Bersin touts increased inspections at U.S. border
By Sandra Dibble
Union-Tribune Staff Writer
2:00 a.m. September 11, 2009
Stepped-up inspections of vehicles heading to Mexico from the United States have yielded more than $40 million in seizures of bulk cash since April,
Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Alan Bersin told reporters yesterday.
The searches were ordered border-wide by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to cut down on weapons and large sums of cash smuggled from the
United States to Mexico to support activities of drug cartels.
Bersin met with reporters before addressing the Institute of the Americas at UC San Diego. During his talk, Bersin touched on a broad range of
subjects relevant to the U.S.-Mexico relationship, including immigration reform, drug cartels and travel safety in Mexico.
"You'd have to be awfully unlucky as an ordinary tourist to be caught in a crossfire that's taking place between cartels, or between the government
and cartels," Bersin said.
Bersin, a former U.S. attorney in San Diego, played a key role in the mid-1990s implemention of the crackdown on illegal immigration in the San Diego
area known as Operation Gatekeeper.
Yesterday, a group of demonstrators led by the San Diego-based Raza Rights Coalition chanted and held signs protesting Bersin's presence.
Sandra Dibble: (619) 293-1716;Sharksbaja - 9-12-2009 at 03:33 PM
Bulk cash? More than 10k?DianaT - 9-12-2009 at 03:37 PM
Glad we already paid for our house. Bajahowodd - 9-12-2009 at 03:59 PM
You paid more than $10k for that place?DianaT - 9-12-2009 at 06:34 PM
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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
You paid more than $10k for that place?
Hey, the gophers and scorpions were free---DENNIS - 9-12-2009 at 07:18 PM
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Originally posted by CaboRon
Yesterday, a group of demonstrators led by the San Diego-based Raza Rights Coalition chanted and held signs protesting Bersin's presence.
If there's anything these a-holes don't like, I love it. What a bunch of traitors.
Fix the Bill Of Rights. These people shouldn't be able to exist north of the border.
