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€