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~ At the summit here today, President Bush used some of his strongest language yet demanding Congress pass his illegal alien amnesty guest worker program. But President Bush was unable to win new concessions from Mexican President Vicente Fox on the issue of border security.

As the summit comes to a close, illegal aliens and their supporters today staged new protests in American streets. Along with President Bush and Mexican President Fox, they apparently believe that illegal alien workers in the United States must be legalized at any cost.

Also tonight, we'll be reporting on the growing reconquista movement. This open borders movement has one of the most alarming agendas in this debate of all. We'll have a special report for you.

And a special report tonight as well on Mexico's hypocrisy in trade. Mexicans can invest in America but American investors continually shut out of Mexico.

We begin tonight with new efforts by President Bush to pressure Congress into passing his guest worker amnesty program. President Bush demanded that Congress pass his proposal, a plan that would legalize millions of illegal alien workers during his trilateral summit press conference here in Cancun. But after two days of talks, the president leaves Cancun empty-handed, without any new agreements on border security.

~ GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And I want a comprehensive bill. And I've made that very clear to the members of the Congress, and I will continue making it clear to members of Congress.

BUSH: And I believe a guest worker program will help us rid the society and the border of these coyotes who smuggle people in the back of 18-wheelers. I believe it will help get rid of the document forgers. I believe it will help people on both sides of our border.

BUSH: The Congress passed a law and I intend to enforce the law. I believe this can be done in such a way that it makes future travel, future relations stronger, not weaker.
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~ DOBBS: Mexican President Fox couldn't have sounded more conciliatory here in Cancun over the illegal immigration issue. After all, President Fox does have a powerful ally in the White House and powerful groups pushing his amnesty agenda across the United States.

Here in Cancun today, President Bush couldn't stop talking about the great cooperation he's seeing from Mexico and Canada on a host of issues. But as the president was speaking, his very own trade representative was blasting Mexico and Canada on the issue of trade. U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman today released his annual report on countries with the most serious trade barriers to the United States. And guess who's on that list? None other than Mexico and Canada.

In addition to Mexico and Canada, the United States is blasting 60 other trading partners for erecting unfair trade barriers, including communist China. As the United States attacks its trading partners for unfair trade, the United States is about to add two more trading partners.

Rob Portman today announced that Honduras and Nicaragua will officially become part of the Central American Free Trade Agreement tomorrow, after the countries finally met all CAFTA requirements.

NOTE: Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, says he is seeing a shift in sentiment toward so-called comprehensive immigration reform. Opponents of the guest worker amnesty program in the House of Representative, however, say the senators had better watch what they vote for.

~ Go King!
REP. STEVE KING (R), IOWA: Over in the Senate, that has guest worker, temporary worker, it will be amnesty. And anybody that votes for a amnesty bill deserves to be branded with a scarlet letter "A" for amnesty, and they need to pay for it in the ballot voting box in November.

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*** Next, the rampant drug trade on the U.S.-Canadian border and how that {{{money could help finance terrorism. }}}
A special report next, live from the Canadian border with the United States. And then, a movement within the United States to make certain of our States, American States, part of Mexico. Reconquista. We'll have that special report.

And Mexico wants their citizens to be welcome in the United States but puts all sorts of restrictions on Americans here in Mexico. A report on Mexican hypocrisy in trade and travel coming up next as we return to Cancun, Mexico.

NOTE:
In 2005, U.S. Border and Customs officials made hundreds of drug seizures along the northern border -- 68,000 thousand pounds of marijuana, 1,600 pounds of cocaine, more than 1,700 pounds of ecstasy. All together, more tonnage than a humpback whale.

Border Control has beefed up since 2001. Smugglers have just amped up their efforts.

~ BARRETT: There's fresh asphalt on the road behind me covering up the first known smuggler's tunnel on the Canadian border. The tunnel has now been dug up and filled in, but it does raise deeper concerns. If drug traffickers have this much money, determination and known connections to organized crime, those connections could easily be exploited by terrorists

HEADS up NYC!:

The minutemen will be brack in action on the Canadian border all next month. Thousands of volunteers have passed background checks and they will be ready to man nearly 800 miles of the border with Canada and Mexico beginning tomorrow. Minutemen volunteers will be conducting patrols in Washington State, New York and New Hampshire on the Canadian border, and in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas on the Mexican border.

Widening protests against illegal immigration legislation. Pro- illegal immigration groups and religious groups are sponsoring a march tomorrow in New York City.
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Still ahead here, some Mexican citizens and some Mexican- Americans have formed a group to see states like New Mexico and California be turned over to Mexico. It's the reconquista movement.

DOBBS: There are some Mexican citizens and some Mexican- Americans who want to see California, New Mexico and other parts of the Southwestern United States given over to Mexico. These groups call it the reconquista, Spanish for reconquest. And they view the millions of Mexican illegal aliens in particular entering the United States as potentially an army of invaders to achieve that takeover.

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Chants celebrating La Raza, the race, and signs proclaiming the true history of the Southwest. A Southwest they say still belongs to Mexico.

Long downplayed as a theory of the radical ethnic fringe, the la reconquista, the reconquest, the reclamation, the return, it's resonating with some on the streets. It's the idea that the Southwest United States is stolen land called Aztlan.

LARRY BIRNS, COUNCIL ON HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS: These places that these Mexican immigrants want to go, Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas, were all parts of Mexican territory in the 19th century and were swiped from Mexico.

ROMANS: A surprisingly common theme among open borders advocates, even some Spanish language media. This billboard last year declaring Los Angeles a part of Mexico, not California.

California Congressman Dana Rohrbacher calls the attitude arrogant and dangerous.
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REP. DANA ROHRBACHER (R), CALIFORNIA: And now we see that hundreds of thousands of these people, if not several million, are willing to wave the Mexican flag and not seek assimilation in the United States, but are instead declaring their allegiance to Mexico while here illegally. This can cause huge problems. If only a fringe element of them want to commit acts of violence in the future to -- in order to push their claim of legitimacy in terms of their right to this area that we now occupy in the United States, it can cause great damage and loss of life in our country. ROMANS: Perhaps why this California police officer this week encouraged these protesters to fly the American flag.
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Matt in Nevada says, "Lou, it looks beautiful there in Mexico. Could I move to Cancun and not have to learn Spanish, have free medical care, pay no taxes, have subsidized housing, food stamps, and if I commit a crime, be innocent until proven guilty?:

* Clarence in Kentucky, "Two thousand dollars is a pretty good deal for free health care, food stamps, welfare, et cetera. I pay more than $2,000 for my own health insurance, plus 20 percent of my medical bills. What's wrong with this picture?"

* And Ronald in Wisconsin, "I'm proud of my half-Italian, half- German heritage, but I have loyalty to only one country. And that is the good old USA. I only want one flag flying at our schools and any other publicly-funded building."

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* Phil in Georgia, "Lou, I heard Mexico has a guest worker program for Canadians. That's wonderful. I've got a better idea, though. They should have one for Mexicans."
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Mexico wants its citizens to be able to freely live and work in the United States. But when it comes to Americans in Mexico, an entirely different story. We'll have that special report on the Mexican hypocrisy.

~ Illegal aliens and their supporters say living and working in the United States is a universal right that should be extended to everyone, regardless of citizenship. But the Mexican government clearly restricts where foreigners can live and what they are allowed to do when in Mexico.

~ SYLVESTER: But when it comes to Mexico and its neighbors, it's not always a two-way street. Mexico has far more restrictions on Americans than the United States places on its southern neighbors.

~ MARK KRIKORIAN, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: The first principle of international relations is reciprocity, where each nation confers the same rights and privileges and responsibilities on the other. And that's not what we see here. Mexico's approach to the United States seems to be what's theirs is theirs and what's ours is negotiable.

~ SYLVESTER: Under Mexico's constitution, foreigners cannot independently own real estate within 30 miles of Mexico's coastline or within 60 miles of the borders. The constitution explicitly gives Mexicans preference over foreigners when it comes to jobs, benefits and concessions.

Mexico's lucrative oil industry is off-limits to American investors. It's controlled entirely by the Mexican government. Mexico even has a double standard when it comes to border security.

~ MIKE CULTER, FORMER INS AGENT: We have a country to ourselves that absolutely wants to have an open border for their people to head north, but they are insistent on controlling those people that enter their country.

~ SYLVESTER: Mexico has these policies in place to protect its citizens, because it's in its national interests. But the Center for Immigration Studies questions why the United States tolerates the imbalance.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You teach people how to treat you, and we've taught Mexico that it's OK to push and push and infringe on our sovereign rights and to have an unbalanced relationship. And so that's naturally what they're going to keep pushing for.

SYLVESTER: Mexico has been weighing in heavily in the guest worker debate. It wants to help design and implement the program, but that is a decision for the U.S. government and its citizens.

~ DOBBS: Lisa Sylvester, the idea that there is hypocrisy in this relationship. There's hypocrisy in nearly every international relationship. But it's particularly important because we're next door neighbors, and this is a land bridge. Is there any discomfort that you've detected on the part of the Mexican government and officials in that hypocrisy?

~ SYLVESTER: Well you know, I love this line that Mark Krikorian said which is, "What's theirs is theirs and what's ours is negotiable." Because that kind of just sums it up. Their entire attitude is this sense that there's an entitlement that somehow the United States has to essentially bow to their issues and their wants. And we see this very clearly with the guest worker program. It makes you wonder, who's President Bush actually representing? Is he representing the people or is he representing the Mexican people? It's very fascinating to see this whole arrangement and how this has been set up.

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