Vice President Kamala Harris told the president of Guatemala on Monday that tackling migration is a top priority for both countries, as she made her first visit to the region -- and Guatemala’s president blamed the US for the migrant surge at the border.
"And so I am in Guatemala today to discuss and advance our shared priorities," Harris told President Alejandro Giammattei after arriving in Guatemala. "Foremost among those, as you have mentioned, is addressing migration from this region in particular."
Harris was appointed 75 days ago by President Biden to lead the U.S. diplomatic talks to solve the migration surge to the U.S. border, with a focus on what the administration sees as the "root causes" of the crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of migrants flooding to the border since President Biden took office.