Immigration Bill & Obama’s Trip to Mexico: Why the Two are Linked

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By Christian Science Monitor Editorial Board

President Obama makes a two-day trip to Mexico this week with the hope of better integrating the US economy with that of its southern neighbor. He describes commercial ties as already “massive” and “huge.” This is thanks in part to two decades of reform in Mexico. That effort has quickened under a new president, Enrique Peña Nieto. Mr. Obama’s trip should help nudge these improvements along.

At the same time, Obama just endorsed a bill in the Senate that would, among other things, provide better ways to integrate the largely Mexican population of 11 million illegal immigrants into American society – assuming the bill passes and the undocumented workers obtain legal status. Its passage is hardly assured.

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