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To: Carry_Okie; ZGuy; SierraWasp; NormsRevenge; farmfriend; FairOpinion; tubebender; kellynla; ...
I don't know the answer to your question, but Bersin isn't good news. More leftists to high positions (see opensecrets data above). Notice the Munger Tolles connection (aka Warren Buffett). And his wife has a quaint resume as well.

Lisa Foster


6 posted on 04/29/2005 5:08:31 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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Bersin was Clinton's drug czar and old college buddy. How quaint that he became a US Attorney under the Clinton Administration, after being in public practice.
Reno Names Prosecutor as 'Border Czar'
Los Angeles Times, Oct 14, 1995

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Atty. Gen. Janet Reno has appointed U.S. Atty. Alan Bersin to a newly created post of "border czar," which will oversee the far-flung array of law enforcement agencies at the U.S.-Mexico line, Justice Department officials said Friday.

The designation of Bersin as the attorney general's special representative on border issues represents an unprecedented effort to improve the fight against drug and immigrant smuggling and overhaul a bureaucracy that suffers from internal conflicts, corruption and inefficiency. It also recognizes that the traditional federal approach--dividing the border into geographical and jurisdictional fiefdoms--falls short of the complex reality of the almost 2,000-mile-long boundary, which requires a comprehensive strategy, officials said.

While remaining the top U.S. prosecutor in San Diego, Bersin will report directly to Reno and coordinate multi-agency projects, such as using the FBI to target immigrant smuggling as organized crime and reorganizing inspections by the INS and the Customs Service, officials said. Bersin also will represent the attorney general in discussions with the Mexican government on immigration, drugs and other binational issues. The relationship between the two countries on border affairs has improved over the past several years but remains fraught with tension.

Bersin, 48, attended Yale and Oxford with President Clinton and Harvard with Vice President Al Gore. He worked in private practice in Los Angeles and taught law in San Diego before being named U.S. attorney in November, 1993. He quickly became the Justice Department's unofficial point man at the border, embodying a Clinton Administration enforcement campaign that has combined substantive progress with aggressive public relations.

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"He will be the attorney general's eyes and ears," Justice Department spokeswoman Carol Florman said. "The importance that the southwest border has taken on needs a more coordinated approach than a normal governmental structure will allow. This is reinventing government, to some extent."

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Official Defends Expelling of Drug Suspects
Los Angeles Times, May 18, 1996

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U.S. Atty. Alan Bersin on Friday defended his office's policy of expelling some suspected drug smugglers from the United States rather than prosecuting them, saying, "We think we are getting a better deterrent at a cheaper price."

Bersin, the Clinton administration's border czar, was supported in his contention by his two predecessors as the top federal prosecutor in San Diego and Imperial counties, both appointed by Republican presidents.

William Braniff and Peter Nunez, also speaking to the private, nonprofit San Diego Crime Commission, said expelling some suspected smugglers and yanking "green cards" that allow them to enter the United States is a better way to deter drug smuggling than taking a chance of prosecuting them for misdemeanors.

The Times reported Sunday that hundreds of smuggling suspects apprehended at the border with substantial quantities of drugs were sent back to Mexico without prosecution under a program adopted by Bersin's office two years ago.


7 posted on 04/29/2005 6:05:11 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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