It is emblematic that while Obama has received Mexican President Felipe Calderón, the White House only recently announced that one of his first foreign trips would be to Mexico. And incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked almost nothing about Mexico at her confirmation hearing, and she emphasized relations with Mexico neither in her own statement nor in those she has made since assuming her post.
虽然奥巴马已经接见了墨西哥总统费利佩·卡尔德龙 (Felipe Calderón) ，但是，白宫直到最近才宣布奥巴马的首次国外访问会是出访墨西哥，这是具有象征意义的。而且，新任命的国务卿希拉里·克林顿在其证实听证会上，几乎没有被问到有关墨西哥的问题，并且，在她自己的听证声明和她就职后所做的申明中，她都没有强调和墨西哥的关系。