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<p>Mexican President Vicente Fox yesterday said he favors open borders across North America, not amnesty for his countrymen illegally residing in the United States.</p> <p>The alien work program announced last week by President Bush would not encourage aliens to remain in the United States, because they love their home country, the Mexican president told the "Fox News Sunday" program.</p>

Fox Accepts Invitation to Bush Ranch Tuesday January 13, 2004 1:16 AM By ELOY O. AGUILAR Associated Press Writer MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - Mexican President Vicente Fox on Monday accepted an invitation to visit President Bush's Texas ranch in March, another sign that the two leaders' sometimes rocky relationship is on the mend. After Fox took office in 2001, he made Fox's ranch his first international trip. Both leaders, who share a love of cowboy boots and rural life, said they wanted to focus on strengthening relations. But when Bush declined to halt the 2002 execution of a Mexican man...

MONTERREY, Mexico – President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox, their relationship strained by tensions over immigration and Iraq, met privately for talks on a range of issues Monday as a prelude to an international summit meeting of 34 Western Hemisphere nations. The Bush White House saw the face-to-face meeting not only as a chance to mend ties between the two countries, but also to earn political capital for a president who wants a second term. Bush arrived in this industrial city at midday at an airport where gun-toting troops in green fatigues and security officers roamed the grounds. He...

Mexico's president says he can envision a day when immigration controls would be eliminated among the United States, Canada and Mexico. President Vicente Fox's comments follow a proposal by U.S. President George Bush to overhaul U.S. immigration policy. President Fox said the Bush administration's immigration initiative that would grant temporary work visas to millions of undocumented workers in the United States is a step in the right direction. Appearing on the U.S. television program Fox News Sunday, the Mexican leader was asked if he would favor scrubbing immigration barriers entirely between the United States and Mexico so that people on...

THE PRESIDENT PRAISES THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES AND SAYS HE AGREES WITH THE AMNESTY REJECTION. BY MARK STEVENSON/Associated Press President Vicente Fox said Friday that undocumented Mexican migrants don't want U.S. citizenship, contradicting immigration activists who demand naturalization and oppose any proposal that doesn't include it. Fox strongly defended U.S. President George W. Bush's migration reform proposal, and in remarks to foreign reporters, called attention to divisions over the issue in the Mexican-American community in the United States. "We agree with the rejection of amnesty. These workers are not going to become American citizens, nor do they want...

Mexican President Vicente Fox said Thursday that while President Bush's plan to liberalize U.S. immigration law was a good start, he intends to press for further reforms that would loosen restrictions on Mexican immigration to the U.S. "We're going for more. We're going for more," Fox told reporters while visiting a Mexican shelter for street children. While announcing his intention to press Bush to go even further, Fox praised the president for taking "a great step forward," adding that he deserved partial credit for the breakthrough. "It is an achievement of the measures we have been taking during these [last]...

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- President Vicente Fox on Thursday praised the immigration reform proposed by President Bush and claimed it as an achievement for his own administration.But Fox and other Mexican officials indicated the new American proposal did not meet all their goals. ``We're going for more. We're going for more,'' he told reporters during a visit to a shelter for street children.Fox has repeatedly urged Bush to legalize the millions of Mexicans who cross the border illegally to work in the United States. The money they send home is Mexico's second-largest source of foreign income, behind oil.Bush's plan, unveiled...

"The New Colossus" Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land, Here at our sea-washed, sunset-gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose fame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome, her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin-cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she, With silent lips. "GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE; SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST-TOST TO ME, I LIFT...

Some Republicans now say that affirmative action is here to stay, so the best we can do is to "contain" it. That means limiting affirmative action to blacks and American Indians. (Many Republicans have long felt that way, but some are now actually talking containment.) Containment is surrender. This ain’t the Cold War; this is the war for the Constitution. It’s also a low-intensity (increasingly, high-intensity) race war. But the containment strategy is worse than a straightforward surrender. For while GOP operatives intend all along to surrender for what they think is a fair price, they seek to deceive...

<p>President Vicente Fox said Thursday he has agreed with U.S. President George W. Bush to hold a private meeting during January's Summit of the Americas, to restart talks on immigration reform.</p> <p>The two leaders agreed in a telephone conversation Thursday to meet in the northern city of Monterrey, where the Jan. 12-13 summit is to be held.</p>

The US25 million will go to groups that help protect the nations's heavily logged forests.The U.S. Agency for International Development has pledged US25 million over the next five years to protect Mexico's forests, the U.S. Embassy said Friday.The donation will funnel US900,000 to Rainforest Alliance, an environmental group that works with logging interest to ensure they obtain wood from sustainable forests and the develops new markets for certified timber.On Dec. 1, a Mexican logging concern that has been working with Rainforest Alliance since 2000, the Ejido Pueblo Nuevo in northern Durango state, will make its first furniture shipment to Swedish...

MEXICO CITY (AP)--Union members, left-wing activists and farmers by the thousand marched to the capital's central plaza Thursday in a major display of opposition to the president's plans to raise taxes on food and medicine and sell state-owned assets. The crowd estimated by police at 80,000 packed major avenues from Mexico's independence monument to the city center. The march had been billed as Mexico's largest in years, but the turnout fell short of the 150,000 predicted by organizers. The march was largely peaceful, with demonstrators chanting ``Our country is not for sale!'' Still, authorities dispatched thousands of police to guard...

<p>President Vicente Fox said Friday he believes Mexican and U.S. leaders will hammer out a concrete plan leading to an amnesty for some of the millions of undocumented migrants living and working in America during next week's Binational Commission meetings in Washington.</p>

<p>The president of Mexico called Wednesday for improved treatment of Mexicans who enter the United States, including better health care and education and respect for the human rights of migrants.</p> <p>"There is an urgent need to guarantee respect for human rights on our borders, prevent more deaths in the desert and wage an all-out battle against those who threaten, extort or attack migrants," President Vicente Fox, speaking in Spanish, told the New Mexico Legislature. A simultaneous translation was provided.</p>

Mexico's President Vicente Fox is on his way to Austin. Fox is visiting three U.S. states - all of which share interests and a border with Mexico. Fox will meet with Gov. Rick Perry Wednesday and Thursday. Perry has a few complaints -- one of which is about water rights with Mexico. "If Mexico continues to refuse to live up to the obligations of the 1944 treaty, then the United States should consider turning off the tap on the Colorado River of water into Mexico," Perry said two months ago. While water is on the agenda for discussion, the Mexican...

<p>PHOENIX -- After flying over a desert where hundreds of his compatriots have died trying to sneak into the United States, Mexican President Vicente Fox began a personal campaign Tuesday to sell Americans on reforms that would make crossing the border legal for more Mexican migrants in search of work.</p> <p>Reviving an effort disrupted by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Fox began a three-day swing through the American Southwest by telling Arizona's political leaders that an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws, his top foreign policy priority, would be in the economic interest of both countries.</p>

<p>President Vicente Fox said Monday that Mexico wanted work visas, legalization and family reunification for undocumented migrants, but stopped short of calling for U.S. citizenship for them.</p> <p>Speaking to reporters on the eve of his Nov. 4-6 visit to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, Fox said immigration issues will be on the agenda of his visit, but that trade and economic issues will also be discussed.</p>

<p>MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Vicente Fox this week flies to Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for a three-day visit meant to strengthen relations with border-state governors and migrant leaders.</p> <p>For us there has always been great interest in the border states and in the development of a relationship between the border states in Mexico and those of the United States," Fox said Friday in an interview with The Arizona Republic. "Here we are constantly receiving visits from governors of the United States who come . . . to see how we can do more trade, how we can do more investment, how we can generate more jobs, how we can develop our economies."</p>

<p>President Vicente Fox will discuss trade and promote talks on Mexican migration with state leaders in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, which are home to millions of people of Mexican heritage, a top official said Friday.</p> <p>Migration will be the major theme of the three-day trip starting Saturday as Fox meets with governors, legislators and mayors -- "the people who know firsthand the advantages, opportunities and challenges involved in the migration phenomenon," said Mexican Deputy Foreign Secretary for the United States Geronimo Gutierrez.</p>