On Sept. 7, 2001, Time magazine named Mexican President Vicente Fox its “Person of the Week” for what was anticipated to be his landmark pact with President George W. Bush to provide legal status for the then-3 million undocumented Mexican nationals in the United States. At last, many believed, a rational immigration plan would be achieved.

Four days later, the attacks of September 11 changed the direction of U.S. foreign and immigration policy irrevocably.

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