Weekly Report - 10 February 2004

The recent Bush temporary immigration proposals [WR-04-02] have revived hopes among some 60,000 members of an earlier such scheme that they might finally lay their hands on the social security contributions docked from their pay while in the US. Last week they were promised attention by the government, but only after about 1,000 of their number briefly `occupied' President Vicente Fox's San Cristóbal