Mexico occupies center stage in United States immigration policy. In a visit to Monterey, Mexico, President George W. Bush declared that “Mexico has a special category and condition as a partner and also as a neighbor of the United States, in the matter of immigration” (La Reforma, March 23, 2002). Besides its varied ramifications in domestic policies, immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has, for the first time, become not only a U.S. domestic issue, but a foreign policy issue as well. Too often, though, discussion of immigration fails to take into account the attitudes toward immigration in sending...