The Mexican government is urging President Bush not to sign a bill that would extend a 700-mile wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. The Senate approved building the wall on Friday.

• Mexico’s Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez: “The Mexican position will continue to be the same. We believe this is not a solution–we have made it clear. I was in Washington a week ago and I spoke to various senators about this and I made it clear to them that the Mexican foreign ministry continues to consider strongly that the construction of walls and fences is not the means by which you resolve the migration problem and it is not by constructing walls and fences that you guarantee security to either the U.S. border or the Mexican border… ”