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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2005 
Government Favors Plan by U.S. Senators
 Wire services
| | US President George W. Bush (L) and Senator John McCain, pictured May 2005. Bush's iron-clad grip on his Republican Party appears to be slipping, analysts said, as formerly stalwart supporters break with the White House on issues ranging from tax cuts to US security policy.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan) |
The Mexican government favors immigration legislation proposed by U.S. senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain that would allow currently undocumented migrants to work in the United States for up to six years, a spokesman for President Vicente Fox said Thursday.
Presidential spokesman Rubén Aguilar said the bipartisan proposal "is the one that comes closest to what Mexico wants."
Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez discussed migration issues on Wednesday during meetings in Washington with Sen. Kennedy and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The U.S. Senate plans to take up immigration legislation early next year, including the contentious issue of including illegal immigrants in a guest worker program.
"From Mexico's perspective with absolute respect for the sovereignty of the other country you only can resolve the migration problem with a migration that is legal, orderly, secure and respectful of human rights," Aguilar said.
U.S. President George W. Bush has urged Congress to act on a guest worker program and has proposed a plan that would allow undocumented workers to get three-year work visas.
Those visas could then be extended for an additional three years, but migrants would then have to return to their home countries for a year to apply for a new work permit. |
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