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When Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said this week that the Senate immigration bill would transform the U.S.-Mexico boundary into “the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall,” it sounded to many here like a sensible statement of criticism.Mexicans have reacted sorely to proposals for a border security “surge” that would put 18,000 additional federal agents and hundreds of miles of new fencing between the two neighbors, measures that were included in a package of immigration legislation approved by the Senate on Thursday.via In Mexico, dismay for the border ‘surge’ proposed in U.S. Senate immigration bill – The Washington...

The Mexican government on Tuesday voiced concern about U.S. congressional proposals to beef up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it was divisive and would not solve the problem of illegal immigration.Immigration plays a significant part in the countries’ bilateral relations. Millions of Mexicans live and work on the U.S. side of the border and tens try to enter the United States annually, often at peril to their lives.“Our country has let the United States government know that measures which affect links between communities depart from the principles of shared responsibility and good neighborliness,” Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade said in a televised statement.“We’re convinced that fences do not unite, fences are not the solution to the migration phenomenon and are not in line with a modern, safe border.”On Monday, a border security amendment seen as crucial to the fate of an immigration bill backed by President Barack Obama cleared a key procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate, helping pave the way for the biggest changes to U.S. immigration law since 1986.via Mexico Concerned By U.S. Measure To Strengthen Border...