To: CIMA who wrote (68709 ) 10/27/2000 4:26:37 PM From: john Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 150070 (COMTEX) B: Mexico's president-elect says shares vision with Bush, Go B: Mexico's president-elect says shares vision with Bush, Gore MEXICO CITY, Oct 27, 2000 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- President-elect Vicente Fox said Friday that both major U.S. presidential candidates share his vision of open borders for workers, capital, products and services. "Gore and Bush have shown their commitment to the Hispanics in the United States and with Mexico as a country," Fox told a group of foreign reporters. Fox said both Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican, and Vice President Albert Gore, the Democrat, had reacted positively to his proposals of open borders. Neither has openly endorsed Fox's call for an end to limits on movement of workers across the U.S.-Mexican border, though Fox has said that his is a long-term proposal which would work when Mexico's economy can grow toward greater parity with that of the United States. He also said it's a two-way vision: "It won't be more than five years before we are importing workers from the United States," Fox said, adding there have been some signs of that happening already in booming northern Mexico. The July presidential victory by Fox, a former Coca Cola executive and rancher, ended the 71-year rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Mexico. He said he would suggest that the winner of the Nov. 7 election in the United States meet with him before his own Dec. 1 inauguration so they could "begin to build programs ... that will make us better friends, better neighbors and better partners." Fox also promised that Mexico would respect the rights of Central American migrants who use Mexico as a corridor to the United States. Complaints of abuse of those migrants in Mexico are common. He denied claims that the peso would be devaluated - a common feature accompanying past presidential handovers in Mexico - and said the government would continue to let the currency float.