Vicente even got Jorge to put a Mexican flag on his website - see:
http://www.georgewbush.com/Espanol/
I was just checking over the State Dept. website:
http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/hyper/2004/0107/epf303.htm
This is an interesting briefing that was given when Pres. Bush made the fatal mistake of proposing an amnesty...call it what you will. Here's a snip:
Senior Administration official: Next, it would provide incentives for return to the home country, such as totalization agreements, as we have with several foreign countries around the world, and would create -- call for the creation of savings accounts that could be used for the benefit of the participant for either retirement or for a nest egg to buy land or capitalize a business, or whatever.
Finally, it will protect the rights of illegal workers who now live in the shadows and are fearful of coming out of the shadows, for fear of deportation. They will now enjoy the same protections that American workers have with respect to wages and employment rights and the like.
So that's it, in a nutshell -- principles, calling for a new temporary worker program. It also will call for, in the name of some of the detail, a reasonable increase in the number of green cards. As I hope many of you know that green card holders can then, after five years, elect to become citizens. And we have limitations as to the number of green cards that are available annually. And it would increase some capacity in that regard.