Sunday, May 23, 2010

Opinion: Ruben Navarrette Jr.: One Arizonan to another: What Napolitano should have said to McCain

Sen. McCain should remember the stand he took in previous years and admit the issue is not as simple as he is making it sound now. - - Donna Poisl

By Ruben Navarrette Jr., San Diego Union-Tribune

Appearing recently before a Senate committee, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was grilled by a fellow Arizonan, Sen. John McCain.

The 2008 Republican presidential nominee wanted to know if the Obama administration planned to honor his request to deploy 3,000 National Guard troops to the Arizona-Mexico border and whether Napolitano had reviewed the new Arizona statute that enlists state and local police in the enforcement of federal immigration law. McCain got the better of the exchange, but that's only because Napolitano missed the chance to knock him off his high horse.
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