The last conversation the Guatemalan president had with Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss immigration was in June, and the Central American country says its calls for help with border security have largely fallen on deaf ears, Kevin Lopez Oliva, the spokesman for Guatemala’s president, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Biden administration tasked Harris with addressing the “root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras” in March 2021, which led Republicans to label her the “border czar.”
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has requested security assistance from the Biden administration and Harris, but the administration’s focus has largely been on helping people get to the U.S. in more streamlined ways, Lopez Oliva said.
The last public event Harris held on the issue was last Feb. 6 after the Biden…
