Napolitano cannot catch a break on immigration reform. See what she was harping on the Faux New Network earlier this week:

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The corrected transcript from the interview:

MS. CARLSON: Let’s talk a little bit about immigration reform. In the last couple of days you gave a speech about this, talking about the tough pathway for undocumented workers to gain legal status. You said, “We’ll never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as millions remain in the shadows.”

Some people found those comments controversial. How do you explain them?

SEC. NAPOLITANO: I don’t think they’re controversial. I think they’re commonsense.

I was a prosecutor in Arizona before I was its governor. I grew up in New Mexico; I’m from the border areas of our country. The notion that somehow you’re going to find and deport the 11 or 12 million who are here illegally is illusory. So if you don’t do anything, you basically have amnesty by inaction.

And what we’re saying is, look, you’ve got to come out. You’ve got to report. You’re going to have to pay a fine; you’re going to have to learn English; you’re going to have to be a taxpayer. Those are the things that bring people out of the shadows.

1. You’ve gotta come out

You first! I am certainly out in every way possibly. That’s more than what we can say about Janet. I mean, seriously, Napolitano should be the last person talking about coming out.

2. You’ve gotta report

What is this obsession with tagging and categorizing every ‘foreign body’ living in this country? Alright,  as long as you guarantee you won’t box and ship us out, we’ll file all the reports and petitions we can. How about extending 245-I while you are at it? And maybe scrapping 287(g) and (In)Secure Communities programs so immigrants are not so afraid to report crimes? Can I also report how much my former graduate program owes me for unpaid labor?

3. You have to pay a fine

What have we done? Shouldn’t the government pay us some sort of reparations for messing up our immigration cases, torturing our families and grant us tax credits and breaks for all the taxes we have filed but that do not show up on our records?

4. You gonna have to learn English

Yes, I am not sure when ‘gonna’ became English. I am certainly in favor of all Americans speaking English for a change. Living here has been detrimental to my English. But please leave your linguistic-hegemony at home and don’t expect people to speak English when you travel to some parts of the United States where English is barely spoken.

5. You’ve gonna have to be a taxpayer

I just filed taxes last month! By the way, we are getting tax breaks for past taxes filed, right? What?!

It’s too bad that legal permanent residency and citizenship is not retroactive. Amnesty is certainly not achieved through inaction unless it is amnesty for the United States government to tax without representation.

Janet, how hard is it to confess that we have a population of hard-working, tax-paying undocumented people–some living in mixed-status families whose cases have been screwed by our immigration system–who contribute to America and remain disenfranchised from society? Why all the tough-talk about enforcement against non-criminal human beings?

Now where is this line?

So long,

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