Guatemalan President Blasts Biden's Border Policies for Enabling Criminal Human Smugglers
US Vice President Kamala Harris waves alongside Guatemala's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pedro Brolo
After gifting reporters a cookie of her face, Vice President Kamala Harris has made her way to Guatemala to discuss the "root causes" of an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration into the United States since President Biden took office in January.
Ahead of her arrival, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei blasted the Biden Administration for "family reunification" policies that enable human trafficking and smuggling.
"The message changed to 'we're going to reunite families and we're going to reunite children. The very next day the coyotes were here organizing groups of children to take them to the United States," Giammattei said during an interview with CBS News.
When Harris landed, she was greeted with protestors blasting the administration for allowing criminals to thrive and bolstering corruption with mismanaged foreign aid.
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'I don't understand your point': Kamala snaps at Lester Holt from Guatemala for asking why she won't to go to the border in interview 1,308miles from the Rio Grande
Daily Mail
June 8, 2021
Kamala Harris lashed out at Lester Holt on Tuesday when he asked why she has refused to the border in the 76 days since President Joe Biden put her in charge of the crisis. 'Do you have any plans to visit the border?' the NBC host questioned Harris in an interview taped Monday in Guatemala during the vice president's first international trip.
'At some point, you know, we are going to the border,' she insisted in the interview 1,308 miles from where migrants are risking their lives crossing the Rio Grande River on inflatable rafts. 'We've been to the border. So this whole thing about the border. We've been to the border. We've been to the border,' she repeated.
'You haven't been to the border,' Holt pushed back. 'And I haven't been to Europe,' Harris snapped, then quickly turned it into her signature laugh.
Kamala's signature laugh
'And I mean, I don't understand the point that you're making,' she said to Holt 'I'm not discounting the importance of the border.'
Texas Senator Ted Cruz shot back against Harris' comments, claiming she was 'laughing off' the seriousness of the border crisis. 'You haven't been to Europe, you haven't been to Australia, but we don't have an Australian border crisis, we don't have a border crisis in Europe. We have a border crisis on the southern border,' Cruz told Fox News during an interview on America's Newsroom.
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