Napolitano, Calderón to meet next month

By Howard Fischer

CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES

PHOENIX — Gov. Janet Napolitano is going to Mexico City early next month to confer with that country's new president on border security and immigration issues.

The conversation with Felipe Calderón is part of what will be a three-day effort to also promote trade and tourism. To that end, the governor's office has invited executives of several of the state's major corporations along.

But aides to Napolitano said the border will be high on the governor's priorities.

Jeanine L'Ecuyer, the governor's press secretary, said Napolitano wants to use the time — her first face-to-face meeting with Calderón — to ensure that he is willing to devote the resources of his government to combating the problem of people flooding into northern Mexico in hopes of crossing illegally into the United States.