The Hidden agenda of Mexico’s Fox administration

Abstract

The issue of migration is one of the most significant changes in Mexican foreign policy to take place during the administration of President Vicente Fox (Castañeda, 2001: 89). Beyond the anecdotal and symbolic effect of the holding of the first act of protocol with representatives of the migrant community in the Los Pinos presidential residence, it is considered a “priority issue” in the National Development Plan of 2001–2006. The need to approach it with “a new and long-term focus” is expressed within the framework of “a comprehensive negotiation [with the United States] that deals with the structural roots of the phenomenon, its manifestations and effects, and that considers attention to the migration issue as a shared responsibility” (61).