Contentious Words Exchanged Over Military Enforcement of Border

Arizona politicians are squabbling over the deployment of the National Guard to the US southern border. It's interesting to see Napolitano forced to flip-flop based on her new political leash-holder.

"If you'll indulge me, we think we have another crisis on the border," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at a hearing this week. "I want to know about whether you're going to send the Guard to the border or not."

When she tried to explain other DHS improvements along the border, McCain cut her off.

"People's homes are being violated, and their families can't take kids to the bus stop," the senator fumed. "And you are very familiar with the issue, because you yourself asked for the Guard to go to the border back in 2006."

Napolitano, a former Arizona governor, responded that the request involves the White House as well as the Pentagon and the Homeland Security Department, and is still in the interagency process. While she said she would like the decision to be made as soon as possible, she added she could not say when she would have an answer.

By: Brant