Lack of Immigration Reform Slows US-Mexico Economic Growth: Mexican Official TodayOnline
go to original July 26, 2014

Mexico's Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade (am.com.mx)

SACRAMENTO Calif. - The growing network of cross-border ties with Mexico, including trade equaling $1 million every minute, is threatened by the lack of progress toward immigration reform in the United States, Mexico's foreign secretary said this week.

The remarks by Jose Antonio Meade before members of the California Chamber of Commerce came in advance of a trade mission to Mexico next week by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown.

"We are looking ahead to a time when Mexico and the U.S. will benefit not just from allegiances but from an increased network of cross-border ties between our societies," Meade said. "Lack of immigration reform is holding all of these prospects back."

Meade spoke against a backdrop of growing economic relations between the United States and Mexico, and rising tensions from the flow of thousands of undocumented children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras into the United States from Mexico along the Texas border.

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