Kamala Harris has been making all sorts of claims about why she doesn’t visit the border, when she is supposed to be working to solve the border crisis the Biden Admin created. She claimed that the root of the problem was not at the border, but at places like Guatemala. So you’d think she would be communicating with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei regularly. But in a recent interview, Giammattei explained he has only heard from her once, and that was when she flew down months ago.
“We had many conversations with your ambassador, but [between] my presidency and the White House, no. I spoke once to Joe Biden because I introduced myself. Then we had the visit of Vice President Harris. On matters of state and migration, we had Mr. Alejandro Mayorkas. Aside from that direct communication, no we have not had it.”
Giammattei then went on to explain much needs to be done to fix the border.
“Giammattei said that there is “much to be done” to fix the migration crisis affecting both nations, as Guatemalans flee, often illegally, into the United States.
“First of all, migration can’t be stopped on the basis of circumstantial causes. It needs to be stopped on the basis of structural causes,” he said, pointing to the drug cartels that are largely in Mexico who also smuggle Guatemalans and other humans into the U.S.
“It’s a big business to run trafficking-person schemes. It’s a $4 billion business for these criminals. And therefore we need to address structural causes,” Giammattei added.
Giammattei recalled telling Harris that as a former prosecutor in California, she likely understands the U.S. criminal code can be strengthened to better eradicate the problems.
He told Roberts that the federal government could better enforce and strengthen federal crime statutes against coyotes or the individual human traffickers themselves.
“Then the U.S. can ask us to expand our extradition conditions — and with that, these coyotes would land in a federal prison with very severe penalties. This is something that drug traffickers fear,” Giammattei said.”
It makes sense Harris wouldn’t go back, Giammattei was looking to come up with solutions and fix the border crisis, and we know the Biden Admin doesn’t want that. Harris was right about one thing, the border is not the source of the problem. No, the problem lies in the White House, where they created this crisis.
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