Joe Biden to discuss child migrants in Latin America

*While in Guatemala the Vice President is scheduled to speak publicly to discourage parents from sending their children to the U.S. His mission there is to “discuss both the violence and economic opportunity side and the misperceptions of U.S. immigration policy … ” VL

By Josh Gerstein, Politico

Vice President Joe Biden is extending a planned trip to Latin America this week in order to convene a high-level meeting in the region to address a massive surge in children crossing the border into the U.S. through Mexico.

Biden will add a stop in Guatemala on Friday to meet with the president of that country and El Salvador, as well as a top official from Honduras, senior Obama Administration officials told reporters.

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