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Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

Mexico cannot put up with this scenario of death and kidnapping.

If we don't make sure that Mexico can offer potential investors more input, they'll stop coming to Mexico. They'll go to the United States or other places where it is more economically viable to carry out their projects.

The migration wave can be stopped.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

One thing is undeniable. If we are going to continue to have support for migration, we need to be able to control the numbers.

So from a long time ago, every year 700,000 Mexicans have only three routes to take: migration, the informal economy and the path to antisocial behavior.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.