Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, blamed what he saw as a more welcoming message to migrants by the new administration for the surge.
"The message changed too: 'We're going to reunite families, we’re going to reunite children,'" he told CBS News. "The very next day, the coyotes were here organizing groups of children to take them to the United States." More here,https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-guatemalan-president-migration-top-priority-blames-us-surge