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Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda addressed delegates yesterday at the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union convention. The foreign minister highlighted Mexico’s growing alliance with U.S. labor on the issue of immigration reform and insisted that any guest worker program be linked to amnesty for illegal workers. Unions in the U.S. have been organizing the growing immigrant labor force but face difficulty organizing illegal immigrants who are often reluctant to join.