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Mexico optimistic U.S. headed toward immigration breakthrough


MEXICO CITY Mexico said today it's optimistic a major breakthrough could be on the way -- granting legal status to some of (M) millions of its undocumented citizens in the United States.

Mexican President Vicente Fox's spokesman says "there are a number of positive signs pointing to the possibility" of the kind of bilateral migration deal Mexico's been pushing for since 2001.

Ruben Aguilar's comments come as Mexico heads into a pair of high-level meetings with President Bush's administration. That includes a trilateral summit with Canada next week in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun, Mexico.

Barring such an accord, Aguilar says Mexico at the very least believes a guest-worker program for hundreds of thousands of Mexicans could be approved by the U-S Congress.