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Malkin: I like Pete Nuñez, who was a Bush I Treasury Department official, and who is teaching immigration law right now in San Diego.
He really understands that immigration has to be treated as a national security issue first...
See also, from www.humaneventsonline.com:

"...In order to get that law-and-order person at the INS now that a Republican occupies the Oval Office (the previous Democratic administration was not noted for its concern for law or order), [president of the American Council for Immigration Reform (ACIR), Joan] Hueter is pushing the candidate for INS commissioner favored by activists who believe in sovereign borders, Peter Nuñez. She recently squired him to a meeting of influential Washington conservatives and has made rounds on Capitol Hill trying to drum up support.
A member of the Naval Reserves, lawyer, and lecturer in the University of San Diego’s political science department, Nuñez favors strictly enforcing the laws against illegal immigration–a position that seems logical but is actually controversial.
"Peter Nuñez has given congressional testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight. . . . Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Also annual appearances before the Senate and House Treasury appropriations subcommittees," says an information sheet about him prepared by ACIR. Nuñez was U.S. attorney for San Diego under Reagan and assistant secretary of the treasury for enforcement under Bush Sr., and was chairman of the Southwest Border Committee.
"I believe in Peter," said Hueter. Nuñez’s boss would be Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft. "Sen. Ashcroft is a strong law-and-order person. Mr. Nuñez is a strong law-and-order person."

From www.sandiego.edu:

Peter Nuñez, J.D.
Peter K. Nuñez began his career in law enforcement in 1972 as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorneys Office in San Diego, California. He held a number of positions in that office before being appointed as the U.S. Attorney by President Ronald Reagan in 1982. Mr. Nuñez served as the U.S. Attorney through August of 1988, when he left to become a litigation partner in the San Diego office of one of California's largest civil law firms.

In 1990, he was appointed by President George Bush to be the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement in Washington, D.C. He was responsible for all law enforcement functions of the Treasury Department, including the Customs Service, the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Criminal Investigations Division of the Internal Revenue Service, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Since 1998 he has been involved in providing training, advice, and technical assistance to various foreign governments with respect to legal reform and the improvement of their criminal justice systems. He has been a law enforcement advisor to the Governments of Armenia and El Salvador under a program sponsored by the Treasury Department. He has also worked with government officials in Georgia, Ukraine, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey and Israel in the development of legal reforms in the criminal justice and law enforcement systems.

Mr. Nuñez graduated from Duke University in 1964, served in the U.S. Navy, and attended law school at the University of San Diego, graduating cum laude in 1970.
nunezfam@juno.com