Guatemala Pres: Biden Encourages Child Exploitation

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei spoke one-on-one with The Daily Caller News Foundation about his concerns with the Biden administration’s messaging on immigration and the border. Giammattei also spoke about his meeting with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the need for better intelligence sharing to combat crime crossing their borders. “There are many things to be done still,” Giammattei said. WASHINGTON, D.C.– The Biden administration’s messaging on immigration has created “confusion” that human smugglers and traffickers have exploited, Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview.Giammattei said smugglers know it’s easier to get people into the U.S. illegally under the Biden administration as a family, and that smugglers have used children, whether biological or not, in order to get their clients across the border. He mentioned the Biden administration’s effort to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which prevents migrants brought to the U.S. as children from being immediately deported, as exacerbating the problem.“Right now there has been confusion with the messages. When they say we are going to codify all the children who have their parents here, what the coyotes say there is not convenien …