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Vice President Kamala Harris and Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, pose for an official photograph, Monday, June 7, 2021, at the National Palace in Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

VP Harris again spurns U.S. border trip, calls for more spending on Central America in visit

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris, center, makes a double thumbs up sign toward members of the media after exiting Air Force Two after a technical issue required the plane to return to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Sunday, June 6, 2021, after it had already started begun flying to Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘This can really backfire’: Kamala Harris seeks to defy history with diplomatic mission

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 28, 2021, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

VP Harris plans ‘honest’ talks with Guatemala, Mexico on migration surge

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a meeting with Guatemalan justice sector leaders, in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kamala Harris: Guatemalan corruption, injustice are barriers to solving U.S.’s border problem

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Ex-Guatemalan soldier deported, faces 1982 massacre charges

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2020 file photo, Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border are stopped by Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, on the border with Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy, File, File)

US to help Guatemala train its border protection force

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

This March 29, 2019, file photo provided by the Kendall County Sheriff's Department in Yorkville, Ill., shows Concepcion Malinek. Malinek has pleaded guilty to a federal labor charge for helping several people from Guatemala enter the U.S. and then forbidding them from leaving her home until they paid off their debt to her. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Malinek of Cicero, Ill., pleaded guilty Tuesday, July 28, 2020, to one count of labor trafficking. Prosecutors said she admitted helping 10 Guatemalan immigrants with illegally entering the U.S. from 2009 to 2019. (Kendall County Sheriff's Department via AP)

Concepcion Malinek convicted for forcing Guatemalan migrants to labor

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Guatemala prosecutors pursue ex-president Jimmy Morales

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2020 file photo, Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border are stopped by Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, on the border with Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy, File, File)

Hopelessness continues driving Hondurans to migrate

By DELMER MARTÍNEZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Guatemala’s top court refuses to seat female justice

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo, migrants are seen in custody at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing area under the Anzalduas International Bridge, in Mission, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor's hardline immigration tactics. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Policy changes help drive US migrant crossings to new highs

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Davidson Jair, 7, answers questions from a U.S. Border Patrol agent at an intake site after he was smuggled on an inflatable raft across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Davidson traveled from El Salvador in the hope of reaching relatives living in the U.S. The Biden administration says that it's working to address the increase in migrants coming to the border. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House efforts at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the migration. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

US envoy talks migration with El Salvador, VP calls Mexico

Associated Press

A chid stands next to her family's belongings as they wait for transportation at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas, on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2021. U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families at the border without notices to appear in immigration court, and sometimes without any paperwork at all. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Migrants freed without court notice — sometimes no paperwork

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

A person lies on the ground before dawn, waiting for his group to be ready to leave on foot from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The group of migrants aims to reach the U.S. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

Hundreds of migrants set out from Honduras, dreaming of US

By DELMER MARTÍNEZ and CLAUDIO ESCALON - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris waves before boarding Air Force Two at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, March 26, 2021. Harris is traveling to Connecticut to hold a listening session at the Boys &amp; Girls Club of New Haven on how the American Rescue Plan addresses child poverty and education. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kamala Harris speaks with Guatemala President Alejandro Giammettei on border surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican soldiers seized after Guatemalan killed near border

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Migrants sleep under a gazebo at a park in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Dozens of migrants who earlier tried to cross into the U.S. in order to seek asylum have turned this park into an encampment for those expelled from the U.S. under pandemic-related presidential authority. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Expelled from US at night, migrant families weigh next steps

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Migrants cross the Usumacinta River on boats from Guatemala, to Frontera Corozal, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Mexico wants again to appear cooperative like it was in 2019 when under threat of tariffs from then-President Donald Trump it deployed soldiers to slow down the flow of migrants from Central America, but the reality here is business as usual as entire communities live off migrants headed north for reasons now familiar: violence, an inability to support their families, the devastation wrought by two major hurricanes that hit Central America in November and egged on by rampant misinformation. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Business as usual: Thousands cross Mexico’s southern border

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris meets with President Joe Biden, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden asks VP Harris to lead on border-surge negotiations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican immigration agents stop people who crossed the Suchiate River, the natural border between Guatemala and Mexico, to see their identification documents near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Monday, March 22, 2021. Agents are forcing those with permission to enter Mexico for work or a visit to use the official border crossing bridge, and those who do not are being returned to Guatemala, as they enforce new limits on all but essential travel at its shared border with Guatemala. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Biden administration deploys top officials to Mexico, Guatemala amid border surge

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times