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Calderon: US should fix economy, then immigration

2 days ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he knows Barack Obama wants to reform immigration, but fixing the U.S. economy is the best thing the American president can do for Mexico.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Calderon says Obama told him he's committed to immigration reform.

But Mexico's leader says he knows "the priority right now is to re-establish some kind of order in the economy."

Calderon also says that America's economic competitiveness suffers when U.S. capital and Mexican labor can't be combined.

Calderon told the AP on Thursday that he doesn't want to be a president who sees the best of his people crossing the border each day. But without reform, he says stopping illegal migration will be impossible.