James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
1:06 P.M. EST
Q Hello.
MS. PSAKI: Hello. So joining us today is Ambassador Roberta Jacobson, Coordinator for the Southern Border. Ambassador Jacobson was the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico from 2016 to 2018. She previously served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere Affairs I had the pleasure of working with her at that time and has focused on Latin America for more than 30 years as a career civil servant. She’s going to give some remarks, and then happy to take some questions. And as always, I will be the bad cop.
Ambassador Roberta Jacobson, President Joe Biden's coordinator for the southern border, says the surge of asylum-seekers including thousands of unaccompanied children stems from "hope," now that Donald Trump is no longer president.