Each minute, a Mexican tries to enter to the United States: in 2005, the crossing of frontiers cost the life with 324 of these candidates the American dream. The invoice could be weighed down. For José Moreno Carried out, president of the Coalition for the defense of the migrants and researcher at the autonomous university of Low-California, "the wall will not dissuade them to go to the United States. He will encourage them to find ways of passage more perilous and will fatten the polleros (passeurs). Each time that one reinforced safety at the northern border, the number of dead increased ".

In Mexico, the hardening of the American laws against immigration raises indignation. More, to tell the truth, as regards defender of the humans right, of the ONG and the catholic Church that of that of the Mexican executive. Until these last weeks, president Vicente Fox, which had made payment of migratory flows with the United States a priority of its mandate, seemed to have lowered the arms. "the Americans have the right to do what they want on their territory", he said. Mexico City sent a "note" of protest in Washington, and the Foreign Minister has several times declared that a wall was not "not the solution".

A common face was constituted between the elected officials of opposition to denounce "the tender" of the government in the United States. George Bush and Vicente Fox should meet at the end of the month the new Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who divides to him also a long border with the United States, to mention the question of clandestine immigration. It is the first time that such a dialogue is established.

The problem is politically thorny, but also potentially disastrous from the economic point of view including in the United States. According to Hector Flora, president of League of Latin United American Citizens, largest Hispanic association in the United States, which carries out the lobby near the Congress against "the wall of shame" , without-papers inject 500 billion dollars per annum in the American economy.

"In ten years, the United States will beg Mexico to send its workers to him", declared Vicente Fox, Thursday, on the BBC. It hopes that a bilateral agreement will be found quickly, but expects difficulties on behalf "of hard, xenophobes, builders of walls, which only seek to divide the two countries".