southern border crisis that intensified under the new administration.

“I want to be very clear that the problem at the border in large part, if not entirely, stems from the problems in these countries,” Harris declared during a joint press conference with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).

Her comments came after the Mexican president, commonly known as AMLO, and his counterparts from El Salvador and Guatemala accused the Biden administration’s overwhelmingly welcoming policy of incentivizing Central Americans to leave their home country.

The Latin American leader to most recently blame the Biden administration for the border crisis is Giammattei.

The Mexican president’s administration has gone a step further, saying President Biden’s haste to undo his predecessor’s border security and immigration enforcement measures are at fault of the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the U.S.

Central Americans, migrants from outside the Americas, traveling from as far as Africa and Asia, have taken these policy changes, as well as the more permissive border security approach under Biden as a sign the president is inviting them to cross the border.