Thread: Bersin visits border, praises cooperative efforts withMexico

Bersin visits border, praises cooperative efforts with Mexico

By Leslie Berestein Union-Tribune Staff Writer
7:56 p.m. May 4, 2009

OTAY MESA – Three weeks after being named the Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for international affairs, Alan Bersin spoke to reporters at the Otay Mesa cargo port of entry Monday praising binational cooperation with Mexico in efforts to combat drug trafficking, the smuggling of contraband into Mexico and, most recently, swine flu.

“I believe that we will look back on this chapter as an era of very effective cooperation,â€

[quote]“We have to encourage and discourage employers from hiring illegal workers,â€

Most employers will stop hiring illegal aliens the very first time you put them in prison.

So let's see how quick we can put some of them in prison.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Most employers will stop hiring illegal aliens the very first time you put them in prison.

So let's see how quick we can put some of them in prison.

And it would probably only take putting a few of them in prison, for the rest to get scared enough to stop. If there were any arrested locally, that I knew of, I swear I would attend their court hearings, just for the pleasure of watching them convicted and sentenced.

I know some of them are likely our neighbors, even relatives or friends. I think a friend's nephew likely hires illegals in his drywall installation business. He would probably claim it is "unknowingly". Just don't ask for any documentation, pay them in cash, and you're not "knowingly" hiring them.

We really HAVE to stop the employers, and therefore stop the incentive for illegal aliens.

Shut down their businesses, too. Required jail time, monetary punishment and they cannot start the same business for 10 years.

Get serious. Those employers will just say they "didn't knowingly hire illegal aliens" and the Supy Court will let them off the hook.

In the 1990s, illegal immigration was the main focus of his job, while today it's combating the drug cartels that have been locked in a two-plus-year war with Mexico's federal government, leading to several thousand homicides last year.

Sounds like this guy was there for the 1996 Amnesty......So we will just see how serious he is about enforcing the laws he no doubt helped get put in the 96 immigration nationality act.




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Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

In the 1990s, illegal immigration was the main focus of his job, while today it's combating the drug cartels that have been locked in a two-plus-year war with Mexico's federal government, leading to several thousand homicides last year.

Sounds like this guy was there for the 1996 Amnesty......So we will just see how serious he is about enforcing the laws he no doubt helped get put in the 96 immigration nationality act.

He was a federal prosecutor and the first in the country to prosecute illegals for reentry as a felony.

Alan Bersin was appointed California’s Secretary of Education on July 1, 2005 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and served as Secretary until January, 2007. Immediately prior to his appointment by the Governor, he was Superintendent of Public Education in San Diego City Schools.
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Prior to becoming superintendent, Mr. Bersin served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California for nearly five years. As such, he was the chief federal law enforcement officer in San Diego and Imperial counties, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Bersin also served as the Attorney General’s Southwest Border Representative, responsible for coordinating federal law enforcement activities on the U. S./Mexico border.
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In January, 2007, Mr. Bersin was appointed by the Mayor of San Diego as Board Chairman for the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, where he continues to serve.

Before entering public service in 1993, Mr. Bersin was a senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson where he specialized in complex RICO, securities, commercial and insurance litigation before state and federal trial and appellate courts. He is a member of the California and Alaska bars.

Other professional experience includes employment as Special Counsel to the Los Angeles Police Commission, as visiting professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law, as a lecturer in law at University of California at Boalt Hall, and as an adjunct professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He serves as a Member of the Board of Overseers for Harvard University.

Mr. Bersin received his A.B. in government from Harvard University (magna com laude). He attended Balliol College at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He received his J.D. degree from the Yale Law School. Mr. Bersin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws (Honorary) by the University of San Diego, by California Western School of Law and by the Thomas Jefferson School of Law.