Several days before the attacks of Sept. 11, Fox writes, he and Bush hugged at Andrews Air Force Base after returning on Air Force One from an Ohio immigration reform rally.
"We're going to get this done," Fox recalls Bush saying.
Fox felt like "the toast of Washington," and Bush's enthusiasm, along with promising talks with congressional leaders, had the new Mexican president believing that "passage of the immigration reform package was in the bag."
Three days later, planes smashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and "our revolution of hope came face to face with the walls of fear," Fox writes.
Despite the failure of immigration reform, Fox praises Bush for his "depth of knowledge about Mexican immigrants." Bush sees Mexican immigrants and U.S. citizens as "human beings of equal worth in the eyes of God," according to an advance copy of the English-language book.
What utter barf. "human beings of equal worth in the eyes of God," . . . "our revolution of hope came face to face with the walls of fear,"
Yea, unless you are a "immigrant" trying to cross into southern mexico at which time you are a "rifle target."