It's a law that looks underhanded to everybody ... stupid.

There is a supposition here that this involved Mexican citizens, and that is absolutely incorrect. There would have to have been racial descriptions, and that would imply a certain element of racial discrimination on the part of the American sheriffs.

With pleasure, Mexican consulates will be able to house an official from another government so that it can provide adequate defense (to its citizens), in the proper setting, given that we have that ability that does not necessarily correspond to the capability of all the other countries.

We would like to be as conservative as possible in terms of the revenue side in the next budget and have a target of about 0.5 percentage of GDP (gross domestic product) as public-sector deficit for the year 2001.

Severing diplomatic relations is an extreme choice and the Mexican government does not intend to do so for now,

We would like to be as conservative as possible in terms of the revenue side in the next budget and have a target of about 0.5 percentage of GDP (gross domestic product) as public-sector deficit for the year 2001,