Paslode
05-04-2011, 20:53
So the border problem and our inability to control the border is related to a term, and if they merely change a term they will have a better understanding of what is actually going on......You have got to be joking:rolleyes:
” ‘Operational control’ it’s an archaic term,” Miss Napolitano told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. “The fact of the matter is that we need a more quantitative and qualitative way to reflect what actually is occurring at the border.”
The wording is more than just a semantic game.
House Republicans, in their campaign Pledge to America last year, set operational control as their goal, and at least some of the triggers lawmakers have suggested for determining when to move to legalization of illegal immigrants already here require the government first to prove it has control of the border.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/4/dhs-wants-new-yardstick-for-improvements/
” ‘Operational control’ it’s an archaic term,” Miss Napolitano told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. “The fact of the matter is that we need a more quantitative and qualitative way to reflect what actually is occurring at the border.”
The wording is more than just a semantic game.
House Republicans, in their campaign Pledge to America last year, set operational control as their goal, and at least some of the triggers lawmakers have suggested for determining when to move to legalization of illegal immigrants already here require the government first to prove it has control of the border.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/4/dhs-wants-new-yardstick-for-improvements/