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In this Jan. 19, 2021, file photo, a Honduran migrant child is helped off an Army truck after being returned to El Florido, Guatemala, one of the border points between Guatemala and Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)

Federal study predicts Biden’s plan to curb immigration onslaught is doomed to fail

Vice President Kamala Harris and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gesture as they arrive for a bilateral meeting Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at the National Palace in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris pledges ‘new era’ as Mexico, U.S. seek to cut migration flows

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the traveling press corps, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at the Sofitel Mexico City Reforma in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris, under fire, says she’ll visit U.S.-Mexico border someday

Vice President Kamala Harris and Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, pose for an official photograph, Monday, June 7, 2021, at the National Palace in Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

VP Harris again spurns U.S. border trip, calls for more spending on Central America in visit

Vice President Kamala Harris, center, makes a double thumbs up sign toward members of the media after exiting Air Force Two after a technical issue required the plane to return to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Sunday, June 6, 2021, after it had already started begun flying to Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘This can really backfire’: Kamala Harris seeks to defy history with diplomatic mission

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 28, 2021, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

VP Harris plans ‘honest’ talks with Guatemala, Mexico on migration surge

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a meeting with Guatemalan justice sector leaders, in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kamala Harris: Guatemalan corruption, injustice are barriers to solving U.S.’s border problem

Ex-Guatemalan soldier deported, faces 1982 massacre charges

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2020 file photo, Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border are stopped by Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, on the border with Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy, File, File)

US to help Guatemala train its border protection force

This March 29, 2019, file photo provided by the Kendall County Sheriff's Department in Yorkville, Ill., shows Concepcion Malinek. Malinek has pleaded guilty to a federal labor charge for helping several people from Guatemala enter the U.S. and then forbidding them from leaving her home until they paid off their debt to her. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Malinek of Cicero, Ill., pleaded guilty Tuesday, July 28, 2020, to one count of labor trafficking. Prosecutors said she admitted helping 10 Guatemalan immigrants with illegally entering the U.S. from 2009 to 2019. (Kendall County Sheriff's Department via AP)

Concepcion Malinek convicted for forcing Guatemalan migrants to labor

Guatemala prosecutors pursue ex-president Jimmy Morales

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2020 file photo, Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border are stopped by Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, on the border with Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy, File, File)

Hopelessness continues driving Hondurans to migrate

Guatemala’s top court refuses to seat female justice

FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo, migrants are seen in custody at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing area under the Anzalduas International Bridge, in Mission, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor's hardline immigration tactics. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Policy changes help drive US migrant crossings to new highs

Davidson Jair, 7, answers questions from a U.S. Border Patrol agent at an intake site after he was smuggled on an inflatable raft across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Davidson traveled from El Salvador in the hope of reaching relatives living in the U.S. The Biden administration says that it's working to address the increase in migrants coming to the border. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House efforts at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the migration. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

US envoy talks migration with El Salvador, VP calls Mexico

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“It's not surprising" that Costa Rica passed a space agency law and hopefully Guatemala will do the same, said Katherinne Herrera, a biochemistry and microbiology student at the University of the Valley of Guatemala who heads a university club dedicated to space science and engineering.

Latin America looks to space, despite limitations on ground →

She has held phone calls with the presidents of Mexico and Guatemala, and those countries agreed last week to beef up the military at their borders to slow migration in the region.

Kamala Harris to address 'root causes' of migration on trip to Mexico, Guatemala →

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