US to Help Train Guatemalan Border Task Force, Increase Aid to Northern Triangle

US to Help Train Guatemalan Border Task Force, Increase Aid to Northern Triangle
Vice President Kamala Harris listens while holding talks with Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei via videoconference, at the White House in Washington, on April 26, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
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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.
Isabel van Brugen
Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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