Janet Napolitano offers to help put stop to illegal border crossings — in Saudi Arabia
“It is a very rough border, very difficult to protect from illegal crossings,” U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.
In late May, Ms. Napolitano met Saudi leaders to discuss a range of security programs, including training, joint exercises, intelligence and arms sales. Officials said both the Americans and Saudis agreed that the Iranian-backed Shi’ite insurgency from Yemen was the leading threat to Riyad.
Officials said Riyad and Washington were expanding cooperation in protecting the kingdom’s borders from insurgents and smugglers. They said the biggest threat was the Shi’ite insurgency in neighboring Yemen, which shares a 1,600-kilometer border with Saudi Arabia.
Officials acknowledged that thousands of Yemenis were infiltrating Saudi Arabia despite recent border security measures. They said many of the Yemeni infiltrators were smugglers.
“So many of our discussions were about how to protect a very tough, geological, topographical border from illegal crossings,” Ms. Napolitano said during a visit to the Saudi kingdom on May 31.
Officials said Saudi Arabia and the United States
were also expanding their intelligence exchange. They said the expansion began during the Yemeni Shi’ite war in southern Saudi Arabia
in November 2009, which included the capture of two Saudi towns.
“We all share a concern about terrorist activity emanating from Yemen,” Ms. Napolitano said. “Actions of the U.S. in Yemen are with the consent, cooperation of the government of Yemen.”
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Janet Napolitano offers to help put stop to illegal border crossings — in Saudi Arabia
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You got to be kidding me!
Why do we even WANT to do this in Saudi Arabia or anyplace else? Is it our business who crosses the border? Why do these people cross the border? There must be an incentive. Remove the incentive and the border crossings will cease. Why don’t we invite the Saudi’s here to patrol our Mexican order? Now, I know that we say that we are ever increasing patrols at the border, but lets face it. Our government really doesn’t want that border secured. Our government LIKES illegal Mexicans crossing the border. How else can those in government pay back their business buddies by providing them with cheap labor?
So, we barge into other countries and do what we should be doing here.
UN-believable - again! The fool that says our borders are safe - and that “the system worked” for the shoe bomber.
JANET NAPOLITANO IS NOTHING BUT A DOUBLE TALKING SCRIP READING OBAMA MOUTHPIECE .. NO GOOD FOR AMERICA SHE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHICH COUNTRY SHE BELONGS TO .. JANET HAS ANYONE TOLD YOU THAT WE NEED HELP WITH THE …U … S… A..BORDERS….LOOK IT UP IT’S ON THE MAP ..UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!
maybe janet can do us all a favor and personally go to saudi arabia and supervise the border crossings herself
The Dream Act failed ! Do your job!
please explain to me why this continues to happen? Are you NOT a supporter of the Constitution of the United States? How do you sleep at night?
http://www.texasgopvote.com/stop-big-government/tsa-harasses-two-texas-wounded-veterans-airport-war-shrapnel-their-bodies-002905 Reading this link made me sick to my stomach and felt nothing but shame for our government and it’s tyrannical methods of governing. I am an American citizen and will not be treated like a possible, future criminal as does the obnoxious things your agency hires called TSA agents. They are a bunch of ignorant, misinformed sociopaths that you have loosed on the planet and for what? Security? Give me a break. All I would have to do is walk into an airport, dressed in the garb of a burka and I’m allowed to clear the inspection area. Done it, it was quite simple. Problem, I could have been a terrorist with a bomb strapped under my veil. Get it? Your goons target the wrong people. All you are accomplishing is more and more Americans from flying. I wouldn’t fily if my life depended on it just for the simple fact I would go to jail for hitting the person that put his or hands where they don’t belong. Feeling safe? HELL NO! Feeling policed without cause? HELL YEAH! Liking it? NOT AT ALL. Doing something about it? YOU BET I WILL….AS FAR AS THE LAW WILL ALLOW. You should be ashamed of yourself lady, very ashamed.