Adopted in 1917, the constitution of the United Mexican States borrows heavily from American constitutional and legal principles.
In announcing his decision to propose officially changing his country's name, Calderon said Thursday the name United Mexican States was originally taken because back in 1824 the United States of America was an example of democracy and liberty for the new independent nations in the Americas.
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While much of the debate on illegal immigration especially during this presidential election cycle has focused on the economic and general public safety consequences of the continued permeability at the border, the issue of terrorist infiltration into the United States via Mexican territory has received comparatively less attention.
While much of the debate on illegal immigration -- especially during this presidential election cycle -- has focused on the economic and general public safety consequences of the continued permeability at the border, the issue of terrorist infiltration into the United States via Mexican territory has received comparatively less attention.
More than 58% of the estimated 11.2 million illegal immigrants in the United States are Mexican, the Pew Hispanic Center said last year.
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As Calderon recently noted in The Wall Street Journal, the net rate of migration of Mexican workers toward the United States has recently been zero.
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EU. Central to this was a deal to legalise the presence in the United States of millions of illegal Mexican migrants.
Due to poor AML controls, HBUS exposed the United States to Mexican drug money, suspicious travelers cheques, bearer share corporations, and rogue jurisdictions.
Among Mexico's intelligentsia, with its navel-gazing tendency to bemoan the malign influence of the United States on every facet of Mexican life, Mr Aguilar Zinser stood out as an internationalist and an enthusiast for democracy in an almost American mode.
"The more secure Mexico is, the more secure the United States will be, " the Mexican president said, first in Spanish and then in English, to make sure no one missed the point.
And yet, for Mexico, the really challenging relationship is with the more than 35 million Mexican-Americans living in the United States.
Unlike the PAN, whose leaders seem obsessed with causes and crusades -- for Fox, defending Mexican immigrants in the United States, and for Calderon, the drug war -- the PRI kept the trains running on time.
John McCain, R-Arizona, and Phil Gramm, R-Texas, who led the charge against the largely Democratic measure, said those safety standards would delay Mexican truck access to the United States for two years.
He recently gave a deposition in a 2010 civil lawsuit filed in the United States by a Mexican citizen suing the Los Angeles archdiocese.
He says that, if the United States legalised existing Mexican immigrants, Mexico would do more to reduce the flow of new ones, by developing poor regions but also by an unprecedented offer to police its own border zone and migrant routes.
Like Europe and the North Sea, the United States will need to find replacements for Mexican oil, which has historically been a key U.S. supply source.
Although he has not honoured that pledge much to the relief of Mexico and Canada the United States did cancel a programme allowing Mexican lorry drivers to work in America in 2009, in violation of its NAFTA obligations.
Intensive predator removal efforts from the late-1800s to the mid-1900s extirpated the Mexican wolf from the wild in the United States portion of its range.
The White House had argued that Mexican trucks should travel freely in the United States to fulfill U.S. obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
One impact of the ruling is that Mexican airlines cannot open new services to the United States, meaning that rivals cannot take over routes that Mexicana has been forced to shut down.
The U.S. cases include one death -- a Mexican toddler visiting relatives in the United States.
They simply illustrate the hypocrisy of the Mexican government's current immigration demands on the United States - as well as the emptiness of most Democrat and Republican proposals for immigration reform.
IR You note that Mexican exports to the United States have surged in the past two years.
In the Mexican states bordering the United States there is no distinction between law enforcement and drug cartels.
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Mexican exports to the United States grew 240 percent during the same period and now account for 25 percent of Mexico's economy.
Ricardo Alday, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in the United States, also said the drone belonged to Mexico and was part of an operation in coordination with the U.S. government.
Republican critics made no claim they can defeat the bill in committee and concentrated instead on casting doubt on assertions that it will secure the U.S.-Mexican border before it allows immigrants illegally in the United States to take their first steps toward legal status.
Mexico used to be one of the world's biggest producers of methamphetamines, and Mexican gangs still control meth distribution in the United States.
The power and financial muscle has moved closer to the final consumer market, to the Mexican mobs who now control much distribution in the United States, and to the Russian mafia in Europe.
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