La Prensa San Diego
May 8, 2009

Bersin starts second stint on the border with a new agenda

By Mariana MartĂ*nez


A new era of candor is the description given to current US-Mexico relations, by Border Czar for Department of Homeland Security, Alan Bersin.

Bersin visited the Otay Mesa Port of Entry on Monday as part of a border tour announcing a series of changes in border enforcement, the most evident one, the south bound check by Customs and Border Protection Officers, focusing on gun traffic and the smuggling transfer of cash generated of drug transactions here in the US.

The program was started last month and it is expected to be permanent in all US/Mexico land exits in an unprecedented acknowledgment of the US government about illegal guns fueling the violence in Mexico.

“The agents asked me where I was going, what was my reason for going to Tijuana, if I had any guns…â€