What is the problem with the Department of Homeland Security?

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Last weekend on CNN, President Obama's Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made it clear that she has no interest in controlling the U.S. border. When asked about illegal immigration, she stated that "crossing the border is not a crime per se". This remark from the person in charge of the agency charged with securing the border. When the border debate came to the forefront a couple of years ago, the American people made it abundantly clear that they wanted illegal immigration to be controlled. Now this administration has demonstrated that they will treat illegal immigration just like the Bush administration. A wink and a nod. In these economic times perhaps we would be better served by the jobs taken by these illegals going to U.S. citizens. If the economy is so bad that we need trillions of dollars to prevent the next Great Depression, then perhaps U.S. citizens should be out picking crops, working in textile factories etc... instead of relying on the government for a handout. Border security should be a priority. Use some of the trillions of dollars in government largess to put people to work building walls, and working nice border security jobs. The cost of illegals through welfare, identity fraud, education expenses, law enforcement costs, and the cost in U.S. citizens lives is staggering. Most people don't realize that the number of Americans killed by illegals last year is about the same as our losses in Iraq throughout the entire conflict. We need to control our borders and put in a workable system of documented alien workers. Make the companies that want to hire these workers sponsor and pay the fees to process them into the U.S.. By ignoring this illegal subculture, we do a disservice to ourselves and those attempting to better their lives by working in the U.S..