Summit of the Americas in Mexico Story aired: Monday, January 12, 2004
President George Bush meets Mexican President Vicente Fox this afternoon at a summit of 34 other leaders of the Western Hemisphere. Fox was once by far President Bush's closest friend among foreign heads of state. Their relations were strained by the Iraq war, but may improve now in the wake of Bush's proposal last week to create a guest worker program for immigrant labor, including Mexican labor, in this country.
But why do millions of Mexicans continue to risk their lives to come to the United States to find work? They come for jobs in order to make money, but why is Mexico unable to create enough good work for its own people.
Rodolfo Hernandez Guerrero, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at the University of Texas in Dallas, joins Here and Now to discuss Mexico's job problems and the Summit of the Americas.
Guests:
Rodolfo Hernandez Guerrero, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at the University of Texas in Dallas
