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US,
Mexico agree on holistic
solution to immigration issue
Mexico and the United States
agreed that a holistic solution
was needed for the immigration
issue, Mexico's presidential
spokesman Ruben Aguilar
Valenzuela told media on Monday.
Mexican President Vicente Fox
and his U.S. counterpart, George
W. Bush, agreed on many points
during their phone conference on
Sunday night, Aguilar said.
The immigration problem could
only be solved with a
"comprehensive reform" in Bush's
words, or a "holistic" reform as
described by Fox, and both
agreed that the settlement
should not purely focus on
border vigilance
The two leaders said that the
issue required both sides to
work together, Aguilar said.
About 11 million Mexicans are
living in the United States and
half of them lack valid
documents. Around 400,000
Mexican immigrants cross the
3,200-km-long border with the
United States every year to look
for jobs.
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