Arizonans question CBP commissioner’s rosy view of border
Luke Witman
Tucson Immigration Examiner
September 3, 2011

In a speech delivered Thursday at the annual convention of the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, in Tucson, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Alan Bersin roundly praised the country’s defense of its southern border. Bersin argued that, although CBP agents have apprehended over 100,000 undocumented migrants attempting to cross into Arizona this fiscal year, this number is down from what the agency was seeing a decade ago. He also referred to public concerns over violence at the border as “overblown,â€