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Pre registration deadline, Nos. 8lh 2004 Sponsored in part by Albina Youth Opportunity School Inc. World Arte Foundation Inc. Slurijlcllerz lu adt rs 1 lit alt r in association with Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Mexico wants amnesty plan (AP) — The chances that the U.S. Congress will overhaul immi gration rules have increased with the end of the political season and the improvement o f security along the ll.S.-Mexican border. Secretary of State Colin Powell saidTuesday in Mexico. But Powell cautioned that ap proval of the first major immigration changes in 18 years would depend on the new Congress that will take office in January. “We don’t want to overprom ise,” Powell told a news conference during discussions in Mexico City on a broad range of cross-border issues. Joining Powell for his 20- hour stay in Mexico were five fel low Cabinet secretaries. Powell met with Mexican Presi dent Vicente Fox, who has made migration reform in the United States a top foreign policy priority. Fox says the millions of Mexicans who work in the United States should have legal status there so they can live without fear of arrest and deportation. During his discussions, Powell said he reaffirmed President Bush's “plan to work with our new Con- A sign and m angled wire fence is all that separates Arizona from M exico near Papago Farms, Ariz. (AP photo) Secretary o f State Colin Pow ell g ress to d ev elo p a tem porary eficiaries could to stay in the United worker program to match willing States for three years, then be per foreign workers with willing U.S. mitted to remain longer if certain conditions are met. em ployers.” Many in Congress view Mexi The com m ents suggested the Bush adm inistration was giving cans and others who entered the priority to the provision in Bush’s United States without official per proposal that would give workers mission as lawbreakers, and are who still live in their home coun wary o f doing them any favors. tries permission to work in the Mexicans constitute by far the larg United States if they have a job est illegal immigrant community, estimated to total about 10 million. offer. Bush and Fox agreed in 2001 to A more controversial provision - which Powell did not mention - press for immigration reform, but would allow undocumented aliens the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks soured already in the United States to Congress on the idea. Since the achieve legal status if they can attacks, enhanced border security prove they haveem ployment. Ben- has been the dominant U.S. goal in relations with Mexico. Powell indicated he is pleased with Mexican cooperation on that issue. “We are coming out of the 9/11 period and doing a better job of securing our border,” he said. He also suggested Congress may be freer to act next year, mindful that no member faces an election until 2006. Fox said the time is ripe for an immigration accord. “We have done all the analysis, diagnostics and problem solving possible,” Fox said in a radio interview M onday. “T here’s no reason to lose much time.” Mexican Artist Featured The Pacific University Kathrin Cawein Art Gallery in Forest Grove hosts works by Jesse Vasquez in a N ovem ber exhibit titled “Frag ments.” Born and raised in M exico, Vasquez moved to the U . S. i n 1995 at the age of 36 with the desire to learn English and to extend his art skills. Vasquez took courses at Port land Community College and Mt. Hood Community College, where he studied painting, ceramics and printmaking. He paints w ith acrylics, oils and finger paints on plates and sig n s. “My paintings mostly are frag ments o f my whole idea,” he said. presents a sta g e d re a d in g o f A Raisin in ike Sun by Lorraine Hansberry starring Paul Knauls Jr. and Habiba, featuring Shawntee Eaden and Annalisa Cavil AUTHORIZED DEALER HOME WINDOW REPLACEMENT (AP)— The presidents of Panama and C o lo m b ia have d iscu ssed building a road linking North and South America. Panam a’s Martin Torrijos and Alvaro Uribe of Colombia also ad dressed electricity sharing and the possible construction o f a natural gas pipeline that would send gas to Panama. Uribe said he formally asked the Panamanian government to study VINYL + FIBERGLASS + CLAD STEVE @503-284-9789 the feasibility of building the road. Currently, highways span the conti nents from Alaska to Argentina, ex cept for an 85-mile stretch in the jungles of the Darien Gap straddling the Colombian-Panamanian border. 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