Like everything else about Harris' mission to curb migration to the U.S. border by addressing the fundamental causes, it’s complicated. And the complications are what make her task so daunting, and perhaps unresolvable anytime soon, writes Noahbierman
Tuesday by repeating something she has been saying for months: Most people who flee Central America for the United States do not want to leave their homes, and would not do so if they felt safe and economically secure.
The vice president inevitably must rely on leaders complicit in corruption to help her tackle the problems in their nations. Yet corruption is one of those problems driving residents away, by siphoning money and impeding the delivery of essential services.And Harris has said her portfolio does not include the bureaucratic and humanitarian mess at the U.S.-Mexico border, yet that’s where the problems are most evident to Americans.
His organization is suing the Biden administration for continuing a Trump administration policy under which border officials turn away asylum-seekers by citing the pandemic as a public health emergency. Under U.S. law, migrants at the border have the right to seek asylum. Ricardo Zúñiga, the administration’s special envoy to the region, was pressed by reporters in Guatemala about that country’s decision two years ago to dismantle an international body aimed at fighting corruption, a source of ongoing concerns about President Alejandro Giammattei’s commitment to fighting graft.Zúñiga didn’t have an easy answer. He said the defunct anti-corruption body was “very successful,” but he made clear he did not expect Giammattei to resurrect it.
Harris has been made aware of López Obrador’s antidemocratic tendencies. But administration officials say that she has to establish a constructive working relationship with him, given his country’s importance to the United States when it comes to border security and trade.Harris has avoided meeting with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who has been implicated in drug trafficking, and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, viewed as increasingly authoritarian.
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