US to Help Train Guatemalan Border Task Force, Increase Aid to Northern Triangle
Vice President Kamala Harris in talks with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei Monday proposed that the United States helps train members of a Guatemalan task force in charge of protecting the country’s border.
In a virtual meeting, Harris offered to send 16 Department of Homeland Security employees to assist in the effort, amid a recent spike in unaccompanied minors arriving at the southern border—many of them Guatemalan.
The vice president also said that the United States will increase aid to the region and will assist Guatemala with the construction of shelters for returned migrants.