federal government will not do their job, we are a nation that has been able to grow by immigration. my family came here from ireland and from england. we have a problem when it comes to immigration. one, the system does not work. you cannot get through it rapidly and honestly. two, we have no border protection for other nations do. and i believe and i think even during the time of the financial america. make that investment? because you believe in the role flop. regardless of who you were,

. >> next, homeland security secretary janet napolitano announces new efforts to improve border security and immigration enforcement. she is joined by officials from the customs and border office. this event was held by the center for strategic and international studies. this is one hour. >> welcome, everyone. we want to thank you for coming to this really terrific event. my name is rick nelson. i am the director of the homeland security and counterterrorism program here at csis. we're honored and privileged to have secretary napolitano here to talk about securing the borders. i would first like to thank the sponsor of this forum. they have supported this forum throughout the year. we appreciate that. obviously, a lot has been going on in the world of border security, particularly in the southwest area. as a former governor of arizona and the new homeland security secretary, we will have a unique perspective on this. secretary napolitano is going to go first. we have a tight timeline. when she is done with her remarks, we will go forward. we will have questions. i will be the moderator.

i've also directed janet napolitano and thad allen to triple the manpower in those places where oil has hit shore or is within 24 hours of impact. the economic response continues as well. we have ordered bp to pay economic injury claims and we will make sure they deliver. the small business administration has stepped in to help businesses by approving loans and allowing deferrals of existing loan payments. we have stationed doctors and scientists across their region to look out for people's health and monitor any ill effects felt by cleanup workers and residents. and we will absolutely continue to hold bp and any other responsible parties accountable for financial losses borne by the people in the region. but our responsibility does not end there. we have an obligation to investigate what went wrong and to determine what reforms are needed so that we never have to experience a crisis like this again. if the laws on our books are insufficient to prevent such a spill, though laws must change. if oversight was inadequate to enforce these laws, oversight has to be reformed. if our laws were

the secretary janet napolitano has turned her back on arizona. she did not even bother to read the bill. host: the editorial in "the new york times" says another bad idea from arizona. it says they are not satisfied with the shameful new law that would demand racial profiling, politicians are pushing for an law that would deny citizenship to babies born in arizona whose parents cannot prove their legal immigrants -- they are legal immigrants. wanda, on the democratic line, from hawaii. good morning. caller: good morning. this man a couple calls back was talking about budgeting. i was watching it on television last night. it's like really lean, the budget. they cannot fill all lot of positions. we live in hawaii. you have seven islands with seven different counties. everybody has their own net money coming -- their own money coming in. the county wanted to see if the stimulus money that was coming out to separate it from the state and give it to the county, because maui has, i would say, honolulu and maui are the grwowing islands. on kuwai, they a

janet napolitano when she was governor as for that. they haveatched an action by a rancher, who would help people the needed water, get murdered. so when you look at the arizona people waiting patiently for the federal government to act, they cannot sit back and ignore the problem that they are having three baby disperse a great debate and we need to have a debate, but a state cannot sit back when they have the murder capital, they have the right to protect their tizens. it is only enforcing the laws that are already on the federal books, and the federal government will not do their job, we are a nation that has been able to grow by immigration. my family came here from ireland and from england. we have a problem when it comes to immigration. one, the system does not work. you cannot get through it rapidly and honestly. two, we have no border protection for other nations do. and i believe and i think even during the time of the financial america. make that investment? beuse you believe in the role flop. regardless of who you were, the