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Jewish World Review
March 31, 2005
/ 20 Adar II, 5765
Mexico fixes problems when it wants to
By
William McKenzie
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
To those who say Mexico can't secure its borders, I say look at the huge water debt it repaid the United States this month. Mexico can get things done when it wants.
The border topic is everywhere. Leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada zeroed in on it when they conducted a joint news conference last week in Waco.
They aren't the only ones worried. The subject is clearly a priority for Capitol Hill conservatives, who won't budge on President Bush's push for a more open immigration policy until they believe Mexico has enough cops on its borders. Many other Americans link border security with immigration policy.
The carpers assume Mexico can't police its borders. Mike Cutler of the Center for Immigration Studies said as much last week on CNN.
I wouldn't bet on that. What Mexico did to resolve its lingering, nasty water dispute with the United States suggests otherwise. Those steps show Mexico can produce in a major way. The background:
Mexico owed the Rio Grande the equivalent of 700,000 football fields covered with 1 foot of water. The debt stemmed from the early 1990s and caused South Texas farmers to yelp; their peers across the river in northern Mexico suffered, too. Both depend on the Rio Grande to irrigate their crops. And Mexico's failure to keep current under the terms of a 1944 water treaty hurt fruit and vegetable farmers.
Mr. Bush knew this. So did Mexican President Vicente Fox and all major officials along the Texas-Mexico border. Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and state Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs each pressed Mexico to get right with the treaty.
For years, nothing happened. Speculation ran rampant that Mr. Fox couldn't control governors in northern Mexico, where lakes held water that many Americans insisted should go to the Rio Grande.
Americans familiar with the situation sputtered that some Mexican governors wanted to embarrass Mr. Fox. He was a popular politician from another party, and there was no way he was going to get their water. In the four years I've followed this issue, the conversation usually returned to the same conclusion: Mr. Fox was trapped.
Guess what: "Fox just got out of the bunker," Ms. Combs said in a telephone interview.
Pressed by the United States including photographs Ms. Combs provided that showed Mexico had enough water in its reservoirs Mr. Fox finally worked around the obstructionist governors to get water for the Rio Grande. To many Americans' surprise, Mexico paid back more than half its debt and agreed to retire the remaining portion by October.
This tells me Mexico can make things happen, and that includes securing its border with Texas, Arizona and California.
Mr. Fox had better get going, though. He has little more than a year left in his term, and some believe the Mexican left is just waiting to succeed him and take a different course with the United States. He's going to have to pull as many strings to secure Mexico's borders as he did to repay the Rio Grande.
But here's a question for our side of the border: If Mr. Fox uses the next year to better police his side, will conservatives opposed to allowing more Mexican workers into the United States change their tune?
I do know this: If they continue to oppose an immigration pact, they'll look pretty hollow carping on about Mexico. Never mind that an immigration policy that secures the border and allows more Mexicans to join a guest-worker program would help our national security and our economy. Conservative opponents will look like the nativists who have always wanted to keep others out.
Let's hope we don't get to that point. The United States and Mexico need an immigration deal that makes sense for the border and treats workers fairly. Here's to the resolution of this water situation being a good omen.
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