[AuntB]

"Bersin previously served as Obama's U.S.-Mexico border czar, advising Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on border security matters."

Ah...nothing like compliant, ignorant, non english speaking household employees for these bureaucrats, especially those who have something to hide. If they complain, they get deported.

[italianquaker]

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan D. Bersin said Thursday he didn’t know he’s required by law to file paperwork verifying that his household employees were authorized to work in the United States.

This is scary!!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

It is obvious that the 0haha people believe that every elite left winger should have several illegal serfs working for them. Of course this was rampant among many of the Clintoon picks for cabinet positions and other key positions.

[Tax-chick]

Bersin told senators that he and his wife tracked the immigration status of a nanny, house cleaners and babysitters "on a piece of paper that was on file in our home."

Oh, absolutely, darlin. That's exactly what I do, myself.

[AuntB]

Article forwarded by our NAFBPO friends with this note:

” Gee, really? So the man responsible to see those specific laws enforced doesn’t even know them, although he was a U.S. Attorney. And when you connect him to Holder who didn’t read Arizona’s law, what a dynamic duo! Oops, sorry, got carried away. It just is mind-boggling the amount of BS Washington keeps shoveling out to us, expecting us to quietly acquiesce and let it continue. “

[pointsal]

Bersin needs a refresher course in the law. Maybe Zoe Baird can give him a few pointers.

[AuntB]

“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. “

[drpix]

Didn’t the family of Bersin’s wife make their millions from their LA sweetshops and the illegals they employed?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"I know I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change."

-Barack Hussein Obama

[jessduntno]

“Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan D. Bersin said Thursday he didn’t know he’s required by law to file paperwork verifying that his household employees were authorized to work in the United States.”

I keep thinking there will be at least ONE morning we won’t be assaulted in yet another new wave by this the Clown Prince of Kenya and his latest corrupt clown posse in DC...

“Circumventing the Senate, President Obama appointed Goldstein to the position during Easter 2010 recess; he can serve through 2011.”

[COBOL2Java]

Nothing to see here folks. Everyone knows rules are for the little people...

[the Real fifi]

Actually, I think this is common and inconsequential if he checked their papers and social security nos and paid their FICA and unemployment insurance. That’s a great deal more than most homeowners do with regard to household workers. I doubt anyone even reads these forms for household employees anyway.

Aim your kicks higher than the ankles ..pls.

[tutstar]

sure, he’s totally ignorant of those laws

[SunkenCiv]

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan D. Bersin said Thursday he didn't know he's required by law to file paperwork verifying that his household employees were authorized to work in the United States. Bersin told senators that he and his wife tracked the immigration status of a nanny, house cleaners and babysitters "on a piece of paper that was on file in our home."

I feel safer all of a sudden. Thanks AuntB.

[kcvl]

I think he is lying. If I know you have to file a I-9 on EVERY employee he knows or SHOULD KNOW!

The federal government mails INSTRUCTIONS to employers every year. So, he is either paying her cash and/or not filing the proper payroll reports.

[ElkGroveDan]

Bersin, “Yes I have their names right here. The maids were Martha Washingtonzalez and Abigail Adamsosa. The handyman was Ulysses S. Grantirez. They showed me their Social Security Cards.”

[kcvl]

As Commissioner, Mr. Bersin oversees the operations of CBP’s 57,000-employee work force and manages an operating budget of more than $11 billion. Bersin formerly served as the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs, informally known as the “Border Czar.”

Mr. Bersin is a former Secretary of Education for California, as well as a former superintendent of San Diego City Schools, past federal Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) and United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, and former Attorney General’s Southwest Border Representative. He previously served as the chair of the executive committee of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.

Throughout his career, Bersin has found himself in unfamiliar positions: as a prosecutor when he had little experience with criminal law, as a superintendent when he had little experience with education, and as head of the San Diego airport when he had little experience with aviation.

Bersin, who is fluent in Spanish, will be charged with fighting illegal immigration into the U.S. and will play a crucial role in controlling the escalation of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Circumventing the Senate, President Obama appointed Goldstein to the position during Easter 2010 recess; he can serve through 2011.

In 1993, Bersin was recommended by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and nominated by President Clinton as U.S. attorney for San Diego despite the fact that he had no prosecutorial experience and virtually no criminal-law background.

The Network
Bersin has always known some of the right people. He attended Harvard University at the same time as Vice President Al Gore, and met President Bill Clinton at Oxford University, where they were both Rhodes scholars. He then went to Yale Law School with Clinton and met Hillary Rodham Clinton. He played football at Harvard with movie actor and Gore roommate Tommy Lee Jones. His wife, Lisa Foster, is prominent in San Diego social and political circles.

Bersin knew Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano because they were both federal prosecutors in the Clinton administration along the U.S.-Mexico border.

But it is money from relatives of Bersin’s wife, Lisa Foster, a superior court judge, that may raise eyebrows. Her mother, wealthy Rancho Santa Fe widow Pauline Foster, gave $2100 to Obama for America. And Richard Silberman, father of Jeff Silberman, who is married to Lisa’s sister Karen, gave a total of $3300 to the Obama campaign in March and August.

The Foster’s personal fortune had expanded dramatically, due in major part to their interests in real estate tied to the border. In a 1991 interview with San Diego Executive Magazine, Foster said he acquired his first parcel in Chula Vista, a tomato field, in 1962, and never stopped buying.

Companies that take space in buildings such as Foster’s are drawn to the area for obvious reasons,” the magazine said, including “border access for businesses with Mexican ties” and “low-cost labor in the South Bay and nearby Mexico.”

The Fosters, their future son-in-law Alan Bersin would be given great opportunity through marriage. Like Foster, he would also prosper in the realm of the border.

In 1991, while still in L.A., Bersin met and married second wife Lisa Foster, a daughter of Stan and Pauline Foster, owners of a large local garment factory and acres of South Bay real estate, with longstanding ties to the Democratic Party and connections along the Mexican border.

In 1992, as Bill Clinton ramped up his campaign for the presidency, Alan Bersin and Lisa Foster left their home in Los Angeles and moved to San Diego. Bersin took a sabbatical from Munger Tolles, ostensibly to manage the local Clinton campaign and teach law part-time at the University of San Diego, a Catholic school financially supported by many of the city’s wealthy Democrats, including the Foster family. To many, it appeared Bersin was being groomed for power.

Critics said Bersin was spending too much time schmoozing with members of the tightly knit Tijuana business establishment and friends of his father-in-law and not enough looking into money-laundering schemes used by the drug cartels. He called for easier border crossings for business people and trade and was a regular draw at banquets and business tributes on both sides of the border.

Though not widely known to the public, Bersin had a personal financial stake in border real estate held with his father-in-law and other family members. According to an agreement recorded October 2, 1996, Bersin, his wife Lisa, along with Stan and Pauline Foster and Marliskar, a family-related partnership, had formed Otay Terminal, a general partnership.

A disclosure Bersin filed with the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., showed that Otay Terminal owned four properties, including a trucking facility at 6930 Cactus Court on San Diego’s Otay Mesa, less than 2000 feet from the border with Mexico.

A trust controlled by Foster and his wife Pauline purchased the land on January 14, 1992, for $880,500, according to county records. Foster built a truck terminal and offices on the parcel, finishing the project on July 20, 1992, a notice of completion says. On January 14, 2003, the partnership sold the property for $3.5 million.

Though the Foster family partnership sold the truck terminal in 2003, Bersin and his wife have since acquired major financial stakes in other border-related ventures. A financial disclosure statement Bersin filed with the State of California in March 2006 revealed that he held between $10,000 and $100,000 of stock in “SafeMex/International Gateway.” He reported the same interest in a similar disclosure made May 9, 2009, with the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority.

According to its website, SafeMex sells insurance and emergency travel-assistance plans to foreigners going to Mexico.

Much, much more here...

http://tinyurl.com/2bg7jxh

[kcvl]

Alan D. Bersin

In February 2009, Bersin was named co-chairman of a new binational task force, sponsored by the Mexico City–based Mexican Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy, based in Los Angeles.

Though Bersin’s investment in Silicon Border did not make the papers in the United States, Mexico City’s Reforma newspaper reported in October 2007 that Bersin and Malin Burnham, identified by the paper as “U.S. investors” in Silicon Border, had discussed the project with Mexican economic secretary Eduardo Sojo and representatives of Fernando Maiz, the wealthy head of Maiz Edifications, a large Mexican construction conglomerate based in Monterrey.

In November 2007, Silicon Border announced that Maiz’s company would become the development’s “preferred contractor to design and manage the physical attributes of the Silicon Border Science Park,” said to be worth over $150 million. He was subsequently listed as a member of the project’s advisory board, alongside Elorduy and Burnham.

[Man50D]

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan D. Bersin said Thursday he didn't know he's required by law to file paperwork verifying that his household employees were authorized to work in the United States.

He graduated from the Timothy Geithner school of denial and innocence.

[francky]

When I-9s first came on the scene, in my consulting time I spent many an hour with my clients reviewing I-9s. Another unenforceable law.”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”.”
What a joke!