Kamala Harris prepares to travel to Guatemala and Mexico for first foreign trip as vice president

Vice President Kamala Harris has spent months getting ready for her first international trip, a visit early next week to Guatemala and Mexico. She's been tasked by President Biden with leading the administration's diplomatic efforts with the Northern Triangle countries and Mexico to help stem the flow of migration at the southern border.

On June 6, Harris will be meeting with the presidents of the two nations and checking in with organizers on the ground Monday and Tuesday. "The goal of the vice president's trip is to deepen our strategic partnership and bilateral relationship with both the Guatemalan and Mexican governments to advance a comprehensive strategy to tackle the causes of migration," senior adviser Symone Sanders said on a call with reporters Tuesday night. "We will also engage community leaders, workers, young innovators and entrepreneurs and others about ways to provide economic security, address the core factors of migration, and to give people the hope for a better life at home."