Mexico's Historic Reforms Are Key to United States Immigration Reform The Christian Science Monitor
go to original September 9, 2013

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto gives a thumbs up as he gives his first state-of-the-nation address in Mexico City, Sept. 2. Pena Nieto opened his address by praising the passage of a key education reform just hours earlier. (Associated Press)

The US Congress returns to work this week with little prospect of passing a proposed overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws - and not because Syria and budget battles have taken the spotlight. No, the main reason lies in a common fear that more Mexicans will illegally cross the border if the ones already in the United States are given a path to citizenship.

Is that fear founded?

Not if one sees hope in the startling progress made in Mexico over the last nine months in ending partisan gridlock. An unexpected multi-party political consensus, called the Pact for Mexico and forged last December after a presidential election, has passed one reform after another with the plan to lift nearly half of Mexicans out of poverty.

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