Signs Will Not Secure Our Border

September 2, 2010

If the administration would take meaningful steps to secure our border, it wouldn't need to put up signs in Arizona warning citizens that travel 100 miles from the border is unsafe ("Signs in Arizona warn of smuggler dangers").

Likewise, the Department of Homeland Security should not spend its time writing memos about how to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants or dismiss thousands of deportation cases.

As Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Management, Investigations and Oversight, that is why I'm asking for hearings and answers from DHS on what it's doing to protect the border.

The administration continues to take actions that seem counterproductive to border security, and we need to know why that is the case. We need to make sure DHS is complying with, and enforcing, our nation's immigration laws.

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