Guest workers are key / Bersin knows problems, and politics, of immigration

By Union-Tribune Editorial Board,
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.

Alan Bersin obviously knows a lot about the border from his years in San Diego. As commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Bersin made clear during a visit home last week that he also knows a bit about immigration – policy and politics.

For instance, Bersin knows enough to rightly characterize Arizona’s controversial and wrongheaded immigration law as “unjustâ€