# Mexican 9 Month Work Visas

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*A George W. Bush-administration proposal, negotiated with Mexico in the six to eight months before 9/11, to give undocumented Mexican workers renewable nine-month U.S. work visas requiring federal income tax payment — killed by the September 11 attacks before it could be ratified.*

- **Negotiated by:** George W. Bush administration and the Mexican government
- **Terms (per Kiriakou):** 9-month U.S. work visa requiring federal income tax payment, then 3 months back in Mexico before reapplying
- **Fate:** Never ratified — killed by the September 11 attacks

In the six to eight months before the September 11 attacks, per [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou), the Bush administration had negotiated a deal with the Mexican government to change the status of undocumented Mexican workers in the United States: they would be given nine-month U.S. work visas, during which they would have to pay federal income taxes, then return to Mexico for three months before reapplying for the following year — allowing them to work nine months a year in the U.S. and three in Mexico.[1][2] Kiriakou has repeated the account elsewhere in nearly identical terms, calling the plan one that *"would have legalized everybody"* and *"would have worked,"* and calling it a mistake that Trump did not revive something like it.[3] In every telling, the plan was never implemented because the September 11 attacks intervened before it could be ratified.[1][3]

## Sources

1. CIA Spy Breaks Silence on Epstein Cover-Up, Mossad & Trump (2025-07-14), at 2:22:09. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HStqERfZbPw&t=8529s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-07-14-danny-jones/
2. John Kiriakou CIA Whistleblower Exposes the Deep State (2025-08-21), at 59:43. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wMIWv7STA&t=3583s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-08-21-eric-hunley-john-kiriakou-cia-whistleblower-exposes-the-deep-state/
3. Brainpower TV #1 Interview w/ CIA Whistleblower John Kiria (2025-06-15), at 22:36. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNgY2ljZKC4&t=1356s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-06-15-joe-dirosa/

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