“Three of President Biden’s top border officials are traveling to Mexico today and then Guatemala to meet with top foreign government officials about solutions to migration surges at the U.S. border, two senior administration officials told reporters Monday morning. The majority come from the Northern Triangle – traveling through both Guatemala and Mexico to cross the border into the U.S. 75% of family members and unaccompanied minors who crossed into the U.S. last month came from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, according to agency data.”
“Southern border coordinator Roberta Jacobson, the National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere Juan González and the State Department’s recently-appointed Northern Triangle special envoy Ricardo Zúñiga will travel to Mexico today to meet with the foreign secretary, deputy foreign secretary and other officials. González and Zuniga will then travel to Guatemala to meet with Guatemalan officials, including President Alejandro Giammattei and Foreign Minister Pedro Bolo. The trip ‘builds on the administration’s focused work on addressing the root causes of irregular migration as a cyclical regional issue that neither starts nor stops at the southern border of the United States,’ a senior administration official said on the call” – Axios.