WITH THE LATINO POPULATION booming, one issue that could come into play in 2004 is President Bush’s signal that he would help Hispanic immigrants gain legal residency. During Mexican president Vincente Fox’s visit to Washington in early September 2001, President Bush declared that “There are some–many–in our country who are undocumented and we want to make sure their work is legal. I’m willing to consider ways for a guest worker to earn green card status.”
But after the terrorist attacks later that month, immigration reform took a backseat to homeland security, and U.S. relations with Mexico sank because of Mexico’s opposition to war in Iraq.
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