In Canada, Immigration Still Colors U.S.-Mexico Relations

"Calderon's not putting all his eggs in one basket as Fox did," said Shannon O'Neil, a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who specializes in Mexico and Latin American affairs. She says Mexican legislators see the U.S. policies of border fence-building and employer verifications of citizenship as an affront to Mexicans, and they can't understand why Americans do not simply view immigration through an economic prism – the need for cheap labor. Mr. Calderon, on the other hand, understands domestic politics are driving the U.S. immigration debate and has decided to focus on areas of potential cooperation instead, namely drug interdiction... Full article: http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsbyid.asp?id=74695&cat=Headlines&more=/news/more-news.asp#

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