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TIME.com: How is President Fox's Washington visit playing with the Mexican public...
...Peter Katel:It's obviously dominating the news, and what is being emphasized today, understandably, is Fox's surprise insistence that some sort of agreement on immigration be nailed down by the end of the year. That certainly plays well here, after President Bush's slight cooling towards a major and imminent deal on immigration. Of course what isn't being emphasized by the press in either country is that President Bush can't really conclude a deal on immigration with Fox, because executive power is limited - it's the U.S. Congress that writes immigration...
...changes that Fox has made in the Mexican political culture, one of the major ones - as unusual as this may sound to Americans - has been to recognize and champion Mexicans living illegally in the U.S., not only as a vulnerable and exploited minority, but as part of the greater Mexican nation. Mexicans had for various reasons shied away from acknowledging this reality, but Fox's has brought it out into the open. Not only that, he is also proposing a major change in U.S. law, which is something else that Mexico has never done. It has always refrained from challenging...
...More and more people in Mexico are depending on money from relatives north of the border, and Fox has recognized this. It makes economic sense for Mexico to try to improve the working conditions and legalize the residential status of Mexicans in the States. It would put them in a better position to send money home, and also to maintain their ties to Mexico by traveling back and forth, as opposed to being stuck in the U.S. because it's too dangerous to cross the border again...
...record, then, the Bush-Fox menu is a strongly crossover affair: Maryland crab and chorizo pozole served with summer vegetables, pumpkin seed-crusted bison with poblano whipped potato, fava bean and chanterelle ragout and apple chipotle sauce, salads of gold and red tomatoes and greens, followed by mango and coconut ice cream dome, peaches, raspberries, red chili pepper sauce and tequila sabayon. Hey, who needs Tex-Mex when you're eating chili pepper sauce with the ice cream...