Published June 11, 2021 at 12:24 AM PDT Listen • 51:59
Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border.
On this week’s Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we re discussing coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip to Guatemala. Her blunt message was, Do not come. Do not come. The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our borders. If you come to our border, you will be turned back.
How is the media covering President Biden s immigration policy and the history of US foreign policy in Latin America?
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This January, thousands of Hondurans gathered in the city of San Pedro Sula and began walking toward the Guatemalan border, the first barrier in their journey north to the United States. They were a long way off, but our frontier defenders were already on full alert. “Do not waste your time and money, and do not risk your safety and health,” the acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection had announced a week earlier. “Migrant caravan groups will not be allowed to make their way north in violation of the sovereignty, standing public-health orders, and immigration laws of the respective nations throughout the region.” The presumptive secretary of state, Antony Blinken, echoed the sentiment, saying simply: “Do not come.” Soon after the migrants crossed into Guatemala, that message was reinforced with the clubs and tear gas of the U.S.-financed Guatemalan police, forcing the crowds back into the country they had fled.
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