Janet Napolitano claims border is safe, as families flee cartel violence

On Monday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a crowd at the University of Texas at El Paso that it is “inaccurate tostate, as too many have, that the border is overrun with violence and out of control.”

She continued: “This statement, often made only to score political points, is just plain wrong.”

Perhaps, Napolitano has not spoken to, nor ever heard of the Burns family in Brooks County, Texas, who have been forced to pack up and leave their 38,000 acre ranch because the area has become a war zone, thanks to the Mexican drug cartels and illegal aliens crossing on or near their property on a daily basis.

The Burns’ family home has been broken into, their land littered with garbage and the distinct sounds of gunfire can be heard from their front porch.

The ranch, which is located 60 miles from the Mexican border runs alongside Farm Road 755, which local law enforcement calls a “main smuggling corridor” for the cartels.

Or, perhaps she should have spoken to Texas Gov. Rick Perry before she said: "Let's stick with the facts and numbers when talking about where we are with the border.”

Shortly after her speech in which she actually bragged about the efforts being made by the Obama administration to keep the border safe from cartel activity, Gov. Perry’s office released the following statement:  “The federal resources in Texas are woefully inadequate to secure the border with Mexico, and Gov. Perry will continue urging the Obama administration to do its job and protect our citizens from the ruthless drug cartels. It's unfortunate that a former border governor, who knows the implications of a porous border, continues to downplay the fact that there is a war waging within a stone's throw, or for that matter, firing range, from our border communities.”

In March 2010, a week after two U.S. consulate employees were assassinated in Juarez, Gov. Perry ordered Texas National Guard OH-58 and UH-72 Lakota helicopters to the border.

The deployment of the helicopters was part of what the Governor calls the first phase of his “spillover violence contingency plan.” Perry also ordered Texas Department of Public Safety SWAT teams on standby.

Gov. Perry told reporters: “With the growing threat of violence in Mexico spilling over the border, we have taken important measures to increase the law enforcement presence along the Texas border and have placed additional resources on standby to combat any potential situation.”

Despite the U.S. Justice Department reporting that Mexican drug cartels now operate in 2,500 U.S. cities and towns, and amid mounting gang violence in the American Southwest, Napolitano claimed: “We have not seen spillover violence onto the U.S. side the way one would predict, given what’s going on just across the bridge in Juárez.”

In response, Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said: “How many Americans will have to die before our federal government takes serious action along the Texas-Mexico border? The administration has been reviewing the governor's request for 1,000 National Guard troops to support local law enforcement along the border for over a year. It’s time for the federal government to allocate the appropriate resources to the Texas-Mexico border.”

A year earlier, Gov. Perry asked Napolitano to send 1,000 federal troops to help protect his state´s long and dangerous border with Mexico. Despite the increasing violence along the border, Napolitano has failed to act upon that request, and has spent much of her time in office downplaying the threat which drug cartels pose to this country.

Thanks to our federal government’s unwillingness to defend the American Southwest from the ultra violent cartels, American families are being forced to give up their way of life. It is yet another outrage in this as yet, one-sided war.

Despite the murders of Rob Krentz and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, it is painfully obvious that Janet Napolitano does not understand the serious threat to this country posed by Mexico’s drug cartels. Of course, she simply may be too busy pushing for amnesty for the nation’s illegal alien population to be concerned with the safety of American citizens.

View the video at left and see how the cartels have destroyed the an American family’s way of life…