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Mexican Official Congratulates Christie for Signing N.J. Verson of DREAM Act

September 4, 2014 - 4:37 PM

Christie, Mexico to partner on higher education

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By JILL COLVIN, Associated Press

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El gobernador de Nueva Jersey, Chris Christie, pronuncia un discurso ante la Cámara Americana de Comercio en México, en la capital, el miércoles 3 de septiembre de 2014. (AP Foto/Rebecca Blackwell)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie seems to have left his usual bravado at home, packing instead a more humble tone for his trade mission to Mexico.
Again and again, Christie has said that a key part of his mission is to listen and learn all he can from those he meets, and he began Thursday with a breakfast with the Mexican Business Council, a group of CEOs of Mexico's largest companies.
The governor, who is weighing a run for president in 2016, said the group had spent time discussing business opportunities for Mexican companies in New Jersey as well as the importance of prioritizing and fostering the relationship between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.
"The only way that happens is to spend the time that's necessary to develop these relationships of trust and understanding," he told them. "You will not take advantage of opportunities you don't trust. You cannot take advantage of opportunities you don't understand."
While its official purpose is to foster economic investments between New Jersey and Mexico, the trip is seen by many as an opportunity for Christie to burnish his foreign policy credentials ahead of a potential run and to build his relationship with Latino voters. Many are watching to see how Christie's famously brash personal style translates to the diplomatic stage, where restraint and careful words are often called for.
"I'm thrilled to continue to be on a tour where I'm not only expressing to these leaders some of my own views that I've developed over time, but just as importantly, spending a lot of time listening to them about their views of how business can grow and prosper in our two areas," he told the business leaders.
In the courtyard of the grand Secretariat of Public Education building on Thursday afternoon, Christie signed an agreement to establish greater collaboration between higher education institutions of New Jersey and Mexico. The agreement would increase joint research ventures, cross-border fellowships, student and teacher exchanges and conferences, among other efforts.
During the signing ceremony, Sergio Alcocer, the undersecretary for North America, commended Christie for signing earlier this year a version of the DREAM Act that allows children in New Jersey of parents who are living in the country illegally to pay in-state college tuition. But so far Christie has conspicuously side-stepped the immigration issue on his trip, making no mention of legislation stalled in Congress or the flow of Central American children crossing through Mexico and into the United States illegally.
Speaking with reporters after signing the education agreement, Christie said he won't talk about immigration until — and if— he decides to run for president.
He's scheduled to meet later Thursday with several Mexican cabinet members, including the secretaries of finance and the economy. In the evening, he'll attend a reception with the Latino Coalition and a working dinner hosted by the secretary of foreign affairs.
He'll end the day with a tour of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Roman Catholic shrine where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared, one of the most revered religious sites in the Americas.

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