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Jun 07 2021
News
Kamala Harris to Potential Migrants: ‘Do Not Come’
During a joint press conference with Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei, Vice President Kamala Harris had message for Central Americans considering illegally migrating to the United States: “Do not come.”
“We will discourage illegal migration,” she commented. “The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.”
“There are legal methods by which
National Review
Apr 27 2021
News
US to send $310M to Central America, train Guatemala ‘task force’: Kamala Harris
The United States will send an additional $310 million in aid to the Northern Triangle countries and train a Guatemalan “task force” in an effort to upend the migrant crisis overwhelming authorities at the southern border, Vice President Kamala Harris announced.
The announcement came in a statement Monday from Harris’ chief spokeswoman and senior adviser Symone Sanders after the VP’s
New York Post (News)
Jun 10 2021
Opinion
Kamala’s bad trip
Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on her first foreign trip since taking office this week — and quickly proved herself to be as empty as the faces on the royally-iced cookies she handed out to reporters on Air Force Two. President Biden’s ‘border czar’ traveled to Guatemala and Mexico in a futile attempt to solve an autogenic crisis and insulted the intelligence of each country’s leaders
The American Spectator
May 17 2021
News
Abbott: Texas seized enough fentanyl at border to kill 'every single person' in New York
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Friday that authorities at the border in Texas have apprehended enough fentanyl to kill every single person in the state of New York, slamming the Biden administration for appearing clueless about the severity of the crisis.
GREG ABBOTT: I don’t know if Secretary Mayorkas and the Biden administration either don’t have a clue what’s going on or they are
Fox News (Online News)
Jun 10 2021
Opinion
The ‘Root Causes’ Of The Migrant Crisis Are Biden’s Border Policies
In the aftermath of Vice President Kamala Harris’s embarrassing trip to Guatemala and Mexico, we need to be clear about what triggered the crisis at the border.
Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t need to visit Guatemala and Mexico this week to discover the “root causes” of illegal immigration, or, as she put it, “understand that there’s a reason people are arriving at our border, and
The Federalist
Apr 23 2021
Analysis
Venture capital’s quest for diversity and equity remains a work in progress
Nearly a year ago, as the nation reckoned with the horrifying video of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, Alejandro Guerrero, a general partner at early-stage venture capital firm Act One Ventures, sat alone at his home in Los Angeles, coming to terms with what he had just seen and bracing for the fallout.
“All the signs were that L.A. would go up in flames,” Guerrero recalls of a
Fortune
Jun 07 2021
Analysis
Central America and the root causes of migration to the US
Ask Americans why Central American immigrants are arriving at the southern U.S. border in ever-larger numbers, and some will say it’s lax border enforcement, disregard for the law and the temptations of U.S. jobs and generous welfare benefits.
Others, including the Biden administration and experts in the region, will point to what they call "root causes" of migration: entrenched
PolitiFact
Mar 11 2021
News
White House Doubles Down On Refusal To Call Border Influx A Crisis: ‘It’s A Vital Human Challenge’
The White House doubled down on its refusal to label the record-setting number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a “crisis,” instead referring to the massive influx as a “vital human challenge.”
“There are over 3,700 unaccompanied migrant children in border control custody … in these facilities that are jail-like … How can you say that’s not a crisis?” one reporter asked. “
The Federalist
Apr 08 2021
News
Biden admin to 'surge' aid to Central America, offer 'legal paths' to stem historic migration
The Biden administration is working "to surge humanitarian assistance to" Central American countries and to offer new "legal paths" for migration, according to U.S. officials, as it tries to manage a historic jump in the number of migrants reaching the southern U.S. border.
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to Mexico's president Wednesday as she takes the lead for the new
ABC News (Online)
Apr 18 2020
News
Many migrants on U.S. deportation flight had coronavirus, Guatemalan president says
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said on Friday a large number of migrants on a deportation flight to Guatemala from the United States this week were infected with the coronavirus, adding that U.S. authorities had confirmed a dozen cases.
Giammattei said 12 randomly selected people on the deportation flight tested positive for coronavirus when
Reuters