Protests across the U.S. mar Mexican president's White House meeting with Obama

t was supposed to be "Mexico’s moment" – a new era of transparency and reform heralded in by President Enrique Peña Nieto. Since he took office a little over two years ago, however, the Mexican president has been hit with corruption allegations, a rise in drug-related, violent crime and the continuing controversy surrounding 43 missing college students in the state of Guerrero.

And now it appears that Peña Nieto’s problems that have dogged him at home have followed him to the United States.