Be Like Janet, Dammit  AP Photo/Susan Walsh  Homeland Secretary
Janet Napolitano testifying on comprehensive immigration
reform before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday.
Speaking about the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California,
on Monday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
assured the audience that "the border is secure ... I believe it
is a safe border," an assessment she reprised yesterday in a
Senate hearing on immigration reform. "I often hear the argument
that before reform can move forward we must first secure our
borders, but too often the ‘border security first’
refrain simply serves as an excuse for failing to address the
underlying problems," Napolitano said. "Our borders have, in
fact, never been stronger."  In advance of the administration's
push for immigration reform, the secretary has quietly been
making the case that after a decade-long ramp-up in investment,
the wave of unchecked immigration that began in the 1990s has
come to an end. Indeed, in the last sev