For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 27, 2010
A Well Defined Mission to Secure the Border is Critical to Success
Phoenix, AZ – Today, Dean Martin questioned President Obama’s commitment to securing our southern border. Just weeks after Homeland Secretary Napolitano made the outrageous claim that the southern border is “as secure as it’s ever been,” President Obama has now ordered 1,200 troops to the southern border.
“As long as Secretary Napolitano in charge, I have little confidence President Obama’s recent token attempt to secure the border by claiming the National Guard might be deployed,” said Dean Martin. “The mission as defined by the President is unclear, and Secretary Napolitano thinks the southern border is already secure.”
Treasurer Dean Martin, a long-time border security proponent, six years ago Martin called for the Arizona National Guard to be put on the border and the fence to be finished. As Governor, Dean Martin would deploy 3,000 Nation Guard troops to the Arizona border, finish the fence, as well as provide an additional $50 million in state money for local law enforcement to beef up enforcement.
“The National Guard should have a well defined mission to protect our borders, we cannot wait any longer. If the Federal government will not secure our border, Arizona should. We can not afford to bear the brunt of illegal immigration, nor can we wait for this administration to deploy more troops with only a mandate to push red tape around.”
Dean Martin is the State Treasurer for Arizona, a statewide elective office, where he oversees $9.3 billion in investments from State and Local governments. Martin is a former state legislator who has a long record of providing transparency in government and real solutions for tax relief and border security for Arizona families.
As regards actually defending our border, there is no effective difference between Gov. Jan Brewer and Gov. Janet Napolitano. Both whined to the Feds and did zip. We need a governor with guts that understands the right afforded to the states under Art. 4 Sec. 4 and Art. 1 Sec 10 of the Constitution.
Section 4
The United States shall … shall protect each of them (states) against Invasion
Art 1 Sec 10
No State shall … engage in War, unless actually invaded, …
Well folks, 500,000 people a year enterring illegally with drugs, guns, destroying property and killing citizens qualifies as an invasion in my book. Now we just need a Governor with a spine and that is not Jan who waited until the end to sign S1070 after she did all her poll testing and determined she could use it to try and save her in the primary.
Steve:
Public appearances aside, Nappy didn’t want to enforce immigration laws because Dems want to legalize the aliens and put them on the rolls to ensure political control (see California)
Jan, had to sign SB1070 to get through the GOP primary but she doesn’t want to see any immigration laws really enforced because she serves the GOP business establishment, which in turn is a creature of the tourist industry, especially since real estate hit the skids two or three years ago!
These are the basic facts which motivate both sides of our current political “leadership”
That’s why Arizona is in dire need for a double enema. The first to be performed on August 24th and the second in November!
Agreed Carlist. We have work to do.