Word: mexicanization
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There's something charmingly Quixotic about a Mexican President ambling into the White House in cowboy boots and urging his host to make the most profound change in decades to U.S. immigration law - and to do it before Christmas. But Vicente Fox is nothing if not Quixotic. It took an iconoclast with an irrepressible buccaneering spirit to break the monopoly on power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which had run Mexico as its private hacienda for 70 years. But Fox ultimately owed his popular election victory last year to the profound hopes of most Mexicans for a better life...
...case of Yeltsin, Washington has a deep desire to see Fox succeed - and a strong self-interest in doing what it can to help him. President Bush is prepared to go to bat for the rights of Mexican truckers to ride U.S. highways, and to press Congress to abandon the annual ritual of certifying Mexico as a drug war ally, which the Mexicans find insulting. But the faltering U.S. economy is making life difficult for Fox, as last year's roaring 7 percent growth rate gives way to this year's stagnation, and Mexico sheds jobs instead of creating desperately...
...conclude an immigration deal by year's end is a reminder of how much he had riding on this week's state visit. Immigration is an area where Bush can help Fox a great deal - and even potentially help himself in the process. More than 3 million undocumented Mexicans currently work in the U.S., and Fox wants their status legalized. His reasons are partly economic, and partly political. Granting them legal status would free Mexican migrants from the exploitation of the low-wage off-the-books economy, and therefore expand the earning potential of an expatriate community that will send...
...Everything seemed possible when the Mexican economy was rocking along at 7 percent growth, creating jobs and spending power, and giving people a sense that they could improve their station in life. But the reverse is also true. With Mexico basically recessionary, everything looks worse. Jobs are being lost, and new ones are not being created. Investment is coming in, but its effects are not widely felt. All of this puts a lot more pressure on a president who has promised fundamental change and redistribution of wealth and better opportunities for everyone. His major challenge is to find...
...Some commentators suggest the relationship can help Bush win more Hispanic voters, because Mexican Americans are the biggest component of the Latino population. But it's not the only part, and it's easy to imagine that other Latino immigrant communities are going to be less than thrilled if the Mexicans get a sudden advantage. The gamble may be that Bush will win respect among Latino voters for his efforts to acknowledge that on the immigration front, Mexico and the U.S. are converging economically and socially. But there may be Republican voters who don't like the idea of changing...