“According to a memo by the Senate Finance Committee, Bersin has employed 10 household employees since 1993 and failed to complete I-9 forms for all of them. The I-9 form is issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which shares immigration enforcement responsibilities with CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Finance Committee considered Bersin’s nomination Thursday, but Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) told Bersin that his failure to file the paperwork was “unacceptable.
Bersin previously served as Obama’s U.S.-Mexico border czar, advising Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on border security matters. The former California education secretary, San Diego schools superintendent and private-practice lawyer also served as a U.S. attorney during the Clinton administration. He maintains the full support of the White House. “
Bersin has given more than $50,000 to political campaigns since 1999, almost all of it to Democrats. He donated nearly $40,000 during the 2008 election cycle: the maximum possible to both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama; $28,500 to the DNC and less than $1,000 to the Democratic Party in Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Missouri, Indiana, Colorado and Wisconsin.Center for Responsive Politics (26)Center for Responsive Politics