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Give Mexican President Vicente Fox credit for candidly addressing immigration issues Wednesday when he spoke to a joint session of the Utah Legislature.
He needed to do it!
The issue is too prominent and volatile to ignore.
It was good to hear his impressive explanation of efforts to expand the Mexican economy: to create jobs, provide housing and offer educational opportunities so that citizens of his nation will choose to stay in their land rather than migrate northward.
It was enlightening to hear his summary of Mexico's recently adopted five-point migration policy: a policy intended to create a system that regulates movement back and forth across the border that is legal, safe and orderly.
It was encouraging to hear his expressed desire to have Mexico be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
KSL shares President Fox's view that the importance of this moment in the history of Mexican-U.S. relations cannot be overstated. While the debate is divisively intense, solutions are achievable, if there's a willingness among members of Congress to proceed with civility to reach, in the American tradition, a workable compromise.
In KSL's view, President Fox made a significant contribution to that effort with his speech in Utah on Wednesday.
