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 News from Around the Americas | December 2006 
After All the Border Hubbub, Little Change Expected in 2007
 Associated Press
| | Last May, the Tucson federal building was the site of a vigil in memory of Esequiel Hernandez, who was murdered by a US Marine nine years ago along the Texas-Mexico border. |
El Paso, Texas - It looks like life on the Texas-Mexico border may not be so different in 2007 as it has been in 2006.
Before the November elections, border security and immigration reform topped the agendas of politicians at nearly every level of government.
Governor Rick Perry campaigned for re-election as a champion of border security, pledging to help secure the border and promising five (M) million dollars to a border camera project.
Congressional Republicans pushed a bill criminalizing immigrants, and President Bush signed a bill to build 700 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.
But the cameras are down for now, the House bill was a bust and some of Bush's closest Texas allies say it's unlikely a fence will ever be built.
But that doesn't mean Texas and immigration reform supporters have kissed and made up.
Some state lawmakers have already announced a host of tough-on-illegal-immigration bills for the legislative session starting next month. |
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