Xavier Becerra weighs in on Obama’s visit to Mexico

Obama takes off to Trinidad and Tobago from Mexico, where he met with his counterpart President Felipe Calderon on Thursday on a state visit thick with symbolic diplomacy. Obama and Calderon sought to establish a common agenda and a shared responsibility on combating the narco-fueled violence that is plaguing Mexico after eight years of neglect under the Bush administration. Ten thousand people have died in the violence since Felipe Calderon, a conservative, dispatched the Mexican military to fight the country’s major drug-trafficking organizations. Daniel Hernandez is in Mexico City, where he caught up with Congress member and Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus Xavier Becerra, one of a handful of lawmakers accompanying Obama on this trip to Latin America and the Caribbean – Hernandez asked the Congress member what Obama’s administration hopes to attain from the trip to Mexico.