NPR reports on Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Guatemala:
Vice President Kamala Harris told Guatemala’s president today that the two need to work together to bring hope to his fellow citizens so that they don’t leave and migrate to the U.S. Harris is in Guatemala City on her first foreign trip as vice president. President Biden put her in charge of one of the toughest jobs facing his administration – that is curbing the surge of migrants at the U.S. border. The two leaders held a press conference this afternoon. And we’re joined now by NPR’s Carrie Kahn, who is in Mexico City, where Harris arrives tonight.
I was favorably impressed by this:
VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Do not come. Do not come. The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.
I’ll be even more impressed if the Biden Administration follows through with this pledge.
So, you were favorably impressed by Harris saying “not to come?†And, yet if migrants do come what or who will stop them? Will lip service alone provide the elixir discouraging people not to make the trip north, in lieu of how easy it is to cross the border today? The prior administration delivered similar warnings, and then backed it up at the border. Actions make a big difference over simply words.
Biden acts:
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/19/988789487/immigration-agencies-ordered-not-to-use-term-illegal-alien-under-new-biden-polic