INS Chief Continues Talks in Mexico City
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Alan C. Nelson continued meetings here Thursday with Mexican officials, following an announcement that a joint commission would study ways to prevent further harm to undocumented workers.
The Foreign Ministry announced that an agreement was reached after a meeting Wednesday between Nelson and Mexican officials about the new U.S. immigration law that both countries would “intensify and perfect the mechanisms of communication and cooperation . . . to take care of problems that arise from the application of the law.”
It said a joint working group also would work to prevent incidents that harm Mexicans in the United States, in apparent reference to the suffocation deaths of 18 undocumented workers in a locked boxcar in Sierra Blanca, Tex., earlier this month.
Since May 5, the law has offered legal resident status to aliens who can prove they had been living continuously in the United States for five years as of Jan. 1, 1987. It also offers temporary legal residence to others who worked 90 days in perishable crops before May 1, 1986.
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