MEXICO CITY (AP)
President Vicente Fox on Sunday joined a wave of other Mexican officials in rejecting a U.S. congressional committee's call to link an agreement on immigration to U.S. investment in Mexico's state-run oil company.
Fox said his administration has made a priority of reaching an immigration deal with the United States. "But in no way will it accept negotiating that agreement in exchange for the opening of Petroleos Mexicanos to foreign investment," he said in a statement released by his office. ---
Nearly ignored in the United States, the amendment outraged Mexicans. Mexico celebrates the 1938 nationalization of Pemex as symbol of national independence and state control of the company is written into the constitution.
Sen. Demetrio Sodi told the newspaper Reforma that the vote "is a sample of the ignorance of the U.S. legislators, of their arrogance and imperialist vision."
Congressman Gustavo Carvajal, head of the Mexican Congress' Foreign Relations Committee, asked sarcastically if the U.S. congressmen would let Mexicans visit the United States without prior visas or passports -- something Mexico has long allowed U.S. citizens. ---
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