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<p>Yes, the president of Mexico needs a visa to come to Arizona. No, he doesn't have to stand in line to get one. It's all cleared by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.</p> <p>From the moment President Vicente Fox sets foot in the United States on Tuesday and passes effortlessly through U.S. Customs at Sky Harbor International Airport's executive terminal, he and his entourage should encounter nothing but hospitality.</p>

PHOENIX — The visit by Mexican President Vicente Fox to Arizona next month will bring the fight over illegal immigration to the center of the stage. But that's exactly what Fox does not want to do, according to Ruben Beltran, the Mexican consul in Arizona. Beltran on Friday unveiled details of the president's Nov. 4 visit, including a meeting with Gov. Janet Napolitano, a conversation with about 300 business leaders and an address to a gathering at the Phoenix Civic Plaza to those who have tickets. One of those who immediately went to get a ticket Friday is Rusty Childress,...

(Phoenix-AP) -- Mexican President Vicente Fox is to travel to New Mexico, Arizona and Texas from November 4th through November 6th. That word came Tuesday from Ruben Beltran, Mexican consul general of Phoenix. He says Fox will visit Phoenix, then travel to New Mexico and Texas. Beltran says Fox’s travel plans are subject to the approval of Mexico’s Senate. Fox is expected to discuss trade promotion and business development as well as immigration issues and infrastructure along the border.

President Fox and U.S. counterpart Bush arranged for officials to hold immigration talks in Washington.Immigration policy will be at the top of the agenda when U.S. and Mexican officials meet in Washington next month the Mexican government announced Monday.Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez said he would meet with U.S.Secretary of State Colin Powell on Nov. 13 to "outline a timetable and very concrete actions" regarding migration policies.Derbez told reporters the meeting was arranged when President Vicente Fox and his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush, met at the Asia-Pacific summit in Bangkok.There was no breakthrough in that meeting. But Derbez said...

US President George W. Bush reaches out to shake hands with Mexican President Vicente Fox as they meet for bilateral discussions at the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in Bangkok.

President Bush sought Monday to repair relations with Mexico, asking President Vicente Fox to set aside disputes over immigration and Iraq. Bush called Fox last week ahead of their meeting at an economic conference here to tell him he was eager to meet. At the summit, the presidents discussed immigration, trade and Iraq reconstruction, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said. She reported no progress on a migration pact, and no timetable emerged. "They would rather get this issue right, rather than try to move it quickly," she said. Mexico wants to bring a measure of legality to the 4 million...

Bush, Fox to discuss immigration reform MEXICO CITY - The venue is an Asian trade meeting, but when Mexican President Vicente Fox and President Bush meet on Monday in Bangkok, Thailand, the issue will be immigration reform. On the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Fox once again will press Bush for steps to make life easier for the millions of Mexicans who live in the United States illegally. But with the U.S. presidential election campaign in full swing, Bush is likely to be a tough sell in the wake of a California recall election that suggests that...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox said on Friday that President Bush wanted to improve relations between the two nations, which were strained by Mexico's opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq.``There are real intentions on his (Bush's) part to rekindle the relationship ... to take the time necessary to discuss not only the bilateral agenda, but the global agenda,'' Fox told reporters on a visit to the northern state of Tamaulipas after a telephone conversation with Bush on Friday morning.Relations between Fox and Bush chilled after Fox's opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March, although...

<p>Mexico's Fox Calls for Opposition Support to Revive Economy Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Mexican President Vicente Fox told lawmakers in his third state of the union speech that he's failed to deliver promised growth and asked for opposition support to help revive the $600 billion economy.</p>

<p>Mexico's midterm elections confirm what many had suspected: Vicente Fox's presidency is over.</p> <p>Trapped once again by a divided Congress in which his party failed to obtain a majority, Fox's reform agenda doesn't stand a chance. He will continue to live at the official residence at Los Pinos but he won't be able to enact any changes from there. He will kiss babies and inaugurate events, but none of this will amount to anything. He will talk about pending legislative initiatives but they won't be approved.</p>

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A media saga over the private life of Mexico's first lady took a bizarre twist on Wednesday when she defended herself against allegations of abuse of power in a live television interview with a clown. Marta Sahagun denied accusations in a new biography that she is an ambitious schemer who manipulates President Vicente Fox. The book also accuses Sahagun of witchcraft. "One's private life should be respected and respected truthfully. What has been said here about (my) private life is a lie," Sahagun, 50, said on a popular morning news show on the Televisa network. The...

<p>President Vicente Fox met Wednesday with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and reiterated his country's need for warm relations with its neighbor to the north.</p> <p>"We're friends, neighbors and partners," Fox said in a statement released by his office following the 90-minute meeting at the presidential residence in Mexico City. "We are united by more than a border and we will always look toward the future" together.</p>

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox defended his wife's political campaign appearances and social work Thursday, saying he and the first lady are a "presidential couple." Martha Sahagun, the president's former spokeswoman who married him in July 2001. Sahagun resigned as Fox's spokesman after their wedding and took an unpaid post as head of the charitable fund for Mexico's family welfare agency.

<p>TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) - A proposal to institute the death penalty in Mexico's largest state was overwhelming approved by voters during a nonbinding referendum Sunday, but voter turnout was not as high as organizers had hoped.</p> <p>Traditionally, this country has opposed capital punishment and it is unconstitutional in Mexico state, where the vote was held. Still, the referendum invited the state's 8 million voters to say whether they would like to see kidnappers, armed robbers, first-degree murderers and child abductors put to death.</p>

<p>DAVOS, Switzerland - Mexican President Vicente Fox will make his first visit to New Mexico in the next few months , the state governor said Sunday.</p> <p>The two agreed to the visit during a meeting on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum, Gov. Bill Richardson told The Associated Press.</p>

U.S. sued in Hague over Mexicans' death sentences 01/11/2003 By BRENDAN M. CASE / The Dallas Morning News MEXICO CITY - Last summer, President Vicente Fox canceled a trip to Texas to protest the execution of a Mexican citizen. Now, Mexico has taken its case against the U.S. death penalty to the World Court. The Foreign Ministry asked the international tribunal to order U.S. authorities to review the death sentences of 54 Mexican citizens in the United States, including 16 in Texas. In a suit presented Thursday in The Hague, Netherlands, Mexico accused U.S. authorities of violating the 1963...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico said Thursday it has asked the World Court in the Hague to resolve the case of 54 Mexicans on death row in the United States who allegedly were denied their rights to consular representation under an international treaty. Mexico's foreign relations department has made such allegations against the United States in the past -- one recent case led President Vicente Fox to cancel a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush last summer. But this is the first time officials have brought the matter to an international court. In a news release, the foreign relations...

MEXICO CITY - Alejandro Doran Dorado has lived in the United States so long -- 15 years -- that he's applied for legal residence. And thanks to a Mexican government identification program, he carries an official ID card, called matrícula consular, that makes him feel almost legal today -- able to get a driver's license, open a bank account, even board an airplane in the United States.With the card in his pocket showing his U.S. residence, he feels confident crooning ranchera songs at bars on weekends, driving a cab during the week and visiting Mexico City. Technically, he is supposed...

I understand Presidente Vicente Fox will be going to Texas after the first of the year, probably in late February to renew his demands. I believe he is scheduled to visit several Texas cities. Millions of illegal aliens have choked off our social services, our hospitals and trauma centers, filled our jails, drove our wages down, while driving our taxes up. They have no respect for our laws or our sovereignty and this continued open border lunacy and massive lawlessness will only escalate and grow more volatile. More volatile than many imagine. Fox will be coming to make more demands...

PHOENIX - How to help rural Arizona counties, especially those along the U.S.-Mexico border, is one of the priorities Governor-elect Janet Napolitano said she will work on during her administration. While the problems of border counties are not on the back burner, Napolitano said she will first take care of the state's budget crisis and clean up Arizona's educational woes. Part of the state's economic well-being is tied to the border and the nations south of the United States, she said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "Arizona is the gate to the south, and I don't just mean Mexico,"...