Richardson speaks against border fence
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson says a fence at the Mexican border authorized by Congress this fall "gets in the way" of U.S.-Mexico relations, and he wants the new Democratic Congress to reverse the legislation.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson is proposing a rule that is common on kindergarten playgrounds but doesn't usually work in politics &#151; be nice to each other.
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Presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Sunday he will stop using the name of Marine from New Mexico who was killed in Iraq and whose story the Democratic governor has recounted while campaigning.
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President Bush went to Capitol Hill today to persuade his own party to move forward on immigration legislation that he said enforces U.S. borders and workplaces. Republicans opposing the bill say it amounts to amnesty for people who entered the country illegally. "I believe without the bill, it's going to be harder to enforce the border," Bush said. "The status quo is unacceptable."
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Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a new fence to keep illegal immigrants out, saying it could backfire by making the border more dangerous.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said Wednesday that the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq has contributed to the sectarian violence rather than bringing stability to the war-torn nation.
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Despite his fourth-place finish in Iowa, Democrat Bill Richardson said he'll keep campaigning as the only candidate who will get the troops out of Iraq next year.
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BUSH IN HOBBS, NM: &quot;I couldn&#39;t disagree more. Our goal is to not to reduce terror to some acceptable level of nuisance, our goal is to defeat terror by staying on the offensive, destroying terrorist networks
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If the Senate votes to build a double-layered 700-mile-long fence on the Mexican border, it may have a 75 mile gap because of opposition from the Indian tribe.
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The Associated Press reported Wednesday evening that Bill Richardson, the two-term governor of New Mexico, is cutting short his bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and will make an official announcement of that intention on Thursday. But what Richardson plans to do quickly became unclear.
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The U.S. Senate on Friday  overwhelmingly agreed to authorize construction of a fence  along the U.S. border with Mexico, sending to President George  W. Bush before the November 7 elections a bill that Republicans  hope will showcase their efforts to stop illegal immigration.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said Thursday his use of a Spanish word that some contend is a slur against homosexuals was meant to be playful but apologized to anyone who was offended.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson started a Hispanic outreach program Thursday to try to raise his profile with a voting bloc critical to his campaign. "Because my name is Richardson, many Latinos don't know I'm Latino," the New Mexico governor told reporters in Spanish after a news conference announcing the effort.
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The Senate is taking up a bill that would erect a fence on one-third of the US-Mexico border.
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A planned, much-debated fence along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep people from crossing the Rio Grande could exacerbate flooding and skew the national boundary, a binational commission said Wednesday.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said Thursday the United States must lead the way on global struggles by reducing its nuclear weapons, closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and dramatically cutting energy use.
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Democratic presidential contender Bill Richardson believes the United States must reach out to moderate elements in Iranian society if it is to defuse a standoff between the two countries over Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.