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Article: MEXICO & U.S. ANNOUNCE JOINT CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS.
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- February 3, 1999
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The US and Mexican governments have launched a campaign to increase protection for undocumented immigrants who cross from Mexico into US territory. In an informal agreement reached at a bilateral forum on immigration in San Diego in mid-January, officials said they would develop a joint strategy to protect undocumented immigrants and ease violence along the US-Mexico border. Leading the Mexican delegation were deputy foreign relations secretary Juan Rebolledo Gout, deputy interior secretary Fernando Solis Camara, and deputy attorney general Eduardo Ibarrola Nicolin. The US delegation was led by Doris Meissner, director of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service ...