# Vice President Harris tells migrants in Guatemala ‘do not come’

Date: 2021

## The fact

On 7 June 2021 in Guatemala, [Vice President Kamala Harris](/people/kamala-harris) told prospective migrants ‘do not come’ to the US southern border, on a [White House](/organizations/white-house) assignment covering root causes in Central America.

## Context

DHS and CBP still ran enforcement. Neighbouring encounter numbers are a later complex file.

Encounter-numbers 2022 is neighbouring. ARP 2021 is a different domestic statute.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated White House portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

The White House carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [migration-policy restrictiveness](/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness): a completed vice-presidential deterrent message is a dated migration instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 7 June 2021 ‘do not come’ remarks in Guatemala, independently reported.

Not established: that encounters thereby fell, or that she commanded CBP as a unique operational chief.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Presidents set enforcement. CBP implemented at the line.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Vice President Harris tells migrants in Guatemala ‘do not come’, not a later speech about Vice President Harris tells migrants in Guatemala ‘do not come’.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Vice President Harris tells migrants in Guatemala ‘do not come’ on 2021-06-07 is not a licence to treat every later The White House communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Vice President Harris tells migrants in Guatemala ‘do not come’ into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She delivered the line as VP on an assigned portfolio. Presidents set enforcement. CBP implemented at the line. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Migration-policy restrictiveness and border control: https://factrail.ai/drivers/mig-policy-restrictiveness
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/harris-tells-guatemalan-migrants-do-not-come-us-2021-06-07/
- https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-do-not-come-2021