Will Mondays' Boston Terror Attack Derail US Immigration Reform? Jason L. Riley - WSJ.com
go to original April 16, 2013

FBI probing Boston blasts as 'act of terror' (Al Jazeera)

It's happened before. President George W. Bush had planned to make a big push for immigration reform in his first term. His first trip abroad after being elected was to Mexico. In 2001, Mr. Bush and Mexico's president at the time, Vicente Fox, were working closely on a plan to better secure the southern border. Then came 9/11.

"After the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, the Bush administration shelved migration talks with Mexico, and the United States demanded tighter control of the border," the New York Times would later report. "The closeness between the governments ended when Mexico voted against the war in Iraq in the United Nations Security Council." It would be another six years before Congress once again took up comprehensive immigration reform, only to come up short.

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