Immigration Front Page News Everywhere

My colleague Joel D correctly writes that immigration is front page news everywhere.

The Hazlton trial is attracting international attention, including from the BBC (here).

The Washington Post (here) reports that the new Mexican government that wants the same thing the old one wanted: comprehensive immigration reform in the United States. What’s different is that Mexican President Felipe Calderón, in office since December, is trying a slower and subtler approach. Calderón and his lieutenants have even invented a buzzword to define their strategy, saying they will “desmigratizar” the bilateral agenda, or remove immigration from the forefront of U.S.-Mexico relations.  Previous Mexican President Vicente Fox failed in seeking to make a U.S./Mexican migration agreement come to fruition; the events of September 11, 2001 sidetracked that effort.

CNN reports (here) that President Bush’s message of goodwill in Latin America ran into a wall in Guatemala on Monday, as his defense of U.S. immigration law met with disapproval from his hosts.

KJ