Arizona Education

President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he intends to nominate his Southwest border czar to be commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

As commissioner, Alan Bersin would lead a Homeland Security Department security agency that helps keep terrorists and their weapons out of the country while securing and facilitating travel and trade as it enforces hundreds of regulations, including export and import controls, immigration and drug laws.

The appointment requires Senate confirmation.

Since April, Bersin has been serving in a position created by the Obama administration to handle illegal immigration and border issues. During this time, Bersin has worked closely with the Mexican government to combat drug cartels.

From 1993 to 1998, Bersin was the federal prosecutor who led the government’s crackdown on illegal immigration across the California-Mexico border. During his final three years, Bersin doubled as U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno’s Southwest border representative, or "border czar."

Under Bersin’s watch, the U.S. government rolled out Operation Gatekeeper, a massive increase in border enforcement in the San Diego area that pushed illegal migrants to cross from Mexico in remote mountains and deserts of Arizona.

Most recently, Bersin was chairman of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. He also served under California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as state secretary of education.

Earlier, Bersin served as superintendent of San Diego public schools. Hispanic groups criticized his appointment to that post. They said Operation Gatekeeper increased deaths among illegal immigrants, because it forced them to attempt treacherous mountain and desert crossings in order to get into the United States.

Last summer, Bersin donated $28,500 to the Democratic White House Victory Fund. Bersin contributed the maximum amount an individual could give to Obama’s presidential campaign

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9ASJNL84.html

Hopefully he walks the walks instead of just talk. We need tough enforcement on the border.

"They said Operation Gatekeeper increased deaths among illegal immigrants, because it forced them to attempt treacherous mountain and desert crossings in order to get into the United States."
How can people say things like this with a straight face! No one forces them to cross into the US illegally. That is a choice they make all on their own. If they don’t want to die crossing treacherous pathway let them STAY HOME.

You know, I find Obama’s policies so hypocritical. Fine employers, but don’t deport illegal workers. Tighten border security, but don’t deport illegal workers. End 287G, but don’t deport illegal workers. Won’t make E-=Verify mandatory, but fine employers and don’t deport illegal workers. No don’t deport them, make all 12-20M legal, add them to health care and cost US taxpayers $2.6T and add $50-60B a year to welfare costs. I cannot believe the Fed Gov is so willing to overlook the simplest of solutions. No jobs, No welfare, No birthright citizens for babies born to illegal aliens.

PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has launched an investigation into embattled community action group ACORN to see whether the organization is behind a federal lawsuit against him.

According to Arpaio, ACORN is secretly behind Melendres v. Arpaio, which alleges Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies engaged in racial profiling.

His attorneys issued subpoenas Thursday to the organization’s Washington, D.C. offices, even though ACORN’s headquarters are in Louisiana.

The subpoenas ask for any correspondence relating to the Melendres case between ACORN and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, the Department of Homeland Security, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the law firm representing the plaintiffs.ACORN’s Arizona director Monica Sandshaefer denied her organization’s involvement.

"Some other organizations are (involved) — we are not," she said. "Frankly, we were caught a little bit off guard by the subpoena. It seems very nonsensical to us."

Arpaio also said he wants to know if ACORN paid for Rev. Al Sharpton’s Valley visit.

Sharpton visited the Valley during the summer and, standing next to ACORN director Bertha Lewis, demanded the sheriff’s resignation.

"You don’t think Al Sharpton goes anywhere without being paid?" Arpaio said. "So who pays him?"

Arpaio wants to know if ACORN, which receives less than 10 percent of its income from the federal government, used taxpayers’ money to bring Sharpton to the Valley.

"We’re going to prove it," the sheriff said. "We’re going in and going to find every penny they spent against this sheriff to keep me from fighting the illegal immigration."

Sandshaefer said the organization receives the majority of its funds from grassroots efforts. In fact, the recent U.S. House of Representatives vote freezing the group’s federal funding will not affect the Arizona branch at all, since it receives no money from the government.

Arpaio said the timing of the subpoenas had nothing to do with the recent release of videos showing ACORN members offering tax assistance to people who described themselves as a "pimp" and a prostitute.

"We have to prepare for trial, so I don’t care what’s happening with all these undercover videos," the sheriff said. "(The videos have) no bearing on what they’ve been doing here locally."

Sandshaefer disagreed.

"This is really about Sheriff Joe attempting to get onto the ‘Bash ACORN’ bandwagon" to distract people from the issue at hand, she said.http://www.kpho.com/news/20991239/detail.html

So, being Al wont go to AZ. without getting payed, does that make him ACORN’s prostitute?

If people want to understand what all the fuss is about, reading the actual materials from the US Department of Education will not help them. Nothing of what they are complaining about is to be found in the materials prepared for teachers. Here, check them out for yourselves, you can download them:

http://www.ed.gov/admins/le…

I just got done reading it all and find nothing in there that is indoctrinary or offensive. The content is all rather routine. Written by teachers, it is a set of class room exercises, the sort of thing every teacher sees every day of their careers.

Once again we have a manufactured controversy. Not about anything Obama has done or wants to do, but grown out of the blind hatred coming from people who cannot tolerate losing an election.

I am an independent voter of conservative leanings. So long as this kind of crazy talk is coming from the GOP side, I will continue to vote against that side. There is simply no way I am going to risk my vote on a political party that is so enamored of their own mythology that they dream up Grand Conspiracies and Evil Intentions for everything the opposing party does or says.

Go sell your "Crazy" someplace else, I ain’t buying it.

Arizona is 50 out of 50 in education. DEAD LAST!!!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!!
And you want to pull your child out of school.
What sad souls!
Please stop with the Obama worship comments. Does your hate and ignorance run that deep? People elected a President they respect and love. Is that so wrong?

It’s not a question of whether or not the material is offensive, but this is a very Fidel Castro way of things. He would make addresses to school children VERY often. It’s a very easy way to get into a lot of clueless, innocent children’s heads. Have you not seen this "I pledge…" video? THIS is what is going to be shown to children. Once of the last lines states that, "I pledge to be a SERVANT TO OUR PRESIDENT and mankind." That’s not cause for concern??? A SERVANT???!?!?!?! This is outrageous and scary. If you think otherwise you’re just as brainwashed and the other who think this is alright.

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