by Allan Wall
The Amnesty Defeat and Mexican Politics
June 30, 2007 12:16 PM EST

On June 28th, in the U.S. Senate, the Bush-Kennedy Immigration Bill, S. 1639 was defeated, by being voted down on a cloture vote.

In Mexico, where U.S. immigration legislation is followed closely, the Senate vote was almost immediately slammed by Mexican president Felipe Calderon, who called it a “grave errorâ€