Guadalupe De La Torre, from Mexico, waits with over 5,000 other immigrants during a naturalization ceremony to become new American citizens in Los Angeles April 16. (Reuters)
4:42 pm ET -President Obama's trip to Mexico will help better integrate the two economies. And a piece of the Senate immigration-reform bill focuses on integrating the mainly Mexican population of undocumented immigrants. Each country must respect the other's sensitivities on these two integrations.
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