Good roundups, here and here, of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s tour of the United States. Though, strictly speaking, I suppose he’s not actually in the United States since, in his own words, “wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.” Here’s a good summary of the purpose of Calderon’s trip, by one of the country’s top observers of Mexican politics:
The reason he’s in the United States is to exert influence directly and indirectly on U.S. policymakers in hopes that after the presidential election, there will be an expansion of the guest-worker program, there will be more visas issued to Mexican citizens and there will be a path to legalization for the illegal aliens already here.