Mexico wants talks on immigration plan But U.S. says any negotiations on legal status 'will take time'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: November 27, 2002| Author: George Gedda | Copyright information

MEXICO CITY, Mexico--Mexican President Vicente Fox, insisting that Mexicans in the United States pose no terror threat, called Tuesday for high-level discussions to give legal status to at least some of the more than 4 million undocumented Mexicans living north of the border.

President Bush, in a videotaped message to a Cabinet-level meeting of the two countries, agreed that work on migration should continue but did not suggest that an agreement was high on his agenda.

Fox told t...

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