We regretted the necessity of imposing a visa on Mexico in the summer of 2009. We had, really, no serious option if we wanted to maintain our immigration laws because we were getting over a thousand asylum claims from that country every month, some 90% of which were deemed to be unfounded. We do hope to get back to an exemption at some point in the future, and these reforms will help us to consider that.
On April 26th, 2012. See this statement in context.