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alp227

(32,047 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:45 PM Jul 2013

UC regents appoint Napolitano amid protest

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Following angry protests by immigrant rights activists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano became the first woman appointed to lead the University of California on Thursday.

The vote by the university's Board of Regents in San Francisco to appoint Napolitano was nearly unanimous. Only student Regent Cinthia Flores voted against her, echoing protesters' concerns that the record number of deportations under Napolitano of immigrants without legal permission to live in the U.S. "produced insurmountable barriers to higher education."

As Homeland Security secretary since 2009, Napolitano presided over the deportation of some 1.4 million immigrants living in the U.S. without legal permission.

About 40 immigration activists and students - some of them immigrants who said family members had been deported - staged a noon protest outside the regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay, then urged the regents to reject the appointment.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/UC-regents-appoint-Napolitano-amid-protest-4673527.php

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UC regents appoint Napolitano amid protest (Original Post) alp227 Jul 2013 OP

Interesting that they went over to San Francisco KamaAina Jul 2013 #1

Appointing her as Homeland Security Sec. was one of Obama's worst moves tularetom Jul 2013 #2

Actually Napolitano was horrible in her job. avaistheone1 Jul 2013 #3

My point is that her job performance as Secretary is moot tularetom Jul 2013 #4

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

1. Interesting that they went over to San Francisco

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:49 PM

Jul 2013

the UC regents' headquarters is in downtown Oakland, a few blocks from here:

tularetom

(23,664 posts)

2. Appointing her as Homeland Security Sec. was one of Obama's worst moves

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 07:51 PM

Jul 2013

Not that she was that horrible in the job, but it opened the door for the republicans in Arizona to appoint the miserable excuse for a governor that the citizens are now stuck with.

Somebody in the administration should have seen this coming and put the kibosh on her appointment. Or else the whole thing was orchestrated by that asswipe Rahm Emanuel knowing what the outcome would be.

avaistheone1

(14,626 posts)

3. Actually Napolitano was horrible in her job.

Reply to tularetom (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 08:13 PM

Jul 2013

In aftermath of 9/11 the Department of Homeland Security was put together so that certain federal agencies who didn't talk to each other and share information would do so. What we have learned as a result of the Marathon bombing illustrated that these agencies never coalesced the way they were supposed to. That is a huge failure on Napolitano's behalf. I am confident she was encouraged to step down.

If you believe Homeland Security is overstepping its bounds with the TSA et all, you will also see Napolitano's failure there as well.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)

4. My point is that her job performance as Secretary is moot

Reply to avaistheone1 (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 11:14 PM

Jul 2013

It was her appointment that was a mistake. She should have been left in office as Governor. If she screwed up the Homeland Security gig, there were others who could have screwed it up just as bad and we would still have a Democratic governor in this republican state.

Besides, Homeland Security as a concept was doomed to fail from the start. And nobody really cared. Cheney wanted to neuter the Federal employee unions and get rid of civil service and the secretary has always been a figure head with very little authority. Remember Tom Ridge and the blue, green, yellow, orange and red alerts?

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