Those programs have increased the number of Border Patrol agents. Mexico plans to ask for an expansion of temporary work-permit programs, though Castaneda said it will not ask that those programs qualify Mexicans for U.S. citizenship. Mexico will also seek amnesty for the millions of undocumented workers already in the United States. Castaneda said there will be no effort to bar protesters from Bush's first trip abroad, to Fox's hometown of San Cristobal in Guanajuato state. If hundreds more want to go to protest, they're welcome.
People can protest when and wherever they want.
Students opposed to economic globalization and supporters of the leftist Zapatista rebels have protested Fox's allegedly pro-American stance since his Dec. 1 inauguration, and may view a Bush visit as a prime target for protests. Fox, who became the first member of a Mexican opposition party to be elected president in more than 70 years, has called for expanding the North American Free Trade Agreement into a common market, allowing the free movement of workers between countries.