Immigration Crackdown: Napolitano sidesteps congressman's call for immigration compassion

Napolitano sidesteps congressman's call for immigration compassion - CNN.com: "A day after a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus called for compassion instead of a crackdown on illegal immigrant families, a key Obama administration figure offered little hope for special treatment.

Thursday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez. D-Illinois, launched a campaign against deportations of families whose children have been born in the United States to parents who are here illegally.

But Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the greater problem is the need for immigration reform, and all she can do is set priorities for enforcement.

'I am not going to stand here and say that there are whole categories that we will, by executive fiat, simply exempt from the current immigration law. As sympathetic as we feel towards that,' she said."