WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick has asked Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano to step up investigations of terrorists who might be operating on the U.S.-Mexico border.

   Myrick, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, wants Napolitano to convene a task force on the presence of Hezbollah in Mexico.

   "I believe Hezbollah and the drug cartels may be operating as partners on our border," Myrick wrote to Napolitano, who is secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in a letter last week. "I believe we need to do more intelligence gathering on Hezbollah's presence on our border."


   The task force, Myrick writes, would comprise U.S. and Mexican law enforcement and border patrol agents sharing information. She asks for both a public report and an intelligence report about Hezbollah's organization, activities and ties to gangs and drug cartels.

   After proclaiming loudly that a tough immigration stance was going to really, really hurt candidates among Hispanic voters, Democrats have finally looked at some polling and decided that to a great degree the country agrees with the Republican position.
 
   Just six weeks ago, Liberal Democrats like Al Sharpton were quaking with righteous indignation over the passage of the new immigration law in Arizona. According to the New York Daily News from April 26, 2010: "Sharpton said he would mobilize people from across the country to march in Arizona -- and get arrested, if necessary -- to stop the controversial new law."
 
  Now, according to Politico.com: Democratic officials have concluded there's only one way they can hope to pass a comprehensive immigration bill: Talk more like Republicans.
 
   Carrie Budoff Brown reports the Democrats have done a multi-year study and decided to "craft an enforcement-first, law-and-order, limited-compassion pitch" including calling "the 12 million people who unlawfully reside the country 'illegal immigrants,' not 'undocumented workers.'"