Mexico asks Bush to block border fence bill
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Mexico asked President Bush on Monday to reject a plan to build a border fence to keep illegal immigrants out, but acknowledged that its plea was likely to fall on deaf ears.
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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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Mexico lobbied for six years for a comprehensive immigration reform that would allow millions to cross into the United States legally. Instead, they're getting a fence.
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MEXICO CITY -- When President Bush lands in the Yucatan colonial city of Merida on Monday night, he will encounter a new Mexican government that wants the same thing the old one wanted: comprehensive immigration reform in the United States.
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The US and Mexico try to defuse a row about increasing violence near their shared border.
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Mexico warned Thursday that the U.S. proposal to build miles of border fence, which is working its way through the Senate, will damage relations between the two countries.
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that Mexico and the United States need to secure their common border before Congress approves an immigration accord. He acknowledged that focusing on security puts "horrible pressure on the Border Patrol," but said Americans must be convinced that the border is safe before they back a plan to grant more immigrants legal passage to the U.S.
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President Bush asked to veto recent International Trade Commission ban on the import of Qualcomm phones.
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MERIDA, Mexico  - President George W. Bush tried to reassure increasingly skeptical Mexicans on Tuesday that he has not given up on overhauling U.S. immigration policy despite failing in Congress last year.
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Mexico warned the United States not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday after criticism by Washington over lawlessness along the border.
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President Bush, urging the Senate to pass the line-item veto, on Tuesday criticized House Democrats who didn&#039;t back the measure even though they&#039;ve called for federal spending restraint.
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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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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona  - President George W. Bush signed a law on Wednesday that will pay for hundreds of miles of new fences along the U.S.-Mexico border, a move against illegal immigration that Republicans had sought before next month's congressional elections.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday in a fight over  drug wars on their sensitive border where Washington seeks  close cooperation against terror.
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Riot police, steel barriers, and water cannons surrounded Mexico's Congress as protesters vowed to stop President Vicente Fox from delivering his final state-of-the-nation address Friday, fueling fears the country's electoral crisis could turn violent.
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Bush administration lawyers are urging a federal appeals court to allow a section of a canal separating California and Mexico to be lined with cement to stop millions of gallons of water from seeping south of the border each year.
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The United States asked Mexico on   Thursday to send federal security forces back to the border   city of Nuevo Laredo, which is still struggling with drug   violence despite a security crackdown last year.