Mexican President Under Pressure on U.S. Visit

Associated Press: Mexican President Felipe Calderon travels to Washington Tuesday under pressure to defend Mexican immigrants after the passage of a controversial Arizona law, and to show results in his war against drug gangs. Calderon faces domestic pressure to seek immigration reform in the United States, particularly in the wake of a new Arizona law that allows the detention of people suspected of being in the country illegally. He will also have to try to convince lawmakers that drug violence in Mexico is not spiraling out of control, despite gruesome beheadings, daily gun battles and the suspected abduction of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a former presidential candidate and senior member of Calderon’s own National Action Party (PAN).