Migrants, Harris increases the dose from Mexico: “Don’t come to the border”

After the controversy and attacks from the left to his message, from Guatemala, to migrants “not to go to the border because you will be rejected”, Kamala Harris adds to the dose from Mexico. “It can be a very dangerous and pitiful path,” said the vice president after her meeting yesterday with Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Read also “I want to be very clear on the fact that the problems at the border, in large part, if not entirely depend on the problems in this country – said Harris – I cannot repeat it enough: most of these people do not want to leave and, if they do, they do it for two reasons: because they are fleeing danger or because if they stay at home they cannot meet basic needs for their families. “In reality, this is the message that Joe Biden and his ministers have been repeating for months, ever since There has been a spike in border arrivals following the administration’s inauguration which promised a more humane immigration policy than Donald Trump’s. Harris’s words nevertheless struck because they came, during the first mission from the countries of origin of the migrants, from the vice president daughter of immigrants from Haiti and India. A harsh attack came from the leader of the left dem Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who said she was’ disappointed ‘by Harris’ words, recalling that “going to the border to seek asylum is a 100% legal method.” And then she recalled the responsibilities Washington’s morals towards countries like Guatemala having “contributed to regime changes and destabilization for decades: we cannot set fire to someone’s house and then accuse them of fleeing.” In these hours there are those in the United States who are remembering how the then Senator Harris in 2018, when the Trump administration passed the controversial measure of separating families stopped at the border, attacked harshly and called for resignations. “The government must take care of keeping families together, not separating them,” said the Democrat. the arrival of tens of thousands of immigrants in the first weeks of Biden’s presidency, with a record number of unaccompanied minors that the democratic administration, unlike the previous, did not reject, thus finding it difficult to find non-custodial facilities to place them, the message of Biden and his parents began to change. One way to respond to the Republicans who have accused the new administration of having caused an unprecedented crisis on the border with the relaxation of Trump’s anti-immigrant measures and with the halt to the construction of the Wall. Even the president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, in recent months said that “in the first weeks of the Biden administration the message was confused, there were compassionate statements that were interpreted here, especially by the coyotes, as an invitation to say to families’ we welcome children ‘”. Criticism that Gianmattei repeated during the press conference with Harris. But right in the United States, Harris, who has become something of the Biden administration’s ‘immigration czar’, is currently under severe attack for the fact that so far he hasn’t wanted to visit the border. Criticisms also come from the Democrats of Texas, who have invited her to go to the border towns most affected by the peak in immigrant arrivals.