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eeting earlier in the day to "cooperate on the basis of mutual respect" to promote an efficient and effective strategy.Obama arrived in Mexico Thursday afternoon for a three-day trip that will also include a stop in Costa Rica. Domestic issues followed the president south of the border, with Obama facing questions in his exchange with reporters about the potential escalation of the U.S. role in Syria, a controversy over contraception access for teenage girls, and the delicate debate on Capitol Hill on an immigration overhaul.The latter issue is being closely watched in Mexico, given the large number of Mexicans who have emigrated to the U.S. both legally and illegally. More than half of the 11 million people in the U.S. illegally are Mexican, according to the Pew Research Center.For Obama, the immigration debate is rife with potential political pitfalls. While he views an overhaul of the nation's patchwork immigration laws as a legacy-building issue, he's been forced to keep a low-profile role in the debate to avoid scaring off wary Republicans.In an effort to court those GOP lawmakers, the draft bill being debated on Capitol Hill focuses heavily on securing the border with Mexico, and makes doing so a pre-condition for a pathway to citizenship for those in the U.S. illegally. But Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, one of the bill's architects, said Thursday that unless the border security measures are made even tougher, the legislati Hiring picked up in April after a slow couple months, as employers added 165,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dipped to a four-year low of 7.5 percent.The Labor Department report showed positive signs though the economic recovery remains shaky. A mix of government spending cuts and tax hikes has threatened to curb economic growth, which is already slow in a post-recession environment.The jobless rate dipped only slightly, from 7.6 percent to 7.5 percent. The government also revised up its estimate of job gains in February and March by a combined 114,000. It now says employers added 332,000 jobs in February and 138,000 in March.Stock prices soared on the heels of the report, with the Dow surging past 15,000 for the first time ever an hour after trading began.The economy has created an average of 208,000 jobs a month from November through April. That's above the 138,000 added in the previous six months.The only sectors of the economy that cut jobs last month were construction and governmentEconomic figures in recent days have been mixed. The government said Thursday that the number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell last week to a seasonally adjusted 324,000 -- the fewest since January 2008.At the same time, surveys have shown that hiring by private companies was weak and that manufacturing activity declined in April. And exports fell in March.The economy grew in the January-March quarter at an annual pace of 2.5 percent, m
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