The State of Politics, Law, and Security in Mexico

Implications for U.S. Immigration Policy

Panel Discussion

WASHINGTON (January 2007) — Discussion of U.S.-Mexico relations seldom acknowledges the longstanding and systemic conditions that foster the illegal out migration of hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals each year. Neither Washington politicians nor the State Department want to publicly address the decades-long instability in Mexico for which no Mexican politicians are ever held accountable. Can any significant policy discussion of America ’s border crisis with Mexico continue to ignore the basic conditions of America ’s neighbor to the south?

To examine more fully the broad and basic challenges largely absent from the immigration debate in Washington, the Center for Immigration Studies is convening a panel discussion of leading experts on U.S.-Mexico relations. The panel will be held at the Hotel Solamar, 435 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, on Friday, January 26, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. The panel discussion will feature:

George Grayson – Professor of Government, College of William & Mary

David Shirk – Director, University of San Diego ’s Trans-Border Institute

Lynne Walker – Mexico City Bureau Chief, Copley News Service

Mark Krikorian – Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

Moderator: Peter Nunez, Chairman, Center for Immigration Studies ; former U.S. Attorney, San Diego

The panel discussion is free and open to the public. For more information, contact John Keeley at (202) 466-8185 or jmk@cis.org

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The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent research institute
which examines the impact of immigration on the United States.