Speech #990085366

Now petroleum prices are on the skids and Mexicos future looks even bleaker. But the staggering debts remain and grow. The one reason we are inundated in the United States with undocumented workers is because of the severe economic crisis that besets our nearest neighbor. Mexico. I am absolutely convinced that it is not only our moral ethical responsibility. but it is our economic responsibility to ourselves and to our hemisphere to assert in the most unequivocal way our absolute intention to be of the maxium assistance and help to our closest neighbor in this. its moment of severe distress.