Why Biden’s immigration policy focuses on ‘Northern Triangle’ countries
June 24, 2021 6 AM PT
WASHINGTON —
The label “Northern Triangle” is in the news again as the Biden administration focuses on reducing illegal immigration from the three countries that make up the triangle: El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
Many people in Central America dislike the term because they believe it unfairly groups — and sometimes diminishes — the three very different nations.
But the administration believes there are enough similarities in the kinds of policies it wants to implement, and related problems with all three governments that will complicate the mission, that the term is part of official lexicon. President Biden named Vice President Kamala Harris to be in charge of Northern Triangle policy, and there’s a special envoy for the Northern Triangle, the State Department’s Ricardo Zúñiga.
Why these three countries? Don’t most migrants come from Mexico?
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-06-24/northern-triangle-biden-immigration
