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CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox joined forces Saturday to promote Bush's plan for easing immigration laws, as Bush acknowledged that the proposal faces a tough time in Congress.

<p>CRAWFORD, Texas  — President Bush gave Mexican President Vicente Fox (search) a gift to take home on Saturday: his pledge to exempt certain frequent Mexican visitors from onerous new security checks at the U.S. border.</p> <p>The visit by Fox to Bush's Central Texas ranch, held a year and a half after it was originally scheduled, was designed to lay past disputes to rest. But with Bush eager to boost his standing in the U.S. Hispanic community, the nation's fastest-growing voting bloc, American politics were never far from the agenda.</p>

Today at the Western Whitehouse in Crawford, Texas, President Bush continued his visit with Mexico President Vicente Fox, where the two leaders help a joint press conference. Bush, accompanied by wife Laura, also gave Fox and his wife a tour of their ranch property. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!

Crawford, Texas - President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox joined forces Saturday to promote Bush's plan for easing immigration laws, as Bush acknowledged that the proposal faces a tough time in Congress. Standing side-by-side in bright sunshine at Bush's Texas ranch, the two leaders said Bush's plan for a new temporary worker program would help both countries by eliminating the underground market for Mexican workers. The proposal would let an estimated 8 million workers who are in the United States illegally gain legal status as guest workers. "The people who come to this country make a significant contribution to...

March 6, 2004 Bush Gives Mexico's Fox Concession on BordersBy REUTERS Filed at 3:46 p.m. ETCRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush on Saturday gave Mexican President Vicente Fox a concession on his push to ease border restrictions as the two leaders sought to rebuild a friendship soured by the Iraq war and shifts in U.S. foreign policy after the Sept. 11 attacks.Bush told Fox during a two-day meeting at his ranch that the United States will allow some Mexicans who travel frequently to the United States to bypass requirements that they be photographed and fingerprinted each time.``We welcome the...

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - President Bush on Saturday backed off a plan to require frequent Mexico-U.S. travelers to be fingerprinted and photographed before crossing the border, a reversal welcomed by Mexican President Vicente Fox. "We welcome the news that was confirmed today with regard to visitors to the U.S. from Mexico," Fox said at a news conference with Bush at the American president's ranch. "They will not have to be photographed or fingerprinted." Fox alluded to another agreement to speed migration - a deal to issue special visas through the North American Free Trade Agreement to allow professionals to move...

<p>CRAWFORD, Texas -- Mexican President Vicente Fox arrived at the "Western White House" last night to press his case for looser immigration laws to a leader largely powerless to enact them this year.</p> <p>President Bush continues to push his immigration reform plan that would allow at least 8 million illegal aliens currently working in the United States to keep their jobs and open the door for millions more to follow.</p>

<p>March 5 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. may ease fingerprinting rules for Mexicans entering the country, a White House spokesman said before President George W. Bush welcomed Mexican President Vicente Fox for election-year talks at his Texas ranch.</p> <p>Bush in January proposed temporary work permits for millions of immigrants by allowing workers to fill U.S. jobs Americans don't want. Republicans such as Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado oppose it. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, hasn't been prodded by the White House to act on the proposal, Hastert spokesman John Feehery said.</p>

President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush greet Mexico's President Vicente Fox and his wife Marta Sahagun upon their arrival at Bush's ranch Friday, March 5, 2004 in Crawford, Texas. Welcome to Sanity Island

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration backed off plans to require that millions of visa-carrying Mexicans who make short visits to America and stay close to the border be fingerprinted and photographed to get into the country.</p> <p>Asa Hutchinson, the Homeland Security department's undersecretary for border and transportation, was to publicly announce the policy change at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday, a congressional official who was briefed on the plan told The Associated Press.</p>

Fox says immigration on agenda of visit with Bush MEXICO CITY -- President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that he plans to hammer out more details of a guest worker program for Mexicans in the United States when he meets with President Bush at his Crawford ranch this week. "The initiatives are there, and we have to keep on working," Fox said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle and other Texas newspapers. "The purpose of this visit is to follow up on the proposal." Fox said the issues of Mexicans on death row in the United States and his nation's...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will complain to President Bush at talks this week in Texas about Oklahoma's plans to execute a Mexican convict, but an analyst says a newfound friendship between the two countries should stay on track.Mexico is upset that Oklahoma this week defied the U.N.'s International Court of Justice and set May 18 as the date for the execution of Osvaldo Torres, convicted of a double murder in 1993.``This for us is a deliberate violation of the provisional measures that the International Court of Justice dictated,'' Geronimo Gutierrez, a senior Mexican foreign ministry official, said on Tuesday.He...

According to the amendment made to paragraph 'a' in the first clause of Article 9 of the Código Fiscal de la Federación in México, the money transfers that Mexicans send to their country would be subject to federal taxation For example, this means that out of the $13.3 billion dollars that were sent last year to México, 35 percent ($4.6 billion) -- more or less the tax owed -- would have to be paid to the government.

Mexico's first lady says she will seek presidency Mexico City, Feb 10 (EFE).- First Lady Marta Sahagun's confirmation that she will seek the nation's presidency in 2006 has roiled the waters of Mexican politics and prompted a top jurist to say that if she does indeed become a candidate, her husband, incumbent Vicente Fox, should resign before the end of his term. Asked in a television interview Monday night if she would run - a possibility much debated in the media and on the streets in recent weeks - Sahagun replied: "Speaking truthfully, as we say we should, the...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Around 2,000 pensioners invaded the ranch of Mexican President Vicente Fox on Saturday, demanding the return of money owed to them from a World War II worker program in the United States, local media reported.It was not clear if Fox was at his ranch in the central state of Guanajuato at the time the pensioners, some riding horses, forced open fences to enter his heavily guarded property. Fox often spends weekends there resting.The protesters later left the ranch after being promised a hearing with a high-ranking government official, local media reported.The pensioners, who provided extra labor...

<p>SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico -- Hundreds of protestors forced their way into President Vicente Fox's private ranch Saturday to demand compensation for Mexicans who worked in the United States during and after World War II.</p> <p>The crowd pushed past guards at a service entrance to the ranch, located in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, but no further violence was reported. Leaders of the protest group were allowed to enter a residence on the property to meet with members of the presidents family.</p>

MEXICO CITY -- Members of President Vicente Fox's political party have formed a committee to back the first lady in a run for Mexico City mayor -- despite polls consistently showing her as a leading presidential candidate, a newspaper reported Monday. El Universal newspaper quoted two Congressmen in Fox's conservative National Action Party as saying the mayor's office would be a natural first step in Marta Sahagun's untested political abilities. ''With this support committee we are starting a network that will help Marta Sahagun and that will begin making the necessary contacts,'' said Rep. Jorge Triana Tena. Sahagun's spokesman David...

Por Ernesto Álvarez ealvarez@frontera.info In what is considered a normal development during low season, the US Consulate in Tijuana has issued a small number of laser visas since the beginning of 2004, when compared to other months and seasons. The head of public relations, Lorena Blanco, informed that, year-to-date, an average of only 500 of these documents per day in the main office in the Zona Río and the Consulate in the Hipódromo neighborhood of Tijuana. If compared to Easter Break or summer vacation, the demand is at about very low, about 50%, said Blanco. "En high season we are...

<p>Some of those who live along the Potomac River have grown sleek in the belief that they know many of Washington's secrets. Maybe they do. But if so, no one is sharing reports or even rumors on who is keeping President George Bush away from the facts on immigration, the problems of Mexico and guest-worker programs.</p>

<p>Mexico will work closely with U.S. President George W. Bush and do all it can to help his proposal to overhaul American immigration policies become a reality, President Vicente Fox said Saturday.</p> <p>During his weekly radio address, the president said the Bush plan would help millions of undocumented Mexicans living and working in the United States "obtain legal status and proper documentation."</p>