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Weekly Report - 1 November 2005
MEXICO-US: Mexico to lobby for McCain-Kennedy bill
News that the US Senate is postponing further discussion of a batch of proposed immigration legislation has prompted the Mexican government to announce that it will be conducting an 'intense lobbying effort' in favour of one of the competing bills - the one presented last May by senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy.
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