PHOENIX — Border governors are going ahead with their annual conference — without Jan Brewer and not in Arizona.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Thursday he is putting together a meeting for Santa Fe in late September. That is close to the same time that Brewer was planning to host the event in Phoenix.
That was before Brewer cancelled the annual meeting after the governors of the six Mexican border states refused to come to Arizona in the wake of her decision to sign a tough new immigration law. Chihuahua Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza Terrazas, in his letter to Brewer pulling out of the conference, called SB 1070 “discriminatory, racist and violates the International Civil Rights Agreement established in 1976.”
Gilbert Gallegos, deputy chief of staff for Richardson, said the Democratic governor did not want the opportunity for the cross-border discussions to disappear this year.
“Gov. Richardson is working with other governors to craft a tight, but productive agenda that focuses on the most pressing issues in the border region,” Gallegos said. He told Capitol Media Services that Richardson expects the governors of the six Mexican border states to attend.
“We are still working on logistics,” he said.
But it appears that only he and California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be there to represent the U.S. side of the border.
Yuma Daily Sun
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